Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 7:33:
- Kupsabiny: “On the fourth day, Elizur son of Shedeur from the clan of Reuben also brought his like those.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “For a Burnt Offering: one young bull, one ram, and a one-year-old male lamb,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “These were-particularly the-(ones-who) brought their offerings:
On the first day, Nashon child of Aminadad, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Juda.
On the second day, Netanel child of Zuar, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Issachar.
On the third day, Eliab child of Helon, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Zebulun.
On the fourth day, Elizur child of Shedeur, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Reuben.
On the fifth day, Shelumiel child of Zurishadai, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Simeon.
On the sixth day, Eliasaph child of Deuel, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Gad.
On the seventh day, Elishama child of Amihud, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Efraim.
On the eighth day, Gamaliel child of Pedazur, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Manase.
On the ninth day, Abidan child of Gideoni, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Benjamin.
On the tenth day, Ahiezer child of Amishadai, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Dan.
On the eleventh day, Pagiel child of Ocran, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Asher.
And on the twelfth day Ahira child of Enan, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Naftali.
Each one of them brought these offerings: one silver big-plate that weigh about one and one half kilogram, and one silver bowl that weigh about 800 grams according to the weighing-scale of the priests. Each one of them they filled with a good/fine kind of flour that was-mixed with oil for the gift offering. Each one of them also brought one golden small-cup that weigh about 120 grams that was filled with incense; one young bull, one male sheep, and one young male sheep which is one year old as a burnt offering; one male goat as an offering for becoming-clean; and two oxen/cow, five male sheep, five male goats, and five young male sheep/lambs which is one year old as an offering for a good relation.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “These are the gifts that each of the leaders brought:
—a silver dish that weighed more than three pounds/1.5 kg., and a silver bowl that weighed almost two pounds/800 grams, both of which were full of good flour and mixed with olive oil to be offerings of grain; they both were weighed using the standard scales;
—a small gold dish that weighed four ounces/14 grams, filled with incense;
—a young bull, a full-grown ram, and a one-year-old ram, to be sacrifices to be completely burned on the altar;
—a goat to be sacrificed to enable me to forgive the people for the sins they have committed;
—and two bulls, five full-grown rams, five male goats, and five rams that were one-year-old, to be sacrifices to maintain the people’s fellowship with Yahweh.
This was the order in which the leaders brought their gifts:
on the first day, Nahshon, son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah brought his gifts;
on the next/second day, Nethanel, son of Zuar, from the tribe of Issachar;
on the next/third day, Eliab, son of Helon, from the tribe of Zebulun;
on the next/fourth day, Elizur, son of Shedeur, from the tribe of Reuben;
on the next/fifth day, Shelumiel, son of Jurishhaddai, from the tribe of Simeon;
on the next/sixth day, Eliasaph, son of Deuel, from the tribe of Gad;
on the next/seventh day, Elishama, son of Ammihud, from the tribe of Ephraim;
on the next/eighth day, Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur, from the tribe of Manasseh;
on the next/ninth day, Abidan, son of Gideoni, from the tribe of Benjamin;
on the next/tenth day, Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai, from the tribe of Dan;
on the next/eleventh day, Pagiel, son of Acran, from the tribe of Asher;
on the next/twelfth day, Ahira, son of Enam, from the tribe of Naphtali.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezra 6:11:
- Kupsabiny: “I also give authority that, if any one changes these things/words, remove a beam/horizontal pole in his house and fix it in the ground, and then nail (him) there/on it. His home(stead) will be destroyed/scattered to become a place of dung/trash.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Not only that, I command [for] anyone who does not observe this decree, that a long wooden pillar be removed from his house and he be impaled hanged by it. For this crime, tear down his house and make it [into] a heap. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘I am also commanding that anyone who does- not -obey this will-be-pierced with wood which has-been-pulled-out from his house, and his house will-be-destroyed until there is no part that will-remain standing.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘If anyone disobeys this decree, my soldiers will pull a beam from his house. Then after they sharpen one end of the beam, they will lift that man up and impale him on that beam. Then they will completely destroy that man’s house until only a pile of rubble is left.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Zephaniah 2:13:
- Kupsabiny: “And again, God will fight against the countries of the North and destroy Assyria. After that he shall destroy the city of Nineveh completely to become a dry land.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “He will lift up hand in the direction of north,
and destroy Assyria.
He will desolate Nineveh
and dry as the desert.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘I will- also -punish those- (who) -come-from-Asiria who (are) in the north. Nineve will-be-lonely/desolate and will-become like a desert.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 20:34:
- Kupsabiny: “Then Ben-hadad said to Ahab, ‘I shall return to you all the cities which my father took from your father. You may build a marketplace there in Damascus as my father did there in Samaria.’ Ahab replied, ‘I shall stand on (keep/follow) these words when I let you go." So, both of them made an agreement and after that, Ben-hadad was released.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Ben-hadad said, "I will give back to you the cities my father took from your father. Like my father did in Samaria, you also are to open places of business in Damascus."
Ahab said, "If you make a treaty, I will release you." So he made a treaty with him and he was allowed to go.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Ben Hadad said to Ahab, ‘I will-return to you the cities which my father took from your father. And you may build- up places-of-selling-items in Damascus, like what my father had-done in Samaria.’ Ahab said, ‘In this offer of yours, I will-set- you -free.’ So they made a covenant, and Ahab let him go.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Ben-Hadad said to him, ‘I will give back to you the towns that my father’s army took from your father. And I will allow you to set up market areas for your merchants in Damascus my capital, just as my father did in Samaria your capital.’ Ahab replied, ‘Because you agree to do that, I will not execute you.’ So Ahab made an agreement with Ben-Hadad, and allowed him to go home.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:17:
- Kupsabiny: “All you neighbors shall mourn over Moab,
all you who know that it was famous.
