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OET (OET-LV) For/Because even when we_were with you_all, this we_were_commanding to_you_all, that if anyone not is_willing to_be_working, not him _let_be_eating.
OET (OET-RV) Even when we were there with you all, we had instructed you that anyone who’s not willing to work doesn’t deserve to eat.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives
εἴ τις οὐ θέλει ἐργάζεσθαι, μηδὲ ἐσθιέτω
if anyone not ˓is˒_willing ˓to_be˒_working not ˱him˲_˓let_be˒_eating
You can state this in positive form, if this form is difficult to understand in your language. Alternate translation: [If a person wants to eat, he must work]
3:10 Work is the appropriate way to gain a living (see Gen 3:17-19; Ps 128:2; Prov 10:4). Paul absolves the church of the responsibility of feeding other believers who refuse to work.
OET (OET-LV) For/Because even when we_were with you_all, this we_were_commanding to_you_all, that if anyone not is_willing to_be_working, not him _let_be_eating.
OET (OET-RV) Even when we were there with you all, we had instructed you that anyone who’s not willing to work doesn’t deserve to eat.
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 SR-GNT.