complete verse (Exodus 16:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 16:3:

  • Kupsabiny: “They were saying, ‘It would surely have been better for God to finish/kill us in Egypt. When we were there, there was a world of food, but you (plur.) brought us here in this wilderness for hunger to finish us.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “They said, ‘It is better the Lord would have killed us in Egypt when we were in Egypt, we had meat and bread to eat why have you brought us out into this desert to kill by starvation.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “They said, ‘(It) would have-been-better if the LORD just killed us (excl.) in Egipto. There we (excl.) could- at least eat meat and can-(eat)-whatever- food -we-want. But now you (plur.) have-brought us (excl.) here to the desolate-place in-order to-starve/hunger until we (excl.) die.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “The Israel people spoke to the two of them like this, ‘We (excl.) think it [would have been] good for the Chief to have killed us beforehand in the area of Isip. There our clay pots were full of animal flesh, and we were eating food sufficient to our liking. But the two of you took us so that we came to this desolate area and so you intend to kill us all with hunger.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “They said to them «It be better be it that we (excl.) would die be it by hand of Yahweh in Egypt, because that place we (excl.) lived [this direction] there was place of stew and place of bread. And now, you took [this direction] us (excl.) wilderness this [that] we (excl.) might come die hunger.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “They said to them/us, ‘We wish that Yahweh had killed us in Egypt! There we had meat to eat, and all the bread that we wanted. But you have brought us into this desert in order that we will all starve to death!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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