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 Num C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36
Num 17 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Aaron · Jacob (Israel) · Moses
Dictionary: Moses
OET-LV (NUM 17:21) [fn] And_ Mosheh _he/it_spoke to the_people_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_they_gave to_him/it all_of leaders_of_their a_rod for_a_leader one a_rod for_a_leader one to_the_house_of their_ancestors_of_their two_plus ten rods and_the_rod_of ʼAhₐron in_the_middle rods_of_their.
17:21 Note: KJB: Num.17.6
OET (OET-RV) So Mosheh passed the message on to the Israeli leaders and they gave him one staff for each leader—a total of twelve including Aharon’s one,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
מַטֶּה֩ לְנָשִׂ֨יא אֶחָ֜ד מַטֶּ֨ה לְנָשִׂ֤יא אֶחָד֙
staffs for,a_leader one(ms) staff for,a_leader one(ms)
Here, the author repeats the phrase a staff for one leader to indicate that each leader gave one staff. If this phrase does not have that meaning for your readers, you could use a comparable expression from your language that does have that meaning, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [one staff from each of them]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֔ם
to,the_house_of their_ancestors_of,their
See how you translated the similar expression in 17:2.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וּמַטֵּ֥ה אַהֲרֹ֖ן בְּת֥וֹךְ מַטּוֹתָֽם
and,the_rod_of ʼAhₐron in_the=middle rods_of,their
Here the author implies that the staff of Aaron was an additional staff added to the 12 staffs from the other leaders. You could indicate this explicitly in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [And the staff of Aaron was placed among the other 12 staffs]
OET-LV (NUM 17:21) [fn] And_ Mosheh _he/it_spoke to the_people_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_they_gave to_him/it all_of leaders_of_their a_rod for_a_leader one a_rod for_a_leader one to_the_house_of their_ancestors_of_their two_plus ten rods and_the_rod_of ʼAhₐron in_the_middle rods_of_their.
17:21 Note: KJB: Num.17.6
OET (OET-RV) So Mosheh passed the message on to the Israeli leaders and they gave him one staff for each leader—a total of twelve including Aharon’s one,
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.