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Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ὑπάγετε
/be/_going
If it would be helpful to your readers, you could state explicitly where Jesus wants these disciples to go. Alternate translation: [Go to the cities and places where I am sending you]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἰδοὺ
behold
Jesus uses the term Behold to get his disciples to focus their attention on what he is about to say. Alternate translation: [Listen carefully now]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / simile
ἀποστέλλω ὑμᾶς ὡς ἄρνας ἐν μέσῳ λύκων
˱I˲_/am/_sending_out you_all as lambs in /the/_midst ˱of˲_wolves
Wolves attack and kill sheep. This simile is a warning to the disciples whom Jesus is sending out that there will be people who will want to harm them. You could explain the meaning of this figurative expression in your translation. (However, you could also reproduce the simile, as suggested in the next note.) Alternate translation: [when I send you out, there are going to be some people who will want to harm you]
Note 4 topic: translate-unknown
ἀποστέλλω ὑμᾶς ὡς ἄρνας ἐν μέσῳ λύκων
˱I˲_/am/_sending_out you_all as lambs in /the/_midst ˱of˲_wolves
Jesus’ disciples would have known that lambs are gentle animals that have been domesticated for their wool, milk, meat, and leather, and that wolves are predatory land animals, similar to large dogs, that hunt and kill in packs. If you would like to reproduce the simile, but your readers would not be familiar with these animals, you could use general terms. Alternate translation: [I am sending you out like harmless animals that will encounter a group of predators]
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / you
ὑμᾶς
you_all
Since Jesus is speaking to these 72 disciples as a group, you is plural here and through 10:12.
10:3 lambs among wolves: Jesus’ followers are not to dominate others, but to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others. This makes them vulnerable (see Jer 5:6; Ezek 22:27; Hab 1:8; Zeph 3:3), but the Good Shepherd (Ps 23:1) protects them from the wolves.
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 SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.