Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 20:24:
- Kupsabiny: “Use clay to make an altar and after that make for me from your sheep, goats and cows burnt offerings and those of fellowship. If/When you set aside any place for worship, I will come there and bless you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever my name is honored, I will come there and bless you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] make an altar of dirt for me and [you (plur.)] sacrifice on it your (plur.) sheep, goats, and cows/cattles as a burnt offering and offering which (is) for a good relationship. [You (plur.)] put this in the place that I choose which/(where) I will-be-worshipped, and there I will-come and bless you (plur.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘ ‘Take earth and then make my table of offerings, and so kill (lit. strike) your (pl.) sipsips and memes and bulmakaos on it, and so they be your offering to me. Some of them you [will] put onto the fire, and so the fire will cook them so that they completely burn and be finished, and others [will] be an offering for eating in order that we (incl.) together be in agreement (lit. have a single interior). In whichever area I set for you (pl.) to lift up my name in, I will come to you and then do good to you.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “you gather ground in one place for altar which you will give me thing there. you will burn for me animal with fire there, and you will give me gift(s) of peace your, sheep/goats and cows, there. Therefore, at many places which I will put down that they might call my name there, I will come will bless you there.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Make for me an altar from dirt. Sacrifice on it the animals that you will burn completely. Also sacrifice on it the animals that you will not burn completely, to maintain fellowship with me. Worship me in any place that I choose for you to honor/worship me; and if you do that, I will come to you and bless you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Chronicles 2:48:
- Kupsabiny: “Caleb also had another wife who was called Maacah. She bore to Caleb two sons and those were: Sheber and Tirhanah.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Another of Caleb’s concubines [lit.: illegitimate wives] was Maacah. Maacah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The other wife of Caleb was Maaca. They had sons who were Sheber, Tirhana,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:3:
- Kupsabiny: “Young men from Egypt repeatedly touched their breasts while they were still small so that they became prostitutes in that country.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “When they were still young, they sell their bodies in Egipto. They just let- the men -be-satisfied with their bodies.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They lived in Egypt. And from the time that they were young women, they became prostitutes. In that land, men fondled their breasts and caressed their bosoms.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 17:16:
- Kupsabiny: “Goliath used to incite the Israelites right from morning to evening. He continued like that again and again for forty days.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Morning and evening for 40 days Goliath came to stand before the Israelites, threatening them.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For 40 days Goliat would-defy/provoke/challenge the Israelinhon day-(and)-night.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “For 40 days Goliath came out from the Philistine camp and stood there taunting the Israeli army/telling the Israelis to choose one man to fight with him. He did it twice each day, once in the morning and once in the evening.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 33:8:
- Kupsabiny: “The big streets are empty
so that no one is passing by there.
Every agreement that has been made is broken/killed
and the oaths that were made are despised.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The main roads have become desolate,
no one even goes on the road [anymore].
Agreements have been broken,
evidence has been scorned.
There is not even any respect for people.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “No one passes-by now in the street/road; no more people are-walking there. The covenant is broken and its witnesses are considered-as-nothing. No more man is respected.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 34:11:
- Kupsabiny: “And when it leaves/gets up from Shepham, it moves down towards Riblah on the East side of Ain and goes down to the shore of the Lake of Galilee in the East.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “From there it goes down to Riblah, which is situated to the east of Ain. From there it goes down to the ridge of hills which situate east bank of the sea of Galilee.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then it will-go-down towards Ribla, in the east side of Ain, and it will-continue to the hills at the east of the Sea of Galilea.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “From there it will extend east of Ain to Riblah and then along the hills that are east of Galilee Lake.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 10:20:
- Kupsabiny: “Is it not the case that few days are left in my life?
Leave those for me to have a little rest/relaxation,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “What! Isn’t my short life finished?
Turn away from me, even for a little,
[that] I might have respite,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Only now a little time (has-been) left for me, therefore just leave me alone so-that for even just a short time I could-be- happy” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I think that there are only a few days for me to remain alive;
so allow me to be alone/stop attacking me, in order that I may be a little cheerful ” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:30:
- Kupsabiny: “And if it is desired that the life of that person is ransomed, then whatever has been judged/decided should be paid.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If he wants to save his life by making payment, he may redeem his life by paying whatever is demanded.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But if the owner is-asked/(caused)-to-pay so he can-live, he must pay whatever is asked/(caused)- of him -to-pay.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “But if the relatives of the man who died want, the bulmakao’s owner must pay however much they demand to them, and then the bulmakao’s owner won’t die.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If they permit it that owner of cow he might buy his life with money, let him buy it with money which judges say.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “However, if the owner of the bull is allowed to pay a fine to save his own life/in order not to be executed, he must pay the full amount that the judges say that he must pay.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
