Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 20:4:
- Kupsabiny: “Don’t fashion/from anything to be like something in the sky/up or on earth or in water so that you kneel to/worship it.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven, above or on the earth beneath or in the water below.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] do- not -make little-gods/false-gods in the form of anything in heaven, or on earth, or in water.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘You (sing.) can’t/mustn’t make the carving of any god. And don’t make the carving of anything else either. Nothing existing in heaven or on earth, or in the water below the earth, are you able/permitted to make a carving of it.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Not image of gods of earth make, even if it appears as that which be present sky, or that which be present earth, or that which be present underneath of water.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “You must not carve/make for yourselves any idol that represents anything in the sky or that is on the ground or that is in the water under the ground/earth.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
