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OET (OET-LV) And_servant_of_your in_the_middle people_of_your which you_have_chosen a_people numerous which not it_will_be_numbered and_not it_will_be_counted from_multitude.
OET (OET-RV) Yet your servant is among your chosen people—a numerous people who can’t be counted because there’s so many of us.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicitinfo
עַם־רָ֕ב אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יִמָּנֶ֛ה וְלֹ֥א יִסָּפֵ֖ר מֵרֹֽב
people great (Some words not found in UHB: and,servant_of,your in_the=middle people_of,your which/who chosen people great which/who not numbered and=not counted from,multitude )
It might seem that saying both abundant and from abundance would be extra information that would not be natural to express in your language. If so, you could use just one expression or the other in your translation. Alternate translation: [a people who are so abundant that they cannot be numbered and cannot be counted]
Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יִמָּנֶ֛ה וְלֹ֥א יִסָּפֵ֖ר מֵרֹֽב
(Some words not found in UHB: and,servant_of,your in_the=middle people_of,your which/who chosen people great which/who not numbered and=not counted from,multitude )
If it would be more natural in your language, you could reverse the order of these phrases, since the second phrase gives the reason for the result that the first phrase describes. (If you reflect the phrase from abundance, you may not wish also to reflect the word abundant. See the discussion in the “Making Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information Explicit” note to this verse.) Alternate translation: [who from abundance cannot be numbered and cannot be counted] or [who, because they are so abundant, cannot be numbered and cannot be counted]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יִמָּנֶ֛ה וְלֹ֥א יִסָּפֵ֖ר
(Some words not found in UHB: and,servant_of,your in_the=middle people_of,your which/who chosen people great which/who not numbered and=not counted from,multitude )
The expressions cannot be numbered and cannot be counted are passive verbal forms. If your language would not use that form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [whom no one can number and whom no one can count]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet
אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יִמָּנֶ֛ה וְלֹ֥א יִסָּפֵ֖ר
(Some words not found in UHB: and,servant_of,your in_the=middle people_of,your which/who chosen people great which/who not numbered and=not counted from,multitude )
The phrases cannot be numbered and cannot be counted mean similar things. Solomon is using the two terms together for emphasis. If it would be clearer for your readers, you could express the emphasis with a single phrase. Alternate translation: [who cannot be counted at all] or [whom no one can count at all]
OET (OET-LV) And_servant_of_your in_the_middle people_of_your which you_have_chosen a_people numerous which not it_will_be_numbered and_not it_will_be_counted from_multitude.
OET (OET-RV) Yet your servant is among your chosen people—a numerous people who can’t be counted because there’s so many of us.
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.