Open Bible Data Home About News OET Key
OET OET-RV OET-LV ULT UST BSB BLB AICNT OEB WEBBE WMBB NET LSV FBV TCNT T4T LEB BBE Moff JPS Wymth ASV DRA YLT Drby RV Wbstr KJB-1769 KJB-1611 Bshps Gnva Cvdl TNT Wyc SR-GNT UHB BrLXX BrTr Related Topics Parallel Interlinear Reference Dictionary Search
interlinearVerse INT GEN EXO LEV NUM DEU JOS JDG RUTH 1SA 2SA PSA AMOS HOS 1KI 2KI 1CH 2CH PRO ECC SNG JOEL MIC ISA ZEP HAB JER LAM YNA NAH OBA DAN EZE EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL JOB YHN MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC GAL 1TH 2TH 1COR 2COR ROM COL PHM EPH PHP 1TIM TIT 1PET 2PET 2TIM HEB YUD 1YHN 2YHN 3YHN REV
Jos C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24
OET (OET-LV) And_curved the_border from_top the_mountain to the_spring of_the_waters of_Nephtoah and_went to the_cities of_the_mountain of_ˊEfrōn and_curved the_border Baˊalah that wwww wwww.
OET (OET-RV) From there the border turned from the head of the hill to the Neftoah spring and went out to the cities of Mt. Efron, then the border turned to Ba’alah (now called Kiriat-Yearim).
Note 1 topic: writing-background
to Baalah (it is Kiriath Jearim)
(Some words not found in UHB: and,curved the,border from,top the,mountain to/towards spring waters Nephtoah and,went to/towards cities mount ˊEfrōn and,curved the,border Baˊalah she/it קִרְיַת יְעָרִים )
The author is providing background information to explain to readers that the city he calls Baalah is the same one that they know as Kiriath Jearim. In your translation, present this information in a way that would be natural in your own language and culture.
15:9 the spring at the waters of Nephtoah: It is possible that the place name is a reference to Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah (late 1200s BC); an Egyptian papyrus refers to the “wells of Merneptah” on the mountain ridges of Canaan.
OET (OET-LV) And_curved the_border from_top the_mountain to the_spring of_the_waters of_Nephtoah and_went to the_cities of_the_mountain of_ˊEfrōn and_curved the_border Baˊalah that wwww wwww.
OET (OET-RV) From there the border turned from the head of the hill to the Neftoah spring and went out to the cities of Mt. Efron, then the border turned to Ba’alah (now called Kiriat-Yearim).
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.