Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 19:18:
- Kupsabiny: “Then a clean person shall take a sponge and immerse it in that water, and then he is to sprinkle it on that tent and all the utensils and also the people who are there. He must sprinkle that water also on any person who has touched the bone of a person or a person who was killed or a person who simply died or the one who touched a hole/grave.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then a clean person, taking a hyssop plant and dipping it in the water must sprinkle the Tent, the vessels of tent and the people who are there. A person who has touched the bone of a corpse, the corpse of a person who has been killed, a person who has died a natural death or a grave must also be sprinkled like that.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then a man who is-considered clean is-to-take a one cluster of a hyssop plant and he is-to-dip it into those water and then sprinkle in the tent where death-occurred and to all its equipment, and to the people who have-entered the tent. Also sprinkled the man who has-touched the bone of a man or the grave, or whoever was-killed or just died of a natural death. (note: I followed the ASD)” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then someone who is still acceptable to me must take a stalk of a plant named hyssop and dip it into the water. Then that person must sprinkle some of the water on the tent where that person died, on the things that are in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent. He must also sprinkle some of that water on any person who touched a human bone or who touched a person who died, or who touched a grave.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
