complete verse (Exodus 21:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:9:

  • Kupsabiny: “When a man has bought a girl and let his son marry her, then he should take care of her like his (own) daughter.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If he selects her for his son, he should treat her as a daughter.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If the master lets- the slave -marry his child/(son), he must consider her as his female child/(daughter).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And if he chooses that woman to be his son’s spouse, he must be doing good and upright behavior toward her, as he is doing to his daughter.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “If he bought her as wife of his son, he must count her as his daughter.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “If the man who buys her wants her to be a wife for his son, he must then treat her as though she were his own daughter.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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