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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Benjamin (patriarch)
OET-LV And_ the_tribes_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) _they_sent men in_all the_tribes_of Binyāmīn to_say what is_the_evil (the)_this which it_has_happened among_you(pl).
OET (OET-RV) Then the Israeli tribes sent men across the Benyamite region to ask, “What’s this evil thing that’s been done among you?
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
שִׁבְטֵ֥י בִנְיָמִ֖ן
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_sent tribes_of Yisrael men in=all tribe_of Binyāmīn to=say what [is]_the,evil (the),this which/who it_happened among,you(pl) )
The author assumes that readers will know that he is using the word tribes to mean the different clans within the tribe of Benjamin. You could indicate this explicitly in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [the clans of Benjamin]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
מָ֚ה הָרָעָ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את אֲשֶׁ֥ר נִהְיְתָ֖ה בָּכֶֽם
what [is]_the,evil (Some words not found in UHB: and,they_sent tribes_of Yisrael men in=all tribe_of Binyāmīn to=say what [is]_the,evil (the),this which/who it_happened among,you(pl) )
The Israelites are using the question form for emphasis. If a speaker of your language would not use the question form for that purpose, you could translate this as a statement or as an exclamation. Alternate translation: [A terrible evil has been done among you!]
OET-LV And_ the_tribes_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) _they_sent men in_all the_tribes_of Binyāmīn to_say what is_the_evil (the)_this which it_has_happened among_you(pl).
OET (OET-RV) Then the Israeli tribes sent men across the Benyamite region to ask, “What’s this evil thing that’s been done among you?
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.