Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:26:
- Kupsabiny: “When/If someone beats his male or female slave until the eye bursts, he should release that slave to go away to pay for his/her eye.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If a man hits his manservant or maidservant in the eye and destroys it, he must let the servant go free because of his eye.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘If a master hits his male or female slave in the eye and it is-blinded, he should-free him/her from slavery as a payment for the eye that he blinded” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘If a man strikes his male or female laborer up in the eye and so he ruins his/her eye, he must allow that laborer to leave him and go. This event serves as the payment for the laborer’s eye.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If a man will hit his slave eye, male or woman, and eye be injured, he must untie him because of his eye.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “If the owner of a slave strikes the eye of his male or female slave and ruins it, he must free that slave because of what he did to the slave’s eye.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
