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OET (OET-LV) Provide to/for_you_all three men from_the_tribe and_send_out_them and_go and_go_throughout in/on_the_earth and_write_a_description DOM_it by_portion_of inheritance_their and_return to_me.
OET (OET-RV) Choose three men from each of those seven[fn] tribes and I’ll send them out to scout around and inspect the land and write descriptions of it in terms of potential allocations and bring it to me.
18:4 Not in the Hebrew but implied by verse 5 as they go on to divide the surveyed land into seven portions.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וְיָקֻ֜מוּ
and,go
As in the similar expressions in 1:2 and 6:26, Joshua is using the term arise to mean “take action.” If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “and they will act on this matter”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
לְפִ֥י נַֽחֲלָתָ֖ם
by,portion_of inheritance,their
Joshua is using the expression the mouth to mean “the needs,” since people need food to put in their mouths. Alternate translation: “according to what they need to inherit” or “according to the number of regions that these remaining tribes will need to live in”
18:4 The three selected representatives from each tribe came from the seven tribes that had not yet received their allotments.
• a written report: Israel was not an entirely oral society. If an event or record was important enough to be remembered over time, leaders ordered that it be written down.
OET (OET-LV) Provide to/for_you_all three men from_the_tribe and_send_out_them and_go and_go_throughout in/on_the_earth and_write_a_description DOM_it by_portion_of inheritance_their and_return to_me.
OET (OET-RV) Choose three men from each of those seven[fn] tribes and I’ll send them out to scout around and inspect the land and write descriptions of it in terms of potential allocations and bring it to me.
18:4 Not in the Hebrew but implied by verse 5 as they go on to divide the surveyed land into seven portions.
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.