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OET (OET-LV) And_ Shāʼūl _he/it_said to_servants_of_his seek to_me a_woman_of (of)_a_mistress_of necromancy and_go to_her/it and_inquire in/on/at/with_her servants_of_his and_they_said to_him/it there a_woman_of (of)_a_mistress_of necromancy in/on/at/with_Endor Endor.
OET (OET-RV) Then Sha’ul instructed his servants, “Find a woman for me who talks to the spirits of dead people, so I can go to her and ask her something.”
¶ “Sure,” his servants told him, “there’s a woman in Endor who can do that.”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
הִנֵּ֛ה
see/lo/see!
The servants are speaking as if they were showing Saul something that he could see. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [Listen] or [Pay attention to what I am about to tell you]
Note 2 topic: writing-participants
אֵ֥שֶׁת בַּֽעֲלַת־א֖וֹב בְּעֵ֥ין דּֽוֹר
wife_of mistress_of medium in/on/at/with,Endor Endor
The author is quoting what Saul’s servants said in order to introduce this woman as a new participant in the story. Your language may have its own way of introducing new participants that you can use in your translation. Alternate translation: [there is a certain woman in Endor who owns a ritual pit]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / possession
אֵ֣שֶׁת בַּעֲלַת
wife_of mistress_of
The servants are using this possessive form to mean that this woman is the mistress or owner of the pit. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: [a woman who is the owner of]
28:7 Excluded from God’s counsel, Saul resorted to illegitimate methods for finding God’s will. Saul had earlier prohibited the occult practice that he now engaged in himself (28:3).
• Endor was on the boundary between Israel and Philistia; the area near Israel’s border was probably a safer location for a banned practice.
OET (OET-LV) And_ Shāʼūl _he/it_said to_servants_of_his seek to_me a_woman_of (of)_a_mistress_of necromancy and_go to_her/it and_inquire in/on/at/with_her servants_of_his and_they_said to_him/it there a_woman_of (of)_a_mistress_of necromancy in/on/at/with_Endor Endor.
OET (OET-RV) Then Sha’ul instructed his servants, “Find a woman for me who talks to the spirits of dead people, so I can go to her and ask her something.”
¶ “Sure,” his servants told him, “there’s a woman in Endor who can do that.”
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.