Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 27:21:
- Kupsabiny: “Tell Aron and his sons to be placing the lamps in the living/outer room in front of the curtain which covers/shields the private/secret room. Those lamps should be lighting/shining before me throughout the night. All the Israelites should keep this law for generations to come!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “In front of the curtain that is before the ark of the covenant in the Tent of Meeting Aaron and his sons must light the lamps so they burn without ever stopping before the Lord from evening till morning This command must be forever for the Israelites from generation to generation.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The place-to-put the lamp/light should-be-put outside the curtain that covers the Box of the Law. Aaron and his descendants are the-(ones) to take-care of the lamps/lights of the Meeting-Together-Place Tent. They are-to-keep- them -burning in my presence morning and night. The Israelinhon should obey this command for generations to come.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “Aron together with his male children will bring the lams into my shelter’s interior, into the place in which I meet together with them. These lams will be existing in my shelter’s interior there in the place which has a somewhat great taboo, near to the big cloth which hides the law box. And day by day, Aron and his male children will pour oil into the lams, in order for them to be giving light in my presence always from the afternoon and until morning. You Israel people together with your children and descendants who will being coming forth later, you must be following this law so that it continues and goes.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “That lamp, let it be present inside of Dwelling-Tent-of-God outside of sacred-place where sacred box be present there. Beginning from night until daybreak daily, Aaron and his male children, they must go be adding oil there in front of me, I Yahweh. This, generation of children of Israel which will come all, let them take place do it.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “They must put the lampstand outside of the curtain which is in front of the sacred chest which contains the stone slabs on which I have written my commandments. Aaron must take care of the lamps. After he dies, his descendants must do this work. The lamps are to burn every night, from evening until morning. The Israeli people must obey this regulation throughout all future generations.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
