Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Judges 10:4:
- Kupsabiny: “Jair had thirty sons and each had a donkey which he rode around on. Those sons had thirty cities in Gilead which are called the Villages of Jair until today.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “He had 30 sons who rode on 30 donkeys. They also had 30 cities in the land of Gilead. Even till today their cities are called Havvoth-jair.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “He had 30 children, and each of them had a donkey to-ride-upon. They were the ones-who-ruled-over the 30 towns in Gilead which are- now -called the towns of Jair.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “He had thirty sons, and each of them had his own donkey to ride on. They each controlled a different town in the Gilead region. That region is still named ‘The Towns of Jair’.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Song of Solomon 1:16:
- Kupsabiny: “You are so beautiful oh, young man of another house.
Oh! You are amazingly beautiful.
We shall lie down on grass to become our bed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “My beloved! You are handsome!
You are so very handsome man
and our bed is like green grass.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “How very handsome you (sing.) (are), my love. You (sing.) are- very -alluring while we (incl.) lie-down on the lush/thick-green grass” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You who love me, you are very delightful/handsome,
you are wonderful!
This green grass will be like a couch where we lie down.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 13:18:
- Kupsabiny: “Look at how that land of Canaan is, its people be fierce or weak, many or few.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then find out how the land is, whether the people who live there are strong or weak, many or few.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) see/look what the land looks-like/[lit. what is the face of the land], and if the people there are strong or weak and if they are many or just few.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “See what the land is like. See if the people who live there are strong or weak. See if there are many people or only a few people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 4:13:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, I put guards to sit/stay at the wall where it was not yet repaired. I put people to guard according to families and they had swords, spears, bows and arrows.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore I placed men to guard the lowest portions of the stone-wall which are easy to enter. I had- them -guard there in grouped to each family, and they have weapons which are swords, spears, and bows-and-arrows.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because-of that, I set-in-position each family to guard behind the not finished fence. Swords, spears and bows-and-arrows were their weapons.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “So I put guards at the places where the wall was not very high yet and at places where there were gaps in the wall. I put guards to protect each of their family groups. I gave the guards daggers, spears, and bows and arrows.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Zechariah 10:12:
- Kupsabiny: “I will give my people power.
They shall honor me and stay/live in a way that makes me happy.
I am God who has said (it).’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “I myself will strengthen my people,
and in my name they will walk in my ways.’
declares the LORD.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I will-strengthen my people because they are with me, and they will-obey me. I, the LORD, (am) the(-one) saying this/said this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 5:5:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, the king of Syria answered Naaman, ‘Please travel immediately! I shall write a letter to the king of Israel.’
Then Naaman left right away and started the journey. He went with three hundred and forty (140) kilos of silver and sixty-eight (68) kilos of gold and ten sets of clothes.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The King of Aram said, "Good! You go. I will write a letter to the King of Israel." So Naaman took 340 kilograms of silver, 70 kilograms of gold and 10 sets of clothing, and went.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The king of Aram said, ‘Go, and you bring my letter to the king of Israel.’ So Naaman went taking with gifts of 350 kilos of silver, 70 kilos of gold and ten pieces of clothes.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The king said to him, ‘Okay, go and see the prophet. I will write a letter for you to take to the king of Israel, saying that I sent you.’ The king wrote in the letter, ‘I am sending this letter with my army commander Naaman, who serves me faithfully. I want you to heal him of his disease.’ So Naaman, assuming/thinking that the king of Israel was the prophet, took the letter and 750 pounds of silver, 150 pounds of gold, and ten sets of clothing, to give to the king of Israel, and he went to Samaria, taking along several servants.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 52:32:
- Kupsabiny: “That king stayed with Jehoiakin in a good way. He raised him up over the other prisoners in Babylon.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “He is kind to Jehoyakin, and he honored him above the other kings who were- also -taken-captives there in Babilonia.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “He always spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and gave him a position in which he was honored more than all the other kings who had been exiled/taken to Babylon.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Judges 11:18:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, the people of Israel went ahead and crossed the wilderness going round the country of Edom and Moab, and they went to set up their tents on the other side of the river Arnon. They did not enter the country of Moab, because the border of Moab was at the river Arnon.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “After that they went by way of the desert and going along the borders of Edom and Moab, they went to the east of Moab and pitched camp on the other side of the Arnon. Because the Arnon river was the boundary of Moab they did not come into the country of Moab. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘Sometime later, they continued to journey in the desert. They went-throughout Edom and Moab until they arrived in the east of Moab on the other-side of Arnon place-where-the-water-flows. There they camped, but they did- not -cross-over Arnon because that was the boundary of Moab.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then the Israelis went into the desert and walked outside the borders of the Edom and Moab regions. They walked east of the Moab region, east of the Arnon River, which is the eastern border of the Moab region. They did not cross that river to enter the Moab region.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
