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OET (OET-LV) From_all the_troops the_this seven hundred(s) man chosen impeded_of the_hand_of right_of_him all_of this [was]_slinging in/on/at/with_stone to the_hair and_not he_missed.
OET (OET-RV) Among all of those people were seven hundred chosen left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
אִטֵּ֖ר יַד יְמִינ֑וֹ
bound_of hand_of right_of,him
See how you translated the similar expression in 3:15. Alternate translation: [who were left-handed]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / hyperbole
כָּל זֶ֗ה קֹלֵ֧עַ בָּאֶ֛בֶן אֶל הַֽשַּׂעֲרָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א יַחֲטִֽא
all/each/any/every this sling in/on/at/with,stone to/towards the,hair and=not miss
The author is using an overstatement to emphasize how accurate these soldiers were with their slings. In your translation, you could keep the image but show that it is a comparison. Alternate translation: [who were so accurate with a sling that it seemed they could even aim at a hair and not miss]
20:16 left-handed: See study note on 3:15.
• The sling was of the same type as the one David used to kill Goliath (1 Sam 17:40-51). The slinger buried a stone in a small pouch attached to a leather thong, then swung it around his head to gain momentum before releasing one end of the thong to shoot the missile. A slinger had the advantage of distance over a swordsman.
OET (OET-LV) From_all the_troops the_this seven hundred(s) man chosen impeded_of the_hand_of right_of_him all_of this [was]_slinging in/on/at/with_stone to the_hair and_not he_missed.
OET (OET-RV) Among all of those people were seven hundred chosen left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
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.