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OET (OET-LV) And the head of_him was_brought on a_platter, and it_was_given to_the little_girl, and she_brought it to_the mother of_her.
OET (OET-RV) So then his head was brought in on a plate and given to the young woman who then took it to her mother.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἠνέχθη ἡ κεφαλὴ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ πίνακι, καὶ ἐδόθη τῷ κορασίῳ
/was/_brought the head ˱of˲_him on /a/_platter and ˱it˲_/was/_given ˱to˲_the little_girl
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. If you need to say who did the action, you could refer to whoever beheaded John, or you could use an indefinite subject. Alternate translation: “the soldier who beheaded John brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl” or “someone brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl”
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
αὐτοῦ
˱of˲_him
The pronoun his refers to John. If this is not clear for your readers, you could use the person's name here. Alternate translation: “John’s”
Note 3 topic: translate-unknown
πίνακι
/a/_platter
See how you translated the word platter in 14:8. Alternate translation: “a tray” or “a large serving plate”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
τῷ κορασίῳ
˱to˲_the little_girl
Here, the word girl refers to a woman who has reached puberty but who is still young, probably between 12 and 20 years old. Use a word in your language that refers generally to a young woman who has reached puberty. Alternate translation: “to the young woman”
14:3-12 The popular appeal of John’s message posed a political threat (see Josephus, Antiquities 18.5.2). Years after John’s execution, the Jews viewed Herod’s military defeat at the hands of Aretas (AD 36) as a just recompense for putting an innocent man to death.
OET (OET-LV) And the head of_him was_brought on a_platter, and it_was_given to_the little_girl, and she_brought it to_the mother of_her.
OET (OET-RV) So then his head was brought in on a plate and given to the young woman who then took it to her mother.
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.