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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Merari
OET-LV All_of the_cities of_the_descendants_of of_Mərārī to_their_clans who_remained of_the_clans_of of_the_Lēviyyiy and_ lot_of_their _he/it_was cities two_plus ten.
OET (OET-RV) Thus the Levite Merari clan received twelve cities in the draw, along with their surrounding fields.
In all, twelve cities were allotted to the clans of Merari,
The descendants of Merari received twelve towns by lot,
The families of the Merari people were given twelve towns in all.
twelve cities were allotted to the clans of Merari: This verse is like verse 21:19. It is a concluding statement for the paragraph about the towns that the families of Merari received.
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
The towns that the descendants of Merari, according to their families
The towns of the family groups of the Merari people
The Hebrew clause twelve cities were allotted to is more literally “their lot was twelve cities.”
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
the clans of Merari received twelve towns by lot
Their share of the clans of Merari was twelve towns.
the remaining Levite clans.
who were the remaining families of the Levi people.
They were the last families to receive towns.
the remaining Levite clans: The Hebrew clause that the BSB translates as the remaining Levite clans is more literally “the remaining ones from the clans of the Levites.” This indicates that the Merari families were the last Levite families to receive towns.
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
who were the remaining clans of the Levites
those family groups of the Levites who had not yet received towns
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
הַנּוֹתָרִ֖ים מִמִּשְׁפְּח֣וֹת הַלְוִיִּ֑ם
[who],remained (Some words not found in UHB: all/each/any/every the,cities of,the_descendants_of Mərārī's to=their=clans [who],remained of,the_clans_of of,the_Levites and=he/it_was lot_of,their cities two/dual teen )
See how you translated the similar expression in Joshua 21:34. Alternate translation: [the clan of Levites that was still waiting to receive cities]
OET-LV All_of the_cities of_the_descendants_of of_Mərārī to_their_clans who_remained of_the_clans_of of_the_Lēviyyiy and_ lot_of_their _he/it_was cities two_plus ten.
OET (OET-RV) Thus the Levite Merari clan received twelve cities in the draw, along with their surrounding fields.
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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