Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 34:21:
- Kupsabiny: “Be working for six days and/but on the seventh day, you (plur.) rest. Even if its the season for digging/ploughing, planting or harvesting, you must rest.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Work up to sixth day but take rest on the seventh day. Take rest also during digging fields and harvest.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘You (plur.) should-work within six days, but on the seventh day you (plur.) should-rest, even during the plowing-season and harvest-season.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘For a duration of six days, you (pl.) will do your work. But on the seventh day, you must rest yourselves. It doesn’t matter, [if] the seventh day is coming about in your month for planting food and coming about in your month for taking ripe food, you can’t/mustn’t do work on that day. You must rest yourselves.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “you shall do thing with days six, you shall rest on seventh. Even if it be day of cutting, or day of harvest, you must rest on day seventh.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Each week you may work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even during the times when you plow the ground and harvest your crops, you must rest on the seventh day.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Chronicles 15:5:
- Kupsabiny: “Uriel who led the house of Kohath with one hundred and twenty people from his house,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “From the descendants of Kohath, the leader Uriel and 120 of his relatives came.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “From the descendants of Kora, 120, and they were-led by Uriel.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “120 descendants of Kohath, who was Levi’s second son, came, with Uriel their leader.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 39:4:
- Kupsabiny: “You shall fall with all your soldiers together with the communities that came to your aid there in the hills of Israel. Vultures shall eat you all with/and animals” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “and you will-be-destroyed in the mountains of Israel, as-well-as all your soldiers and your fellow nations. I will-cause- your corpses -to-be-eaten by different kinds of birds that eat corpse, and by the fierce animals.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You and all the soldiers that are with you will die on the mountains in Israel. I will give your corpses to be food for the birds that eat dead flesh, and to the wild animals.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 2:27:
- Kupsabiny: “Then Joab swore that, ‘As surely as God is/exists, if you had not spoken, my people would have chased you until morning.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Joab answered, As surely as God lives, if you had not spoken the men would not have stopped pursuing their kinsmen until morning."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then Joab answered, ‘If you have- not -spoken, I strongly assure you, in the presence of the living God, you would-have-been surely chase by my men until morning.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Joab replied, ‘Just as surely as God lives, if you had not said that, my soldiers would have continued pursuing your men until tomorrow morning!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 54:6:
- Kupsabiny: “Please Israel, God is calling you (sing.) again,
like a woman who was chased away and is in distress.
You are like a woman that was married while still being young,
(and) then the husband chased (her) away.
I am your (plur.) God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “[Like] one who has no husband
and who is caused to feel suffering in her spirit,
abandoned by her husband, having gotten married
when she was a young woman, again the LORD has called you." The LORD says.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘Jerusalem, you (sing.) are like a young wife who is-mourning because she was-left/deserted by her husband. But now I call you (sing.) to return to me.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 12:29:
- Kupsabiny: “Moses continued to say, ‘When/If your God has destroyed the communities that you are going to take the land from so that you can live there,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD your God will destroy from before you the nations you are about to drive out. When that happens and you are living in their land,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘The LORD your (plur.) God will-cause- you (plur.) -to-destroy the nations that you (plur.) are-going-to-attack. You (plur.) will-drive-out its residents and dwell on their place.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘hen you enter the land that you will occupy, as you advance, Yahweh our God will get rid of the people-groups that live there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 29:16:
- Kupsabiny: “I took care of orphans,
and I helped/saved the foreigners.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “I was like a father for the needy.
In law cases I took sides with strangers [lit.: people whom [I] did not know].” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I became like a father to the poor-ones, and even the strangers I helped in their case.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 35:18:
- Kupsabiny: “the pegs for spreading/fastening the courtyard and the Tent including their ropes,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “pegs and ropes to raise the holy place and courtyard” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “the pegs and the ropes/chords-that-support the Tent and the curtains around it,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “and the ropes of the shelter and of the fence, and the small bras holders which they pound into the ground for holding those ropes,” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “with its nail, with its rope,” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “the pegs and ropes for the Sacred Tent and for the courtyard,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
