complete verse (Exodus 13:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 13:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “In the coming days, when his son asks a person(man) concerning those things, tell him that, ‘God brought us in his power/authority to come from the land of Egypt where we were slaves.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “When your sons ask you ‘what is the meaning of this?’ Say to them ‘with his power filled hand the Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt, where we had been enslaved.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Later-on when your (plur.) children ask why you (plur.) are-doing this, tell them that, ‘By the power of God he brought- us (excl.) -out of Egipto where we had-been slaves.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘And later, when your children ask you and so say, ‘What is the meaning of this practice?’ then tell them, ‘Previously the Isip people restrained us (incl.) and so we did laborer work for them. But the Chief‘s power was great and so he brought us so that we left that area and came.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “During years which will come, when your son will ask you ‹This and means be what?› you answer for him it ‹Yahweh took away us (incl.) out from Egypt, from the place where we (incl.) be slave there, with his power.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “In the future, when one of your children asks, ‘What does this mean?’, you must say to him, ‘Yahweh brought our ancestors out of Egypt with his great power , and freed us from being slaves there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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