Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 45:23:
- Kankanaey: “What he also sent-via-others for his father was ten donkeys loaded with the best possessions in Egipto and ten additional (lit. again) donkeys that were young-females that were loaded with wheat, bread, and other food that they would need on the trail.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “For his own father he sent ten donkeys [with] all kinds of good things from Egypt, ten donkeys [with] grain and bread as well as various kinds of other food to eat along the way.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “He also sent his father 10 donkeys loaded with the best products of Egipto, and 10 female donkeys loaded with grain/wheat, bread and provisions for his father for the journey.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “And this is what he sent to his father: Ten male donkeys, loaded with some of the best goods that come from Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other food for his father’s trip to Egypt.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 47:12:
- Kankanaey: “He also gave them and all the members of his father’s family what they would eat according to their number (lit. manyness).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “Joseph even brought food for his father, brothers, and everyone.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Jose provided his father and siblings/(brothers) and the entire household of his father with food, according-to the number of their children.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Joseph also provided food for all his father’s family. The amounts that he gave them were according to how many children each of them had.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 48:18:
- Kankanaey: “He said, ‘Not that-one father because this is the older-sibling and that’s the one-on-whom-you(sing.)-are-to-place your (sing.) right-hand.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “He said to his father — ‘Not like this, father, this is the first-born, put the right hand on this one’s head.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “and said, ‘Father, that is not the-one. Here (is) the older-one; put your (sing.) right hand on his head.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Joseph said to him, ‘My father, that is not right! The one on whom you put your left hand is my older son. Put your right hand on his head.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 1:6:
- Kupsabiny: “Listen to my prayers! Look down and hear me as I pray for your people of Israel throughout the day and night. I acknowledge/accept that we have sinned against you. I have also sinned against you together with the people of my home.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I your (sing.) servant is-praying day-(and)-night for the people of Israel your (sing.) servants. Listen to me and answer my prayer. I confess to you (sing.) the sins of the Israelinhon, as-well-as my sins and the sins of my ancestors.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “May it be that you (sing.) see and hear me your (sing.) servant in what I am praying every-day and every-night concerning those who serve you (sing.) who are your (sing.) people the Israelita. We (excl.) Israelita have admittedly sinned, I have sinned and likewise also my family.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Now please look down and listen to what I am praying. I pray during the day and at night for your Israeli people. I confess that we Israeli people have sinned. Even my family and I have sinned against you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 4:9:
- Kupsabiny: “But we prayed to our God and we guarded the city day and night and defended ourselves.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But we (excl.) prayed to our (excl.) God and set-up guards day-and-night, in-order to protect our (excl.) own-selves.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But we (excl.) prayed to our (excl.) God and we (excl.) appointed (people) to guard in the day and night.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “But we prayed to our God to protect us, and we put men around the walls to guard the city day and night.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 8:2:
- Kupsabiny: “So, on the first day of the seventh month, Ezra who was a priest brought the book where those laws were written to come before the gathering. In that gathering were men, women and all the children who were big/grown up and able to understand what was going on.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore that day, the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Law before/[lit. in front of] the people — males, females, and children who have now understanding. He read it aloud to them from the rising of the sun till noon, there in the plasa which is in front of the Gate Going to the Water. All the people listened carefully/[lit. good] to the Book of the Law.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore on date 1 of the seventh month, Ezra brought-out that-on-which-was-written the law in front of the gathered people, who were men and women and children who were able-to-understand.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Ezra, who taught people the laws of Moses, had a scroll on which the laws of Moses were written. Those were the laws that Yahweh had commanded the Israeli people to obey. On October 8 of that year, all the people gathered together in the plaza/square that was close to the Water Gate. Men and women and children who were old enough to understand gathered together. Someone told Ezra to bring out that scroll.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 9:24:
- Kupsabiny: “They went to that country and took/conquered it to become theirs. You are the one who conquered for them those nations wherever they were. The Canaanite kings who lived in that nation became weak. Your people could make those people suffer as it pleased them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They indeed went-in and took-possession of it. You (sing.) had- them -defeat the Canaanhon who live in that land. You (sing.) handed-over to them the Canaanhon as-well-as their kings so-that your (sing.) people will-do whatever they want to do with them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Their children went and took-possession-of the land, because you (sing.) helped them to defeat the inhabitants in Canaan and you (sing.) caused-to-leave the inhabitants there. You (sing.) gave them ability/power to defeat the inhabitants and their kings and to do what they wanted to do to them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Their sons went in and took the land from the people that lived there. You enabled them to defeat the descendants of Canaan who lived here in this land. You enabled them to conquer the descendants of Canaan and their kings and the people whom they ruled. You enabled our ancestors to do to those people whatever they wanted to do.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 1:18:
- Kupsabiny: “but those people set their traps, something that will destroy their lives.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “These [people] have been setting traps
for themselves.
These [people] have been trying
to kill themselves.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The bird knows that he is going-to-be-trapped, but these wicked people do- not -know that they themselves will-be- the -victimized for their lying-in-wait to/for others. They wait to kill but they themselves will-be-killed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “For these people, it’s-as-if they have snared themselves, their own lives are what they endanger.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
