Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 4:26:
- Kupsabiny: “But Zipporah took a sharp stone like a knife and cut the foreskin of her son and attached it on the feet of Moses and told him that, ‘Truly you are my husband of blood.’ Zipporah said like that to show the circumcision. So, God did not kill Moses.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “From then on, the Lord without killing him left him alone. (At that time Zipporah said, ‘you are the-linked-to-me-husband’ In that way she referred to the circumcision [lit. body (loc.) sign putting].” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But Zipora took a sharp stone and circumcised her child, and (with) the skin that she took-(off) she touched the genitals/sexual-organ of Moises. Then Zipora said, ‘You (sing.) (are) a bloody husband to me.’ (Zipora said this in connection with the circumcision.) So the LORD did- not -kill Moises.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “Moses’ spouse spoke like that because she was thinking about the event of her son’s ritual skin-cutting. And so God didn’t destroy Moses.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Therefore, God released him. Be reason of phallus cut off that she say for it him «you my husband, you make blood run down!»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- Hausa Common Language Bible (4:25-26): “But Ziffora his-wife she took stone-of cutting owner-of eat, she cut skin-of penis-of her-son with it, she touched front-of [i.e. genitals-of] Musa with foreskin she say, ‘Certainly, because-of this pouring with blood, they-have confirmed with our relationship’. Yahweh then ignored him. And she said, ‘You are a bridegroom that has been confirmed with his relationship through circumcision.‘” (Source: Andy Warren-Rothlin)
- English: “She said to him, ‘You are safe now because you have been circumcised.’ So Yahweh did not harm her son.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
