complete verse (Exodus 22:26)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 22:26:

  • Kupsabiny: “If a person received clothes as surety for a loan, return his clothes before sunset.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it to him by sunset.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If you (plur.) take the cover/cloak-for-the-back/cape of your (plur.) fellowmen as a guarantee that he is-to-pay his debt to you (sing.), return this to him before the sun sets.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “If your (sing.) fellow companion gives his long robe (lit. covering) to stay with you to be a sign of his debt to you, before the sun sets, you must bring that covering of his to return back to him.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “If he give [temporarily] you cover-cloth which substitutes money which he borrow, if sun not still set on that day, you (sing., imp.) return for him it,” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “If he gives you his cloak to guarantee that he will pay the money back, you must give the cloak back to him before the sun goes down,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 23:27)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:27:

  • Kupsabiny: “I will terrify the people of those countries and make them go against one another. I will make them so afraid that they will flee from you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The terror of the Lord shall fall upon all the people who oppose you. I will throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will chase after all your enemies before you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘I will-make-(them)-afraid and will-throw-into-confusion your enemies who you (plur.) will-face and they will-run-away.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘Whichever tribes see you, I will make so that they are greatly afraid and so confuse their heads so that they’re crazy here and there. And all your enemies will turn their backs to you and then flee and go.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “I will send [your direction] my fear it precede for you, in order that nation other which you will meet with them, head it disappear them, so that they flee out from you.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “I will cause the people who oppose you to become very afraid of me. I will cause the people whom you fight against to become very confused. And then I will cause them to turn around and run away from you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 25:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 25:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “Those people should build for me a dedicated tent so that we all live together.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “They have to make a sanctuary for me, I will dwell among them.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “And have- the people of Israel -make a place-of-worship for me where I can-live among them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘And so the people will bring these things and then make my shelter with it. [When] it’s like that then I [will] be living in their midst.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Afterwards, you (sing., imp.) say to them they must make for me tent which be sacred, in order that I shall stay inside amongst them.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Tell the people to make a big Sacred Tent for me, so that I can live in it among them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 25:40)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 25:40:

  • Kupsabiny: “You must see that everything is built according to what I have told you there on the mountain.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Be-sure that you (sing.) have- all of-this -made exactly according-to the plan that I showed you (sing.) here on the mountain.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “When you (pl.) make all these things, you must follow correctly so that it turns out like the image which I show to you (sing.) on the mountain.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “you (sing., imp.) warn yourself, let it be the same with this [which] I showed you on top of mountain.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Make sure that they make these things according to the instructions that I am giving you here on this mountain.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 26:32)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 26:32:

  • Kupsabiny: “Someone make four acacia poles which are covered with gold and having golden clips/hooks. Those things should be standing on four things made of silver.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Hang it from four poles overlaid with gold made by acacia wood which stand in the four silver bases making tight with hooks.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Have-(someone)-hang this on gold hooks on four posts of acacia that-are covered with gold. These four posts were-inserted into four silver bases.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And when it’s done then take akas wood and then make that cloth’s four long posts. Enwrap these for posts with wide pieces of gol, and when it’s done then erect these four posts, so that each of them stand in their silva post bases. And when it’s done, then affix gol hooks onto these posts, so that this big cloth will hang on it.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “you chop white-acacia four for its hanging-wood. That wood, you shall apply it with gold red, you shall pound gold red, made crooks head, seal it at its body. Also you shall pound gold white for its planting-holes.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Tell them to suspend/hang the curtain from four posts made from acacia wood and covered with gold. Set each post in a silver base.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 28:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 28:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “Let them made a sacrificial garment woven using threads of gold and others that are blue, purple and red. It is to be made wisely.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “They must sew the ephod with blue, purple, and red color thread, with gold thread and of fine linen artistically.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘The special clothing of the priests must-be linen embroidered with gold thread and blue, purple, and red wool/yarn. The embroidery of this must-be very good.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘People of artwork will take a good cloth for making the cloth of Aron’s trunk. And they must decorate that cloth with small gol cords and needle threads which are red and somewhat red and blue.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “«you shall say to them they must sew cloth of thigh with flax cloth, and gold, with thread good which be purple, and that which be red, and that which be green/blue, as they who be wise for clothes sewing do it.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “‘The skilled workmen must make the sacred apron from fine linen, and skillfully embroider it with blue, purple, and red yarn/thread.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 28:38)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 28:38:

  • Kupsabiny: “Aaron should always be putting on this thing on the forehead so that I God can welcome/accept all the things the Israelites offer to me when in prayers, even if some people are sinning while offering their things.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “It must be on Aaron’s forehead. Then the Lord will accept and receive all the gifts that Israelites offered. If it should be the case that there is any guilt with them Aaron must bear all guilt. So that they will be acceptable before the Lord this plate has to be on Aaron’s forehead continually,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Attach this to the front of the turban of Aaron by means-of a blue cord, so it can-be-seen on his forehead. This will-show that Aaron will-carry any sin that the Israelinhon have-done in their offerings to the LORD. Aaron will- always -wear/put it on his forehead so the LORD will-be-glad/happy with them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “This gol piece which has talk existing on it, it must be existing above Aron’s face always. [When] it’s like that, your Chief God will be receiving whatever offerings on which you place a taboo to come to me, and so I will like it. And so when the people of offerings don’t follow correctly the laws for offerings, then their bad fault will go up onto Aron, and so I will forgive (lit. wipe away) those bad deeds.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “let it be present on forehead of Aaron always. When children of Israel give me thing on altar and they err [with] it, clothing of forehead that shows it that Aaron carries sin their. Thus, I not gift(s) their will reject.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Aaron must always wear this on his forehead. In that way, Aaron himself will show that he accepts the guilt if the Israeli people offer their sacrifices to me in a way that is not correct, and I, Yahweh, will accept their sacrifices.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 29:27)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 29:27:

  • Kupsabiny: “Someone set apart for me the breast and the right hand thigh/hind leg which are used for those sacrifices when it is being raised up and waved and after that, it will belong to the priests.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The breast and thigh that presented for Aaron and his sons as their share from the ram is sacred.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Dedicate to me the parts of the sheep which are-offered for the ordination of Aaron and his children, including the breast and thigh which was-raised/lifted-up to me.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘And always when you (pl.) appoint a man to be my man of offerings, you (pl.) must put a mark of ownership onto the sipsip’s breast, and then hold it in your (pl.) hands, and then wave it back and forth in my sight. And put a mark of ownership also on the offering sipsip’s thigh. And when it’s done, then these two pieces of the animal are for Aron’s and his male children’s eating.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “So, side of sheep with its thigh which you will lift up on day of consecration of priests, you shall put it for priests. Its side will be that of Aaron, and its thigh will be that of his male children.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Then take the meat of the ribs, the other thigh of the first ram that was sacrificed to dedicate/set apart the priests, and the ram whose other parts were lifted high to show that they were an offering to me; and set the meat of the ribs and thigh apart for Aaron and his sons, for them to eat.” (Source: Translation for Translators)