Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 34:16:
- Kupsabiny: “Your sons might marry the daughters of those foreigners and from there those women might deviate your sons to kneel/worship the things they worship.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “And bringing the brides from their tribes they will lead your sons to do the same in the time of worshiping their gods.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And your children/(sons) might marry their children, that will-lead them to worship other gods.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “And if you cause your male children to marry their female children, then they will lift up the names of their gods in their practice of sexual immorality, and so make your male children to follow them also.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “and you will marry female children their, and they will marry female children your, and female children their will seek god their, so that male children your will seek god their also.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “If you take some of their women to be wives for your sons, and these women worship their own gods, they will persuade your sons also to worship their gods.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
