Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 32:39:
- Kupsabiny: “You should not please that I alone am God.
There is no other like me.
I kill and I also give life,
I punish people and heal.
No one can escape from my hands.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation) - Newari: “I am the one and only God.
Besides me there is no other god.
I give death, I give life.
I cause wounds, I am the one who heals.
The work that I am doing, no one
is able to restrain. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) look-at now; I alone is surely the God!
There is no other god beside me.
I the one-who-kills and I also the one-who-gives life; I the one-who-wounds and I also the one-who heals,
and no one can-escape from my hand.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation) - English: “‘But now you will realize that I, only I, am God;
there is no other god who is a real god.
I am the one who can kill people and who can cause people to live;
I can wound people, and I can heal people,
and there is no one who can prevent me from doing those things.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
