Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Judges 9:56:
- Kupsabiny: “God punished Abimelech like that for the sin he had done to his father when he killed his seventy brothers.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “In this way God took vengeance for the evil work he did with his father by killing his 70 elder and younger brothers.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “In that-particular way, God caused- Abimelec -to-pay-for the wicked thing he did to his father which was the killing of his 70 siblings/(brothers).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “In that way God punished Abimelech for the evil things that he had done to his father and especially for killing all 69 of his brothers.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Song of Solomon 1:11:
- Kupsabiny: “Even so, I will make for you a neck ring of gold
with pearls of silver.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “For we will make for you
golden rings, decorated with silver.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “We (excl.) will-make-for you (plur.) gold earrings with a silver setting.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “We will make for you some gold earrings
that are decorated/inlaid with silver.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 13:13:
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 4:8:
- Kupsabiny: “All those people plotted/planned to go and attack/fight Jerusalem so that the work would stop.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They all planned to attack Jerusalem in-order to stir-up-trouble-against us (excl.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When that was so, they all agreed-together to fight-against and throw-into-confusion Jerusalem.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “They all planned to come and fight against the people of Jerusalem and to cause trouble.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Zechariah 10:7:
- Kupsabiny: “The people of Ephraim shall get power like people who are brave.
They will be happy like people who have drunk wine.
Their children will see those things and rejoice.
They will be very happy in their stomachs on account of me God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The People of Ephraim will be like valiant soldiers,
their hearts will be gladdened as by wine
their children will be happy to see it.
Their hearts will be glad in the LORD.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The people of Israel will-be like strong soldiers. They will-be happy just-like a man who have-been-drinking wine. Their descendants will-remember this victory and they will-be-happy because of what I did.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 4:44:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, that servant fed the people with that food. People ate until they left some of the food so that the word of God was fulfilled.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then he put it before them. And according to the word of the LORD, they ate and there were even a few left-overs.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “So the servant gave it to the prophets and they ate, and there-was still some leftover, according to what the LORD said through Elisha.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “After his servant gave it to the prophets, they ate all that they wanted, and there was food left over, just as Yahweh had promised.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 52:27:
- Kupsabiny: “Nebuchadnezzar ordered those people to be beaten and be killed there in Riblah in the land of Hamath.
So, the people of Judah were taken to go to a country far away from their land.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “which is part of Hamat. And there they had-been-killed by the king.
Therefore the people of Juda were-brought away from their land as captives.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “There at Riblah in the Hamath region, the king of Babylon commanded that they all be executed.
Many of the people of Judah were forced to leave/exiled from their own land.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Judges 11:13:
- Kupsabiny: “Then that king of the Ammonites answered the people that Jephthah had sent, ‘When the people of Israel came from the country of Egypt, they took from me my country from river Arnon and followed like that until they came to river Jabbok and (river) Jordan. So, you (plur.) return to me my country in peace.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The Ammonite king gave this answer to Jephthah’s messengers, "When the Israelites came from the land of Egypt, they took the land of our country from Arnon to Jabbok and up to Jordan. So now give it back [to us] peacefully.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “This is the reply of the king of the Ammonhon to the messengers of Jefta: ‘When the Israelinhon came-out of Egipto, they put-under- (their) -jurisdiction our (excl.) lands from Arnon until Jabok, towards the River Jordan. So now, [you (plur.)] return them to us (excl.) peaceably.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The king replied, ‘We have come to fight against you Israelis because you took our land when you came here from Egypt. You took all our land east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north. So if you now give it back to us, there will be peace between us/we will not fight against you.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
