complete verse (Exodus 21:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “If two people fight and one throws a stone at the other or boxes him badly, he should not be killed. If the one who was beaten is badly off resulting in him lying in bed,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If two men are fighting, and one hits the other with a stone or with his hand and injures him so that he it to be confined to bed but does not die.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘For-example, two men fought/quarreled, and one-(of-them) punched or hit with a rock his enemy and this-one could- not -get-up but did- not -die.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘If two people fight, and so one man hits his fellow companion, or if he strikes him with a stone, and that companion of his doesn’t die, you can’t/mustn’t punish that man. But if that companion of his doesn’t die, yet he receives pain and so remains in his bed, and later arises and then takes his stick/crutch and so walks here and there, then the man who struck him must pay for how many days he left his work. And also, he must watch over him until his body becomes well again.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “If two people will quarrel mouth, if a man hit a man, and he lay down on bed not die,” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Suppose two people fight, and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist. And suppose the person he strikes does not die but is injured and has to stay in bed for a while,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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