Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 20:14:
- Kupsabiny: “You may go with the women, children, cows and anything that is in that city. Your God has given you to take for yourselves those things that you plunder from your enemies.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “But the women, the children, the herds and all the other things in the city you may take for yourselves. You can use all this that the LORD your God is giving you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But you (plur.) can take-as-captive the women, the children, and the animals, and you (plur.) can take all the possessions which belong in that town. You (plur.) use these things that the LORD your (plur.) God has-given you (plur.) from your (plur.) enemies.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But you are allowed to take for yourselves the women, the children, the livestock, and everything else that you want to take from the city. You will be allowed to enjoy all the things that belonged to your enemies; it is Yahweh our God who has given those things to you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
