Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:13:

  • Kupsabiny: “I saw that (she) also was defiling (her)self because they both went on one road/way.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I saw that she was like her sibling; she also defiled herself.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I saw what she did that caused her to became unacceptable to me, just like herolder sister.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “She did not even stop there but (she) continued with her prostitution until (she) crossed over. (She) saw and desired the pictures of the soldiers of Babylonia that were drawn on the wall and colored red” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Oholiba still added the selling of her body. She was- also -attracted with the charioteers officials of Babilonia when she saw their pictures on the walls. These officials were-in- red -uniforms, with belts at the waist, and had turbans.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But she did even worse things. She saw drawings of men from Babylonia on the walls, painted in red.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:15:

  • Kupsabiny: “and wore leather belts. They had tied cloth of head and they were all like Babylonian soldiers who ride in chariots.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Oholiba still added the selling of her body. She was- also -attracted with the charioteers officials of Babilonia when she saw their pictures on the walls. These officials were-in- red -uniforms, with belts at the waist, and had turbans.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The menin the drawings had belts around their waists and long turbans on their heads. They all resembled officers from Babylonia who rode in chariots.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:16)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:16:

  • Kupsabiny: “And when (she) wished to glance, the desire of the body pulled (her) to admire/lust for those people. Then she sent some people to go to Babylon.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Because she was-attracted with them, she sent-someone to Babilonia to invite these officials to come to her.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “As soon as she saw those drawings, she wanted to have sex with those men, and she sent messages to them in Babylonia.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:17:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then the Babylonians came to (her) and the desire/greed made (her) be defiled on the bed. When those people had defiled her, (she) got up and went away so that (she) did not go near those people (she disgusted them).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Therefore they came to her and had-sex with her. In their sex with her, they defiled her. But some-time-later she was-bored and separated from them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then the soldiers from Babylonia came to her, they lay in bed with her, and they had sex with her. Then she became disgusted with them and turned away from them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “And when (she) went ahead in her prostitution until she opened self to stay naked, I turned the back to her being angry as I was angry with her sister.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘I despised and turn-(my)-back Oholiba like what I did to her sibling because she continued to sell her body openly.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But when she continued to openly/boldly act like a prostitute , I became disgusted with her, and I rejected her like I had rejected herolder sister.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:19)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:19:

  • Kupsabiny: “But (she) continued to sleep with men a lot like she had done when she was still a girl in Egypt.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “But in spite of this, she still continued to sell her body like what she did there in Egipto when she was still young.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But she became even more immoral, as she remembered when she was a young woman who was a prostitute in Egypt.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:20)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:20:

  • Kupsabiny: “There the desire of the body pushed her to young men that were fierce/strong with women like a young male donkey or a (young) horse who runs around raising their noses to sense (the female).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “She really chased her lovers whose genitals/sexual-organ were as large-as of the donkeys and their emissions were as many-as of the horses.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “There she wanted to have sex with those who loved her, whose genitals were very long, like those of donkeys, and whose sexual emissions were huge, like those of horses.” (Source: Translation for Translators)