Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 21:29:
- Kupsabiny: “Oh, Moab,
these people who worship Chemosh are destroyed.
All the young men fell.
women became prisoners of Sihon
that king of the Amorites.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Oh Moab, Woe to you!
You people of Chemosh, you are destroyed!
[Making] his sons like fugitives [lit.: ones who run away]
and his daughters like female slaves
he has given [them] into the hand of Sihon, the Amorite king.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) are-to-be-pitied who come-from-Moab! You (plur.) were-destroyed who worship the god Chemosh. You (plur.) who are his children he abandoned to be-taken-captive by Sihon the king of Amornon.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You people of Moab, terrible things have happened to you!
You people who worship your god Chemosh have been annihilated/wiped out!
The men who worshiped Chemosh have run away and are now refugees,
and the women who worshiped him have been captured by the army of Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 12:24:
- Kupsabiny: “The people who headed the Levite families were: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel together with their other relatives, who would stand facing each other with them when they sung and gave praise to God. They did like that following the way David the man of God had told them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “These are the leaders/[lit. heads] of the families of the Levites: Hashabia, Sherebia and Jeshua the child of Kadmiel, and the rest of their companions who stand opposite them during the singing of praises and thanksgiving to God in the temple. They answer the song of the opposite group, according to the command of David the servant of God.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “These are the leaders of the clans who are descendants of Levi: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel and others who were divided into two groups. The two groups faced each other, one group replying to the other, during the time that they praised and thanked God. They did that just as King David, the man who served God well, had instructed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:16:
- Kupsabiny: “We are not given straws to use. All along we have been forced to make clay for building! Now we are beaten for nothing and the mistake/fault is by your people.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “They don’t give straw to our people but ask us to make as many bricks as before. We, yourselves, are getting the beating but the fault is your people’s only.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “We (excl.) are-given no straw, but we (excl.) are-forced to-make the same number of bricks, and we (excl.) are- yet/still -beaten. This (is) really the fault of your (sing.) people!’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “They didn’t give dry weeds to us, yet they [yell to] hurry us, your laborers, in the making of hard stones. Yo, they’re whipping us, but we don’t have any bad fault. The bad fault is you Isip people’s.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “They not we (excl.) grass give, but they rush us (excl.) in work, saying to us (excl.) ‹Make bricks!› Afterwards they beat us (excl.), but it is your people that sin!»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Now they are not giving us any straw for making bricks, but they keep commanding us to make bricks. And now sometimes they beat us. But it is the fault of your own slave bosses that we cannot make as many bricks as before!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 15:3:
- Kupsabiny: “Uzziah did good things from God’s perspective like what his father Amaziah was doing.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “He did work that was pleasing the LORD, like his father had done.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Azaria did good in the sight of the LORD, the same as his father Amazia had-done.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “He did things that Yahweh was pleased with, like his father Amaziah had done.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 7:7:
- Kupsabiny: “You (plur.) who live in the land are going to be destroyed. The anxiety is great there on the hills and there is no happiness.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “you who live in the land of Israel. This is now your destruction. The time is very near that you (plur.) will-panic. Your happy days in the mountains are now finished.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “It will be the end of you people who live in the landof Israel. The time has come; the daywhen you will be destroyed is near. At that time the people who worship idols on the mountains will not be happy; they will panic.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Judges 21:21:
- Kupsabiny: “And when the girls of Shilo come to sing at that feast, jump out from the place of the vines and each one of you take a girl and pull (her) to become his wife.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “When the virgin girls of Shiloh come out to dance on the day of the family festival, you come out of the vineyard [and] each of you get a bride and take her. [Then] go to your land, taking the virgin girl with you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “and you (plur.) guard/watch the ladies who come-from-Shilo. If they will-pass-by there in-order to dance at the feast, you (plur.) will- come-out from the fields and each-one-will-capture his wife-to-be and take to your (plur.) place.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Keep watching for the young women to come out of the city to dance. When they come out, all of you should run out of the vineyards. Each of you can seize one of the young women of Shiloh. Then you can all return to your homes with those women.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 10:11:
- Kupsabiny: “I shall destroy Jerusalem
and its idols that are being worshipped,
like I did with Samaria
and its idols.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “What! shall I not deal with Jerusalem,
and the idols that are there, like I did to the idols that are there in Samaria?” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I already destroyed Samaria and its little-gods. I will- also -do-it to Jerusalem and its little-gods.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 22:26:
- Kupsabiny: “The angel moved in front again. It went to a very narrow place where the donkey was unable to turn itself.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then the angel of the LORD went on and stood in a narrow place [where] it was not possible to turn either right or left.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then the angel of the LORD went ahead and stood in a more narrower road/path which can- never -move to the left or right.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then the angel went further along the road and stood at a place that was extremely narrow, with the result that the donkey could not get past at all.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
