Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 22:9:
- Kupsabiny: “If two people quarrel and claim ownership of cows, donkeys, sheep, clothes or anything that got lost, (they) should present those issues before God. And if God reveals that (he/one) is guilty, (he) will pay to the other one twice.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “In every case in which an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any other lost property about which both parties say ‘this is mine, then both parties are to bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges declare guilty must pay back double to his neighbor.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘For-example, there-are two people who are-arguing as to who is among them the owner of a property like a cow, donkey, sheep, cloth/garment, or whatever thing, they should bring their case to the presence of God. The one who has-sinned according to the decision of God will-pay double to the owner.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “And if two people argue about something like a bulmakao, or a donki, or a sipsip, or a change of clothes, or anything else, and so the two of them are insistent with talk and so say, ‘This is mine,’ then the two of them will go stand in the presence of the people who straighten disputes. If the people who straighten disputes say that one among the two of them is lying, that man must pay back two-each to that fellow companion of his.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If two people will quarrel [mouth] about household things, cow or donkey or sheep/goats or clothes or that which be lost which a man says that be his own, let them go in front of God together. And one who God show that he sin, he must give the other it for two.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “If two people argue about which one of them owns a bull or a donkey or a sheep or some clothing, or something else that has been lost, the two people who each claim/say that the item belongs to them must stand before the judges. The one whom the judges declare is lying must pay back to the real owner twice as many bulls or donkeys or sheep or pieces of clothing.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
