Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 3:18:
- Kupsabiny: “Those leaders will listen to you. Then that is when you will go together with them to the ruler/king of Egypt, and you (plur.) tell him that, ‘Our God has appeared to us. Therefore, we request you to allow us to have a journey of three days into the wilderness and burn/offer sacrifices to our God.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “‘Then the leaders of Israelites will listen to you. After that you go with them to the King of Egypt and say, ‘The Lord of the Hebrews has met with us. So please allow us to go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to The Lord our God.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘The ones-who-rule Israel will-listen to you (sing.). And then, you (sing.) and the ones-who-rule are-to-go to the king of Egipto and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews appeared to us (excl.). So if possible allow us (excl.) to-go for three days into the/a desolate-place to-offer to the LORD our (excl.) God.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘The elders of Israel will listen to you and so follow your talk. And when it’s done, then you and those elders will go to the great chief of the Isip people and so speak to him like this, ‘The Chief God of us (excl.) Ibru people met with us and so said for us to come ask you to allow us to go the desolate area, for a duration of three days, and then we will kill animals to be for our offering to our Chief God.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “God again said to Moses «They will hear word your. And you with elders of people of Israel, you go to king of Egypt, go say to him like this ‹God of Hebrew namely Yahweh, he visited us (excl.). Therefore, you permit for us (excl.) it that we (excl.) might go wild for days three, that we (excl.) might go give God our (excl.) namely Yahweh gift(s) on altar there.›” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “My people will do what you say. Then you and their leaders must go to the king of Egypt, and you must say to him, ‘Yahweh, who is God, the one we Hebrews worship, has revealed himself to us. So now we ask you to allow us to travel for three days to a place in the desert, in order that there we may offer sacrifices to Yahweh, our God.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
