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 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21
Hero 2 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23
◄ ← HERO (JDG) 2:6 ↓ → ► ║ ≡ ©
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Jacob (Israel) · Joshua (EXO 17:9)
OET-LV And_ Yəhōshūˊa/(Joshua) _he_sent_away DOM the_people and_ the_people_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) _they_went everyone to_his_own_of_inheritance to_take_possession_of DOM the_earth/land.
OET (OET-RV) Then Yehoshua (Joshua) dismissed the people and the tribes went to their various regions to take possession of the land.
Note 1 topic: writing-background
וַיְשַׁלַּ֥ח יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ אֶת־הָעָ֑ם וַיֵּלְכ֧וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל
(Some words not found in UHB: and,he_sent_away Yəhōshūˊa/(Joshua) DOM the,people and,they_went sons_of Yisrael (a)_man to,his_own_of,inheritance to,take_possession_of DOM the=earth/land )
Here the author is providing background information to help readers understand what happens next in the story. See the discussion of this in the Introduction to this chapter. Alternate translation: [Now after Joshua had dismissed the people, the sons of Israel had gone]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
אִ֥ישׁ לְנַחֲלָת֖וֹ
(a)_man to,his_own_of,inheritance
The author is speaking as if the land that Joshua assigned to the tribes were literally an inheritance that they received from a relative who had died. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [each one to his assigned territory]
OET-LV And_ Yəhōshūˊa/(Joshua) _he_sent_away DOM the_people and_ the_people_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) _they_went everyone to_his_own_of_inheritance to_take_possession_of DOM the_earth/land.
OET (OET-RV) Then Yehoshua (Joshua) dismissed the people and the tribes went to their various regions to take possession of the land.
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.