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OET (OET-LV) And another one said:
I_bought five pairs of_oxen and I_am_going to_approve them, I_am_asking you be_holding me having_been_excused.
OET (OET-RV) Another one said, ‘I’ve bought five pairs of oxen and I need to check them out. Please excuse me.’
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἕτερος εἶπεν
another_‹one› said
See how you translated this phrase in 14:18. Alternate translation: “another guest told the servant to give this message to his master”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes
ζεύγη βοῶν ἠγόρασα πέντε καὶ πορεύομαι δοκιμάσαι αὐτά; ἐρωτῶ σε ἔχε με παρῃτημένον
pairs ˱of˲_oxen ˱I˲_bought five and ˱I˲_/am/_going /to/_approve them ˱I˲_/am/_asking you /be/_holding me /having_been/_excused
If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: “that he had just bought five pairs of oxen and that he was going to try them out, so he wanted to be excused”
Note 3 topic: translate-unknown
ζεύγη βοῶν & πέντε
pairs ˱of˲_oxen & five
Oxen are large cattle. In this culture, they were used in pairs to pull farming tools such as plows. Alternate translation: “five pairs of oxen to work in my fields”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ἐρωτῶ σε ἔχε με παρῃτημένον
˱I˲_/am/_asking you /be/_holding me /having_been/_excused
See how you translated this phrase in 14:18. Alternate translation: “Please accept my apology for not being able to attend”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἔχε με παρῃτημένον
/be/_holding me /having_been/_excused
If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this with an active form. Alternate translation: “excuse me from attending”
14:19 oxen, and I want to try them out: This is another weak excuse—no one would buy oxen without having seen them plow.
OET (OET-LV) And another one said:
I_bought five pairs of_oxen and I_am_going to_approve them, I_am_asking you be_holding me having_been_excused.
OET (OET-RV) Another one said, ‘I’ve bought five pairs of oxen and I need to check them out. Please excuse 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 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.