complete verse (2 Samuel 3:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 3:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “David sent some people again to go and tell Ishbosheth that, ‘I want my wife Michal, the one I paid bride price for with the foreskins of one hundred of the Philistines.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, son of Saul, speaking like this, "Hand over my wife Michal, the one [for whom] I settled by paying 100 Philistine foreskins.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then David sent messengers to Ishboshet to say, ‘Return to me my wife Mical. For I was-able-to-marry her in exchange of/(for) the 100 skins on the end of the Filistinhon’s male-sexual-organ whom I killed.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, to say to him, ‘I had to kill 100 men from Philistia and cut off their foreskins to give to Saul to pay for Michal to be my wife. So now give her back to me!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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