complete verse (Leviticus 18:24)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 18:24:

  • Kupsabiny: “Do not let those matters spoil/defile you (plur.) because that is this way the communities of this country defiled themselves those that I am chasing away so I can give it to you (plur.).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “’you must not have made yourselves defiled by such behavior [lit.: work], for [it was] by [just] this kind of behavior all the nations that I am about to drive out became unclean. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “[You (plur.)] do- not -dirty/make-unclean yourselves (plur.)/[lit. your (plur.) own selves] by doing any of these things, for this (is) what has-caused-to-be-dirty/to-be-unclean the people who I have-caused-to-leave the land which (is) for you (plur.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘o not defile yourselves/cause yourselves to become unacceptable to me in any of those ways, because doing those things is how the people of the nations that I expelled as you advanced became unacceptable to me/defiled.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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