Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 23:34:
- Kupsabiny: “Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai who hailed from Maaka, Eliam son of Ahithophel who hailed from Gilo,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Eliphelet son of Ahasbai the Maacathite,
Eliam, son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Eliphelet the child of Ahasbai who comes-from-Maaca;
Eliam the child of Ahitofel who comes-from-Gilo;” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Eliphelet, the son of Ahasbai, from Maacah town;
Eliam, the son of Ahithophel, from Gilo town;” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 16:4:
- Kupsabiny: “Bad sicknesses will kill (them), and no one will mourn or bury them. Their bodies will be heaped like dung in the land. Sword and famine will destroy those people and birds of prey and wild animals will eat their corpses.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They will-die from terrible diseases. No one will-mourn or bury them. Their corpses will-scatter on the grazing-field like dung. Some of them will-die from war and from famine, and their corpses will-be-eaten by the birds and wild animals.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Many of them will die from terrible diseases. And no one will mourn for them. No one will even bury their corpses; the corpses will lie on the ground, scattered like manure. Others will die in wars or from hunger, and then their corpses will become food for vultures and wild animals.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 24:6:
- Kupsabiny: “They left from that place and headed towards Gilead. They went up to Kadesh in the region of the Hittites. (Then) they left from there and went to Dan. After that, then passed through other areas and went to reach Sidon.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then they proceeded, walking [to] Gilead and Tahtim-hodshi, Dan-jaan and Sidon.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They also went to Gilead, Tatim Hodshi, Dan Jaan, and went-around toward Sidon.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then they went north to the Gilead region and to Kadesh city, in the land where the Heth people-group lived. Then they went to Dan city in the far north of Israel, and then further west, to Sidon city near the Mediterranean Sea.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 16:15:
- Kupsabiny: “but those people will swear, ‘I swear by the God who brought the people of Israel out from the land on the side of North and all the countries that he scattered them to!’ It is like that because I will cause those people to return to their land that I gave to their forefathers.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Instead, they will-say, ‘I swear to the living LORD who caused- the Israelinhon -to-come-out of the nation in the north and all the nations where he caused- them -to-scatter.’ For I will-bring- them -back to the land which I gave to their ancestors.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Instead, they will say ‘I will do this, just as surely as Yahweh lives—the one who brought us Israeli people back to our own land, from the lands to the north and from all the other lands to which he had exiled us/forced us to go.’ They will be able to say that because some day I will bring your descendants back to this land that I gave to your ancestors.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joshua 2:23:
- Kupsabiny: “Then right away, those spies went down from the hills and crossed the river Jordan.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then they came down from the hills, crossed over the river and came to Joshua, son of Nun. Then they told him all the things that had happened.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The two spies went-down-(the-mountain) and crossed the river and returned to Josue. They told Josue all that had-happened.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then the two men started back toward their camp. They went down from the hills, went down to the river, crossed it at the place where people can walk across it, and returned to their camp. They told Joshua everything that had happened to them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 8:29:
- Kupsabiny: “I also saw when he marked/placed the boundary where the sea ends, so that the water should not to go beyond what was needed and when he put up the pillars of the earth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “When the boundaries
of the ocean were set,
and when the foundations of the earth
were established, I was there.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “when he placed the border of the sea so-that it will- not -overflow,
and when he placed the foundations of the earth.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I was (there) when he commanded (verb affix indicates that the following phrase is the content of the command) the boundary of the ocean so that the water would obey and when he set-up the foundation of the earth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 15:3:
- Kupsabiny: “The man/person is unclean whether pus drips from the genitals or if it has stopped.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If semen comes flooding from his body, even if it stops, that man is made unclean by it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And even-if this continuous to-flow or not, he is- still -to-be-considered dirty/unclean.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Whether that fluid is blocked or continues to drip, it causes him to be someone who should not be touched.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 12:13:
- Kupsabiny: “So, the rulership of Rehoboam was strengthened in Jerusalem. He began to rule when he had forty-one years, and he ruled seventeen years. He ruled from the city of Jerusalem that God had chosen from all the cities of Israel to be where he was to be prayed to. The mother of Rehoboam was called Naamah and she was a daughter/girl of/from the community of Ammonites.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “In this way King Rehoboam reigned, having made himself strong in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned in Jerusalem 17 years. Jerusalem was the city in the midst of Israel chosen by the LORD to put his name. Rehoboam’s mother’s name Naamah, she was from Ammonite country.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The ruling of King Rehoboam became firm and he continued to reign there in Jerusalem. He was 41 years old when he became king, and he reigned 17 years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribe of Israel where he will-be-honored. The name of the mother of Rehoboam was Naama, who was an Ammonite.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “King Rehoboam again was in complete control in Jerusalem and continued to be the king of Judah. He was 41 years old when he became the king. He ruled for 17 years in Jerusalem, which is the city that Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes in Israel to be the place in which people were to worship him.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
