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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Ephraim (GEN 41:52)
OET-LV And_he/it_was the_territory_of the_descendants_of ʼEfrayim to_their_clans and_he/it_was the_border_of their_inheritance_of_their eastward_on ˊAţārōt Addar to Bēyt Ḩōrōn upper.
OET (OET-RV) The allotment for Efrayim’s (Ephraim’s) descendants according to their clans was at Atrot-Adar in the east, going as far as Upper Beyt-Horon
This section describes the boundaries of the land given to Ephraim and to Manasseh, and the towns within each of their lands.
This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans:
¶ The land that the clan of Ephraim received, according to their sub-clans, was like this:
¶ Each sub-clan in the clan of Ephraim received their own portion of land. That land had the following boundary.
This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: The phrase the territory of the descendants of Ephraim refers to the land that the clan of Ephraim received.
clans: The Hebrew word that the BSB translates as clans actually refers to families or groups of people within a clan. This word is translated in the display as “sub-clans.” See the note at Joshua 7:14.
Here are some other ways to translate this phrase:
according to their sub-clans
each sub-clan in the clan of Ephraim received their own portion of land
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
the land that the clan of Ephraim received, according to their sub-clans, was like this
each family in the clan of Ephraim received their own portion of land. That land had the following boundaries.
The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar in the east
The border of their land began at Ataroth-addar in the east
On the east their southern boundary started at the town of Ataroth-addar,
The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar in the east: The boundary points in this verse define the southern boundary of the clan of Ephraim.
Ataroth-addar: This town may be the same town as the town of “Ataroth” in Joshua 16:2, but this is not certain.
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
The border of their land began at Ataroth-addar in the east
Their southern boundary started at the town of Ataroth-addar in the east
to Upper Beth-horon
and continued west to Upper Beth-horon.
and went to the town of Upper Beth-horon.
to Upper Beth-horon: The town of Upper Beth-horon was to the west of Ataroth-addar.
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
and continued west to Upper Beth-horon
and went on to the town of Upper Beth-horon
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וַיְהִ֞י & מִזְרָ֔חָה עַטְר֣וֹת אַדָּ֔ר עַד־בֵּ֥ית חוֹרֹ֖ן עֶלְיֽוֹן
and=he/it_was & eastward,on ˊAţārōt- (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was border sons_of ʼEfrayim to=their=clans and=he/it_was border their_inheritance_of,their eastward,on ˊAţārōt- -addar until house_of -horon upper )
As the Introduction to Joshua discusses, here and throughout this chapter, the author is describing the location of one place relative to another in the way that is characteristic of his culture. In your translation, express this in the way your culture describes the relative location of places. Alternate translation: [And … began at Ataroth Addar and went west to Upper Beth Horon]
OET-LV And_he/it_was the_territory_of the_descendants_of ʼEfrayim to_their_clans and_he/it_was the_border_of their_inheritance_of_their eastward_on ˊAţārōt Addar to Bēyt Ḩōrōn upper.
OET (OET-RV) The allotment for Efrayim’s (Ephraim’s) descendants according to their clans was at Atrot-Adar in the east, going as far as Upper Beyt-Horon
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.
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