Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 14:33:
- Kupsabiny: “Your children shall be shepherds here in this wilderness for forty years, because you turned your back on me. They shall do like that until the last one among you has died.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Because of your faithlessness, your children will be wandering here in the wilderness like shepherds for forty years until the very last of your people has died.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Your (plur.) children will-become like the ones-who-watch-over the sheep that will-wander here in the desolate-place for a period/[lit. inside] of 40 years. In this way, they will-suffer because of your (plur.) deceitfulness against me until all of you (plur.) will-die.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “And like shepherds wander around in the desert as they take care of their sheep, your children will wander around in this desert for 40 years. Because you adults were not loyal/faithful to me, your children will suffer until you all die in the desert.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
