Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezra 8:17:

• Kupsabiny: “I sent them to go to Iddo who was (a) leader in the city of Casiphia. I told him to tell Iddo and his relatives to bring people to work in the House of God because that was their work.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “I sent them to Iddo, the leader of Levites at a place called Casiphia. I sent them to Iddo and his relatives, the temple servants, to tell him to send people as workers for the temple of our God.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “I sent them to Iddo the leader/[lit. head] of the place of Casifia in-order to ask him and his relatives who were servants in the temple that they will-send men to serve in the temple of God.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I sent them all to Iddo, the leader of the descendants of Levi, who was living in Casiphia town, to request that he and his relatives and other men who had worked in the temple send to us some men who would go/come with us to work in God’s new temple in Jerusalem.” (Source: Translation for Translators)