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 C21 C22 C23 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36
Num 24 V1 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25
OET-LV And_ Bilˊām _he_lifted_up DOM eyes_of_his and_he/it_saw DOM Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) dwelling to_tribes_of_its and_it_became on/upon/above_him/it the_spirit_of god.
OET (OET-RV) He looked up and saw Yisrael (Israel) in their tents laid out by tribe. Then God’s spirit came onto him,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וַיִּשָּׂ֨א בִלְעָ֜ם אֶת עֵינָ֗יו
and,he_lifted_up Bilˊām DOM eyes_of,his
The author is using lifted up his eyes as a common expression of the culture to mean that Balaam looked up and gazed ahead of himself. 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: [And Balaam looked up]
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
עָלָ֖יו
on/upon/above=him/it
The pronoun him refers to Balaam. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: [upon Balaam]
OET-LV And_ Bilˊām _he_lifted_up DOM eyes_of_his and_he/it_saw DOM Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) dwelling to_tribes_of_its and_it_became on/upon/above_him/it the_spirit_of god.
OET (OET-RV) He looked up and saw Yisrael (Israel) in their tents laid out by tribe. Then God’s spirit came onto him,
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.