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OET (OET-LV) And_passed_by men Midyānite[s] traders and_drew_up and_lifted DOM Yōşēf from the_pit and_sold DOM Yōşēf to_the_Ishmaelites in/on/at/with_twenty silver and_took DOM Yōşēf towards_Miʦrayim.
OET (OET-RV) So when the Midianite traders came past, the brothers pulled Yosef up and lifted him out of the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. Then the traders took Yosef onwards with them to Mitsrayim.
וַיַּֽעַבְרוּ֩ אֲנָשִׁ֨ים מִדְיָנִ֜ים סֹֽחֲרִ֗ים
and,passed_by men Midyānite traders
The Ishmaelites (verses 25, 27-28; 39:1) and Midianites (verses 28 and 36) were the descendants of Abraham’s sons Ishmael and Midian (16:15; 25:1-2). However, sometimes (as here) the names of those people groups are used interchangeably for the same people (also see Judges 8:22, 24, 26). Perhaps that was because the two people groups had intermarried. Or there may have been merchants from the two people groups in this caravan who bought and sold Joseph together. You could put some of that information in a footnote. Alternate translation: “So as the Midianite (that is, Ishmaelite) merchants came by them,” or “So when the Ishmaelite traders who were also called Midianites were going by them,”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וַֽיִּמְשְׁכוּ֙ וַיַּֽעֲל֤וּ אֶת יוֹסֵף֙ מִן הַבּ֔וֹר
and,drew_~_up and,lifted DOM Yōşēf from/more_than the,pit
Not all of Joseph’s brothers were there, because we know from the next verse that at least Reuben was somewhere else when they sold Joseph.
Note 2 topic: translate-bmoney
וַיִּמְכְּר֧וּ אֶת יוֹסֵ֛ף לַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֖ים בְּעֶשְׂרִ֣ים כָּ֑סֶף
and,sold DOM Yōşēf to_the,Ishmaelites in/on/at/with,twenty silver
See the note about shekels at Gen 20:16. Twenty shekels of silver was equal to about one-fourth of a kilo (half a pound) and was the average price for a slave. You could put some of that information in a footnote. Alternate translation: “and sold him to the Ishmaelite traders for twenty pieces of silver.”
37:28 the Ishmaelites, who were Midianite traders (literally the Midianite traders): Ishmaelites were descendants of Abraham through Hagar (16:5), while Midianites were descendants of Abraham through Keturah (25:1-2). The term Ishmaelite may have described bedouin tribes generally. The Midianites might also have been traveling with a separate caravan of Ishmaelite traders (37:27).
• Kidnapping (see 40:15) would become a capital offense (see Exod 21:16) in Jewish law.
OET (OET-LV) And_passed_by men Midyānite[s] traders and_drew_up and_lifted DOM Yōşēf from the_pit and_sold DOM Yōşēf to_the_Ishmaelites in/on/at/with_twenty silver and_took DOM Yōşēf towards_Miʦrayim.
OET (OET-RV) So when the Midianite traders came past, the brothers pulled Yosef up and lifted him out of the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. Then the traders took Yosef onwards with them to Mitsrayim.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.