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OET (OET-LV) and_sent to_me Şanⱱallaţ in_the_way the_this a_time fifth DOM servant_of_his and_letter_of open in_his/its_hand.
OET (OET-RV) Then Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time with the same request, but this time in an unsealed, open letter
Note 1 topic: translate-ordinal
וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ אֵלַ֨י סַנְבַלַּ֜ט כַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּ֛ה פַּ֥עַם חֲמִישִׁ֖ית אֶֽת־נַעֲר֑וֹ
and,sent to=me Şanⱱallaţ in_the,way the=this time fifth DOM servant_of,his
Alternate translation: “Sanballat sent his servant to me with this same message for a fifth time” or “this was time number five that Sanballat sent his servant to me with this same message”
וְאִגֶּ֥רֶת פְּתוּחָ֖ה בְּיָדֽוֹ
and,letter_of open in=his/its=hand
This means that this fifth message was written in a letter, but the letter was unsealed. Alternate translation: “This time the message was written, but it was not sealed”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וְאִגֶּ֥רֶת פְּתוּחָ֖ה בְּיָדֽוֹ
and,letter_of open in=his/its=hand
As a diplomatic communication, the letter should have been sealed. Because it was not, others could read it and spread its contents among the people of the region. It appears that Sanballat deliberately left the letter unsealed to pressure Nehemiah to meet with him. If it would be helpful in your language, you could say that explicitly. Alternate translation: “Sanballat left the letter unsealed so that others would find out what it said, because he wanted to pressure me to meet with him”
6:1-19 With the financial crisis solved (ch 5), the narrative returns to how the enemies of rebuilding tried to intimidate or eliminate Nehemiah.
OET (OET-LV) and_sent to_me Şanⱱallaţ in_the_way the_this a_time fifth DOM servant_of_his and_letter_of open in_his/its_hand.
OET (OET-RV) Then Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time with the same request, but this time in an unsealed, open letter
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.