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OET (OET-LV) You_all_may_ not _think that I_came to_bring peace to the earth, I_came not to_bring peace, but a_sword.
OET (OET-RV) “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth. No, I came to bring war not peace,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ἦλθον & οὐκ ἦλθον
˱I˲_came & not ˱I˲_came
Here, the words came and come refer to Jesus entering this world as a human to do what God called him to do. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a comparable phrase or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [I came to this world … I did not come to this world] or [I am acting … I am not acting]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
βαλεῖν εἰρήνην & βαλεῖν εἰρήνην, ἀλλὰ μάχαιραν
/to/_bring peace & /to/_bring peace but /a/_sword
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of peace, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [to make people get along with one another … to make people get along with one another, but I came to bring a sword]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν
to the earth
Here, the phrase upon the earth refers to the people who live on the earth. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a comparable phrase or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [to the people of the earth] or [among people]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
ἀλλὰ μάχαιραν
but /a/_sword
Jesus is leaving out some of the words that a sentence would need in many languages to be complete. If it would be helpful in your language, you could supply these words from earlier in the sentence. Alternate translation: [but I came to bring a sword]
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
μάχαιραν
/a/_sword
Here, the word sword represents strife or fighting. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression from your language or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [strife] or [conflict]
10:34 Jesus did bring peace (John 14:27), but not of a social and political kind. Instead, Jesus calls humans to make a decision about him, which brings a sword—i.e., division (see Matt 8:21-22; 12:46-50; Luke 12:51).
OET (OET-LV) You_all_may_ not _think that I_came to_bring peace to the earth, I_came not to_bring peace, but a_sword.
OET (OET-RV) “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth. No, I came to bring war not peace,
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.