Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 5:6:

• Kupsabiny: “While they were still eating the feast and drinking wine, the king asked Esther, ‘So what news/words do you have? Please tell me, my wife. Even if it is one part/half of the country I rule, I will give you.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “As they were drinking wine, the king said to Esther, "Whatever you ask for I will give you. What is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, I will give [it] to you."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “And while they were-drinking wine, the king asked Ester, ‘What (is it) that you (sing.) really need? Just say (it) for I will-give (it) to you even half of my kingdom.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “While they were eating and drinking wine, king Xerxes asked Esther: "Tell me what you want. I will give it immediately. Event to half my kingdom, I will give it."” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “While they were drinking wine, the king said to Esther, ‘Tell me what you really want. I will give it to you, even if you ask for half of my kingdom.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 7:10:

• Kupsabiny: “The king said, ‘‘Go and kill him at that very tree/pole.’ They quickly went and hanged Haman on that tree/pole which he wanted to hang Mordecai on. When they had finished hanging Haman, the pain of the king got finished/over.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Like this they hanged Haman on the wooden pole which he had prepared for the hanging of Mordecai. After that the king’s anger subsided.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “So they hanged Haman on the place-of-hanging that he had-built that-it-would-had-been for Mordecai. And the king’s anger was-gone.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “So they hanged Haman himself at the place he had prepared to hang Mordecai. The anger in the heart of the king toward Haman subsided.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for hanging Mordecai! And then the king’s anger cooled off/the king was no longer so angry.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 9:15:

• Kupsabiny: “Next morning, the Jews gathered themselves again in Susa and killed three hundred more people, but they did not plunder a single thing from them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “On the 14th day of the month of Adar the Jews having gathered again in one place killed about 300 people in Susa. But again, they took no plunder.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “In-next-morning, (it is) the 14th day of the month of Adar, the Jews who were in Susa gathered-together again, and they were-able-to-kill 300 men. But they did- not -take-away the properties of their enemies.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “On the 14th day of the month Adar, the Jews gathered together in the town of Susa, and they killed 300 people in that town, but they did not confiscate their things at all.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “On the next day, the Jews in Susa gathered together and killed 300 more people. But again, they did not take the things that belonged to the people whom they killed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 2:8:

• Kupsabiny: “When what the king said had been announced, the people brought many girls/ladies to come to the home of that king in the city of Susa. Esther was in the group of those girls who were brought. They came and stayed in the hands of Hegai and were put in the house of women at the home of the king.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “When the great king had proclaimed his order, many women were brought to the capitol. Esther was also among them. And she was also one of the women included among the women of the great king in the harem of the royal palace for whom Hegai the eunuch was given responsibility.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “When the king’s order about the beautiful not-married-ladies was-proclaimed, many not-married-ladies were-brought to the palace of the king there in the stoned-wall city of Susa. And one of them was Ester. They were-taken-care-of by Hegay who was-assigned to take-care of the females in the palace.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “When the rulers received the letter with the new decree, they gathered all the marriageable girls in the city of Susa. But in that group of girls was also Esther. The brought them to the kings house to the place where Hegai watched over all the women in the king’s house.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “After the king commanded that they search for some beautiful women, they brought Esther and many other young women to the king’s palace in Susa, and the king put Hegai/Hegai was put in charge of them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 4:2:

• Kupsabiny: “Then, he went towards the home of the king, but ended at palace gate, because nobody was allowed to enter that home while wearing funeral clothes.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “He [only] went up to the main gate of the royal palace, because no one who was wearing sackcloth was allowed to enter the palace.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But he was only up to the outside of the entrance/gate of the palace for no one is allowed to enter the palace wearing/clothing a sack.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “He went up to the gate in the wall of the place where the king lived. But he couldn’t go into the inside of the wall, because a person who is wearing mourning clothes cannot enter the place where the king lives.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “He stood outside the gate of the palace, because no one who was wearing sackcloth was allowed to enter the palace.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 6:3:

• Kupsabiny: “Then the king asked, ‘Is there anything that was rewarded/given to Mordecai for the thing he did?’ His servants replied, ‘Not at all.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Hearing this, the king asked what reward or honor had been given to Mordecai for this deed.
  The king’s attendants replied, "Nothing at all has been done for Mordecai."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The king asked, ‘What has-been-repaid or has-been-honored to Mordecai because of this good-thing of his that he has-done for me?’ The servants replied, ‘Nothing ever, Beloved King.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “So the king asked them: "What have we done to reward Mordecai for the thing he did?"
  The slaves answered him "Nothing has been done to reward him for this action."” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “The king asked some of his servants, ‘What did we do to reward Mordecai or show that we appreciate what he did?’ The servants replied, ‘We did not do anything for him.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 8:11:

• Kupsabiny: “Those letters allowed/permitted the Jews in every town to gather themselves and prepare to destroy all enemies who would attack them. Those letters also allowed the Jews to loot the wealth of their enemies.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “As it was written in the royal decree, all the Jews were allowed to gather in one place in their cities to protect their lives. It was also written that whatever nationality or tribe come against the Jews, their wives and their children with weapons to attack them, the Jews are to fight against them and, having killed them, and destroyed them one by one, they may take their land and all their property.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Through that letter, King Ahasuerus allowed the Jews in every city to-unite to defend themselves. They can kill anyone who would attack them from any nation or province, including their women and children. And they can also take-away the properties of their enemies.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “In this paper they wrote to tell people that the Jews in whatever city to block and preserve their lives and the lives of their wives and children. But if soldiers from whatever group or whatever country comes to fight them, then let them fight back and kill back those people. Then they could kill all of the people who want to come against them and take all the belongings of those people.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “They wrote in those letters that the Jews in every city were permitted by the king to gather together to protect themselves. They also were permitted to kill any group of soldiers who attacked them. They were also permitted to kill the women and children of those who attacked them, and to take the possessions of the people whom they killed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 9:26:

• Kupsabiny: “This Feast of Purim means/shows lots that were called ‘pur.’ So, according to that letter which Mordecai wrote to them and the hardship (he/they) went through,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “(That is why that day, "Pur", is referred to as "Purim.") Because of what was written in that letter, and what they had seen and what had happened to them,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “So the celebration of that time was-called Purim, from the word ‘pur.’ And because of Mordecai’s letter and because of what they had-experienced,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “So they called that holiday ‘Purim’ because of what Mordecai wrote in that letter and because of all the things they had experienced.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “Because the lot/small marked stone that Haman threw was called Pur, the Jews called these days Purim. And, because of everything that Mordecai wrote/was written in that letter, and because of all that happened to them,” (Source: Translation for Translators)