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OET (OET-LV) Here you_have_driven_away DOM_me the_day from_under the_surface the_soil and_from_your(ms)_face/front I_will_be_hidden and_I_will_be a_wanderer and_nodding/deploring/taunting on_the_earth and_it_was every finding_me he/it_will_smite/kill_me.
OET (OET-RV) “Look, you’re now driving me away from the ground I’ve been cultivating to somewhere where you won’t be able to see me. I’ll be a wandering refugee on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me.”
הֵן֩
if
This term emphasizes what Cain says next. See how you translated this term in Gen 1:29 and 3:22. It may be necessary to translate it in different ways, depending on the context. Alternate translation: “Listen,”
גֵּרַ֨שְׁתָּ אֹתִ֜י הַיּ֗וֹם
you(ms)_have_driven_away DOM=me the=day
See how you translated “drove/expelled” in Gen 3:24. Alternate translation: “today you are forcing me away” or “you have now prevented me”
מֵעַל֙ פְּנֵ֣י הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה
from=under face/surface_of the=soil
Alternate translation: “from working the land”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וּמִפָּנֶ֖יךָ אֶסָּתֵ֑ר
and=from=your(ms)=face/front I_will_be_hidden/concealed
This clause is probably an idiom that means Cain will be cursed and no longer blessed by God. Alternate translation: “and I will be separated from you.” or “and you will no longer bless me.”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / hendiadys
וְהָיִ֜יתִי נָ֤ע וָנָד֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ
and=I_will_be wavering/wandering and=nodding/deploring/taunting on_the=earth
See how you translated this phrase in verse 12. Alternate translation: “I will be a fugitive who wanders around on the earth without a permanent home,” or “I will be a wandering outcast on the earth,”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / hyperbole
כָל מֹצְאִ֖י יַֽהַרְגֵֽנִי
all finding=me he/it_will_smite/kill=me
Cain uses hyperbole here to emphasize his strong emotion. If possible, keep this hyperbole in your translation because it helps communicate how fearful Cain was feeling. Alternate translation: “anyone who meets me will kill me!”
4:13-14 For Cain, eviction from the land—the domain of his vocation as a farmer (see 4:2; cp. 3:23)—amounted to exile from God’s presence. The Israelites were warned that unfaithfulness to the Sinai covenant would similarly result in eviction from the Promised Land and from God’s presence in the Temple (see, e.g., Lev 26:27-32).
OET (OET-LV) Here you_have_driven_away DOM_me the_day from_under the_surface the_soil and_from_your(ms)_face/front I_will_be_hidden and_I_will_be a_wanderer and_nodding/deploring/taunting on_the_earth and_it_was every finding_me he/it_will_smite/kill_me.
OET (OET-RV) “Look, you’re now driving me away from the ground I’ve been cultivating to somewhere where you won’t be able to see me. I’ll be a wandering refugee on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me.”
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.