complete verse (Exodus 2:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “But if a slave says that, ‘I love my master plus my wife and my children and I do not accept being released,’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If the servant says, ‘I love my master and my wife and my children and do not want to go.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘But if the slaves says that he loves his master, his wife and children, and he does-not want to-be-free,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘But if that laborer says, ‘I very much love my chief and my spouse and children, and so I don’t want to leave them and go,’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “But, if slave will say ‹I love my chief, and my wife, and my children. I not alone will go.›” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “But when it is time for the slave to be set free, if the slave says, ‘I love my master and my wife and my children, and I do not want to be set free,’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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