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OET (OET-LV) they_were_eating, they_were_drinking, they_were_marrying, they_were_being_betrothed, until that day Nōe came_in into the box, and the flood came and destroyed all.
OET (OET-RV) people were eating and drinking, and getting engaged and married right until that day when Noah went into the barge and the flood came and destroyed everything.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
ἤσθιον, ἔπινον, ἐγάμουν, ἐγαμίζοντο
˱they˲_/were/_eating ˱they˲_/were/_drinking ˱they˲_/were/_marrying ˱they˲_/were_being/_betrothed
Jesus describes several regular activities to refer to regular activities in general. Alternate translation: “They were going about their normal lives”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἐγαμίζοντο
˱they˲_/were_being/_betrothed
If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this with an active form, and you could state who was doing the action. Alternate translation: “parents were giving their daughters in marriage”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ἄχρι ἧς ἡμέρας
until that day
While Noah and his family did enter the ark on a specific day, Jesus is likely using the word day to mean a specific time. Alternate translation: “right up to the moment when”
Note 4 topic: translate-unknown
τὴν κιβωτόν
the ark
The term the ark refers to the structure that Noah built on God’s instructions to save himself and his family from the flood. If your readers would not recognize this specific term, you could use a more general one. Alternate translation: “the ship he built” or “the barge he built”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / hyperbole
πάντας
all
Here, them all does not include Noah and his family, who were in the ark. Alternate translation: “all those who were not in the ark”
17:20-37 This is the first of two discourses in Luke’s Gospel on the coming of the Kingdom and the return of the Son of Man (see also ch 21).
OET (OET-LV) they_were_eating, they_were_drinking, they_were_marrying, they_were_being_betrothed, until that day Nōe came_in into the box, and the flood came and destroyed all.
OET (OET-RV) people were eating and drinking, and getting engaged and married right until that day when Noah went into the barge and the flood came and destroyed everything.
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.