complete verse (Exodus 22:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 22:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “If someone has burned his garden/field and fire crossed into the neighbor’s garden and burned the crops which are growing or those that have been slashed/cut and heaped, that man should pay back that person’s food/crops.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “When a man sets fire to thorn bushes and the fire gets out of control and goes into another field so that the shocks of grain or the standing grain are destroyed, the one who started the fire shall make full restitution.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘If a man starts-a-fire/burns-something, and the fire spreads through the weeds to the field of another person, the one who started-the-fire must pay-for the plants that were-damaged.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘If a man sets fire to his garden, and the fire burns out of control, consuming dry weeds and then crosses over and goes and consumes another man’s garden, or consumes his heap of wit, or other wit which they haven’t cut yet, the main who kindled the fire must pay back whatever food the fire consumed.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “If a man burn fire, and it eat grass, go eat sorghum which be present to drying rack or that which be present field, one who burn fire will give it all.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Suppose someone starts a fire in his own field, and the fire spreads through the grass and starts burning in someone else’s field, and the fire burns grain that is growing or grain that is already cut and stacked. Then the person who started the fire must pay completely for the damage.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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