complete verse (Exodus 20:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 20:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “Don’t kneel to/worship those things, because I am your Creator/God, and I don’t want you to share me with anything else. I will punish those people who hate me, and I will extend that punishment to their grandchildren and it goes like that to great grandchildren.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “You are not to bow down to them and worship them because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the father to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “[You (plur.)] do- not ever -serve this and worship, for I, the LORD your (plur.) God, does- not -want that you (plur.) worship other-(gods). I punish the one who sins against me including their descendants until the third and the fourth generation that rejects me.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And you (sing.) can’t/mustn’t kneel down to other gods and lift up their names either. For I, your Chief God, am very insistent and so it isn’t possible for me to allow any other god to take my place. And whoever (pl.) feels ill-will toward me, they have a bad fault existing in my sight, and so I will punish them for their bad deeds and punish their children and grandchildren and their great-grandchildren also.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “you not knee bow down before its face, you not it entreat, because I Yahweh who be God your, I be God who be jealous for my own (people). They who reject me, I punish them with children their, with children of children their, with children of children of children their together.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “You must not bow down to any idol and worship it, because I am Yahweh God, and I am very jealous/want you to worship me only. I will punish those who sin and hate me. I will punish not only them, but I will punish their descendants, down to the third and fourth generation/their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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