complete verse (Esther 2:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 2:3:

  • Kupsabiny: “People from all the provinces of this empire of yours should be selected so that they look for you those girls and bring to your home and be put in the house of women. They will stay in the hands of Hegai, that slave whom they had removed his manhood the one who keeps/guards for you your women. It is him who should see to it that those girls are given perfumes/oils for beautifying themselves to make those girls look beautiful.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Order your courtiers, Your Honor, to bring beautiful women, who have not yet been given in marriage from all the provinces of the land to the harem of the palace in the royal city of Susa. And give the responsibility for them to Hegai, the eunuch who is managing the women of the king. Also give them various kinds of grooming materials.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “[You (sing.)] choose an officers in every province which are under-the-jurisdiction of your (sing.) kingdom in-order to search for the beautiful not-married-ladies and (who)-will-take/bring them to the place-of-dwelling of the females here in the stoned-wall city of Susa. You (sing.) cause-to-take-care of the not-married-ladies Hegay your (sing.) officer, whom you (sing.) put-in-charge to take-care of the females in the place. And he is responsible to give them their needs for becoming-beautiful.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Eastern Bru: “And give the work to the chiefs in each country that you rule to look for women who are sensible and beautiful, then bring them here to Susa. And let Hegai, the assistant who is over the women’s place in your house, to treat their bodies to become beautiful.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
  • English: “After they find some, you can appoint some officials in each province to bring them to the place where you keep your wives/the women you sleep with here in Susa. Then Hegai, the man who is in charge of these women, can arrange for ointments to be put on their bodies to make them more beautiful.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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