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OET (OET-LV) And they_were_imploring him that he_may_ not _command to_them to_go_away into the abyss.
OET (OET-RV) and now they were pleading with him not to command them to go back to the bottomless pit.
παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν
˱they˲_/were/_imploring him
Alternate translation: “the demons kept begging Jesus”
Note 1 topic: translate-unknown
τὴν Ἄβυσσον
the Abyss
The term abyss literally means a bottomless pit, and here it describes a place of punishment. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could translate the term with an explanatory phrase, as UST does, saying “the deep pit where God punishes demons.”
8:31 the bottomless pit: The Greek word abussos means “bottomless” and often refers to the underworld prison of evil spirits or fallen angels (Rev 9:1-2, 11; 11:7; 17:8; 20:1, 3; cp. 2 Pet 2:4). The metaphor is taken from the apparently bottomless depth of the ocean (the ancients had no means for sounding the ocean depths, so to them it was bottomless).
OET (OET-LV) And they_were_imploring him that he_may_ not _command to_them to_go_away into the abyss.
OET (OET-RV) and now they were pleading with him not to command them to go back to the bottomless pit.
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.