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OET (OET-LV) And_he/it_said the_man to ˊĒlī I the_come from the_battle_line and_I from the_battle_line I_have_fled the_day and_he/it_said what was_it the_things son_of_my.
OET (OET-RV) The man told him, “I’m the one who’s just come from the battle line. I had to fled from the battle line today.”
¶ “What was the issue, my son?” Eli asked.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
אָֽנֹכִי֙ הַבָּ֣א מִן־הַמַּעֲרָכָ֔ה וַאֲנִ֕י מִן־הַמַּעֲרָכָ֖ה נַ֣סְתִּי הַיּ֑וֹם
I the,come from/more_than the,battle_line and,I from/more_than the,battle_line fled the=day
The messenger is using poetic language to introduce the solemn news that he must share. Following the conventions of Hebrew poetry, he is saying something and then repeating the idea in different words. It may be helpful in your translation to connect these phrases with a word other than and to show that the second phrase is repeating the first one, not saying something additional. Alternate translation: [I have just come from the battle lines, indeed, I myself fled from them today]
Note 2 topic: writing-politeness
בְּנִֽי
son_of,my
Eli is addressing the messenger with a polite and gentle expression. Use a comparable title or expression for addressing someone politely and gently in your language. Alternate translation: [young man]
4:1b–7:2 The crisis surrounding the Ark of the Covenant demonstrated Israel’s need for Samuel’s leadership and fulfilled prophecies about Eli and his sons (3:11-14).
OET (OET-LV) And_he/it_said the_man to ˊĒlī I the_come from the_battle_line and_I from the_battle_line I_have_fled the_day and_he/it_said what was_it the_things son_of_my.
OET (OET-RV) The man told him, “I’m the one who’s just come from the battle line. I had to fled from the battle line today.”
¶ “What was the issue, my son?” Eli asked.
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.