JDG 17:7 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Now there was a young Levite man from the family of Yehudah[fn] who’d been staying in Bethlehem (in Yehudah).

17:7 Maybe one parent was from the tribe of Levi and one from Yehudah?

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Καὶ ἐγενήθη νεανίας ἐκ Βηθλεέμ δήμου Ἰούδα, καὶ αὐτὸς Λευίτης, καὶ οὗτος παρῴκει ἐκεῖ.
(Kai egenaʸthaʸ neanias ek Baʸthleʼem daʸmou Youda, kai autos Leuitaʸs, kai houtos parōkei ekei. )

BrTr And there was a young man in Bethleem of the tribe of Juda, and he was a Levite, and he was sojourning there.

ULT Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, from the clan of Judah. Now he was a Levite, and he was sojourning there.

UST There was a young man who had been living in the town of Bethlehem where people from the tribe of Judah live. He belonged to the tribe of Levi, but he had been living temporarily in the territory that Joshua had assigned to the tribe of Judah.

BSB And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah.

OEB No OEB JDG book available

WEBBE There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah. He was a Levite who had been temporarily residing among the tribe of Judah.

LSV And there is a young man of Beth-Lehem-Judah, of the family of Judah, and he [is] a Levite, and he [is] a sojourner there.

FBV One young man, a Levite from the tribe of Judah[fn] had been living in Bethlehem in Judah,

17:7 It's not clear how this man could be both from the tribe of Levi and the tribe of Judah, unless his parents were from different tribes.

T4T There was a young man who had been living in Bethlehem in the area where the tribe of Judah lives. He wanted to work as a priest because he was a member of the tribe of Levi.

LEB No LEB JDG book available

BBE Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.

Moff No Moff JDG book available

JPS And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem in Judah — in the family of Judah — who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

ASV And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

DRA There was also another young man of Bethlehem Juda, of the kindred thereof: and he was a Levite, and dwelt there.

YLT And there is a young man of Beth-Lehem-Judah, of the family of Judah, and he [is] a Levite, and he [is] a sojourner there.

Drby And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-Judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

RV And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
(And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Yudah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. )

SLT And there will be a youth from the House of Bread, of Judah, from the families of Judah, and he a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Wbstr And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

KJB-1769 ¶ And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
(¶ And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Yudah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. )

KJB-1611 ¶ And there was a young man out of Bethlehem Iudah, of the family of Iudah, who was a Leuite, and he soiourned there.
(¶ And there was a young man out of Bethlehem Yudah, of the family of Yudah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.)

Bshps No Bshps JDG book available

Gnva There was also a yong man out of Bethlehem Iudah, of the familie of Iudah: who was a Leuite, and soiourned there.
(There was also a young man out of Bethlehem Yudah, of the family of Yudah: who was a Levite, and sojourned there. )

Cvdl No Cvdl JDG book available

Wycl No Wycl JDG book available

Luth No Luth JDG book available

ClVg Fuit quoque alter adolescens de Bethlehem Juda, ex cognatione ejus: eratque ipse Levites, et habitabat ibi.
(It_was too the_other adolescens from/about Bethlehem Yuda, from kinship his: wasque exactly_that/himself Levites, and he_lived there. )

RP-GNT No RP-GNT JDG book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-participants

וַ⁠יְהִי־נַ֗עַר מִ⁠בֵּ֥ית לֶ֨חֶם֙ יְהוּדָ֔ה מִ⁠מִּשְׁפַּ֖חַת יְהוּדָ֑ה וְ⁠ה֥וּא לֵוִ֖י וְ⁠ה֥וּא גָֽר־שָֽׁם

and=he/it_was young_man from,Beth- food/grain/bread Yehuda of,clan_of Yehuda and=he Lēvī and=he staying there

The author is using this sentence to introduce a young Levite as a new participant in the story. If your language has its own way of introducing new participants, you can use it here in your translation.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

מִ⁠מִּשְׁפַּ֖חַת יְהוּדָ֑ה

of,clan_of Yehuda

The author is using the term clan by association to mean the territory assigned to the clans of Judah. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: [from the land assigned to the clans of Judah]

Parallel JDG 17:7