Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 6:18:
- Kupsabiny: “The House of God was partitioned in order to make a Secret room which is very much feared/respected together with a Sitting (common) room. All the sides of that Secret room were the same. Each side had thirty feet. The Sitting room had a length of sixty feet. Small pieces of timber from cedar tree were put on the walls of that house from bottom to top and cypress timber were used on the floors of the house. The timber on the walls of that house were beautified/decorated with some things which looked like gourds and flowers being engraved on (them). The timber closed/sealed everywhere as if no single stone had been used. That Secret room had been made/prepared so that the Box of the Covenant of God would be kept there. The whole wall of that Secret room was smeared with gold up to the top (ceiling). There was a altar for sweet-smelling sacrifices by the door of the Secret room of the House of God. That thing was made of cedar wood and was covered with gold. The wall of the Sitting room too was smeared with gold and the front part of that Secret room was crossed with chains made of gold. So, Solomon beautified/decorated every part of the House of God using gold.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “As for the cedar wood paneling on the inside of the temple, designs of blossoming flowers and gourds had been carved into it. It was all cedar. Not a single stone was visible.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “All the walls inside the temple were-covered/overlaid with board of cedar, so the stones in the walls can- not -be-seen. There were-carvings of flowers on the walls that are-blooming and plants that spreads-out.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The cedar boards on the walls inside the temple were decorated with carvings of gourds and flowers. The walls were completely covered with cedar boards, with the result that the stones of the walls behind them could not be seen.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
