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OET (OET-LV) And_rebuked with_them and_cursed_them and_beat from_them men and_pulled_out_hair_their and_take_an_oath_them in/on/at/with_god if you_all_will_give daughters_of_your_all’s to_sons_of_their and_if you_all_will_take of_daughters_of_their for_sons_of_your_all’s and_for_yourselves.
OET (OET-RV) So I scolded those men and cursed them and hit some of them and pulled out their hair. Then I forced them to promise in front on God that they wouldn’t allow their daughters to marry foreign men, or their sons to take foreign wives.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וָאָרִ֤יב עִמָּם֙
and,rebuked with,them
As in 5:7, 13:11, and 13:17, 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 these men to account publicly for what they had done”
וָאֲקַֽלְלֵ֔ם
and,cursed,them
As in 10:29, curse means to express the wish that God would punish someone. Alternate translation: “I said I wished that God would punish them”
Note 2 topic: translate-symaction
וָאַכֶּ֥ה מֵהֶ֛ם אֲנָשִׁ֖ים וָֽאֶמְרְטֵ֑ם
and,beat from=them men and,pulled_out_~_hair,their
By performing these actions, Nehemiah demonstrated to these men symbolically how serious a wrong they had committed. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could say this explicitly. Alternate translation: “I struck some of them and pulled out their hair to show how wrong they were to have married foreign women”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person
וָאַשְׁבִּיעֵ֣ם בֵּֽאלֹהִ֗ים אִם־תִּתְּנ֤וּ בְנֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ לִבְנֵיהֶ֔ם וְאִם־תִּשְׂאוּ֙ מִבְּנֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם לִבְנֵיכֶ֖ם וְלָכֶֽם
and,take_an_oath,them in/on/at/with,God if give daughters_of,your_all's to,sons_of,their and=if take of,daughters_of,their for,sons_of,your_all's and,for,yourselves
Here Nehemiah is reporting the words of the oath in the second person, because this is his account of how he spoke to the men who had married foreign women. When these men said the actual oath, they would have used the first person. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use the first person in your translation as well. Alternate translation: “I made them take this oath: ‘If we allow our daughters to marry their sons, or if we or our sons marry their daughters, may God punish us severely’”
Note 4 topic: writing-oathformula
וָאַשְׁבִּיעֵ֣ם בֵּֽאלֹהִ֗ים אִם־תִּתְּנ֤וּ בְנֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ לִבְנֵיהֶ֔ם וְאִם־תִּשְׂאוּ֙ מִבְּנֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם לִבְנֵיכֶ֖ם וְלָכֶֽם
and,take_an_oath,them in/on/at/with,God if give daughters_of,your_all's to,sons_of,their and=if take of,daughters_of,their for,sons_of,your_all's and,for,yourselves
Nehemiah has the men take an oath using a common Hebrew formula that leaves out some of the words that a sentence would ordinarily need in order to be complete. Whenever a person takes an oath using this formula, the implication is, “May God punish me severely if I do this thing.” Alternate translation: “If we allow our daughters to marry their sons, or if we or our sons marry their daughters, may God punish us severely!”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
תִּתְּנ֤וּ בְנֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ לִבְנֵיהֶ֔ם
give daughters_of,your_all's to,sons_of,their
This is an idiom that means allow your daughters to marry their sons or give your daughters in marriage to their sons
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
תִּשְׂאוּ֙ מִבְּנֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם
take of,daughters_of,their
This is an idiom that means “if you take any of their daughters as wives”
13:25 When Nehemiah called down curses on them, it was because the parents avoided Hebrew and did not teach their children the language of the Hebrew Bible. A curse called on God to remove his blessing on people.
• I beat some of them and pulled out their hair: Apparently, some of the men did not accept Nehemiah’s rebuke at first, so he made them swear in the name of God not to intermarry with pagans.
OET (OET-LV) And_rebuked with_them and_cursed_them and_beat from_them men and_pulled_out_hair_their and_take_an_oath_them in/on/at/with_god if you_all_will_give daughters_of_your_all’s to_sons_of_their and_if you_all_will_take of_daughters_of_their for_sons_of_your_all’s and_for_yourselves.
OET (OET-RV) So I scolded those men and cursed them and hit some of them and pulled out their hair. Then I forced them to promise in front on God that they wouldn’t allow their daughters to marry foreign men, or their sons to take foreign wives.
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.