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People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
Used in these topics: Rest and the Sabbath
OET-LV And_ god _they_were_ended/finished in_the_day the_seventh their_property/content which he_had_done and_he/it_rested in_the_day the_seventh from_all their_property/content which he_had_done.
OET (OET-RV) By the seventh day God had finished his work, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he’d done.
Note 1 topic: translate-ordinal
בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י
(Some words not found in UHB: and=they_were_ended/finished ʼElohīm in_the=day the=seventh their=property/content which/who he/it_had_made and=he/it_rested in_the=day the=seventh from=all their=property/content which/who he/it_had_made )
Make sure it is clear in your translation that God had completed his work by the seventh day and did not work on that day. Also consider again how you translated ordinal numbers in Genesis 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31; 2:2. Alternate translation: [By day seven]
וַיִּשְׁבֹּת֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י מִכָּל
(Some words not found in UHB: and=they_were_ended/finished ʼElohīm in_the=day the=seventh their=property/content which/who he/it_had_made and=he/it_rested in_the=day the=seventh from=all their=property/content which/who he/it_had_made )
God rested in the sense that he stopped his work and did not work on that day. It does not mean he was tired or had lost his strength. Rest is an important theme in the Bible, so you should try to be consistent in how you translate this term here and in other passages, such as Exodus 23:12, 31:17 and Hebrews 4:4, 10. Part of this theme includes the Hebrew word for Sabbath, which has the same root word as the verb for “rest” and is often translated as “resting day.” Alternate translation: [so he ceased on that day from all] or [so on the seventh day he no longer did]
מְלַאכְתּ֖וֹ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה
their=property/content their=property/content (Some words not found in UHB: and=they_were_ended/finished ʼElohīm in_the=day the=seventh their=property/content which/who he/it_had_made and=he/it_rested in_the=day the=seventh from=all their=property/content which/who he/it_had_made )
Alternate translation: [the work that he had been doing]
OET-LV And_ god _they_were_ended/finished in_the_day the_seventh their_property/content which he_had_done and_he/it_rested in_the_day the_seventh from_all their_property/content which he_had_done.
OET (OET-RV) By the seventh day God had finished his work, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he’d done.
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.
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