InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Neh C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13
Neh 6 V1 V2 V3 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19
OET-LV And_they_sent to_me according_the_manner the_this four times and_I_sent_back_to them according_the_manner (the)_this.
OET (OET-RV) They tried four times to get me to go, but I kept refusing them for those same reasons.
וַיִּשְׁלְח֥וּ אֵלַ֛י כַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּ֖ה אַרְבַּ֣ע פְּעָמִ֑ים
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_sent to=me according,the_manner the=this four times and,I_sent_back_to ,them according,the_manner (the),this )
Alternate translation: [They sent me the same message four times]
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וָאָשִׁ֥יב אוֹתָ֖ם
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_sent to=me according,the_manner the=this four times and,I_sent_back_to ,them according,the_manner (the),this )
Turned them back means refused them The implication is that Nehemiah did this each time. If it would be helpful in your language, you could say that explicitly. Alternate translation: [and each time I refused them]
כַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּ֖ה
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_sent to=me according,the_manner the=this four times and,I_sent_back_to ,them according,the_manner (the),this )
Alternate translation: [for this same reason]
OET-LV And_they_sent to_me according_the_manner the_this four times and_I_sent_back_to them according_the_manner (the)_this.
OET (OET-RV) They tried four times to get me to go, but I kept refusing them for those same reasons.
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.