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OET (OET-LV) And having_become evening, the master of_the vineyard is_saying to_the manager of_him:
Call the workers and give_back to_them the wage, having_begun from the last to the first.
OET (OET-RV) “In the evening, the landowner instructed his manager, ‘Call the workers and give them their wages, going from the last to start until the first.’
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ὁ κύριος τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος
the master ˱of˲_the vineyard
Here, the owner of the vineyard is the same person whom Jesus previously called “the master of the house” (see 20:1). If it would be helpful in your language, you could make it more explicit that this is the same person. Alternate translation: “the master of the house, who owned the vineyard,” or “the master of the house, who was in charge of the vineyard,”
Note 2 topic: translate-tense
λέγει
/is/_saying
To call attention to a development in the story, Jesus uses the present tense in past narration. If it would not be natural to do that in your language, you could use the past tense in your translation. Alternate translation: “said”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
τῷ ἐπιτρόπῳ αὐτοῦ
˱to˲_the manager ˱of˲_him
Here, the word manager is referring to a worker who supervised or managed the other workers. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: “to his manager, who was in charge of the workers”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / yousingular
κάλεσον & ἀπόδος
call & give_back
Because the master of the house is speaking to his manager, the commands throughout this verse are singular.
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ τῶν ἐσχάτων ἕως τῶν πρώτων
/having/_begun from the last to the first
Here the owner of the vineyard means that he wants his manager to pay the workers in the reverse order in which they were hired. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: “beginning with the last and ending with the first” or “beginning from the last and going backwards to the first”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
τῶν ἐσχάτων & τῶν πρώτων
the last & the first
The owner of the vineyard is using the adjectives first and last as nouns to mean the workers who were hired last and the workers who were hired first. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you could translate these words with equivalent phrases. Alternate translation: “the last workers … the first workers” or “the workers hired last … the workers hired first”
20:8 Payment followed the day’s work (Deut 24:14-15).
OET (OET-LV) And having_become evening, the master of_the vineyard is_saying to_the manager of_him:
Call the workers and give_back to_them the wage, having_begun from the last to the first.
OET (OET-RV) “In the evening, the landowner instructed his manager, ‘Call the workers and give them their wages, going from the last to start until the first.’
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.