Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 44:23:
- Kupsabiny: “The priests should teach my people the difference between what is clean/holy and not clean/holy. They should also teach the difference between what is ritually clean and not ritually clean.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They need to teach my people what is holy and not holy, what is clean and dirty.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Priests must teach the people the difference between things that are holy/sacred and things that are not, and they must teach them the difference between things that are acceptable to me and things that are not.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 10:6:
- Kupsabiny: “When the Ammonites realized that those words/things had pained David, they sent money to Arameans so that they would give them young men for war. Then twenty thousand Arameans who walked on foot came from the towns of Beth-rehob and Zobah. Other young men which reached to twelve thousand came from the town of Tob and the king of Maacah gave soldiers reaching to one thousand.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Now the Ammonites learned that in David’s eyes they had become hateful people. So they hired 20,000 Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zobah to help them. They [also] hired the king of Maacah with his army [of 1000] and 12,000 men from Tob.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The Ammonhon realized that they had-made- David very -angry. So they hired 20,000 Arameanhon soldiers who come-from/of-Bet Rehob and come-from/of-Zoba, 1,000 soldiers from the king of Maaca, and 12,000 soldiers from Tob.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then the leaders of the Ammon people-group realized that they had greatly insulted David. So they sent some men to hire/pay some soldiers from other nearby areas to help defend them. They hired 20,000 soldiers from the Beth-Rehob and Zobah regions northeast of Israel, and 12,000 soldiers from the Tob region, and 1,000 soldiers from the army of the king of Maacah region.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 65:2:
- Kupsabiny: “I am always calling out for people who are rebellious,
those whose lifestyle/habits are not righteous,
and who are stubborn/strong-willed/rebellious.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The entire day I am spreading out my hands
before a rebellious people.
But they go like that on the evil path of their own thoughts.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘I continually waited to return to me my people who are hard headed, who do not follow the right ways, but rather their own thinking only what they follow.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “It is as though I have continually held out my arms to show that I am ready to help my people who rebel against me,
and who continually do the evil things that they want to do.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 20:12:
- Kupsabiny: “But if those people refuse to accept for you to rule them and they want to fight, surround that city.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “But if, by not agreeing, they prefer to do battle, lay siege to that city!” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But if they will- not -surrender but will-fight against you (plur.), you (plur.) attack them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But if they refuse to surrender peacefully, and decide instead to fight against you, your troops must surround the city and break through the walls.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 34:35:
- Kupsabiny: “Job is saying words that (he) does not understand
and all his words are empty.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “’Job speaks words that have no wisdom,
and the words that he has spoken are meaningless.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “can- also -say that what you (sing.) say, Job, is without wisdom and worthless.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 40:12:
- Kupsabiny: “Lead Aaron with his sons to the compound of the Tent and perform a cleansing ritual.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “And then bringing Aaron and his sons inside the entrance of the Tent of Meeting make them take a bath.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘Bring Aaron and his sons to-the entrance of the Tent Meeting-Place and have- them -take-a-bath there.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘And when it’s done, then bring Aron and his male children and to go stand at the opening of my shelter, and then wash them with water.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “When you will anoint these many things [with] oil will be finished, you (sing., imp.) call Aaron and his children [to] door of tent, wash them [body] there with water.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Sacred Tent, and wash them ritually with water.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Chronicles 23:15:
- Kupsabiny: “The house of Moses was divided into two following his two sons: the house of Gershom and the house of Eliezer. The descendants of Moses did the (same) work that the Levites did.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The sons of Moses [were] Gershom Eliezer.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “His male children were Gershom and Eliezer.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 45:24:
- Kupsabiny: “Each one of the bullocks and those rams is to go with one basket of flour and four liters of olive oil.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “On each young-bull cow and each male sheep there needs to-be some gift offering to-go-with it, with the volume of about a half sack of flour and about one gallon of olive oil.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “He must also provide a half bushel of grain to be an offering, and also four quarts of olive oil, for each bill and ram.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
