Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 25:35:
- Kupsabiny: “If a poor person in Israel is staying until he leans himself on you (depends on you), take care of him as you would take care of a person who is a foreigner who lives among you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “’If any of your Israelite brothers becomes very poor and is not able to feed and care for himself, you are to help [him] like [you help] those living [with you] coming from outside. You must receive them to live with you. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “If your (plur.) fellow Israelite becomes- poor and he can- not now -afford to support himself/[lit. his own self], you (plur.) are-to-help him just-like you (plur.) help a foreigner or visitor, so-that he can-continue to live among you (plur.)” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and is unable to buy what he needs , others of you must help him like you would help a foreigner who is living among you temporarily.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 29:20:
- Kupsabiny: “The next morning Hezekiah rose early and gathered the leaders of Jerusalem and then went with them up to the House of God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “At dawn the next day King Hezekiah, having gathered the city officials, went to the temple of the LORD.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Early the next day, King Hezekia gathered all the officials of the city and they went to the temple of the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Early the next morning, King Hezekiah gathered together the city officials, and they went to the courtyard of the temple.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 10:12:
- Kupsabiny: “Solomon used that very wood to make stairs/ladders of the House of God and his home. He also used this very wood to make lyres and other things which the singers pluck. Such an amount of expensive wood was never again brought to this day.)” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “From this sandalwood the King made pillars for the temple of the LORD and the palace, and harps and lyres for the choirs. No sandalwood like that had ever been seen before in the land of Judah and even ’till today such sandalwood has never again been seen.)” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The king used the almug wood for stairs/steps in the temple of the LORD and for the palace, and the others were-made harps and lyres for the musicians. Those were the best almug woods that were-brought to Israel; now there is no more that can-be-seen like those.)” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “King Solomon told his workers to use that wood to make railings/supports in the temple of Yahweh and in the king’s palace and also to make harps and lyres for the musicians/men who played musical instruments. That wood was the largest amount of (OR, the finest) wood that had ever been seen in Israel. And no one since then has ever seen so much wood of that kind.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Zephaniah 1:1:
- Kupsabiny: “God spoke to Zephaniah son of Cushi who was son of Gedaliah, who was son of Amariah, who was son of Hezekiah. God spoke to Zephaniah when Josiah son of Amon was ruling the land of Judah.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “During the reign of Josiah son of Amon the king of Judah – the word of the LORD come to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the great-great-grandson of Hezekiah, the great-grandson of Amariah, the grandson of Gedaliah:” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “This is the message which was-revealed by the LORD to Zefanias at the time that Josi the child of Amon (was) king of Juda. Zefanias (was) the child of Cushi, Cushi (was) the child of Gedalia, Gedalia (was) the child of Amaria, and Amaria (was) child of Hezekia.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I am Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the grandson of Gedaliah, and the great-grandson of Amariah, whose father was King Hezekiah. Yahweh gave this message to me during the time when King Amon’s son Josiah was the King of Judah.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 23:13:
- Newari: “Then in everyone’s hearing he said to Ephron — ‘Paying money, I will buy that whole field. Take the money that I pay. Then I will bury my wife there.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then he said to Efron in-the-hearing of the residents. ‘Listen to me. I will-pay the price of the field. Accept my payment so-that I can- now -bury my wife there.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “and said to Ephron, as all the others were listening, ‘No, listen to me. If you are willing, I will pay for the field. You tell me what the price is, and I will give it to you. If you accept it, the field will become mine, and I can bury my wife’s body there.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joshua 15:55:
- Kupsabiny: “Others of those towns were: Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Maon, Carmel, Sif, Juta,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The tribe of Judah was also allotted these towns in the southeastern part of the hilly region: Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ecclesiastes 7:2:
- Kupsabiny: “It is good thing for a person to go where there is mourning
rather than to go to where a feast is held
since death is the end of the life of a person
and that is something which the living should know/realize.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “It is better to go to a house of mourning.
than to go to a house of feasting.
Dying is the end for all humans,
so the living should keep this in mind.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “(It is) better to go to the house of mourning the dead-one than to go to the house of feasting, for the end/destiny of everyone is death. This should be-remembered always by the living-ones.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 26:12:
- Kupsabiny: “I shall walk with you and be your God and you shall be my people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “I will stay near you and be your God. As for you, you will be my [lit.: our] people.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I will-be- with you (plur.) and I will-continue to-be your (plur.) God and you (plur.) will-continue to-be my people.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I will walk among you and continue to be your God, and you will continue to be my people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
