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OET (OET-LV) And_turned and_departed and_putting DOM the_little_ones and_DOM the_livestock and_DOM the_possessions in_front_them.
OET (OET-RV) Then they went back to the main path and continued on their way with the children, animals, and those carrying the valuable property going in front.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
And they put the children and the cattle and the wealth to their faces
(Some words not found in UHB: and,turned and,departed and,putting DOM the,little_ones and=DOM the,livestock and=DOM the,possessions in,front,them )
The author assumes that readers will understand that the Danites put these vulnerable people and valuable possessions in front of them because they expected Micah and his neighbors to pursue them. You could indicate this explicitly in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “And they put their children, cattle, and valuable possessions in front of their soldiers, expecting that Micah and his neighbors would pursue them from behind”
18:1-31 The migration of the Danites (cp. Josh 19:40-48) is the story of that tribe’s failure to obey God’s covenant, and it is indicative of Israel’s decline. What began as Micah’s private heresy (Judg 17:4-5) would become the apostasy of an entire tribe (18:30-31). What began as covenant failure (1:19-36) turned into social breakdown in the days of Jephthah and Samson (chs 11–16). In the end, law and order were replaced by banditry and pillaging (18:27-28).
OET (OET-LV) And_turned and_departed and_putting DOM the_little_ones and_DOM the_livestock and_DOM the_possessions in_front_them.
OET (OET-RV) Then they went back to the main path and continued on their way with the children, animals, and those carrying the valuable property going in front.
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.