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OET (OET-LV) There_were two debtors to_a_ certain _moneylender:
the one was_owing five_hundred daʸnarion_coins, and the other fifty.
OET (OET-RV) Then Yeshua told him this story: “Once there were two people who had borrowed from a money lender: one borrowed five-hundred coins and the other borrowed fifty.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parables
δύο χρεοφιλέται ἦσαν: δανιστῇ τινι
two (Some words not found in SR-GNT: δύο χρεοφειλέται ἦσαν δανιστῇ τινι ὁ εἷς ὤφειλεν δηνάρια πεντακόσια ὁ δὲ ἕτερος πεντήκοντα)
To help Simon the Pharisee understand what he wants to teach him, Jesus tells him a story. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could state that explicitly. Alternate translation: “Then Jesus told him this story to help him understand. ‘There were two debtors’”
δύο χρεοφιλέται ἦσαν: δανιστῇ τινι
two (Some words not found in SR-GNT: δύο χρεοφειλέται ἦσαν δανιστῇ τινι ὁ εἷς ὤφειλεν δηνάρια πεντακόσια ὁ δὲ ἕτερος πεντήκοντα)
Alternate translation: “Two different people owed money to the same moneylender”
Note 2 topic: translate-bmoney
δηνάρια πεντακόσια
denarii five_hundred
The word denarii is the plural of “denarius.” A denarius was a silver coin equivalent to a day’s wage. You could try to express this amount in terms of current monetary values, but that might cause your Bible translation to become outdated and inaccurate, since those values can change over time. So instead you might state something more general or give the equivalent in wages. Alternate translation: “500 silver coins” or “an amount equivalent to a year and a half’s wages”
Note 3 topic: translate-bmoney
ὁ δὲ ἕτερος πεντήκοντα
the the and other fifty
Alternate translation: “the other person owed 50 silver coins” or “the other person owed an amount equal to 50 days’ wages”
7:41 500 pieces of silver (denarii) was almost two years’ wages for a day laborer. The poor were often heavily indebted to the wealthy in first-century Galilee.
OET (OET-LV) There_were two debtors to_a_ certain _moneylender:
the one was_owing five_hundred daʸnarion_coins, and the other fifty.
OET (OET-RV) Then Yeshua told him this story: “Once there were two people who had borrowed from a money lender: one borrowed five-hundred coins and the other borrowed fifty.
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.