Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 25:23:
- Kupsabiny: “It also reached the people of Dedan, Tema, Buz together with all the people who trim their heads.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Dedan, Tema, Buz, (the) far-(away) places,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “In the vision I then went to Dedan, Tema, and Buz cities in Arabia and to other distant places (OR, places where people cut their hair short), and gave some of the wine to leaders in those areas.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joshua 10:33:
- Kupsabiny: “Then the king of Gezer who was called Horam came to save Lachish, but Joshua defeated that king and his soldiers and killed all those people so no one escaped.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “At that time king Horam of Gezer came to give help to Lachish. Joshua defeated him and his army, not even a single one was kept alive.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “When Lakish was- still -being-attacked, Horam king of Gezer and his soldiers helped Lakish, but they were- also -defeated by Josue, and no- one at-all among them was-left alive.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “King Horam from Gezer city and his army came to help the soldiers of Lachish, but Joshua’s army defeated Horam and his army, and did not allow any of them to remain alive.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 15:29:
- Kupsabiny: “God does not listen to sinners,
but listens/hears to the cry of the righteous.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The Lord stays far away from the wicked,
but He hears the prayer of the righteous.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD is far from the wicked, but he is near to the righteous for he listens-to their prayer.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God heeds the prayer of a righteous/just-person, but he does not pay-attention-to the prayer a consistently-sinful-person.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh does not listen to what wicked people request him to do;
he listens to righteous people when they pray.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 22:7:
- Kupsabiny: “When the sun has gone down that person will be clean and it is allowed for him to eat those foods that are set aside/dedicated because those foods belong to him.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “But [when] evening time has passed [lit.: is finished] he will be declared clean. After that it is OK if he eats from the holy items that are presented, for that is his food to eat.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “None of any one/[lit. whoever] of you (plur.) can-eat the offering if he has a dangerous disease on the skin, or there-is (something) is-coming-out from his genitals/sexual-organ because of his disease, or he touched/grasped an object which is- dirty/unclean because this (object) has-touched/has-contacted the dead, or he has-had-an- emission/[lit. has-come-out] of semen, or he has-touched an animal or person who is- considered dirty/unclean. He can- only -eat the offerings if he has- already -bathed, but he is-to-wait until afternoon when the sun has- now -gone-down and then he may- now -eat the offerings which are his food as priest.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “After the sun sets, he will be permitted to eat some of the sacred offerings that are for him to eat.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 22:11:
- Kupsabiny: “There was a woman who was called Jehosheba who was a daughter of Jehoram. When the sons of the king were about to be killed, that woman took a small boy who was called Joash and fled with him. She kept that child alive with his nurse in a bedroom. She hid that boy so that Athaliah did not kill him. Jehosheba did like that because she was a sister to Ahaziah. And again she was the wife of Jehoiada who was priest.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Hearing this, the King’s older sister, to save her suckling nephew Joash, she took [him] and his nursemaid from among the king’s sons. Jehosheba was the daughter of king Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, and the younger sister of king Ahaziah. She hid them in a room in the temple.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But Jehosheba saved Joas the child of Ahazia when he is about to-be-killed and the other children of the king. Jehosheba was the sibling of Ahazia and daughter of King Jehoram, and wife of the priest Jehoyada. He hid Joash and his nurse-helper in a room of the tempel, so Atalia was not able-to-kill him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram, took Joash, Ahaziah’s very young son, away from the other sons of the king who were about to be murdered, and she hid him and his nursemaid in a bedroom in the temple. Because Jehosheba, who was the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of the Supreme Priest Jehoiada, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid the child, with the result that Athaliah could not kill him.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joel 1:20:
- Kupsabiny: “The animals of the bush also cry to you
because the rivers are dry
and the pasture is destroyed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Wild animals also seek help from you,
The streams have totally dried up;
fire has destroyed the pastures of the wilderness.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Even the animals in the open-fields are-waiting for your (sing.) help, for the rivers and the streams (are) now very dry, and the grazing-areas/fields have-withered as-if devoured by fire.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 7:1:
- Kupsabiny: “Then Solomon built his homestead. He built that homestead in thirteen years.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Solomon also built his palace. And it took 13 years to finish.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Solomon also built his palace, and it took- 13 years -to-built.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They also built a palace for Solomon, but it required 13 years to build it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 26:17:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, a portion of the elders of the city stood up and said to the people who had gathered.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “There were some (the) ones-who-rule who stood-up in front and said to the entire people,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then some of the elders stood up and spoke to all the people who were gathered there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
