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OET (OET-LV) And I_turned_back to_be_seeing the voice which was_speaking with me.
And having_turned_back, I_saw seven lampstands golden,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
τὴν φωνὴν ἥτις
the voice which
John is referring to someone speaking by association with the voice that the person is using to speak. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “what person”
1:12 I turned to see who was speaking: This statement refers to the loud voice of 1:10.
• seven gold lampstands: The lighted menorah was a symbol of God’s presence among his people (Exod 27:21; Lev 24:1-4) and of his all-seeing eyes in the world (Zech 4:10).
OET (OET-LV) And I_turned_back to_be_seeing the voice which was_speaking with me.
And having_turned_back, I_saw seven lampstands golden,
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.