Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:11:
- Kupsabiny: “and/but in the seventh year, let the gardens sleep/lie fallow. Don’t pick any crop which has grown by itself in your gardens. Leave that to the vulnerable/weak people and animals to be picking/eating. Do the same to the vineyards and olive gardens.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “In the seventh year let the land rest then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grave.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But in the seventh year you (plur.) should- not -plant-on it. If any plant grows on your land, you (plur.) just let-it-be-for the poor ones to get the food from the plants, and what is-left cause/allow-to-eat the wild animals. This is the same that you (plur.) are-to-do with your (plur.) fields of grapes/(vineyards) and your (plur.) fields of olives/(olive groves).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “But in the seventh year, you (pl.) must leave that garden to remain as an old [previously cultivated] garden, and don’t take whatever food is existing in it. Do like that also with your oain garden and your oliv grove. [When] it’s like that then the poor people will be taking their food from it, and the wild animals also will eat whatever food the poor people left to remain.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “On year seventh, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) it cut, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) thing harvest there. Therefore, poor people which you (sing., imp.) place your, they will find food there, and wild animals, it will eat that which they remain. you (sing., imp.) do it so with farm fields of vine your and farm fields of fruit your also.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “But during the seventh year you must not plant anything. If things grow without your planting seeds, allow poor people to harvest and eat the crops. If there are still crops left over/that they do not harvest, allow wild animals to eat them. Do the same thing with your grapevines/vineyards and your olive trees.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
