OET interlinear MAT 25:32

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person

αὐτοῦ & ἀφοριεῖ

him & /will_be/_setting_apart

Here Jesus continues to speak about himself in the third person. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use the first person. Alternate translation: “me … I will separate”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

συναχθήσονται & πάντα τὰ ἔθνη

/will_be_being/_gathered_together & all the nations

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. Alternate translation: “all the nations will gather” or “all the nations will come”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

πάντα τὰ ἔθνη

all the nations

Here, the word nations represents the people who live in those nations. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “the people of all the nations”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

ἀφοριεῖ αὐτοὺς ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων, ὥσπερ ὁ ποιμὴν ἀφορίζει τὰ πρόβατα ἀπὸ τῶν ἐρίφων

/will_be/_setting_apart them from one_another as the shepherd /is/_setting_apart the sheep from the goats

Jesus is saying that separating people from one another is like a shepherd separating sheep from goats. He means that in both situations a person divides a larger group into two smaller groups based on some important characteristic. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state that explicitly. Alternate translation: “he will separate them from from one another into two groups, just as a shepherd separates into two groups the sheep and the goats”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun

ὁ ποιμὴν ἀφορίζει

the shepherd /is/_setting_apart

The phrase the shepherd represents shepherds in general, not one particular shepherd. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the idea in another way. Alternate translation: “shepherds separate”