complete verse (Judges 1:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Judges 1:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “And/But then one day, Acsah begged her husband to allow her to go to their/her home so she could go and ask her father for a field. When (she) reached home, she came down from her donkey. Then (her) father asked her, ‘What might you want, my child?’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “One day when Acsah went to Othniel, she requested him to ask his father for a plot of land. When she got down from the donkey, Caleb asked her, "What do you need?"” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “When they were now married, Acsa convinced her husband that they would-ask-for additional land from her father. Then Acsa went to Caleb, and as she was- now -getting-down-from her donkey, Caleb asked her what her need (was).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “When Acsah married Othniel, she told him to ask her father to give him a field. But she decided to ask him herself. She rode to Caleb’s house on her donkey, and when she got off the donkey, Caleb could see that something was troubling her. So he asked her, ‘What do you want?’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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