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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 range 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
וְיִֽתְהַלְּכ֥וּ בָאָ֛רֶץ
and,go_throughout in/on_the=earth
The words “up and down” mean in every direction. Alternate translation: “the land in every direction” or “throughout the land”
וְיִכְתְּב֥וּ אוֹתָ֛הּ לְפִ֥י נַֽחֲלָתָ֖ם
and,write_a_description DOM,it by,portion_of inheritance,their
This means that they will describe the portions of land that each tribe would like to receive for an inheritance.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
נַֽחֲלָתָ֖ם
inheritance,their
The land that they are to survey is spoken of as if it were an inheritance that each of the tribes would receive as a permanent possession.
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 range 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.