InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
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Jos 21 V1 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V33 V35 V37 V39 V41 V43 V45
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People tagged in the matching LV passage: God · Jacob (Israel)
OET-LV And_ the_people_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) _they_gave to_Lēviyyiy some_of_their_inheritance to the_mouth_of YHWH DOM the_cities the_these and_DOM lands_of_their_pasture.
OET (OET-RV) So the Israeli leaders gave these cities and the fields around them to the Levites for their inheritance as Yahweh had instructed:
So by the command of the LORD,
So the Israel people obeyed Yahweh’s command.
So as Yahweh had told them to do,
So: The Hebrew conjunction that the BSB translates as So indicates the next event in the narrative. Translate this connecting word in a way that is natural in your language.
by the command of the LORD: The Hebrew phrase that the BSB translates as by the command of the LORD is more literally, “by the mouth of Yahweh.”
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
Just as Yahweh had commanded
According to what Yahweh had said
the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance:
They gave the following towns and the grasslands around them to the clan of Levi. They gave them from the land that they had been given.
the people of Israel gave some of the towns and pasturelands that they had received to the Levi people. This is a list of those towns.
the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance: The phrase their own inheritance refers to the towns and lands that the people of Israel received when Joshua and Eleazar the priest threw lots for them.
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
The Israel people gave these towns and the lands around them to the clan of Levi from the land that they had been given
The people of Israel gave to the Levi people some of the towns and pasturelands that they had received
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
אֶל־פִּ֣י יְהוָ֑ה
to/towards (Some words not found in UHB: and,they_gave sons_of Yisrael to,Levites some,of,their_inheritance to/towards command_of YHWH DOM the,cities the=these and=DOM lands_of,their_pasture )
See how you translated the same expression in Joshua 19:50. Alternate translation: [as Yahweh had commanded]
OET-LV And_ the_people_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) _they_gave to_Lēviyyiy some_of_their_inheritance to the_mouth_of YHWH DOM the_cities the_these and_DOM lands_of_their_pasture.
OET (OET-RV) So the Israeli leaders gave these cities and the fields around them to the Levites for their inheritance as Yahweh had instructed:
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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