Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:31:
- Kupsabiny: “You will expand the boundary of your territory right from the valley of Aqaba to the Mediterranean sea. It will again proceed from the desert in the south to river Euphrates. I will make you defeat the people of those places and chase them away when you (plur.) are about to reach there.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “I will expand your borders from the Red Sea to the Philistine coast, and from the desert to the Euphrates. I will hand over to you the people who live in the land and you will drive them out before you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘I will-make-sure that the borders of your (plur.) land will-start-from the Red Sea to the Sea of Mediteraneo, and from the desert in the south to/up-to the River of the Eufrates. I will-hand-over to you (plur.) the residents of that-particular land, and you (plur.) will-drive- them -out.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘I’m going to set the end of the boundary marker for your (pl.) land to go down at the Red ocean’s beach, and the end of its opposite boundary marker will do down at the great ocean of the Pilistia people, and the end of its opposite boundary marker will go down in the desolate area, and the end of its opposite boundary marker will go down at the great river Iupretis. And the people who are living in that area, I’m going to place them up into your hands, and so you will drive them away so that they flee and go.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “And I will delimit country your at edge of Water Red until edge of Water of Philistines, from wilderness until river of Euphrates, because they who be present that country all, I will give you them in hand, and you will chase them away out.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “I will cause the borders of your land to extend from the Red Sea/Gulf of Aqaba in the southeast to the Mediterranean Sea in the northwest, and from the Sinai Desert in the southwest to the Euphrates River in the northeast of the country. I will enable you to expel the people who live there, so that you will expel them as you occupy more of the country.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