You are saying,
‘Please, the stick/scepter of power is broken
the cattle bell has been released/removed from the neck (his fame has been stripped off).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “[You (plur.)] mourn, all of you who are-allied of Moab! You (plur.) say, ‘Moab is finished! Her cane is- now -broken, the cane that symbolizes of her being-powerful and being-famous.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You people who live in nations near Moab,
who know that it is very famous,
should mourn for Moab,
and say, ‘Its glorious power is completely ended/broken.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Judges 5:14:
- Kupsabiny: “Some left/got up from Ephraim,
that country which was of the Amalekites.
Some from the house of Benjamin followed.
Leaders of soldiers came down from Makir,
other big/important ones came from the land of Zebulun.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “They came from Ephraim to the valley,
following the tribe of Benjamin [they] came.
From Machin the captains came down,
from the tribe of Zebulun
People came with captain‘s staff.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Some of them came-from Efraim — the land which was previously owned by the Amaleknon — and some still come-from the tribe of Benjamin.
The commanders of Makir and the tribe of Zebulun also went-with to fight.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Some came from the tribe descended from Ephraim.
They came from land that once belonged to the descendants of Amalek.
And men from the tribe descended from Benjamin followed them.
Troops from the group descended from Makir also came down,
and officers from the tribe descended from Zebulun came down, carrying staffs.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ecclesiastes 3:16:
- Kupsabiny: “And again, I have come to know in this world that, where there should have been truth and righteousness, there was sin.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then I have also seen other matters in this world.
Instead of justice there is evil.
instead of righteousness, there is evil.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I also saw here on earth that wickedness is the (one-that) lasts-long instead of justice and righteousness.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Furthermore, I saw that on this earth ,
even in the courts where we expect judges to make right decisions about what people had done,
they did many wicked things.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 7:65:
- Kupsabiny: “On the nineth day Abidan son of Gideoni from the clan of Benjamin also brought his which were like those.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “and for a peace offering: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five one-year old sacrificial male lambs. This was the offering of Abidan, son of Gideoni.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “These were-particularly the-(ones-who) brought their offerings:
On the first day, Nashon child of Aminadad, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Juda.
On the second day, Netanel child of Zuar, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Issachar.
On the third day, Eliab child of Helon, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Zebulun.
On the fourth day, Elizur child of Shedeur, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Reuben.
On the fifth day, Shelumiel child of Zurishadai, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Simeon.
On the sixth day, Eliasaph child of Deuel, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Gad.
On the seventh day, Elishama child of Amihud, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Efraim.
On the eighth day, Gamaliel child of Pedazur, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Manase.
On the ninth day, Abidan child of Gideoni, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Benjamin.
On the tenth day, Ahiezer child of Amishadai, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Dan.
On the eleventh day, Pagiel child of Ocran, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Asher.
And on the twelfth day Ahira child of Enan, the leader/[lit. head] of the tribe of Naftali.
Each one of them brought these offerings: one silver big-plate that weigh about one and one half kilogram, and one silver bowl that weigh about 800 grams according to the weighing-scale of the priests. Each one of them they filled with a good/fine kind of flour that was-mixed with oil for the gift offering. Each one of them also brought one golden small-cup that weigh about 120 grams that was filled with incense; one young bull, one male sheep, and one young male sheep which is one year old as a burnt offering; one male goat as an offering for becoming-clean; and two oxen/cow, five male sheep, five male goats, and five young male sheep/lambs which is one year old as an offering for a good relation.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “These are the gifts that each of the leaders brought:
—a silver dish that weighed more than three pounds/1.5 kg., and a silver bowl that weighed almost two pounds/800 grams, both of which were full of good flour and mixed with olive oil to be offerings of grain; they both were weighed using the standard scales;
—a small gold dish that weighed four ounces/14 grams, filled with incense;
—a young bull, a full-grown ram, and a one-year-old ram, to be sacrifices to be completely burned on the altar;
—a goat to be sacrificed to enable me to forgive the people for the sins they have committed;
—and two bulls, five full-grown rams, five male goats, and five rams that were one-year-old, to be sacrifices to maintain the people’s fellowship with Yahweh.
This was the order in which the leaders brought their gifts:
on the first day, Nahshon, son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah brought his gifts;
on the next/second day, Nethanel, son of Zuar, from the tribe of Issachar;
on the next/third day, Eliab, son of Helon, from the tribe of Zebulun;
on the next/fourth day, Elizur, son of Shedeur, from the tribe of Reuben;
on the next/fifth day, Shelumiel, son of Jurishhaddai, from the tribe of Simeon;
on the next/sixth day, Eliasaph, son of Deuel, from the tribe of Gad;
on the next/seventh day, Elishama, son of Ammihud, from the tribe of Ephraim;
on the next/eighth day, Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur, from the tribe of Manasseh;
on the next/ninth day, Abidan, son of Gideoni, from the tribe of Benjamin;
on the next/tenth day, Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai, from the tribe of Dan;
on the next/eleventh day, Pagiel, son of Acran, from the tribe of Asher;
on the next/twelfth day, Ahira, son of Enam, from the tribe of Naphtali.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
