Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Amos 6:6:
- Kupsabiny: “You are drinking much wine
and again you anoint yourselves with expensive oils,
and you do not cry over the death of the house of Joseph.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “You drink wine in large bowls,
you rub the fragrant oil,
but you are not grieved over the destruction of Joseph’s descendants.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) are-to-be-pitied who (are) very-fond of drinking wine and using expensive perfumes, but do- not -mourn for the coming destruction of your (plur.) nation.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 10:1:
- Kupsabiny: “There was a lady/woman who ruled the land of Sheba who had earlier been told about the wisdom that God had given Solomon. That woman went and tried/tested Solomon with hard questions.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “When the Queen of Sheba heard of Solomon’s fame and his relationship to the LORD. At that time she came to test Solomon with difficult questions.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “When the queen of Sheba heard the fame of Solomon, that gives honor to the LORD, she went to Solomon in-order to-test his wisdom through hard questions.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The queen who ruled the Sheba area heard that Yahweh had caused Solomon to become famous, so she traveled to Jerusalem to ask him questions that were difficult to answer.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 32:3:
- Kupsabiny: “Zedekiah had earlier imprisoned me there saying to me, ‘Why are you predicting words saying, ‘God has said: I am going to hand over this city to the hands/power of the king of Babylon to take it.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “King Zedekia had imprisoned him there because of what he spoke-of. For Jeremias said, ‘This is what the LORD is saying: I will-hand-over this city to the king of Babilonia, and he will-take- it/this -by-force.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “King Zedekiah had put me there. I continued to prophesy there about what would happen. I continued to say, ‘Yahweh says that he is about to allow the army of the king of Babylon to capture this city.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joshua 16:9:
- Kupsabiny: “together with some cities that were in the land of half of the clan of Manasse.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Some cities and villages that had been put aside for Ephraim were also included within the inheritance of Manasseh.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “This includes the other towns/cities and villages which (are) under-the-jurisdiction of the land of Manase.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Many of those towns were really within the area allotted to the tribe of Manasseh.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 21:29:
- Kupsabiny: “A crooked person is dry-headed (stubborn/unresponsive),
but the upright, plans for/prepares his ways/paths.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The wicked might boast.
But the righteous only act
according to their conscience.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “A wicked man is not concerned with what he does, but a righteous on-the-other-hand he thinks carefully what he does.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “A sinner boasts-about his ability, but the righteous-one thinks properly about what he does.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Wicked people pretend that they know everything,
but righteous people think carefully about what will happen because of what they do.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 26:29:
- Kupsabiny: “That famine will be very fierce so that it makes you eat your children.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “You will have to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I will-cause- you (plur.) -to-get-hungry and you (plur.) will-be-forced to eat your (plur.) own children.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You will be extremely hungry, with the result that you will kill your sons and daughters and eat their flesh.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 30:5:
- Kupsabiny: “So, those people decided that those words should be announced in the whole of the land of Israel from Beersheba to Dan. People were told to come to Jerusalem and celebrate the Festival of Passover of the God of Israel. It was done like that because for many years that festival had not been celebrated like it ought to be done.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “So they decided to make a proclamation that from every place in all of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba people must come to celebrate the Passover festival in Jerusalem. Before this there had not been celebrations of this festival with many people attending [lit.: coming], as written in the law.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “so they gave a proclamation/news throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that all the people will-go to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of the Passing-by of the Angel to honor the LORD, the God of Israel. In previous celebration, only few attended. But this should not be (like this) according to the law.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So they decided to send messages to all the towns in Judah and in Israel, from Beersheba in the far south to Dan in the far north, including towns in the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, to invite people to come to the temple in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover Festival to honor Yahweh, the God whom the Israeli people worshiped/belonged to. Many of the people had not previously celebrated that festival, even though it had been written in the laws of Moses that they should do that.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Amos 8:7:
- Kupsabiny: “God whom Israel is proud of has sworn by himself, ‘I shall never forget anything bad that people have done.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “This is what the LORD swear an oath, by own name the pride of Jacob, "I will never forget any of their works.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore the LORD, the God whom you (plur.) boast-about being descendants of Jacob is-swearing, ‘I will- never -forget all the wickedness which you (plur.) have-done.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh has declared, ‘Although you are very proud of being descendants of Jacob, I solemnly declare that I will not forget the evil things that you have done.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
