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 Hero C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C18 C19 C20 C21
Hero 17 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13
◄ ← HERO (JDG) 17:7 ↓ → ► ║ ≡ ©
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Judah (patriarch)
OET-LV And_he/it_was a_young_man from_Bēyt- food/grain/bread Yəhūdāh/(Judah) from_the_tribe_of Yəhūdāh and_he was_a_Lēviyyiy and_he was_sojourning there.
OET (OET-RV) Now there was a young Levite man from the family of Yehudah (Judah)[fn] who’d been staying in Beyt-Lehem (Bethlehem) (in Yehudah).
17:7 Maybe one parent was from the Levi tribe and one from Yehudah?
Note 1 topic: writing-participants
וַיְהִי־נַ֗עַר מִבֵּ֥ית לֶ֨חֶם֙ יְהוּדָ֔ה מִמִּשְׁפַּ֖חַת יְהוּדָ֑ה וְה֥וּא לֵוִ֖י וְה֥וּא גָֽר־שָֽׁם
and=he/it_was young_man (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was young_man from,Beth- food/grain/bread Yehuda from,the_tribe_of Yehuda and=he Levi and=he staying there )
The author is using this sentence to introduce a young Levite as a new participant in the story. If your language has its own way of introducing new participants, you can use it here in your translation.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
מִמִּשְׁפַּ֖חַת יְהוּדָ֑ה
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was young_man from,Beth- food/grain/bread Yehuda from,the_tribe_of Yehuda and=he Levi and=he staying there )
The author is using the term clan by association to mean the territory assigned to the clans of Judah. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: [from the land assigned to the clans of Judah]
OET-LV And_he/it_was a_young_man from_Bēyt- food/grain/bread Yəhūdāh/(Judah) from_the_tribe_of Yəhūdāh and_he was_a_Lēviyyiy and_he was_sojourning there.
OET (OET-RV) Now there was a young Levite man from the family of Yehudah (Judah)[fn] who’d been staying in Beyt-Lehem (Bethlehem) (in Yehudah).
17:7 Maybe one parent was from the Levi tribe and one from Yehudah?
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.