Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 17:18:
- Kupsabiny: “You should put to shame those who persecute me,
but do not let me be put to shame.
Let those people stay in fear
but guard me so that I do not receive any shame.
Bring a great calamity to those people
crush those people beyond description.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Put-to-shame and cause-to-become-afraid the ones who persecute/pursue me, but I on-the-other-hand not. Send them destruction so-that they will-be-destroyed completely.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So now, cause those who persecute me/cause me to suffer to be ashamed and dismayed,
but do not do things to me that will cause me to be ashamed and dismayed.
Cause them to be terrified!
Do to them many things that will completely destroy them!” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joshua 4:6:
- Kupsabiny: “When your children in other days ask you, ‘What do these stones show?’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “These stones are to be [lit.: may be] a sign among you. Later, if your children ask, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “and then you (plur.) heap-together/a mass in-order-to-become a monument as a remembrance to what the LORD has-done. Some-time-later, when your (plur.) children will-ask you (plur.) what the meaning of these stones (are),” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then pile them up to be a memorial for you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean?’,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 9:17:
- Kupsabiny: “‘Sweet is stolen water and sweet are the foods that are eaten while hiding oneself.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Stolen water is delicious,
Bread eaten in secret tastes good."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘Stolen water is good/tasty/better and bread eaten in secret is more delicious.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because stolen water is delicious. Also delicious is food that one-hides to eat.’” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 15:27:
- Kupsabiny: “Any person who has touched those things is unclean an he must wash his clothes and bathe and that person is unclean until sunset.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Whoever touches these things, he/she will be unclean. He/she must wash his/her clothes and must also bathe him/herself. He/she will be unclean until evening time.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And whoever touches those-(things) will-become dirty/unclean. He must launder his clothes and he bathe, but he is- still -to-be-considered dirty/unclean until (it) becomes-twilight/dusk.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Anyone who touches those things should not touch anyone else; he must wash his clothes and bathe, and he should not touch anyone else until that evening.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 13:21:
- Kupsabiny: “But Abijah continued to get much power. He married fourteen women who bore to him twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Abijah, however, became stronger. He had 14 wives, and he was the father of 22 sons and 16 daughters.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Abia on-the-other-hand became- more -powerful. He had 14 wives and 22 sons and 16 daughters.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But Abijah became more powerful. He married 14 wives and had 22 sons and 16 daughters.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 3:2:
- Kupsabiny: “So, I went to buy that woman with fifteen pieces of silver and three bags of barley.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “So I bought that woman back for fifteen shekels of silver and a hundred and fifty kilogram of barley.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “So I bought her for the amount of 15 pieces of silver and four sacks of barley.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And-so I redeemed my spouse with ten and five silver-coins and seven gantas (one ganta = three liters) of barley.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “My wife had become a slave, but I bought her for 6 ounces/179 grams of silver and ten bushels of barley.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 1:37:
- Kupsabiny: “Since/As God was with you, may (He) also stay with Solomon so that his kingdom may expand/grow even more than yours!’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Just as the LORD was with my great king, may He also be with Solomon in like manner. May his throne be made even greater than the throne of our lord David."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And as the LORD has-been-with you, Beloved King, may-it-be that he will- also -be-with Solomon, and he will-make more prosperous/successful his reign than your reign.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “King David, Yahweh has helped you; we hope/wish that he will also help Solomon and enable him to become a greater king than you have been.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 18:23:
- Kupsabiny: “You surely know, oh God
their whole plot how they want to kill me.
Do not forgive these people for the evil
or discard/ignore their evil.
Let the enemies defeat those people while you watch
and punish them when the time for you to be angry arrives.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But you (sing.) know, O LORD, all their plans to kill me. Therefore do not forgive their sins and wickedness. Let- them -be-defeated by their enemies while you (sing.) are-looking. Punish them because of your (sing.) anger.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh, you know all the things that they are planning to do to kill me.
Do not forgive them for their crimes
or blot out the record of their sins.
Cause them to be destroyed;
punish them because of your being angry with them!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
