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OET (OET-LV) What I_am_telling to_you_all in the darkness, speak in the light, and what you_all_are_hearing in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
OET (OET-RV) Anything that I tell you all in the darkness, speak it out in the light, and what you hear whispered, go and yell it out from up on the top porch.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
ὃ λέγω ὑμῖν ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ, εἴπατε ἐν τῷ φωτί; καὶ ὃ εἰς τὸ οὖς ἀκούετε, κηρύξατε ἐπὶ τῶν δωμάτων
what ˱I˲_/am/_telling ˱to˲_you_all in the darkness speak in the light and what in the ear ˱you_all˲_/are/_hearing proclaim on the housetops
These two clauses mean basically the same thing. The second emphasizes the meaning of the first by repeating the same idea with different words. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could connect the clauses with a word other than and in order to show that the second phrase is repeating the first one, not saying something additional. Alternate translation: “What I tell you in the darkness, say in the light. Again, what you hear in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ
in the darkness
Jesus uses the image of darkness to represent the idea of concealment or secrecy. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a comparable phrase or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “secretly”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
τῇ σκοτίᾳ
the darkness
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of darkness, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “in a dark place”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἐν τῷ φωτί
in in the light
Jesus uses the image of light to represent the idea of no concealment or secrecy. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a comparable phrase or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “openly”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ὃ εἰς τὸ οὖς ἀκούετε
what what in the ear ˱you_all˲_/are/_hearing
Here, the phrase what you hear in your ear refers to something that a person told you quietly. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent phrase or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “what is whispered to you” or “what I say privately to you”
Note 6 topic: translate-unknown
ἐπὶ τῶν δωμάτων
on the housetops
Houses in Israel had flat roofs that were reached by stairs or ladders, so people could easily go up and stand on top of them. If houses are different in your culture and you think your readers might wonder how people would get up onto housetops and stand there, you could translate this with a general expression. Alternate translation: “from a high place from which everyone will be able to hear”
OET (OET-LV) What I_am_telling to_you_all in the darkness, speak in the light, and what you_all_are_hearing in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
OET (OET-RV) Anything that I tell you all in the darkness, speak it out in the light, and what you hear whispered, go and yell it out from up on the top porch.
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.