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 C17 C18 C19 C20 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36
Num 21 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27 V28 V29 V30 V31 V32 V33 V34 V35
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV And_ YHWH _he_sent among_people DOM the_snakes the_saraphs and_they_bit DOM the_people and_ a_people numerous _he/it_died from_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel).
OET (OET-RV) So Yahweh sent poisonous snakes into the people, and many Israelis were bitten and died.
Note 1 topic: translate-unknown
הַשְּׂרָפִ֔ים
the,saraphs
Here, the phrase fiery ones identifies what kind of serpents these were. Most likely, they were called “fiery” because of how their venom affected people, probably making people swell and have fevers. If your readers would not be familiar with what a fiery serpent is, you could use the name of a similar thing that your readers would recognize, or you could use a more general term. Alternate translation: [the venomous serpents]
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
וַֽיְנַשְּׁכ֖וּ אֶת הָעָ֑ם
and,they_bit DOM the,people
The pronoun they refers to the serpents. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: [and the serpents bit the people]
OET-LV And_ YHWH _he_sent among_people DOM the_snakes the_saraphs and_they_bit DOM the_people and_ a_people numerous _he/it_died from_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel).
OET (OET-RV) So Yahweh sent poisonous snakes into the people, and many Israelis were bitten and died.
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.