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 C37 C38 C39 C41 C42 C43 C44 C45 C46 C47 C48 C49 C50
Gen 40 V1 V2 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Joseph (son of Jacob)
OET-LV And_he/it_gave DOM_them in_the_custody_of the_house_of the_commander_of the_bodyguards[fn] into the_house_of the_prison the_place_of (of)_where Yōşēf/(Joseph) was_imprisoned there.
40:3 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
OET (OET-RV) and he put them in the custody of the chief of the guards—in the prison where Yosef (Joseph) was also being held.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וַיִּתֵּ֨ן אֹתָ֜ם
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_gave DOM=them in,the_custody_of house_of chief of,the_bodyguards to/towards house_of of,the_prison place/spot which/who Yōşēf/(Joseph) confined there )
Often in the Bible (as here), when it says that a king (or someone else with authority) did something, it is implied that he had people who were under his authority actually do it. See how you translated a similar clause in Genesis 39:20. Alternate translation: [So he had them arrested and put]
בְּמִשְׁמַ֗ר
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_gave DOM=them in,the_custody_of house_of chief of,the_bodyguards to/towards house_of of,the_prison place/spot which/who Yōşēf/(Joseph) confined there )
Alternate translation: [under guard]
בֵּ֛ית שַׂ֥ר הַטַבָּחִ֖ים
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_gave DOM=them in,the_custody_of house_of chief of,the_bodyguards to/towards house_of of,the_prison place/spot which/who Yōşēf/(Joseph) confined there )
Apparently the round-house prison was part of the house where the chief of the guards lived and worked, perhaps a lower part (See: Joseph’s use of the word “pit” in verse 15 to refer to this prison). See how you translated “chief/captain of the guards” in Genesis 37:36 and 39:1. Alternate translation: [in the house of the captain of the guards]
OET-LV And_he/it_gave DOM_them in_the_custody_of the_house_of the_commander_of the_bodyguards[fn] into the_house_of the_prison the_place_of (of)_where Yōşēf/(Joseph) was_imprisoned there.
40:3 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
OET (OET-RV) and he put them in the custody of the chief of the guards—in the prison where Yosef (Joseph) was also being held.
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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