complete verse (Exodus 3:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 3:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “Therefore, I have come to rescue those people. I will migrate them from Egypt to a spacious land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites live. That land is of milk and honey.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “So I have come down to rescue/release them from the hand of the Egyptians and take them to the good and spacious country, the country of Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites where the milk and honey flows.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “So I have-come-down here to-save them from the hands of the Egiptohanon, and to-bring/take them to a good, wide/spacious, and fruitful land, which (is) the-place-where- the Canaanhon, Hithanon, Amornon, Periznon, Hivhanon, and Jebusnon now -live/dwell.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “Therefore I came down to save them (lit. take/retrieve them back) from the Isip people’s hands. And I intend to bring them so that they leave Isip and then go live in a good land, which has a vast area, and it has rich soil (lit. big grease) and so honey (lit. beeswax fluid) and bulmakao’s breast milk coming forth in it. That area, today the following tribes are living in it: the Kenan and the It and the Amor and the Peres and the Ivi and the Iebus.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Therefore, I came down, that I might come save them from hand of people of Egypt, that I might take them place which be fertile which be wide, which honey and milk runs there. That place, that is what be place of Canaanites, and Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, with Jebusites.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “So I have come down from heaven to rescue them from the Egyptians. I have come to bring them up from that land to the highlands in Canaan. I will bring them to a land that is good/fertile and that has plenty of space. It will be very good for raising livestock and growing crops. It is the land where the descendants of Canaan, Heth, Amor, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus live.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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