Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 28:22:
- Kupsabiny: “So, you also listen to what I am going to tell you. Let me arrange for you food to eat so that you gain energy to return (home).’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Now listen to what I have to say. Give the order for your servant to prepare some food for you to gain strength for the return journey."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Now, please listen to me your (sing.) servant. I will-give you (sing.) food so-that you (sing.) have strength on your (sing.) journey.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So now please pay attention to what I say. Allow me to give you some food, in order that you will eat it and get enough strength to go back to your army.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 48:3:
- Kupsabiny: “God is saying,
‘I told you long ago the things that were going to happen.
Those words came from my mouth.
Then I made (it) come to pass quickly
and it happened like I had announced.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Listen to this — Long ago I told what will happen before.
I revealed it with my mouth,
and I instructed them.
I did it suddenly,
and all these happened just like I said.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “He says to you (plur.), ‘I already prophesied in the time-past what will-happen in the future. And suddenly I have-fulfilled it.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 8:20:
- Kupsabiny: “If you do not follow the words of God, you shall die like those communities that he is destroying while you see (it).’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If you do not obey the word of the LORD your God, as the LORD your God destroyed the nations before you, He will also destroy you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “As the LORD had-destroyed the nations before you (plur.), he will- also -destroy you (plur.) if you (plur.) will- not -obey the LORD your (plur.) God.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “If you do not obey Yahweh our God, he will certainly destroy you just like he will destroy the people-groups that you will fight against.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 23:17:
- Kupsabiny: “Even though darkness has closed me in,
it is not that I have been forced (to keep quiet).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Yet I will not be silent, for there is darkness all around me,
and intense darkness has covered my face.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But I did- not -stop complaining even-though as-if I was-covered with too-much darkness.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “It is as though there is only thick darkness in front of me,
but it is God that I am afraid of, not the darkness.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 31:17:
- Kupsabiny: “It should be something in which the Israelites will know/experience me, because I God made the world in six days and on the seventh day I rested.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “This will be a sign between me and Israelites forever, for the God created heaven and the earth within six days, but on the seventh day he took rest.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “So you (plur.) Israelinhon, [you (plur.)] should obey what I am- having- you (plur.) -to-do on the Day For-Resting until generations to come. This is a permanent sign of our (incl.) never ending agreement. For within six days I made/created the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day I rested.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “This Day of Rest exists as a sign between me and you (pl.) Israel people always. For in those six days before, I, the Chief made the sky and earth to come forth. But on the seventh day, I ceased from my work and so rested myself.’ ’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “It will be sign at place our (incl.) with you until forever, because I Yahweh, I make sky and earth with day six, and I rest on day seventh.› »” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “It will remind you Israeli people and remind me of that agreement because I, Yahweh, created the heavens and the earth in six days, and on the seventh day I stopped doing that work and relaxed.’’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Chronicles 11:43:
- Kupsabiny: “Hanan son of Maakah, Joshaphat who came from Mithna,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Hanan son of Maacah, Joshaphat the Mithnaite,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Hanan the child of Maaca,
Josapat of/from-Mitan,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Hanan the son of Maacah;
Joshaphat from Mithna town/clan;” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 36:13:
- Kupsabiny: “I the God of power am saying: That is true even if people say that the soil is eating people and stealing children from the community,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The Lord GOD continued to say, ‘The people say to you (plur.) that you (plur.) harmed your residents and you (plur.) took-away the children from your nation.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “This is also what I, Yahweh the Lord, say to you: People say that only a small amount of food is produced on your mountains, and as a result the people of Israel die from hunger.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 30:18:
- Kupsabiny: “Then David got/found everything which the Amalekites had looted/taken and he rescued both of his wives.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “David rescued his two wives, all the people and all things that the Amalekites had taken.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “David recovered/claimed/took-back everything the Amaleknon had-taken including his two wives.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “David rescued his two wives, and he and his men got back everything else that the men of the Amalek people-group had taken.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
