Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 9:10:
- Kupsabiny: “So, you and your sons together with your servants will be digging/farming for Mephibosheth (the/his) garden/field, and when the food is ready you will harvest (it) and bring (it) home for him. But I will be eating with Mephibosheth at my home.’ (Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “You, your sons and servants [must] do the work in his field, [and] the grain that comes from it you must give to your master’s family. But [lit.: and] Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, however, will aways eat sitting at my table." (Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You, your children, and your servants will-farm/till the land for him, and you will-bring the harvests/produce to him, so-that his household have food. But Mefiboshet will- always -eat with me.’ (Ziba had 15 male children and 20 servants.)” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You and your 15 sons and your 20 servants must till/plow the land for Mephibosheth’s family, and plant crops and harvest them, in order that they will have food to eat. But Mephibosheth will eat food with me at my house.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
