Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 15:38:
- Kupsabiny: “to tell the people of Israel, ‘Make tassels on the corners of your clothes and sew bluish threads to intertwine those tassels. you must do like that through all age-sets.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Speak to the Israelites, ‘Also from now on up to later generations you must put tassels of blue thread on the four corners of the sides of your shawls. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “to say this to the Israelinhon: ‘You (plur.) make some tassels on the corner/edge of your (plur.) garments/clothes and you (plur.) put in them blue cord. You (plur.) must follow/obey it forever/[lit. until whenever].” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘Tell this to the Israeli people: You and all your descendants must twist threads together to make tassels, and then attach them with blue cords to the bottom edges of your clothes.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
