Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:16:

• Kupsabiny: “And if someone has taken/gotten hold of somebody and forces (him/her) and takes (him/her) to sell or takes (him/her) to become his slave, that person who caught him/her should be killed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “If anyone kidnaps a man and sells him or keeps him as his possession must be put to death.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘Anyone who kidnaps a person should be-put-to-death, even-if he already sold the one- he -kidnapped or not yet.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “‘If you see someone abduct another person, and so he goes and becomes like his laborer for nothing, you must strike him dead. If you apprehend that man, and you see that laborer remaining with him still, or if you see him letting him go to other people so that they buy him, you must strike that man dead.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “one who grasped a man, sold him out as slave, let them kill them with one who bought him together.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “Anyone who kidnaps another person, either in order to sell that person or to keep him as a slave, must be executed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:17:

• Kupsabiny: “A person who abuses/curses his father or his mother, that one should be killed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely put to death.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘Anyone who curses his father or mother should be-killed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “‘If anyone talks badly about/to his father or his mother, you (pl.) must strike him dead.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “one who insult father or mother, let them kill him.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “Anyone who reviles/curses his father or his mother must be executed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:18:

• Kupsabiny: “If two people fight and one throws a stone at the other or boxes him badly, he should not be killed. If the one who was beaten is badly off resulting in him lying in bed,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “If two men are fighting, and one hits the other with a stone or with his hand and injures him so that he it to be confined to bed but does not die.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘For-example, two men fought/quarreled, and one-(of-them) punched or hit with a rock his enemy and this-one could- not -get-up but did- not -die.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “‘If two people fight, and so one man hits his fellow companion, or if he strikes him with a stone, and that companion of his doesn’t die, you can’t/mustn’t punish that man. But if that companion of his doesn’t die, yet he receives pain and so remains in his bed, and later arises and then takes his stick/crutch and so walks here and there, then the man who struck him must pay for how many days he left his work. And also, he must watch over him until his body becomes well again.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “If two people will quarrel mouth, if a man hit a man, and he lay down on bed not die,” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “Suppose two people fight, and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist. And suppose the person he strikes does not die but is injured and has to stay in bed for a while,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:19:

• Kupsabiny: “and after that he walks while supporting himself with a walking stick, that one who beat the other should compensate/pay for the time the other one who was hit wasted and make sure that he is well taken care of in the place where he is being treated.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “if he is able to walk around with his staff, the man who hit him will be innocent, but he must pay for the loss of his time until he is thoroughly healed and pay any medical expenses.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “If later he can-get-up and walk-around, even-if just using-a-walking-stick/staff, the person who hurt/hit him (is) not to-be-punished. But the person must pay him, for the loss of his time because of his impairment/injury, and the person must take-care of him until he gets-well/better/healed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “‘If two people fight, and so one man hits his fellow companion, or if he strikes him with a stone, and that companion of his doesn’t die, you can’t/mustn’t punish that man. But if that companion of his doesn’t die, yet he receives pain and so remains in his bed, and later arises and then takes his stick/crutch and so walks here and there, then the man who struck him must pay for how many days he left his work. And also, he must watch over him until his body becomes well again.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “if his body will become good that he walk with cane, let them forgive it for one who hit him. He must give him money which be sufficient days which he lay down and money of medicine-house.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “and later he is able to walk outside using a cane. Then the person who struck him does not have to be punished. However, he must pay the injured person the money he could not earn while he was recovering, and he must also pay the injured person’s medical expenses until that person is well.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:20:

• Kupsabiny: “And/But if someone hits his slave so he dies, he himself should be punished.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “If a man beats his mail servant or maiden servant to death, the man must be punished.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘If a man beats his slave, male or female, and this-one dies, he should be-punished.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “‘If anyone whips his male or female laborer with a stick, and so that laborer dies on that day, you (pl.) must punish that laborer’s chief.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “If a chief will hit his slave with rod, male or woman, and slave die, let them bind him.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “If someone strikes his male or female slave with a stick, if the slave dies immediately/as a result , the one who struck him must be punished.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:21:

• Kupsabiny: “But if his slave wakes/gets up before a day or two elapses and walks around, (he) should not be punished because that slave belongs to him.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “If a male or maiden servant is able to walk around after a day or two, he will not be punished for the slave is his property.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But if the slave does- not -die and this-one can-get-up after one or two days, the man is- not -to-be-punished for he (is) also the owner of the slave.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “But if that laborer remains for a day or two, and afterward dies, you (pl.) can’t/mustn’t punish his chief. For that laborer was living under his chief’s authority (lit. in his hand), and so his death is a matter of his chief’s.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “But, if slave will arise up with day one or day two, let them not his chief bind, because he be his own.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “But if the slave lives for a day or two after he is struck and then dies, you must not punish the one who struck him. Not having that slave to be able to work for him any longer is enough punishment.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:22:

• Kupsabiny: “If two people fight and one of them knocks a pregnant woman until she bears (the) child without having reached its/her days, the person who knocked should pay basing on what her husband will ask for and that should be what the council has decided.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely, but nothing happens to her, then the man who injured her shall be fined whatever amount the man’s husband shall demand and as the judges approve.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘If there-has-been a fight and a woman who was-pregnant got-hit, and this-one has-given-birth before the hour/time, but nothing bad happened to her, the one-who-hits will-be-made-to-pay according-to the price that the husband asks-for and judges approve-of.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “‘And if people are fighting, and a pregnant woman is standing nearby, and then they strike her, and so her child dies, yet that woman doesn’t die, the man who struck the woman, he must pay that woman’s spouse however much he wants. But the people of straightening disputes, they must be in agreement with how much he pays to the woman’s spouse.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “If some will hit (recip.), if they will hit one (fem.) who is pregnant, and child will fall down with health, one who hit her, let him give her money which her husband say which judges approve.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “Suppose two people are fighting and they hurt a pregnant woman with the result that she has a miscarriage/her baby is born prematurely and dies. If the woman is not harmed in any other way, the one who injured her must pay a fine. He must pay whatever the woman’s husband demands, after a judge approves of the fine.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:23:

• Kupsabiny: “And/But if a person has been hit badly, then that person who beat him should be punished life being lost/paid for life, (tit for tat)” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “If the woman is injured and she dies, you are to take life for life.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But if what happened to the woman is serious the-one-who (is) responsible will-be-punished according-to what happened to the woman. If the woman has-died, he will- also -be-killed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “And if that woman receives bad pain and remains, you (pl.) must do similarly like that to the man who struck her. And if that woman dies, you must strike that man so that he dies also.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “But if child will fall down be bad some part, one who hit mother, let them bind him with binding which be the same with part bad: life with life,” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “But if the woman is injured in some additional way, the one who injured her must be caused to suffer in exactly the same way that he caused her to suffer. If she dies, he must be executed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)