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
InterlinearVerse 2 Sam C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24
2 Sam 6 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV And_he/it_was if/because those_who_carried_of (of)_the_box_of YHWH they_had_stepped six steps and_he/it_sacrificed an_ox and_a_fatling.
OET (OET-RV) When the men who were carrying the sacred chest had walked six steps, they stopped and David sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf there.
Note 1 topic: translate-symaction
כִּ֧י צָעֲד֛וּ נֹשְׂאֵ֥י אֲרוֹן־יְהוָ֖ה שִׁשָּׁ֣ה צְעָדִ֑ים וַיִּזְבַּ֥ח שׁ֖וֹר וּמְרִֽיא
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was that/for/because/then/when gone carrying_of ark_of YHWH six steps and=he/it_sacrificed ox and,a_fatling )
See the discussion in the Introduction to this chapter of how having the lifters of the Box pause after taking six steps could have been a symbolic action.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicitinfo
צָעֲד֛וּ & שִׁשָּׁ֣ה צְעָדִ֑ים
gone & (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was that/for/because/then/when gone carrying_of ark_of YHWH six steps and=he/it_sacrificed ox and,a_fatling )
It might seem that the expression stepped six steps contains extra information that would not be natural to express in your language. If so, you could shorten it. Alternate translation: [had taken six steps]
OET-LV And_he/it_was if/because those_who_carried_of (of)_the_box_of YHWH they_had_stepped six steps and_he/it_sacrificed an_ox and_a_fatling.
OET (OET-RV) When the men who were carrying the sacred chest had walked six steps, they stopped and David sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf there.
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.