Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 2:19:
- Kupsabiny: “You will be punished for your sins
and condemned because you removed yourselves from me.
You will see/realize that (it is) very bad,
when/if you abandon your God whom you do not honor.
I the God of power have spoken.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Because of your (plur.) wickedness and turning-away from me, I will-punish you (plur.). [You (plur.)] think well/[lit. good] of how bad and bitter is your (plur.) rejecting and not honoring the LORD your (plur.) God. I, the Lord GOD who-is Almighty, (am) the-(one) saying this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 23:24:
- Kupsabiny: “If you pass by/through a field of your neighbor with grapevines you may eat the grapes you wish, but do not pluck those grapes and put them in a basket and walk away with them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If you are going into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you like, but you must not put any in your basket.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘If you (plur.) go the field/(vineyard) of grapes of your (plur.) fellow(man) Israelinhon, you (plur.) can eat the grapes as-you (plur.)-want, but you (plur.) do- not -take and put in your (plur.) container.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘hen you walk through someone else’s vineyard, you are allowed to pick and eat as many grapes as you want, but you must not cut some from a vine and carry them away in a container.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 38:10:
- Kupsabiny: “I set where the ocean stops
and arranged a wall to block it.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “when I fixed its border line
by placing its doors and its bolts in the right places,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I put-on the sea a boundary; just as-if I closed- it -up and barred-(it)-up.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 4:9:
- Kupsabiny: “He shall also take the kidneys and their fat and the side of the liver where there is fat” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “He must take out the two kidneys along with the fat near the loins, as well as the membrane covering the kidneys and best part of the liver.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “the kidneys/[lit. little-stones] including all their fat[s], and the small part of the liver.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “the kidneys and the fat that is attached to them near the lower back muscle, and the fat that covers the liver.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Chronicles 26:6:
- Kupsabiny: “His son Shemaiah also had sons of strength who came to be leaders in their houses.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “His son, Shemaiah also had sons. Because they were very capable, they gave authority to their father’s family.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The eldest child of Obed Edom who was Shemaya had male children who were leaders/[lit. heads] of their families, because they had abilities.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Obed-Edom’s son Shemaiah also had sons. They were leaders in their father’s family because they were capable of doing many things well.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 1:2:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, God caused Jehoiakim to be captured by king Nebuchadnezzar. He was taken along with other properties/utensils which were in the House of God to Babylon and those things were put in the treasury of the house of his god.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD gave King Jehoiakim and some golden and silver utensils of the temple into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. Then he carried the people off to Babylon. The utensils that he had plundered from the temple, he put into the treasury of his god.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “He took-captive King Jehoyakim according to the will of the Lord. He also took some of the things from the temple of God and brought [them] to Babylon. Then he placed those in the hiding-place of wealth there in the temple of his god.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “After two years, Yahweh allowed Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers to capture Jehoiakim, who was the King of Judah. They also took some of the things that were in the temple of God, and took them to Babylonia. There Nebuchadnezzar put them in the temple of his god.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 14:7:
- Kupsabiny: “So, all the people of our home/family have come to me telling me that I should hand over that boy who killed the other so that he can also be killed because he killed the other one. Then I would lose the person who should inherit (the) things. If it happens like that, then the house/descendants of my husband will be completely lost/covered up/buried.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Please look, my relatives, have risen up against me and have spoken like this, ‘Hand over to us the one who killed his younger brother, and because he killed his younger brother, we will also kill him, and in this way we will also destroy the heir.’ If this is done, then only one charcoal fire who protects me will also be extinguished. Then my husband’s name will be removed [sent to oblivion] [and] [he] will have no descendants left in this world."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Now, all my blood-relatives came to me and said, ‘Hand-over to us (excl.) your (sing.) child, for we (excl.) will-kill him for his killing his sibling. He is not worthy to inherit the property of his father.’ If they will-do this, the remaining child of mine who is my only hope to help me, will-be-gone, and the name of my husband will- now -disappear in this earth.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Now, all my family oppose me. They are insisting that I allow them to kill my son who is still alive , in order that they may get revenge for his killing his brother. But if they do that, I will not have any son to inherit my husband’s possessions. That would be like extinguishing the last coals of a fire, and my husband would not have a son to preserve our family’s name. ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 3:14:
- Kupsabiny: “Return to me you people who are unstable because you are mine. I shall choose one person from each village and two from each clan and return you to Zion.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD still said, ‘You (plur.) return, children who are not faithful, for you (plur.) (are) mine. I will-take one or two of you (plur.) from each town or tribe, and bring to Israel.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But you belong to me.
So I will take you, one from each city and two from each clan,
and bring you back to Jerusalem
from the countries to which you were exiled.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
