complete verse (Exodus 21:10)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:10:

  • Kupsabiny: “If someone married a second wife, he should not abandon his elder wife. He should make sure that that woman has enough food and everything else as always/before.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If the master marries her as his second wife, he shall not deprive of her food, clothing and marital rights.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If he himself marries this slave, and still marries another woman, he must continue giving food and clothing to this slave, and lie-down-beside/(have-sexual-relations-with) her.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And if that chief marries another woman, he must watch over that first (lit. old) woman well, and so give her food and new changes of clothes and [that] the two of them be sleeping [together] also.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “If he again will buy another woman as his wife, he must not first-wife reject. Her bread, and her clothes, and place of her-laying, he must not her it forbid.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “If the master takes another slave girl to be another wife for himself, he must continue to give the first slave wife the same amount of food and clothing that he gave to her before, and he must continue to have sex with her as before.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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