Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 15:16:
- Kupsabiny: “They will fear/tremble and shock will hit them.
You will crash them with your power/authority,
(they) will stand still like stones
until your people whom you released pass by, oh God!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The fear grips them O Lord,
by the power of your hand,
they will be still as a stone until
the people you freed pass by.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Yes, they will-be- very -nervous/frightened.
By your (sing.) great power they will-be-still like a stone,
until your (sing.) people whom you have-saved can-pass-by, O LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “They all will be afraid and worried (lit. have various interiors).
By your hand which has great strength,
they will not move [at all] like a stone,
until your people walk and pass by and go.
Chief, those people, you bought them so that they became yours.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Fear grasped them,
Because power your.
They will be silent [mouth], until we (excl.) people your will pass by them, we (excl.) people who you saved.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “They will be terrified and fearful because of your great strength.
But they will be as silent as stones
until your people march past them,
the people you freed from being slaves in Egypt,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 16:21:
- Kupsabiny: “(The) people went out very early in the morning to collect enough. When the sun became hot, the food melted completely.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “In the morning all of them gathered as much as they needed when the sun became hot, the leftover food melted away.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Every morning each one gathered according to his/her needs. And when it became-hot, the food they had- not -taken melted-away.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “In the morning each and every day, all the people gathered that food so that it was sufficient for them. But when[ever] the sun [would] arise and so the place became hot, whatever food remained on the ground still, that’s what the sun cooked and it disappeared.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “By day in the morning in the morning, a man gathers that which is enough with his family. When sun be hot, any which they not [body] gathered, it dissolved.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Each morning they gathered as much as they needed. But later, when the sun got hot, what was left on the ground melted.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 18:2:
- Kupsabiny: “There was a time when Moses had told his wife and her/his children to go to their home. Jethro welcomed his daughter Zipporah together with” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then he took Moses’ wife Zipporah” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “At-that-time back-then Moises had- Zipora his wife and their two male children -sent-home there to Jetro his father-in-law. The name of the first was Gershom, for when he was-born Moises said, ‘I (am) a stranger in another/(foreign) land.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “But previously, Moses sent his spouse Sipora together with his two children to go to his father-in-law Ietro to stay with him.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Therefore, at first when Moses had not Egypt still arrived, he said to his wife they must return place of his father-in-law namely Jethro” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Moses/I had previously sent his/my wife Zipporah back home when he/I was returning to Egypt. But now Jethro came to him/me,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 19:7:
- Kupsabiny: “There/Then, Moses returned and called the leaders of Israel and told (them) everything as God had told (him).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then Moses came down and called the elders of the people and told them what the Lord had said.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “So Moises returned/[lit. came-down] from the mountain and he summoned/[lit. had-called] the leaders of the Israelinhon and he told them what the LORD had-said.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “Therefore Moses returned back and went and so brought together the elders of Israel and then informed them of all this talk which the Chief spoke to him with.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Therefore, Moses climb [this direction] down, call elders, and he tell for them that which The Lord say he should tell for them all.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “So Moses/I went down the mountain and summoned the elders/leaders of the people. He/I told them everything that Yahweh had told him/me to tell them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 20:14:
- Kupsabiny: “Don’t (sing.) commit adultery.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “you shall not commit adultery.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] do- not -commit-adultery-with-a-woman or commit-adultery-with-a-man.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘You (sing.) can’t/mustn’t destroy marriage by the practice of sexual immorality.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Not fornication do.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Do not commit adultery/have sex with anyone other than your spouse.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:20:
- Kupsabiny: “And/But if someone hits his slave so he dies, he himself should be punished.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If a man beats his mail servant or maiden servant to death, the man must be punished.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘If a man beats his slave, male or female, and this-one dies, he should be-punished.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘If anyone whips his male or female laborer with a stick, and so that laborer dies on that day, you (pl.) must punish that laborer’s chief.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If a chief will hit his slave with rod, male or woman, and slave die, let them bind him.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “If someone strikes his male or female slave with a stick, if the slave dies immediately/as a result , the one who struck him must be punished.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 22:16:
- Kupsabiny: “If a man deceives a girl who is still a virgin until (he) sleeps with (her), he should marry (her) and pay dowry.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If a man seduces a girl who is not engaged to anyone, and sleeps with her, he must pay the bribe price and he is to marry her.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘If a man has-seduced a young-lady who is- not yet -pledged-to-be-married/not-engaged, and he had-sexual-relations with her, the man must pay to the family of the woman the payment for taking-a-wife, and then he is-to-marry the woman.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “God spoke again like this, ‘If a man puts pressure on a young woman who hasn’t slept with anyone yet, and they haven’t chosen that woman in advance for marrying anyone else, but that man sleeps with her, he must bring bride-wealth objects to that woman’s father. And when it’s done, then he will marry her.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “«If a man seduce maiden, and they lay with her, let him give father money he must have her as his wife.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “‘If a man persuades a girl/woman to have sex with him, a girl/woman who is a virgin/has never had sex with any man and who is not engaged to be married, he must pay the bride price for her and marry her.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:17:
- Kupsabiny: “Every year whenever you are eating/celebrating these three festivals, men should be coming to kneel to/worship God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Three times a year all men are to appear before the Lord.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Your (plur.) men should attend these feasts every year to worship me, the LORD your (plur.) Master.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘In these three great feasts, all your males must come to me and so lift up my name. I, am the Chief who stands and is leading over everything.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “On those three days by year by year, men your let them come my face, I The Lord namely Yahweh, let them come show themselves.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Every year, at each of these times, all the men must gather together to worship me, Yahweh God.” (Source: Translation for Translators)