complete verse (Exodus 19:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 19:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “Therefore, if you obey me and keep/follow what I tell you, then you among all the people who are in the world are mine. Though the whole earth is mine,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “So if you listen carefully to me and keep my covenant then out of all people, you will be my treasured possession for all the earth is mine.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If you (plur.) obey me fully and follow my agreement, I will-choose you (plur.) from all the nations to-become my special people. The whole world (is) mine,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And today, if you (pl.) obey my voice and follow well the agreement/decision which I strike with you, then you will become my people. [It’s] true, all tribes on the earth are mine, but I will choose you, and so you become the people whom I love (lit. my interior is liking).” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Now, if you will listen that which I say all, if you will take place do word of my agreement, among people who be present on earth all, it be you that will be my people who I love. Thing of earth all, even though it be mine,” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “So now, if you will do what I tell you and obey all that I command you, you will be my own people. All the people-groups on the earth are mine, but you will be dearer/more special to me than all the other people-groups.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 20:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 20:12:

  • Kupsabiny: “Respect your father and mother so that you will live on the earth/land I will give you to old age.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “’Honor your father and mother that you may have a long life in the land the Lord your God will give you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] respect/honor your (plur.) father and mother so-that you (plur.) live long on earth that I have-given you (plur.)” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘You (sing.) must respect your father and your mother and so obey them (lit. follow their voices). If you do like that, then you will live a long time in the land which your Chief God is about to give to become yours.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Fear your mother and your father, in order that years your will be many at the place which Yahweh who be God your is giving you.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Honor/Respect your fathers and your mothers, in order that you may live a long time in the land that I, Yahweh God, will give you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 21:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “If two people fight and one throws a stone at the other or boxes him badly, he should not be killed. If the one who was beaten is badly off resulting in him lying in bed,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If two men are fighting, and one hits the other with a stone or with his hand and injures him so that he it to be confined to bed but does not die.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘For-example, two men fought/quarreled, and one-(of-them) punched or hit with a rock his enemy and this-one could- not -get-up but did- not -die.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘If two people fight, and so one man hits his fellow companion, or if he strikes him with a stone, and that companion of his doesn’t die, you can’t/mustn’t punish that man. But if that companion of his doesn’t die, yet he receives pain and so remains in his bed, and later arises and then takes his stick/crutch and so walks here and there, then the man who struck him must pay for how many days he left his work. And also, he must watch over him until his body becomes well again.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “If two people will quarrel mouth, if a man hit a man, and he lay down on bed not die,” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Suppose two people fight, and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist. And suppose the person he strikes does not die but is injured and has to stay in bed for a while,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 22:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 22:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “And if someone begs for an animal from his neighbor and after that, that animal is wounded or dies and the owner is not there, he should compensate (it).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, he must make restitution.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘For-example, a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and this gets-hurt/wounded or dies, and the owner was-not there when this happened. The one who-borrowed must pay for-it.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘If a man borrows his fellow companion’s tame animal and so makes payment to him in advance for however many days, but something happens to that animal, or it dies, and the animal’s owner didn’t see it, the man who borrowed the animal must bring the full payment to the owner of the animal.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “If a man will entreat a man his animal for work, and animal die or be bad some part for its owner be absent, one who took it, he must give it all.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “If someone borrows an animal, and if that animal is hurt or dies when its owner is not there, the one who borrowed it must pay the owner for the animal.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 23:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:15:

  • Kupsabiny: “Celebrate the festival of bread which has not risen in the month of Abib as I told you, because those are the days you left Egypt. For seven days while celebrating this festival, eat bread which has not risen, and no one should come to this function with empty hands.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Celebrate the feast of unleavened bread. You are to eat bread made without yeast as you have been commanded. Do this as the appointed time in the month of Abib because in that month you came out of Egypt. ‘No one is to appear before me empty-handed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “[You (plur.)] celebrate the Feast of Bread which Has-None of That-Which-Causes-to-Expand. According to-what I have-commanded you (plur.), [you (plur.)] eat bread that has-none of that-which-causes-to-expand for seven days. You (plur.) do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for that is the month that you (plur.) came-out of Egipto. Everyone should bring me a sacrifice at that time.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘Do the big feast of Bret Not Having Yis Existing in it as I told you (pl.) about. For these seven days, you must eat bret not having yis existing in it. Do this feast rightly on its day in the month of Abip. For in this month, you left Isip and came.
    ‘You (pl.) can’t be empty-handed and come to me at these three feasts. You must come with your offering.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Holiday first, be Day of Joy of Bread which Lacks Yeast. you (sing., imp.) eat bread which lacks yeast with day seven, as I have said to you in Egypt. you (sing., imp.) remember it on day which I first put down, on month one, because that is what be month which you had left [body] from Egypt.
    On that day [which] you will remember me by it , people [do] not (imp.) [let] to my altar come hand empty.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “The first one is the Festival of Bread That Has No Yeast. Celebrate it in the month that is named Abib. That is the month in which you left Egypt. Celebrate it in the way that I commanded you. And always bring an offering when you come to worship me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 24:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 24:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “Moses had earlier told the elders that, ‘Wait us here until we come back from the peak of the mountain. You will stay with Aaron and Hur. If any of you collides with another person, you go to these elders to counsel you.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Before they climbed-up, Moises said to the leaders of Israel, ‘[You (plur.)] wait for us (excl.) here until we (excl.) come-back. Aaron and Hur will-remain/stay here with you (plur.), and if you (plur.) have a problem, [you (plur.)] just go to them.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “But he spoke ahead of time to the elders of Israel like this, ‘You (pl.) stay here in the camp and then be awaiting the two of us (excl.) until we return back to you. Yo, Aron and Ur are staying with you. And so if anyone has an argument, they must go to the two of them, and then they [will] straighten the dispute for them.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And he say elders «you wait [your direction] us (excl.) this place, until we (excl.) will return [this direction]. Look, Aaron and Hur, they be present with you together. When others will quarrel [mouth], let them go to them.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “So Moses/I told the elders, ‘Stay here with the other people until we return! Do not forget that Aaron and Hur will be with you. So if anyone has a dispute while I am gone, he can go to those two men.’ Then Moses/I went with his/my servant Joshua part of the way up the mountain that was dedicated to God.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 25:28)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 25:28:

  • Kupsabiny: “Someone make two poles from acacia (wood) which will be used for carrying the table and coat (them) with gold.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “To make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold. And that same poles must carry the table.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “These poles must be acacia and covered with gold.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And you (pl.) must make two carrying-poles from akas wood and then enwrap them with wide pieces of gol.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And you chop white-acacia two for its carry-wood, apply it with gold red.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Make two poles from acacia wood and cover them with gold. The poles for carrying the table are to be inserted in the rings.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 26:20)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 26:20:

  • Kupsabiny: “Someone also prepare twenty frames for the side facing north of the Tent” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Make twenty planks to keep at the north side of the Tent of Meeting.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Make-a-framework with 20 boards for the northern part of the Tent” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “Do like that also for the shelter’s opposite long side toward the not.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Like that, build wood which be 20 at side of left,” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Similarly, tell them to make twenty frames for the north side of the Sacred Tent.” (Source: Translation for Translators)