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OET (OET-LV) And_rebuked with the_nobles_of Yəhūdāh and_said to/for_them what the_thing the_evil the_this which you_all [are]_doing and_profaning DOM the_day_of the_sabbath.
OET (OET-RV) I rebuked the Yehudah business leaders, asking them, “What’s this evil thing that you’re all doing—profaning the rest day by treating it like a regular day?
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
וָאָרִ֕יבָה
and,rebuked,
In this context, the conjunction And indicates that the sentence it introduces explains something that happened as a result of what the previous sentence described. Alternate translation: “So”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וָאָרִ֕יבָה אֵ֖ת חֹרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֑ה
and,rebuked, DOM nobles_of Yehuda
As in 5:7 and 13:11, contended is a technical term that describes a public accusation that requires the defendants to answer for themselves in the presence of their fellow citizens. Alternate translation: “Then I called the leading citizens of Judah to account publicly for what they had allowed”
חֹרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֑ה
nobles_of Yehuda
See how you translated this term in 2:16. Alternate translation: “the leading citizens of Judah”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וָאֹמְרָ֣ה לָהֶ֗ם
and,said, to/for=them
The implication in context is that what Nehemiah said was an accusation. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a phrase that indicates this. Alternate translation: “I demanded to know”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
מָֽה־הַדָּבָ֨ר הָרָ֤ע הַזֶּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אַתֶּ֣ם עֹשִׂ֔ים וּֽמְחַלְּלִ֖ים אֶת־י֥וֹם הַשַּׁבָּֽת
what the,thing the,evil the=this which/who you_all doing and,profaning DOM day the,sabbath
Nehemiah is using the question form for emphasis in order to scold the leaders of Judah. If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate what he says as an exclamation. Alternate translation: “You are doing an evil thing by treating the Sabbath day like any other day”
Note 5 topic: translate-unknown
וּֽמְחַלְּלִ֖ים אֶת־י֥וֹם הַשַּׁבָּֽת
and,profaning DOM day the,sabbath
To profane something means to treat something that should be holy, set apart for a special purpose, as if it were something ordinary or common, just like anything else. Alternate translation: “treating the Sabbath day like any other day”
13:15-31 Nehemiah instituted two additional reforms to restore proper Sabbath observance (13:15-22) and proper marriage practices (13:23-31). These two sections have similar structures: Nehemiah discovered a problem, corrected the problem, and asked God for his blessing.
OET (OET-LV) And_rebuked with the_nobles_of Yəhūdāh and_said to/for_them what the_thing the_evil the_this which you_all [are]_doing and_profaning DOM the_day_of the_sabbath.
OET (OET-RV) I rebuked the Yehudah business leaders, asking them, “What’s this evil thing that you’re all doing—profaning the rest day by treating it like a regular day?
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 Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.