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OET (OET-LV) and_chase[fn] of_you(pl) five one_hundred and_a_hundred of_you(pl) ten_thousand they_will_pursue and_fall enemies_of_your(pl) before_face/front_you(pl) by_the_sword.
26:8 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
וְרָדְפ֨וּ מִכֶּ֤ם חֲמִשָּׁה֙ מֵאָ֔ה וּמֵאָ֥ה מִכֶּ֖ם רְבָבָ֣ה יִרְדֹּ֑פוּ
and,chase of,you(pl) five hundred and,a_hundred of,you(pl) ten_thousand chase
These parallel statements are expressed in a poetic, proverbial way to emphasize how God will empower a small number to defeat many enemies. If your language has poetic or proverbial ways to express this kind of dramatic contrast, use them. For example, if your language uses repeated patterns, increasing numbers, or special poetic forms to create proverbs about strength and victory, adapt this statement to use those patterns. Alternate translation: [Five will chase a hundred, a hundred will chase ten thousand] or express it as a proverb like [Your fives will scatter hundreds, your hundreds will scatter thousands]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
וְנָפְל֧וּ אֹיְבֵיכֶ֛ם לִפְנֵיכֶ֖ם לֶחָֽרֶב
and,fall enemies_of,your(pl) before,face/front,you(pl) by_the,sword
See how you translated this in [26:7](../26/07.md). Here, fall to your faces to the sword means to die in battle.
26:3-39 These blessings and curses resemble a key element of ancient Near Eastern suzerain-vassal treaties. In such treaties, the suzerain king promised to defend the vassal king and his state, while the vassal took an oath of loyalty to his lord. Blessings and curses followed, with the curses generally being more lengthy (contrast 26:3-13 with 26:14-39; cp. Deut 27:15–28:68). Such treaties would call upon the gods as witnesses and enforcers. In God’s covenant with Israel, however, the Lord was one of the parties to the treaty (Israel being the other); since the Lord could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself (see Gen 22:16; Heb 6:13).
OET (OET-LV) and_chase[fn] of_you(pl) five one_hundred and_a_hundred of_you(pl) ten_thousand they_will_pursue and_fall enemies_of_your(pl) before_face/front_you(pl) by_the_sword.
26:8 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
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.