Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 30:17:
- Kupsabiny: “At dawn, David with his people immediately raced towards their enemies and fought them to evening. Very many of those Amalekites were killed. The people who escaped were only four hundred young men who climbed their camels and fled.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “But David attacked to them and continued fighting until the evening of the next day. Among them only 400 young men escaped, riding camels.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “David and his men attacked them, and they fought all night until the next night. None of the Amaleknon were-able-to-escape aside-from just 400 young-men who rode-(off) on camels and fled.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “David and his men fought against them from sunset that day until the evening of the following day. Four hundred of them escaped and rode away on camels, but none of the others escaped.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
