Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 17:20:
- Kupsabiny: “A person whose thoughts have gone astray (in a bad way) is in a bad position
and a lying person falls into suffering/trouble.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “People who have evil thoughts
and who lie will never prosper.
They will be destroyed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “A man whose thinking is crooked will- never -succeed, and a liar man can-obtain destruction.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There-is-no benefit that is gained by a person who thinks and speaks evil. Only/All hardship is what will arrive to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Those who have perverse minds/are always thinking about doing evil things will not prosper,
and disasters will happen to those who always tell lies.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 23:31:
- Kupsabiny: “Do not do any work. This law goes/continues to the descendants.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “It is not OK for you to do any kind of work. No matter where you live, This is your law forever from generation to generation.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “So [you (plur.)] rest and fast starting from the setting-of-the-sun of the day on the ninth day of that month until the following the setting-of-the-sun of the day. You (plur.) and your (plur.) descendants in generations to come coming/future generations must obey these regulations/decrees/[lit. what-is-to-be-followed], wherever you (plur.) live.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You must not work at all! You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 25:8:
- Kupsabiny: “If you think those people come to strengthen you, God will make your enemies defeat you because God has authority to help a person or make (him) be defeated.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “No matter how courageously you fight, God will defeat you before your enemy, for God has the power to help or [lit.: and] to defeat.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “If you (plur.) will-let- them -go in battle, you will- really -be-defeated even if you will-fight good. Only God can-cause- (you) -to-win or can-cause- you (plur.) -to-destroy.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Even if your soldiers go and fight courageously in battles, God will cause your enemies to defeat you; do not forget that God has the power to help armies or to cause them to be defeated.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Amos 1:4:
- Kupsabiny: “So, I shall send fire to the home of king Hazael
to destroy that protected city of Ben-hadad.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “I will put fire on the palace of King Hazael.
It will destroy the fortresses of Ben-hadad completely.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore I will-burn the palace of King Hazael and the very strong/firm portions of Damascus which his child King Ben Hadad caused-to-be-built.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I will cause a fire to burn the palace that King Hazael built and lived in,
the fortress where his son King Ben-Hadad also lived.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 8:7:
- Kupsabiny: “Those wings were open/spread out and covered that Box and the poles for carrying (it).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The wings of the cherubim were spread out over the place where the ark had been put. The wings of the cherubim covered the ark and its carrying pole.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The wings of the cherubim are-spreading-out, so the Box and its carrying poles were-covered-up.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The wings of those statues spread out over the Sacred Chest and over the poles by which it was carried.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 29:11:
- Kupsabiny: “I know what I have planned for you. I have planned for you to progress and not get lost so that you can receive what you trust in/hope for in the future.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I know how I will-fulfill my plans for you — plan to prosper you (plur.) and not to harm, plan to give you (plur.) hope that you have a good future.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I, Yahweh, know what I have planned for you. I am planning to cause things to go well for you, not to cause you to experience disasters. I am planning to give you many things that you confidently expect to receive in the future.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joshua 13:32:
- Kupsabiny: “That is how Moses gave to people the east side of the river Jordan when they were at the plain of Moab.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “This is how Moses distributed the property to the east of Jericho in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “That (is how) Moises divided the land[s] to the east of Jerico and Jordan when he (was) there on-the-plains/in-the-wide-valley of Moab.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Moses had allotted to those tribes the land that was on the plain of the Moab region, on the east side of the Jordan River, across from Jericho.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 18:24:
- Kupsabiny: “Although there are many friends who may follow a person (superficially),
there is one who may defend that person more than his brothers (might) do.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “There are certain friends
who destroy one another.
and there are certain friends
who are even closer than the closest kin.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “There are friendship that does- not -last-long, but there is also friendship that is more intimate/closer than the siblings/(brother-or-sister).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There are some friends who cause-destruction, but there are others whose loyalty is more-than a sibling’s.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “There are some people who only pretend to be friends with us,
but there are some friends who are more loyal than members of our families.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
