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
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Rev 10 V1 V2 V3 V4 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11
People tagged in the matching LV passage: John the Apostle
OET-LV And the messenger, whom I_saw having_stood on the sea and on the land, lifted_up the hand of_him the right to the heaven,
OET (OET-RV) Then the messenger that I’d seen straddling the ocean and the land raised his right hand
In this section, John saw a powerful angel come down from heaven to the earth. John described what the angel looked like. When the angel shouted, John heard seven beings speak with loud voices like thunder. God told John not to write what they said. The powerful angel announced that when the seventh angel blew his trumpet, God would finish his plan. Then God told John to eat the scroll that the angel held. He also told John that he would show him more future events.
Other examples of headings for this section are:
John saw an angel holding a small scroll
The Angel with the Little Scroll (NRSV)
Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land
¶ And/Then the angel whom I previously saw standing on both the surface of the sea and on the land
on the sea: Translate this phrase as you did in 10:2.
lifted up his right hand to heaven.
lifted his right hand toward heaven.
lifted up his right hand to heaven: There is a textual issue in 10:5b: (1) Some early Greek manuscripts have the phrase right hand (BSB, RSV, NIV, GNT, NJB, NASB, NLT, GW, CEV, NET, NABRE, REB, ESV, NCV). (2) Some early Greek manuscripts have the word hand (KJV only). It is recommended that you follow option (1), because the UBS Greek NT supports it. Here the phrase lifted up his right hand indicates that the person was promising something. In some languages people will not know why he lifted up his right hand even after reading 10:6. If that is true in your language, you may want to include some implied information. For example:
lifted up his right hand to heaven to promise
lifted up his right hand to heaven to make an oath
Note 1 topic: translate-symaction
ἦρεν τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ τὴν δεξιὰν εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν
lifted_up (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Καί ὁ ἄγγελος ὅν εἶδον ἑστῶτα ἐπί τῆς θαλάσσης καί ἐπί τῆς γῆς ἦρεν τήν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ τήν δεξιάν εἰς τόν οὐρανόν)
The angel raised his right hand to heaven as a symbolic action to show that he was swearing an oath by God. If this would not be clear to your readers, you could explain the significance of this action. Alternate translation: [raised his right hand to heaven to show that he swearing an oath by God]
OET-LV And the messenger, whom I_saw having_stood on the sea and on the land, lifted_up the hand of_him the right to the heaven,
OET (OET-RV) Then the messenger that I’d seen straddling the ocean and the land raised his right hand
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 SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.
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