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 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36
Num 2 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 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 V34
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God · Jacob (Israel) · Moses
Dictionary: Moses
OET-LV And_the_Lēviyyiy not they_were_enrolled in_the_middle the_people_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) just_as YHWH he_had_commanded DOM Mosheh.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-contrast
וְהַ֨לְוִיִּ֔ם לֹ֣א הָתְפָּקְד֔וּ
and,the,Levites not counted
The author uses the word And here to indicate a contrast between counting all the other tribes and not counting the Levites. In your translation, indicate this contrast in a way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [But they did not count the Levites]
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
לֹ֣א הָתְפָּקְד֔וּ
not counted
The pronoun they refers to Moses and Aaron. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: [Moses and Aaron did not count]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
בְּת֖וֹךְ
in_the=middle
See how you translated the same use of in the midst of in 1:47. Alternate translation: [together with]
OET-LV And_the_Lēviyyiy not they_were_enrolled in_the_middle the_people_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) just_as YHWH he_had_commanded DOM Mosheh.
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.