Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 14:21:
- Kupsabiny: “Then Moses raised his hand and stretched it pointing to the water. And during the whole of that night, God pushed that water with a strong east wind dividing the water until dry ground was seen in the bottom of (the) sea.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Now Moses stretched his hand over the sea and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then Moises stretched-out his hand over the sea, and the sea split-up by-means-of a strong wind that the LORD sent from the east. The wind blew the entire night until the land in-the-middle-of the sea became-dry/dried-up.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “It came about that Moses lifted up his hands and then pointed toward the ocean, and then the Chief caused a great wind to come forth from the sun’s rising and so it turned back the ocean until morning. And the ocean split and became two [parts], and so the ground below, inside the ocean there, right then it became dry and emerged in the open.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “And Moses stretched out hand on top of water. And The Lord made wind blowing from the East on that night all, pushing water [that] it might divide [mouth], it might became dry.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “That evening, Moses/I stretched out his/my hand toward the sea. Then Yahweh sent a strong wind from the east. It blew all night and pushed the water apart, and it caused the ground between the water to dry up.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
