InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Gen C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36 C38 C39 C40 C41 C42 C43 C44 C45 C46 C47 C48 C49 C50
Gen 37 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27 V28 V29 V30 V31 V32 V33 V34 V35 V36
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Joseph (son of Jacob)
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Dothan
OET-LV And_ the_man _he/it_said they_have_set_out from_here if/because I_heard_them saying let_us_go to_Dotān and_ Yōşēf _he/it_went after brothers_of_his and_he_found_them at_Dotān.
OET (OET-RV) “They’ve left here,” the man responded. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dotan.’ ”
¶ So Yosef continued on after his brothers and found them at Dotan,
Note 1 topic: writing-quotations
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הָאִישׁ֙
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said the=man moved_on from,here that/for/because/then/when I_heard say go to,Dothan and=he/it_went Yōşēf/(Joseph) after brothers_of,his and,he,found_them at,Dothan )
Alternate translation: [The man answered him] or [The man replied]
נָסְע֣וּ מִזֶּ֔ה
moved_on (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said the=man moved_on from,here that/for/because/then/when I_heard say go to,Dothan and=he/it_went Yōşēf/(Joseph) after brothers_of,his and,he,found_them at,Dothan )
Alternate translation: [I saw them, but then they left from here]
כִּ֤י שָׁמַ֨עְתִּי֙ אֹֽמְרִ֔ים
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said the=man moved_on from,here that/for/because/then/when I_heard say go to,Dothan and=he/it_went Yōşēf/(Joseph) after brothers_of,his and,he,found_them at,Dothan )
Alternate translation: [In fact, I heard them say to each other] or [but I overheard them say to each other]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / quotations
נֵלְכָ֖ה דֹּתָ֑יְנָה
go (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said the=man moved_on from,here that/for/because/then/when I_heard say go to,Dothan and=he/it_went Yōşēf/(Joseph) after brothers_of,his and,he,found_them at,Dothan )
Consider whether it is better to use a direct or indirect quote here in your translation.
וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ יוֹסֵף֙ אַחַ֣ר אֶחָ֔יו וַיִּמְצָאֵ֖ם בְּדֹתָֽן
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said the=man moved_on from,here that/for/because/then/when I_heard say go to,Dothan and=he/it_went Yōşēf/(Joseph) after brothers_of,his and,he,found_them at,Dothan )
Alternate translation: [So Joseph went to the town of Dothan and found his brothers near there]
OET-LV And_ the_man _he/it_said they_have_set_out from_here if/because I_heard_them saying let_us_go to_Dotān and_ Yōşēf _he/it_went after brothers_of_his and_he_found_them at_Dotān.
OET (OET-RV) “They’ve left here,” the man responded. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dotan.’ ”
¶ So Yosef continued on after his brothers and found them at Dotan,
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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