Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 4:15:
- Kupsabiny: “Avoid and remove yourself from their paths/ways and follow your own way/path only.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Don’t think like that,
Don’t go on that kind of way.
Stay far away from them.
and go on your own path.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Avoid [intensifier] that and you (sing.) will-continue in your (sing.) righteous living.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Go-far-from those-who-are-doing-evil, turn-your(sing.)-back-on and abandon them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 12:1:
- Kupsabiny: “God said to Moses,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD spoke to Moses,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD command Moises” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh also said to Moses/me,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 6:42:
- Kupsabiny: “Please, do not refuse that one you anointed,
and do not forget what you promised David.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “O LORD God,
accept the king you have anointed.
Remember the love you had
for your servant, David.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “O LORD God, do- not -forsake your chosen king. Remember your love to David your servant.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh God, do not reject me the king whom you have appointed to be the king of Israel;
do not forget that you greatly loved David, who served you very well.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 8:19:
- Kupsabiny: “and said to me, ‘I am telling you about the last days of God’s punishment to mankind.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “I am about to tell you what will happen as a result of God’s anger. This vision shows the end time. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “He said, ‘I will-tell you (sing.) what will-happen in the future when God will-show his anger, for that end time has- already -been-determined.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then he said, ‘I have come here to tell you what will happen because of God being angry. These things will happen near the time when the world will end.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 22:2:
- Kupsabiny: “He sang like this,
‘God is my shield,
and my cave where I hide.
He is the one who rescues me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD is like my big rock,
He is my fortress and the one who saves me.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “This is his song:
‘You (sing.), LORD, are my rock/stone of refuge,
my strong/firm place-of-hiding and the-one-who-delivers.
As a rock/stone of refuge, I can-hide in you (sing.).
You (sing.) are my shield and powerful/mighty savior.
You (sing.) are my place-to-take-refuge and place-of-hiding.
You (sing.) are the one-who-saves me from cruel people.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “This is what he sang:
Yahweh, you are like a huge overhanging rock under which I can hide ;
you are like my fortress, and you rescue me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 12:8:
- Kupsabiny: “The people I chose have turned against me
like a lion in the forest.
They have roared against me
therefore, I hate them, too.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They fight-back against me like a roaring lion in the forest, so I hate them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “My people have become to me like a lion in the forest.
It is as though they roar at me like a lion,
so now I hate them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 32:40:
- Kupsabiny: “I throw my hands up (giving up)
and I swear that,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Lifting up my hand to heaven I will say–
I am alive forever.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Now, I will-raise-up my hands and swear,
‘As I live forever/without end,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I raise my hand toward heaven and solemnly declare
that just as sure as I live forever,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 5:20:
- Kupsabiny: “And you oh my son, why let an adulterous/immoral woman make you happy or desire another person’s wife?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “O my son,
Why should you be attached to an adulterous woman?
Why should you be entangled in the trap of a dishonorable woman?” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Child, you (sing.) be- not -carried-away by an evil woman. You (sing.) should not have-a-relationship with the wife of others.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “My child, why will- you (sing.) -be-persuaded by the spouse of another so-that you-will-be-made-happy with her breasts?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
