complete verse (Exodus 27:16)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 27:16:

  • Kupsabiny: “The gate/entrance needs to be covered with a woven curtain having a length of nine meters. It is to be beautified with threads which are grey-blue, purple and red. That curtain is to be supported by four pillars standing on four things.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Make twenty cubits long curtains for the entrance of the courtyard of blue, purple, red fine linen with embroidered patterns. For it (to be supported) there must be four pillars and four bases.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Have-(someone)-put a curtain that is 30 feet long in the entrance itself of the courtyard/yard. The curtain must be embroidered linen with blue, purple and red wool. It must have the best embroidery. Then connect the curtain to the four posts which are-set-inside/are-inserted/connected to the four bases.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘And make a good cloth for the opening of the fence, its length amounting to five fathoms. And speak to a man of artwork for him to decorate these two cloths with needle thread which is red and somewhat red and blue. And make this cloth for the opening of the fence together with its four posts and four bras post bases also.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And door itself, you shall fashion for it cloth one which its width be joint of hand which be 20. you shall fashion it with flax cloth and thread good which be purple, and that which be red, and that which be green/blue, you shall sew it, adorn it [body]. you shall pound its hanging wood four with its planting-hole four.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “They must make a curtain 30 feet/9 meters long for the entrance. A skilled weaver must embroider it with blue, purple, and red yarn/thread. It must be supported by/hung from four posts, each one with a base under it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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