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 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21
Hero 3 V1 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27 V28 V29 V30 V31
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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Jacob (Israel)
OET-LV Only so_as the_generations_of the_people_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) to_know to_teach_them war only which formerly_previously not they_had_known_them.
OET (OET-RV) (if only for the sake of teaching warfare to those generations who hadn’t experienced it):
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
(Some words not found in UHB: only in_order_that know generations_of sons_of Yisrael to,teach,them war only which/who formerly,previously not they,had_known_them )
See the discussion of this phrase in the Introduction to Judges, and see how you translated the similar expression in 2:4. Alternate translation: [the Israelites]
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
לֹ֥א יְדָעֽוּם
not they,had_known_them
This instance of the pronoun them refers to the wars against the Canaanites described in the previous verse. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: [had not experienced these wars]
OET-LV Only so_as the_generations_of the_people_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) to_know to_teach_them war only which formerly_previously not they_had_known_them.
OET (OET-RV) (if only for the sake of teaching warfare to those generations who hadn’t experienced it):
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.