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 C17 C18 C19 C21
Hero 20 V1 V3 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V33 V35 V37 V39 V41 V43 V45 V47
◄ ← HERO (JDG) 20:4 ↓ → ► ║ ≡ ©
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Benjamin (patriarch)
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Gibeah (JOS 18:28)
OET-LV And_ the_man the_Lēviyyiy the_husband_of the_woman (the)_murdered _he_answered and_he_said to_(the)_Giⱱˊāh which belongs_to_Binyāmīn I and_concubine_of_my I_came to_spend_the_night.
OET (OET-RV) So the Levite man (the husband of the woman who had been murdered) answered, “I went to the Giveah region (in Benyamin) with my slave-wife to spend the night.
Note 1 topic: writing-participants
וַיַּ֜עַן הָאִ֣ישׁ הַלֵּוִ֗י אִ֛ישׁ הָאִשָּׁ֥ה הַנִּרְצָחָ֖ה
(Some words not found in UHB: and,he_answered the=man the,Levite (a)_man the=woman (the),murdered and,he_said to,(the),Gibeah which/who [belongs]_to,Benjamin came I and,concubine_of,my to,spend_the_night )
The author is using this phrase to remind readers who this person is. If your language has its own way of reminding readers about participants, you can use it here in your translation.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / hendiadys
וַיַּ֜עַן & וַיֹּאמַ֑ר
(Some words not found in UHB: and,he_answered the=man the,Levite (a)_man the=woman (the),murdered and,he_said to,(the),Gibeah which/who [belongs]_to,Benjamin came I and,concubine_of,my to,spend_the_night )
This phrase expresses a single idea by using two words connected with and. The word answered tells in what way the Levite said this. Alternate translation: [replied]
OET-LV And_ the_man the_Lēviyyiy the_husband_of the_woman (the)_murdered _he_answered and_he_said to_(the)_Giⱱˊāh which belongs_to_Binyāmīn I and_concubine_of_my I_came to_spend_the_night.
OET (OET-RV) So the Levite man (the husband of the woman who had been murdered) answered, “I went to the Giveah region (in Benyamin) with my slave-wife to spend the night.
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.