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OET (OET-LV) and_he/it_was in/on/at/with_month_of Nisan year_of twenty of_ʼArtaḩshashtāʼ the_king wine before_face/front_him and_carried DOM the_wine and_gave to/for_the_king and_not I_had_been sad in_presence_of_his.
OET (OET-RV) In the spring of the twentieth year of King Artahshashta’s reign, I was serving wine to the king. I’d never looked sad before in his presence,
Note 1 topic: writing-newevent
וַיְהִ֣י
and=he/it_was
Nehemiah uses this phrase to introduce the next event in his story. You do not need to represent it in your translation unless your language has a similar expression that it characteristically uses. Alternate translation: “Then one day”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
בְּחֹ֣דֶשׁ נִיסָ֗ן שְׁנַ֥ת עֶשְׂרִ֛ים לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥סְתְּא הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ
in/on/at/with,month_of Nisan year_of twentieth of,Artaxerxes the=king
Since there were twelve months in the Hebrew calendar, and it was still the same year in the reign of Artaxerxes, this means that four months had gone by since Hanani came and spoke with Nehemiah. The implication is that Nehemiah had been praying all this time in the way described in chapter 1. If it would be helpful in your language, you could say this explicitly. Alternate translation: “I prayed like this for four months”
Note 3 topic: translate-hebrewmonths
בְּחֹ֣דֶשׁ נִיסָ֗ן
in/on/at/with,month_of Nisan
Nisan is the name of the first month of the Hebrew calendar.
Note 4 topic: translate-ordinal
שְׁנַ֥ת עֶשְׂרִ֛ים לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥סְתְּא הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ
year_of twentieth of,Artaxerxes the=king
This is referring to the number of years that Artaxerxes had been reigning as king. Alternate translation: “in year 20 of the reign of Artaxerxes as the king of Persia”
יַ֣יִן לְפָנָ֑יו
wine before,face/front,him
Him means King Artaxerxes. Alternate translation: “when it was time to serve him the wine”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
יַ֣יִן לְפָנָ֑יו
wine before,face/front,him
Here, face is a figurative way of referring to the presence of a person. This sentence means that a time had come when Nehemiah needed to serve wine to the king.
וָאֶשָּׂ֤א אֶת־הַיַּ֨יִן֙ וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ
and,carried DOM the,wine and,gave, to/for=the_king
Alternate translation: “I poured a cup of wine and gave it to the king”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וְלֹא־הָיִ֥יתִי רַ֖ע לְפָנָֽיו
and=not been evil in,presence_of,his
In this context, unpleasant refers to a person looking sad or upset. Alternate translation: “I did not look sad in his presence”
Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וְלֹא־הָיִ֥יתִי
and=not been
The context suggests that I was not actually means I had never been. It seems that King Artaxerxes always wanted his officials to be cheerful in his presence. That is why Nehemaiah became afraid when the king asked him why he was sad. If it would be helpful in your language, you could say “I had never been”
Note 8 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
לְפָנָ֑יו
before,face/front,him
Here, face is a figurative way of referring to the presence of a person. Alternate translation: “in his presence”
2:1 never . . . sad in his presence: A servant was not to let his personal life interfere with serving the king.
OET (OET-LV) and_he/it_was in/on/at/with_month_of Nisan year_of twenty of_ʼArtaḩshashtāʼ the_king wine before_face/front_him and_carried DOM the_wine and_gave to/for_the_king and_not I_had_been sad in_presence_of_his.
OET (OET-RV) In the spring of the twentieth year of King Artahshashta’s reign, I was serving wine to the king. I’d never looked sad before in his presence,
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.