Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 6:19:
- Kupsabiny: “Seventy people of Beth-shemesh peeped inside the Box of Covenant of God. That caused God to kill them. So/therefore, the people of that city mourned because of the grief/trouble that God sent them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “But the LORD killed seventy of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had opened the ark of the LORD and looked [into it]. They mourned because the LORD had brought such a great calamity [upon them].” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But there-were 70 ones from-Bet Shemesh who were-killed by God because they looked-at what (was) inside of the Box of the LORD. The people mourned because of this severe punishment of the LORD upon them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But seventy men from Beth-Shemesh looked into Yahweh’s sacred chest, and because of that, Yahweh caused them to die. Then the people mourned very much because Yahweh punished those men like that.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
