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 V2 V3 V4 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Jacob (Israel)
OET-LV How tents_of_your they_are_good Oh_Yaˊₐqoⱱ/(Jacob) places_of_your_dwelling Oh_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel).
OET (OET-RV) Yes Ya’akov (Jacob), your tents look good.
⇔ ≈ Yes Yisrael (Israel), the places where you’re living:
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / exclamations
מַה טֹּ֥בוּ אֹהָלֶ֖יךָ
what? fair tents_of,your
Balaam is using a phrase that expresses a strong feeling of admiration. There may be an equivalent word or phrase in your language that you can use in your translation to convey this feeling. Alternate translation: [Your tents are so good]
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
אֹהָלֶ֖יךָ
tents_of,your
The pronoun your refers to the people of Israel, whom Balaam addresses. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: [the tents of your people]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶ֖יךָ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
places_of,your_dwelling Yisrael
Balaam is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [how good are your dwellings, Israel]
OET-LV How tents_of_your they_are_good Oh_Yaˊₐqoⱱ/(Jacob) places_of_your_dwelling Oh_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel).
OET (OET-RV) Yes Ya’akov (Jacob), your tents look good.
⇔ ≈ Yes Yisrael (Israel), the places where you’re living:
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.