Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezra 6:11:
- Kupsabiny: “I also give authority that, if any one changes these things/words, remove a beam/horizontal pole in his house and fix it in the ground, and then nail (him) there/on it. His home(stead) will be destroyed/scattered to become a place of dung/trash.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Not only that, I command [for] anyone who does not observe this decree, that a long wooden pillar be removed from his house and he be impaled hanged by it. For this crime, tear down his house and make it [into] a heap. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘I am also commanding that anyone who does- not -obey this will-be-pierced with wood which has-been-pulled-out from his house, and his house will-be-destroyed until there is no part that will-remain standing.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘If anyone disobeys this decree, my soldiers will pull a beam from his house. Then after they sharpen one end of the beam, they will lift that man up and impale him on that beam. Then they will completely destroy that man’s house until only a pile of rubble is left.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
