Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 20:1:
- Kupsabiny: “It was the tenth day of the fifth month the seventh year when we were in that land we had been driven/taken to. Some leaders of Israel came to me to ask from me what God wanted. Those people sat down in front of where I was.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “On the tenth day of the fifth month, on the seventh year of our (excl.) captivity, there were some rulers of Israel who came to me and sat before me to ask a message from the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Almost seven years afterKing Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been captured and taken to Babylonia, on the tenth day of the fifth monthof that year, some Israeli elders came to me to askif I had a message for them from Yahweh.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
