The Hebrew and Greek that is translated as “scepter” in English is translated in the Hausa Common Language Bible as “stick of ruling” (source: Andy Warren-Rothlin) and in Cherokee as “walking stick of chief” (source: Bender / Belt 2025, p. 17).
Translation commentary on Letter of Jeremiah 1:13
Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on The Shorter Books of the Deuterocanon. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2006. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.
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