complete verse (Deuteronomy 6:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 6:3:

  • Kupsabiny: “Please, people of Israel, follow those words well so that you prosper/make progress and become very many in that country of milk and honey as God has promised you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “O Israel, listen! Obey all these carefully and then you will prosper. The LORD, the God of your ancestors promised to give you a land flowing with milk and honey in which your numbers will increase greatly.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) listen, O people of Israel, and you (plur.) carefully obey his commands so-that will-become well your (plur.) situation and so-that you (plur.) will-increase greatly there in the good and productive land, according to what the LORD had-promised, the God of your (plur.) ancestors.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “So, you Israeli people, listen to them carefully and obey them. If you do that, things will go well with you, and you will become a nation with a very large population when you are living in that very fertile land. That is what Yahweh, the God whom our ancestors worshiped, promised would happen.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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