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OET (OET-LV) And_they_said to/for_why Oh_YHWH the_god_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) has_it_happened this_thing in/on/at/with_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) that_missing the_day from_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) a_tribe one.
OET (OET-RV) asking, “Oh Yahweh, God of Israel, why has this happened to Israel—for one tribe to be missing from Israel now?”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
לָמָ֗ה יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הָ֥יְתָה זֹּ֖את בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לְהִפָּקֵ֥ד הַיּ֛וֹם מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֖ל שֵׁ֥בֶט אֶחָֽד
to/for,why? YHWH god_of Yisrael she/it_was this in/on/at/with,Israel that,missing the=day from,Israel tribe one(ms)
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: [Yahweh, God of Israel, this should not be in Israel, to be missing today one tribe from Israel!]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
לְהִפָּקֵ֥ד
that,missing
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [that we should have lost]
21:3 The concept of a twelve-tribe league was deeply rooted in Israel, having survived the separation of Levi from the secular tribes, the virtual disappearance of Simeon and Asher, and the division of Joseph into two (Manasseh and Ephraim). The loss of one tribe would have suggested that God’s covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was coming unglued.
OET (OET-LV) And_they_said to/for_why Oh_YHWH the_god_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) has_it_happened this_thing in/on/at/with_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) that_missing the_day from_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) a_tribe one.
OET (OET-RV) asking, “Oh Yahweh, God of Israel, why has this happened to Israel—for one tribe to be missing from Israel now?”
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.