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OET (OET-LV) And_he_blessed_them Yəhōshūˊa/(Joshua) and_he_sent_them_away and_they_went to tents_of_their.
Joshua had told the men of the clans of Reuben, Gad and half the clan of Manasseh that they must help their fellow Israelites to conquer the land on the west side of the Jordan River (see Joshua 1:12–18). Now they had conquered it with God’s help. They had fulfilled their obligation and so Joshua sent them home to where their families were living on the east side of the Jordan.
So Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes.
Then Joshua blessed them. He sent them on their way and they returned to their homes.
Then Joshua blessed the men of those clans and told them they could go. They left to go home.
So: The Hebrew conjunction that the BSB translates as So indicates the next event in the narrative. Translate this word in a way that is natural in your language.
Joshua blessed them: It was customary in ancient Israel to bless people as part of saying goodbye to them.Butler, p. 245.
and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes: The Hebrew clause that the BSB translates as they went to their homes is more literally “they went to their tents.” It is the same phrase as was used 22:4.
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
Then Joshua blessed them and said goodbye to them. He sent them on their way and they returned to their homes.
Then Joshua blessed these men and told them they could go. They left to go home.
Then Joshua said goodbye to them and they left and went home. (ERV)
OET (OET-LV) And_he_blessed_them Yəhōshūˊa/(Joshua) and_he_sent_them_away and_they_went to tents_of_their.
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.