Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 22:26:
- Kupsabiny: “The priests break my laws and do not obey anything that is righteous. They do not look at what is the righteous thing and the unrighteous one and do not show the difference that there is between words /things/actions that are clean and those unclean. They close the head refusing the words of the Sabbath. That makes the people of Israel not to honor me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Their priests are- not -obeying my law, and they have-defiled my holy things. For them, the holy and not holy are- just -the-same, the clean and dirty, and they do- not -obey what I commanded-to-be-followed on the Day For-Resting. Therefore they do- not -respect me.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Their priests disobey my laws and disrespect my sacred things by saying that there is no difference between things that are sacred and those that are not sacred, and by ignoring my laws about honoring the Sabbath days. As a result, they no longer honor me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 17:8:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, Goliath called/shouted to the Israelite soldiers that, ‘You, what are you (plur.) doing there? You say you have come for war? I am a Philistine, but you are Saul’s slaves. You can now choose one person among you to come and we fight together.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Standing up, Goliath spoke loudly to the Israelites, "Why have you come to prepare for battle? What! Am I not a Philistine? And what! Are you not servants of Saul? You choose one man to fight with me” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Goliat stopped and shouted to the Israelinhon, ‘Why do- you (plur.) all still -need to-fight? I am just a Philistine but you (plur.) servants of Saul (are) many. [You (plur.)] choose a man to-fight with me.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Goliath stood there and shouted to the Israeli army, ‘Why are you all lined up for battle? I am the great Philistine soldier, and I think you are merely Saul’s slaves. Choose one man to fight for all of you, and send him down here to me!” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 32:20:
- Kupsabiny: “People shall rejoice over food
because the farms shall receive much water.
The donkeys and cows shall get
much grass.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “How blessed you will be all [you] who sow seeds in well-watered places
and who graze cows, oxen and donkeys.
and donkeys.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “God will-bless you (plur.). Water will-be abundant for your (plur.) plants, and your (plur.) animals are free to graze anywhere.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 34:3:
- Kupsabiny: “At the south side, your country ends at the wilderness of Zin where it touches Edom. That border begins from the edge of the Salt Lake in the East.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Some parts of the wilderness of Zin on the border of Edom is located on your southern boundary. Your southern boundary will start from the shore of the Dead Sea to the East” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘The border on the south is the desert of Zin, in the boundary of Edom. It will-start in the southern portion of the Dead Sea.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “On the south you will receive part of the Zin Desert, near the border of the Edom region. On the east side, the border will start at the south end of the Dead Sea.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 10:12:
- Kupsabiny: “I was blessed with/given life
and you guarded my life.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “You gave me life and showed me mercy.
And my soul has been preserved because you cared for it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You (sing.) gave me life and showed kindness, and you (sing.) preserved also my life.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You have caused me to be alive, and you have faithfully loved me,
and you have carefully preserved me/kept me alive.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:22:
- Kupsabiny: “If two people fight and one of them knocks a pregnant woman until she bears (the) child without having reached its/her days, the person who knocked should pay basing on what her husband will ask for and that should be what the council has decided.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely, but nothing happens to her, then the man who injured her shall be fined whatever amount the man’s husband shall demand and as the judges approve.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘If there-has-been a fight and a woman who was-pregnant got-hit, and this-one has-given-birth before the hour/time, but nothing bad happened to her, the one-who-hits will-be-made-to-pay according-to the price that the husband asks-for and judges approve-of.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘And if people are fighting, and a pregnant woman is standing nearby, and then they strike her, and so her child dies, yet that woman doesn’t die, the man who struck the woman, he must pay that woman’s spouse however much he wants. But the people of straightening disputes, they must be in agreement with how much he pays to the woman’s spouse.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If some will hit (recip.), if they will hit one (fem.) who is pregnant, and child will fall down with health, one who hit her, let him give her money which her husband say which judges approve.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Suppose two people are fighting and they hurt a pregnant woman with the result that she has a miscarriage/her baby is born prematurely and dies. If the woman is not harmed in any other way, the one who injured her must pay a fine. He must pay whatever the woman’s husband demands, after a judge approves of the fine.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Chronicles 3:17:
- Kupsabiny: “Jeconiah had seven sons. Those sons were Shealtiel, Malkiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah. This is the Jeconiah who was caught and brought to Babylon.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “King Jehoiachin who had been taken captive to Babilon had seven sons. They were Shealtiel,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “These were the male children/(sons) of Jehoyakin, the king who was-taken-captive to Babilonia: Shealtiel,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:27:
- Kupsabiny: “Therefore, I shall stop that your promiscuity and your greed/lust/desire that you brought from Egypt. You shall never again look at those idols and never shall you think of/remember Egypt.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then your wicked deeds which is the selling of your body will- now -be-stopped, which you started in Egipto. You no-longer remember those, and you will- now -forget Egipto.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “In that way, I will stop all the immoral behavior that began when you became a prostitute in Egypt. You will no longer desire to do those things, or think aboutwhat you did in Egypt.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
