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OET (OET-LV) And when spoke the seven thunders, I_was_going to_be_writing, but I_heard a_voice out_of the heaven saying:
Seal what things spoke the seven thunders, and not them you_may_write.
OET (OET-RV) When the seven thunders spoke, I was going to write down what they said but I heard a voice from heaven that said, “Keep what the seven thunders have said secret, and don’t write it down.”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἤμελλον γράφειν
˱I˲_/was/_going /to_be/_writing
The implication is that John was going to write down what the seven thunders had said. You can provide this information in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “I was going to write down what they had said”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
σφράγισον ἃ ἐλάλησαν αἱ ἑπτὰ βρονταί, καὶ μὴ αὐτὰ γράψῃς
seal what_‹things› spoke the seven thunders and not them ˱you˲_/may/_write
The voice spoke as if John should literally seal what the thunders said. However, since the voice then specified that John was not to write anything down, the voice meant that John should keep secret what the thunders said. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Keep secret what the seven thunders said by not writing it down”
10:4 Revelation reveals God’s intentions in the world without eliminating the mystery of God’s ways. The martyrs did not receive an immediate answer to their cries (6:10), the meaning of the seventh seal is cloaked in silence (8:1), and here the seven thunders are kept secret (cp. Dan 12:9).
OET (OET-LV) And when spoke the seven thunders, I_was_going to_be_writing, but I_heard a_voice out_of the heaven saying:
Seal what things spoke the seven thunders, and not them you_may_write.
OET (OET-RV) When the seven thunders spoke, I was going to write down what they said but I heard a voice from heaven that said, “Keep what the seven thunders have said secret, and don’t write it down.”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.