Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 4:5:
- Kupsabiny: “God told Moses that, ‘Go and do like that. Tell/Show the people of Israel that am the God of your grandfathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who has appeared to you.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The Lord said to him ‘by means of this action (emph.) they may believed me. By it they may know that I (emph), the God of their ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob have appeared to you."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD said, ‘Do this miracle so-that they will-believe that I, the LORD, the God of their ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has-appeared to you (sing.).’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “And then he said, ‘If you (sing.) go to the Israel people and do like that, then they will know well that I, the Chief appeared to you truly. I am the God of their ancestors Abraam and Aisak and Iakop.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “And God said «you go do it like this, that they might believe it that God of ancestors their namely Yahweh, God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, be me that showed you [body].»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh said, ‘Do the same thing in front of the Israeli people, in order that they may believe that I, Yahweh God, the one Abraham and Isaac and Jacob worshiped, truly appeared to you.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 13:15:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, Elisha said to Joash, ‘Take a bow and arrows.’ Joash took (them)” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Elisha said to him, "Get a bow and an arrow and bring them." So he got a bow and an arrow and brought them.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Elisha said, ‘[You (sing.)] get a bow and arrows.’ And Jehoash obeyed it.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Elisha said to him, ‘Bring to me a bow and some arrows!’ So the king did that.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 4:13:
- Kupsabiny: “This shows that the people of Israel shall eat food that the law does not allow when they are in the middle of the other/foreign communities where they have been scattered to.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For like this also is what will-happen to the people of Israel, they will-eat food which is-considered dirty in the places where I will-cause- them -to-be-captives.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “That will symbolize that the Israeli people will be forced to eat food that is unacceptable to me when they are living in the nations to which I will force them to go.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Judges 20:27:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, those Israelites went to inquire from God. (In those days the Ark of the Covenant of God was there in Bethel.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The Israelites asked the LORD. At that time God’s Ark of the Covenant was in Bethel.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “That time, the Box of the Agreement of God was there in Betel,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “At that time, the Sacred Chest that contained the stone tablets on which were written the Ten Commandments was there at Bethel. A priest named Phinehas, the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron, often stood in front of that chest and talked with Yahweh. While he stood there on that day, he asked Yahweh, ‘Shall we go again to fight against our fellow Israelis from the tribe of Benjamin, or shall we stop fighting against them?’
Yahweh answered, ‘Go again tomorrow, because tomorrow I will enable you to defeat them.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 8:12:
- Kupsabiny: “‘Do not think that everything is a conspiracy,
like some people are saying/claiming.
Do not fear the words/things that those people fear,
or be afraid like them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “You must not trust any of the plots
these people are thinking up.
Do not fear what they fear
and do not let your heart panic [lit.: beat with a flapping sound]. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Do- not -believe to what they are-saying that you (plur.) are traitors. You (plur.) do- not -be-afraid of what- they -fear-for, and you (plur.) do- not -be-nervous.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘Do not say that everything that people do is conspiring/rebelling against the government,
like other people say,
and do not be afraid of/worry about the things that other people are afraid of.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 21:19:
- Kupsabiny: “Those people left Mattanah and went to Nahaliel, and leaving Nahaliel they went to Bamoth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “From Mattanah [they] went to Nahaliel, [and] from Nahaliel [they went] as far as Bamoth.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “from Mattanah they went to Nahaliel; from Nahaliel they went to Bamoth;” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Nahaliel, and Bamoth villages.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 12:14:
- Kupsabiny: “Jonathan headed the family of Malluk, Joseph headed the family of Shekaniah.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Jonatan was the leader/[lit. head] of the family of Maluc.
Jose was the leader/[lit. head] of the family of Shebania.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Jonathan, from the clan of Malluch;
Joseph, from the clan of Shecaniah;” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:6:
- Kupsabiny: “On that same day, that ruler sent a tough message to reach the people of Egypt who were in charge of slaves and also the Israelites who were in charge of other Israelites” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “On the same day, Pharaoh gave this order to the taskmasters and Israelite foremen:” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “On that very day, the king ordered/commanded the Egiptohanon who were-ruling-over the Israelinhon in work and the foremen who were-Israelinhon. He said,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “Therefore on that day, the great chief of the Isip people made strong talk to the work leaders of the Isip people and to the Israel people’s spokespersons for the laborers and he said,” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “On that day, king said to chiefs of work like this” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “That same day the king commanded the Egyptian slave bosses and the Israeli men supervising the slaves,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
