Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 1:20:

• Kupsabiny: “When you pass a decree like that and all the people in the whole of your empire hear (it), the women will honor/respect their husbands no matter whether the husband is known/prominent or not.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “In this way, when the royal command is proclaimed to everyone in the land all women, rich and poor will respect their own husbands."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “And if this is already proclaimed throughout your (sing.) very huge/vast kingdom, the wives will-respect their husbands, from the greatest husband to the least.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “When all the people in the wide country that you rule hear about the king’s word, than all the women will respect again their husbands, among both rich and poor.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “Then, when everyone in your empire hears what you have commanded, all the women, including those who are important and those who are not important, will respect and obey their husbands.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 3:7:

• Kupsabiny: “In the first month of the twelfth year while Ahasuerus was ruling, then Haman said that lots should be cast to know the day and the month when the Jews were to be killed. Those lots were called ‘Purim.’ Those lots fell on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “In the 12th year of [the reign of] king Ahasuerus in the first month, the month of Nisan, lots were cast in Haman’s presence to decide the [best] day and month [to take action]. The lots were called "Pur." The lot fell on a day in the 12th month, the month of Adar.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “In the first month, which was the month of Nisan, on the twelfth month of Ahasuerus’s reign, Haman commanded to cast-lots in-order to know what is the right day and month to fulfill/execute his plan. (The thing they used to cast-lots is called ‘pur.’) The one-that-was-selected was the 13th day of the 12th, which was the month of Adar.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “In the first month (the month Nasan) in the twelfth year of Xerxes’s kingdom, Haman had someone get the things they use to cast lots. Those things they call ‘Purim’.) He chose a day and month that was good to kill all the Jews. The lot fell on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month (the month Adar).” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “So, during the twelfth year that Xerxes was ruling, during the month of April, Haman told his advisors to cast lots/throw small marked stones to determine the best month and the best day to kill the Jews. Haman’s advisors did that, and the day that was selected was March 7th during the following/next year.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 5:7:

• Kupsabiny: “(She) answered that, ‘One thing which I am requesting you with one stomach/heart is this:” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Esther answered, "This is my entreaty and [my] request,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Ester answered, ‘This is what I request:” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “Esther answered the king:” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “Esther replied, ‘I will tell you what I want most of all. Your majesty, if you are pleased with me, and if you are willing to give me what I am requesting, please come again tomorrow to another banquet that I will prepare for the two of you. Then I will tell you what I really want’.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 8:1:

• Kupsabiny: “After Haman had been destroyed who was the enemy of the Jews, the king removed/stripped off from that day all the wealth from the home of Haman and gave it to Esther. Then, Mordecai was called to go to the home of the king, because Esther had already showed/told the king that Mordecai was a relative.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “That very day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther all the property of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. Then, since Esther had said that Mordecai was closely related to her, Mordecai got to see the king.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “On that particular day, King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Ester all the properties of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. Then Mordecai was-caused-to-go to the king for Ester told that they were blood-relatives.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “On that day king Xerxes gave all the belongings of Haman, the one who wanted to kill the Jews, to Queen Esther. Esther told the king that Mordecai was her uncle. So from that day Mordecai was able to enter and meet the king.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “Later on that same day, King Xerxes declared that everything that Haman, the enemy of the Jews, owned, would now belong to Queen Esther. Esther told the king that Mordecai was her cousin. When the king heard that, he sent a message to tell Mordecai to come in.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 9:16:

• Kupsabiny: “While they were starting the war in Susa, there were also other Jews in the other provinces who were also eating/fighting their war/battle defending themselves. They also killed seventy five thousand enemies and did not take/plunder anything at all from those people. Then Jews got rest/relaxed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “The Jews who still remained in the king’s province at this time had gathered together in one place to deliver themselves from their enemies. They killed 75,000 people. From there also they took no plunder.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “In the previous day, the Jews who were in the different parts of the kingdom gathered-together in-order to defend and save themselves from their enemies. They have-killed 75,000 men, but they did- not -take-away the properties of their enemies. The next day, on the 14th day, they rested and celebrated a feast with joy/gladness.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “But the Jews in other places, they gathered together to block and save their own group. They killed their enemies 75,000 people. But they did not confiscate the possessions of those people.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “That happened on March 8th. On the following day, the Jews in Susa rested and celebrated. In all the other provinces, the Jewish people gathered together to defend themselves, and they killed 75,000 people who hated them, 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 2:9:

• Kupsabiny: “Hegai was impressed with/happy with Esther and treated her more than the other girls. He quickly gave her things for beautifying and fed her with good food which had been cooked in a good/special way. Hegai again gave Esther seven girls who were the king’s maids so they could do for her work. He then separated Esther from the other girls and made her stay with those her maids in the inner room which was very good in that house of the women.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Seeing Esther, Hegai was very pleased with her and Esther received many favors from him. Like this, having done grooming for Esther, he brought special food and grooming materials (cosmetics). Esther was kept in the most beautiful part of the royal palace harem, and he sent seven maid servants chosen in the royal palace to do her grooming.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Hegay was-pleased with Ester, and his treatment of her was good/well. He then gave Ester food and needs for becoming-beautiful. He also gave her seven female servants from the king’s palace itself, and had- her and her servants -lived in the best/nicest room.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “Esther pleased Hegai, and he felt favor toward her. So he cared for her and had them massage her body so that it would become even more beautiful. He gave Esther to eat food more delicious than he gave the other, and he gave her to live in a place that was more beautiful than that of the other women. And he gave her seven women to become her servants.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “Hegai was very pleased with Esther, and he treated her well. He immediately arranged for her to be given ointments to make her even more beautiful, and he ordered that special food would be given to her. He arranged that seven maids from the king’s palace would take care of her, and arranged that she/they would stay in the best rooms.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 4:3:

• Kupsabiny: “But when that information of the king reached all the parts/areas, the Jews mourned greatly while crying and fasting. Many of them put on funeral clothes and rolled on ash.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “The proclamation of the king’s order caused the Jews in all provinces to lament, weeping, fasting, and being sad at heart. Most of them put on sackcloth and lay down in ashes.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The Jews on every province who have-heard the command of the king cried very loudly. They fasted and cried with wailing/lamenting. Many of them clothed (themselves) with a sack and laid on ashes.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru: “In every town, when they heard the wore the king declared, the Jews all mourned and wept and fasted because of these things. Almost every person of them put on burlap and threw themselves down into the ashes also.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• English: “In every province of the empire, when the letter from the king was read to the Jewish people, they cried and mourned. They fasted/abstained from eating food, and wailed loudly. Many of them also put on sackcloth and threw ashes on themselves and lay on the ground.” (Source: Translation for Translators)