Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 42:8:
- Kupsabiny: “So, I called Johanan and all the leaders of soldiers together with all the small and big people and I said to (them),” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore Jeremias caused-to-be-call Johanan, and all his fellow/companion officials of the soldiers, as-well-as all the people from the least to the greatest.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So I summoned Johanan and all his other soldiers and all the other people, including those who were important and those who were not important.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Judges 1:14:
- Kupsabiny: “And/But then one day, Acsah begged her husband to allow her to go to their/her home so she could go and ask her father for a field. When (she) reached home, she came down from her donkey. Then (her) father asked her, ‘What might you want, my child?’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “One day when Acsah went to Othniel, she requested him to ask his father for a plot of land. When she got down from the donkey, Caleb asked her, "What do you need?"” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “When they were now married, Acsa convinced her husband that they would-ask-for additional land from her father. Then Acsa went to Caleb, and as she was- now -getting-down-from her donkey, Caleb asked her what her need (was).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “When Acsah married Othniel, she told him to ask her father to give him a field. But she decided to ask him herself. She rode to Caleb’s house on her donkey, and when she got off the donkey, Caleb could see that something was troubling her. So he asked her, ‘What do you want?’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 30:10:
- Kupsabiny: “Do not go to a master/rich man and falsely accuse his servant of something he has not done, because he will complain about you and you will suffer the consequences.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Don’t slander a servant to his master.
Otherwise he [the servant] will curse you
and you will suffer for it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Do- not -make-bad a servant before/[lit. in front of] his master, for he will-curse you (sing.) and you (sing.) will-suffer.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Do not (sing.) say-bad-things-about a servant to his master because that aforementioned servant will curse you (sing.) and you (sing.) will-bear-the-consequences.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 5:9:
- Kupsabiny: “Everything that the Israelites give as gifts belong to the priest.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “All the holy items brought to the priest to sacrifice to the LORD will be the priest’s.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “All the holy gift that the Israelinhon bring to the priests, will-belong to the priests.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “All the sacred offerings that the Israelis bring to the priest belong to the priest.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezra 2:53:
- Kupsabiny: “Barkos, Sisera, Temah,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Barkos, Sisera, Temah,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “These are the descendants of the servants in the temple who also returned from captivity:
Descendants of Ziha, Hasufa, Tabaot, Keros, Siaha, Padon, Lebana, Hagaba, Akub, Hagab, Shalmai, Hanan, Gidel, Gahar, Reaya, Rezin, Nekoda, Gazam, Uza, Pasea, Besai, Asna, Meunim, Nefusim, Bakbuk, Hakufa, Harhur, Bazlut, Mehida, Harsha, Barkos, Sisera, Tema, Nezia, and Hatifa.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Barkos, Sisera, Temah,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Habakkuk 1:5:
- Kupsabiny: “Then God answered his people, ‘Please look (plur.) at the other communities. The events/things will make you dumbfounded so that you will not believe/accept what I am doing while you are still alive even if someone told you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD said to his people,
‘Look around at the nations and be amazed,
because I am going to do something in your days,
that you would not believe,
even if it would be told you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD answered, ‘[You (plur.)] look-at closely/well what’s-going-on to the nations and you (plur.) will-be- utterly -amazed of what you (plur.) see. For I am-going-to-do (something) in your (plur.) time that you (plur.) would- never -believe even-if (somebody) will-tell it to you (plur.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God says, ‘Closely-observe the nations nearby you and you will be extremely surprised at what you are-able-to-see, because there-is that which I will do during the time that you are alive that will-be- your -cause-of-surprise if you hear-it-reported.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “If people trust in their wealth, they will deceive themselves,
and proud people are never able to rest.
It is as though the greedy people of Babylonia open their mouths as wide as the place where dead people are,
and they never have enough,
like the place where dead people go never has enough dead people.
The armies of Babylonia conquer many nations for themselves,
and capture all their people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 18:19:
- Kupsabiny: “So now, summon (sing.) all the people of Israel to come and we meet at mount Carmel. You (plur.) come along with four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal too, and four hundred prophets of Ashera, who are in good terms with Jezebel.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Now you are to call all the people from Israel to meet me at Mount Carmel. Then also bring along the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Ashera who are eating at Jezebel’s table.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Now, cause-to-gather to me all the people of Israel there at Mount Carmel. And also cause-to-come the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Ashera, whom Jezebel feed.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So now, command all the Israeli people to come to Carmel Mountain, and be sure to bring all the 450 prophets who worship Baal and the 400 prophets who worship the goddess Asherah, the ones to whom your wife Jezebel brings food and water.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 44:5:
- Kupsabiny: “But they refused to hear me or pay attention. They did not accept to discard their sins (of) burning those things that smell sweet to the idols.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But they never listened or obeyed the prophets. They did- not -turn-away from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But my people would not pay any attention to what I said to them. They would not turn away from their wicked behavior, or stop burning incense to worship/honor other gods.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
