Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 18:23:
- Kupsabiny: “The Levites shall do the work in my Tent and they are the ones to blame if anything goes wrong/is spoilt there. This is a law that applies until their descendants. The clan of Levites is not getting farms like the other people of Israel.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “As for the work of the Tent of Meeting, the Levites must do it. They must bear the responsibility for any offense they commit against it. This is the responsibility of their descendants forever. Among the Israelites, however, they will have no claim to a inheritance.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The Levites are the ones responsible for the are-to-be-done at the Meeting-Together-Place Tent, and they will-answer/responsible for the sin that they will-do against it. This regulation must be-obeyed until generations to come. The Levites have no land to-inherit in Israel.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Only the descendants of Levi are permitted to work at the Sacred Tent, and they will be punished if anything bad happens to it. That is a law that will never be changed. You descendants of Levi will not receive any land among the other Israeli people,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
