complete verse (Leviticus 20:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 20:17:

  • Kupsabiny: “If a man marries his sister who is related to him from the same mother or from another house (second wife of the father) it is a sexual sin. Both of them break away (be cut off) while people are looking. Those words/things happen to that man because he has passed through the thighs of his sister.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “’If anyone marries his elder or younger sister, the daughter of his father or mother, and has intercourse, it is a shameful deed. They must be expelled from their own people. He has done a shameful thing to his younger sister. And he will be guilty. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If a man marries (his sister) and lies-down-beside/(has-sexual-relations-with) his female sibling/(sister), even-though she (is) also his sibling/(sister) from his father or his mother, he has-put- his sibling/(sister) -to-shame so he is-to-answer-for (this). And because of what the two of them have-done brings-shame, you (plur.) are- no-longer -to-consider them a member of you (plur.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his mother or his father, and they have sex together, that is disgraceful. They must not be allowed to continue to associate with my people. And because he has disgraced his sister, he must be punished.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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