Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 5:13:
- Kupsabiny: “When David had left Hebron to go and stay in Jerusalem, he married other women and picked concubines. Those women and those concubines produced/bore to David children who were many.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “When [he] came from Hebron to live in Jerusalem, David took more wives and concubines. Then from them [he] had many sons and daughters.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “When David moved to Jerusalem from Hebron, he married- many more -wives; some of them were his servants, and his children increased- still even -more.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “After David moved from Hebron to Jerusalem, he took more slave women to be his second-class wives, and he also married other women. All of those women gave birth to more sons and daughters.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
