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OET (OET-LV) And_ Yəhōshūˊa _he/it_said to the_house_of Yōşēf to_ʼEfrayim and_to_Mənashsheh to_ are_a_people _say numerous you and_power great to/for_you(fs) not it_will_belong to/for_yourself(m) a_lot one.
OET (OET-RV) So Yehoshua told the half-tribes of Efraim and Manashsheh, “Yes, there’s a lot of you and you’re very powerful. One land allotment wouldn’t be enough for you
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
אֶל בֵּ֣ית יוֹסֵ֔ף
to/towards house_of Yōşēf/(Joseph)
The author is speaking of the tribes descended from Joseph as if they were a house. He is envisioning them as if they were one household living together. Alternate translation: [to the tribes descended from Joseph]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
אַתָּ֗ה & לָ֔ךְ & לְךָ֖
you(ms) & to/for=you(fs) & to/for=yourself(m)
Joshua is speaking of the tribes of Joseph as if they were a single person. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly using plural pronouns. Alternate translation: [All of you are ... is to all of you ... to all of you]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives
לֹֽא יִהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֖ גּוֹרָ֥ל אֶחָֽד
not will_belong to/for=yourself(m) allotment one(ms)
If it would be clearer in your language, you could use a positive expression to translate this double negative that consists of the negative particle not and the term one, which is negative in this context. Alternate translation: [You will receive more than one lot]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
גּוֹרָ֥ל אֶחָֽד
allotment one(ms)
Joshua is using the term lot by association to a portion of territory assigned by lot. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: [one portion of territory]
17:17-18 Rather than rebuke the people for their fear, Joshua repeated his instructions to clear forest land for settlement. His promise that the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh would eventually drive out the Canaanites gave them a hope by which they could enlarge their faith and conquer their fear.
• Much of the hill country was forested, and Canaanite settlement was sparse there. If Ephraim and Manasseh had contented themselves with land already cleared, they would have had little room for settlement. With the introduction of iron technology at about this time, including iron axe heads, the people of these tribes could clear the virgin forests and open up new land for settlement. Joshua might have set an example by being the first to clear his own homestead at Timnath-serah (19:50), a forested region in the Ephraimite hill country.
OET (OET-LV) And_ Yəhōshūˊa _he/it_said to the_house_of Yōşēf to_ʼEfrayim and_to_Mənashsheh to_ are_a_people _say numerous you and_power great to/for_you(fs) not it_will_belong to/for_yourself(m) a_lot one.
OET (OET-RV) So Yehoshua told the half-tribes of Efraim and Manashsheh, “Yes, there’s a lot of you and you’re very powerful. One land allotment wouldn’t be enough for you
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.