Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:12:
- Kupsabiny: “Be (plur.) working for six days and on the seventh day you rest, so that the oxen and donkeys can also rest. That will also allow a slave who was born in the home and the one who is a foreigner to rest.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Six days do your work, and rest the seventh, this is to give your oxen and donkeys a rest as well as the servant born in your house and foreigners.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] work for six days, but on the seventh day [you (plur.)] (take-a)-rest, so-that your (plur.) cows and donkeys can- also -rest, and including your (plur.) slaves and the ones (who are) not Israelinhon who lives with you.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘For these six days, you (pl.) will do your work. But on the seventh day, you can’t/mustn’t do any work. [When] it’s like that then your bulmakao and donki and your laborers and man from another area also who is living in your midst, they will rest themselves, and so their strength will return back.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “you (sing., imp.) do work your with day six. On day seventh, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) thing do, let cow your and donkey your, let it rest, and slave your which they bore at home your, and foreigner who live place your, in order that body their will return down.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “You may work for six days each week, but on the seventh day you must rest and not work. And on the seventh day you must allow your work animals and your slaves and the foreigners who live among you also to rest and be refreshed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
