Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 1:1:

• Kupsabiny: “These are the words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.
  I, Nehemiah was in the great city called Susa in the month of Kislev in the twentieth year when Artaxerxes ruled the country of Persia.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “This is the story concerning what Nehemias the child of Hacalia has-done.
  In the ninth month, which is the month of Kislev, on the 20th year of the reign of Artaserkses in Persia, I was there in the stone-walled city of Susa.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “This is what Nehemias the child of Hacalias storied. In the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year of the ruling of Artaxerxes who was king in Persia, I was in Susa which was capital (loan kapital) of the country.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “I am Nehemiah, the son of Hacaliah. I am writing this account of what I did when I returned to Jerusalem. After King Artaxerxes had been ruling the Persian Empire for almost 20 years, near the end of that year, I was in Susa, the capital of Persia.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 4:4:

• Kupsabiny: “Then, I prayed to God this way, ‘Oh our God, may you hear our requests, when we have been mocked that way. Let their mockery/curse turn back to themselves and you make them be captured and be taken to become slaves in a foreign country!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then I prayed, ‘O our (excl.) God, listen to us (excl.) for we (excl.) are-looked-down-upon/belittled/despised. Wish it would happen to them their insults to us (excl.). May-it-be that they will-be-taken-captive to other places.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “So it was that I prayed saying, ‘Our (excl.) God, please hear this prayer of ours (excl.) because here-now they are mocking/belittling us (excl.). May you (sing.) return to them their mockery. May there-be someone who takes their possessions and imprisons them taking-them-far-away from their country.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Then I prayed. I said, ‘Our God, hear us, because they are ridiculing us! Cause the words of their insults to fall back on them! Allow their enemies to come and capture them and force them to go to a foreign land!” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 6:13:

• Kupsabiny: “They thought they would be able to frighten me so that I would commit a sin and follow his words, and then accuse me and I would get a bad name/reputation.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They just want to frighten me and do/make sin by following what Shemaya said, so-that they will-put- me -down and spoken-evil-of/make-bad to the people.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “They had paid-him-a-wage to frighten me so-that I would sin if I followed that and my honor would be ruined and I would be-shamed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “They had bribed him to cause me to be afraid. They wanted me to disobey God’s commands and sin by hiding in the temple. If I did that, they would be able to ruin my reputation and discredit me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 9:19:

• Kupsabiny: “But your great compassion made you not to abandon them in the wilderness. You guided them with a pillar of cloud during day, and led them by a pillar of fire during the night so that they would know the way.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But because of your (sing.) great mercy to them, you (sing.) did- not -abandon them in the desolate-place. You (sing.) did- not -remove the thick cloud that leads them by day, and also the blazing fire that gives light to where- they -walk by night.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Because of your (sing.) large mercy/kindness, you (sing.) did not leave/abandon them in the place with no inhabitants. You (sing.) did not remove the cloud and fire that were like a post that led them in the daytime and night.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “‘Because you always act mercifully, you did not abandon them when they were in the desert. The bright cloud which was like a huge pillar continued to lead them during the daytime, and the fiery cloud showed them where to walk at night.” (Source: Translation for Translators)