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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Abraham
Dictionary: Abraham
OET-LV And_ ʼAⱱrāhām _he/it_said to servant_of_his (the)_old_of his_household_of_his who_was_ruling in_all that to_him/it put please hand_of_your under thigh_of_my.
OET (OET-RV) Then Avraham said to his oldest slave in his household who was in charge of everything that belonged to him, “Please put your hand under my thigh,
Note 1 topic: writing-newevent
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אַבְרָהָ֗ם אֶל
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said ʼAⱱrāhām to/towards servant_of,his oldest_of his_household_of,his [who,was]_ruling in=all which/who to=him/it put now hand_of,your below/instead_of thigh_of,my )
Consider what is the best way to introduce the first event in this episode in your language. Alternate translation: [One day he told]
עַבְדּוֹ֙ זְקַ֣ן בֵּית֔וֹ
servant_of,his oldest_of (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said ʼAⱱrāhām to/towards servant_of,his oldest_of his_household_of,his [who,was]_ruling in=all which/who to=him/it put now hand_of,your below/instead_of thigh_of,my )
Alternate translation: [the oldest servant in his household] or [his senior household servant]
הַמֹּשֵׁ֖ל בְּכָל
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said ʼAⱱrāhām to/towards servant_of,his oldest_of his_household_of,his [who,was]_ruling in=all which/who to=him/it put now hand_of,your below/instead_of thigh_of,my )
Alternate translation: [who managed everything that he owned] or [who took care of his entire estate for him]
Note 2 topic: translate-symaction
שִֽׂים־נָ֥א יָדְךָ֖ תַּ֥חַת יְרֵכִֽי
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said ʼAⱱrāhām to/towards servant_of,his oldest_of his_household_of,his [who,was]_ruling in=all which/who to=him/it put now hand_of,your below/instead_of thigh_of,my )
You can make the meaning of this custom explicit in your translation, or you can put that information in a footnote. What Abraham asks his servant to do here is part of the vow-making process in verse 3. Alternate translation: [Please put your hand under my leg to show that you will do what I ask]
OET-LV And_ ʼAⱱrāhām _he/it_said to servant_of_his (the)_old_of his_household_of_his who_was_ruling in_all that to_him/it put please hand_of_your under thigh_of_my.
OET (OET-RV) Then Avraham said to his oldest slave in his household who was in charge of everything that belonged to him, “Please put your hand under my thigh,
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.