Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 26:1:
- Kupsabiny: “Someone make four expensive curtains and decorate them with things like cherubim using grey-blue, purple and red threads. They should be made in a skilled way.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Make ten panels of fine linen cloths of blue purple and red color to make a covering for the Tent of Meeting. Let the cloth be embroidered with a pattern of cherubim with fine thread.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘(You sg) have- a Place-of-Worship Tent -made. The things-to-be-used to do this are ten pieces of embroidered linen which have blue, purple, and red wool. And have-(someone)-embroider this with a fine/pretty outline/figure of cherubim.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “God spoke again like this, ‘You (pl.) must make my shelter from ten good cloths. And decorate those cloths with needle threads which are red and somewhat red and blue. Speak to a man of artwork for him to sew images of kerubim onto those cloths.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “And God also say Moses «Covering of Dwelling-Tent-of-God, you make it like this: you make flax cloth which be 10 (ten) which be soft. And a skillful man, let him sew thread which be purple with red ones with green/blue ones, let him sew it there [so that] it resemble Cherub.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “‘Tell the people to make the Sacred Tent using ten long strips of fine linen. They must take blue, purple, and red thread (OR, weave the strips from blue, purple, and red thread), and a skilled craftsman must embroider these strips with designs that represent the winged creatures that are above the chest.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
