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OET (OET-LV) But the Martha was_being_pulled_away about much service, and having_approached said:
master, not is_it_mattering to_you that the sister of_me left only me to_be_serving?
Therefore tell to_her that she_may_help with_me.
OET (OET-RV) But Martha kept getting pulled away to keep the household running, and after a while approached Yeshua and asked, “Master, doesn’t it bother you that my sister has left all the housework to me? Tell her to come and help me.”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἡ δὲ Μάρθα περιεσπᾶτο περὶ πολλὴν διακονίαν
¬the but Martha /was_being/_pulled_away about much service
If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this with an active form. Alternate translation: “But all Martha could think about was the big meal she was preparing”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
οὐ μέλει σοι, ὅτι ἡ ἀδελφή μου μόνην με κατέλιπεν διακονεῖν?
not ˱it˲_/is/_mattering ˱to˲_you that the sister ˱of˲_me only me left /to_be/_serving
Martha is complaining that Jesus is allowing Mary to sit listening to him when there is so much work to do. Martha respects the Lord, so she uses a rhetorical question to make her complaint more polite. If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate her words as a statement. Alternate translation: “it seems as if you do not care that my sister has left me alone to serve.”
10:40 Martha was distracted by the big dinner she was preparing: Hospitality was valued highly, and Martha was fulfilling the expected role of a woman. She was frustrated that Mary was not.
OET (OET-LV) But the Martha was_being_pulled_away about much service, and having_approached said:
master, not is_it_mattering to_you that the sister of_me left only me to_be_serving?
Therefore tell to_her that she_may_help with_me.
OET (OET-RV) But Martha kept getting pulled away to keep the household running, and after a while approached Yeshua and asked, “Master, doesn’t it bother you that my sister has left all the housework to me? Tell her to come and help me.”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.