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Gen 38 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V24 V25 V26 V27 V28 V29 V30
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Judah (patriarch)
OET-LV And_ Yəhūdāh _he/it_said let_her_take_them to/for_her/it lest we_should_become (into)_contempt THERE I_sent the_kid the_this and_you(ms) not you_found_her.
OET (OET-RV) “Oh well,” said Yehudah. “Let her keep those things for herself so that we don’t become a laughingstock. Anyway, I did my duty by sending the goat, but you couldn’t find her.”
Note 1 topic: writing-quotations
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוּדָה֙
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said Yehuda keep to/for=her/it lest become (into),contempt see/lo/see! sent the,kid the=this and=you(ms) not you,found_her )
Alternate translation: [Then Judah said to him] or [Judah replied]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / exclusive
פֶּ֖ן נִהְיֶ֣ה לָב֑וּז
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said Yehuda keep to/for=her/it lest become (into),contempt see/lo/see! sent the,kid the=this and=you(ms) not you,found_her )
The pronouns we and “us” are inclusive here because Judah is including Hirah; some languages might use a dual pronoun. Use the pronouns that are best in your language in this context. Alternate translation: [so that people do not laugh at us] or [so that we are not publicly shamed]
הִנֵּ֤ה
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said Yehuda keep to/for=her/it lest become (into),contempt see/lo/see! sent the,kid the=this and=you(ms) not you,found_her )
Alternate translation: [After all]
שָׁלַ֨חְתִּי֙ הַגְּדִ֣י הַזֶּ֔ה
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said Yehuda keep to/for=her/it lest become (into),contempt see/lo/see! sent the,kid the=this and=you(ms) not you,found_her )
Alternate translation: [I did try to deliver this goat to her] or [I sent you to deliver this goat to her]
וְאַתָּ֖ה לֹ֥א מְצָאתָֽהּ
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said Yehuda keep to/for=her/it lest become (into),contempt see/lo/see! sent the,kid the=this and=you(ms) not you,found_her )
Alternate translation: [but you could not find her]
OET-LV And_ Yəhūdāh _he/it_said let_her_take_them to/for_her/it lest we_should_become (into)_contempt THERE I_sent the_kid the_this and_you(ms) not you_found_her.
OET (OET-RV) “Oh well,” said Yehudah. “Let her keep those things for herself so that we don’t become a laughingstock. Anyway, I did my duty by sending the goat, but you couldn’t find her.”
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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