Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 8:11:
- Kupsabiny: “Those letters allowed/permitted the Jews in every town to gather themselves and prepare to destroy all enemies who would attack them. Those letters also allowed the Jews to loot the wealth of their enemies.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “As it was written in the royal decree, all the Jews were allowed to gather in one place in their cities to protect their lives. It was also written that whatever nationality or tribe come against the Jews, their wives and their children with weapons to attack them, the Jews are to fight against them and, having killed them, and destroyed them one by one, they may take their land and all their property.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Through that letter, King Ahasuerus allowed the Jews in every city to-unite to defend themselves. They can kill anyone who would attack them from any nation or province, including their women and children. And they can also take-away the properties of their enemies.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Eastern Bru: “In this paper they wrote to tell people that the Jews in whatever city to block and preserve their lives and the lives of their wives and children. But if soldiers from whatever group or whatever country comes to fight them, then let them fight back and kill back those people. Then they could kill all of the people who want to come against them and take all the belongings of those people.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
- English: “They wrote in those letters that the Jews in every city were permitted by the king to gather together to protect themselves. They also were permitted to kill any group of soldiers who attacked them. They were also permitted to kill the women and children of those who attacked them, and to take the possessions of the people whom they killed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
