Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 1:17:
- Kupsabiny: “I am saying like that because when all other women of this land will come to know that Vashti has done such a word/thing, they will also begin to undermine/despise their husbands, saying to them, ‘How rude/cheeky, so the wife of the king refused to come in front, when her husband called her.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “All women will hear that the queen behaved like this and because of this they will not honor their husbands either. Then they will speak like this, ‘The great king Ahasuerus gave the order that Vashti be brought to him, but the queen did not agree to come.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “What Queen Basti did will- surely -be-known to all the women of the kingdom, and they indeed will-follow that; they will- also not -respect their husbands. For they will-reason-out that in-fact Queen Basti did- not -obey when the king summoned her to come to him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Eastern Bru: “If the women hear about what the queen has done, all the women will despise their husbands. They will say, ‘King Xerxes told them to bring Queen Vashti, but she didn’t come.’” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
- English: “All the women throughout the empire will hear what she has done, and they will say, ‘The king commanded Queen Vashti to come to him, and she refused.’ So they will not obey their husbands. Instead, they will begin to not respect their husbands.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
