Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 2:10:
- Kupsabiny: “When she (mother of Moses) had weaned the boy, (she) returned (him) to go to where the girl/daughter of the ruler/king was, to become her child. The girl of the ruler said that, ‘This boy will be called Moses because I picked him out of water.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter. Pharaoh’s daughter accepted him as her own son. Then she said, ‘I drew him out of the water’ and thus she named him Moses.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “When the child was- now -weaned, his mother brought him to the princess, and the princess considered him as her child. The princess named the child Moises, for she said, ‘I took- him -out of the water.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “And the child grew somewhat big, and so his mother took him to the daughter of the great chief, and so he became like her child. And so she called his name Moses because she said, ‘I pulled him up out of the water.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “When child had grown, she took him for daughter of king of Egypt, and he take place be son. She called him Moses, because she say «I brought him here out from belly of water.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “A few years later/when the child/I grew older, she brought him/me to the king’s daughter. She adopted him/me as though I was her own son. She named him/me Moses, which sounds like the Hebrew words ‘pull out’, because she said ‘I pulled him out of the water.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
