Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 5:6:
- Kupsabiny: “But badness/immorality made it refuse my laws and my will more than the communities and countries that surrounded it. They did not fear/respect me or follow the words I am saying.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But she disobeyed my commands, and she is more wicked than the other nations around her. She rejected my commands and regulations/statutes.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But the wicked people of Jerusalem rebelled against obeying my commands, and they show that they are more wicked than the people of the surrounding countries. They rejected my laws and refused to obey my commands.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Judges 20:37:
- Kupsabiny: “Those people moved quickly from where they had hid themselves and killed with swords all the people who were in that city and set fire to the city.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The men who were hiding suddenly attacked Gibeah, and spreading out all around, they killed all who were there.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “While the Benjaminhon were pursuing, the soldiers who (were) in-ambush suddenly attacked Gibea and killed all the people there.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The main group of Israeli men arranged with the men who would be hiding that they should send up a smoke signal to enable the main group of soldiers to know when they should attack. Then the main group of Israeli men retreated for a short distance, because they knew that the other Israeli men who had been hiding on the other side of Gibeah would attack the people of the tribe of Benjamin by surprise. So after the main group of Israeli men retreated a little distance, the men who had been hiding rushed out and ran into Gibeah and used their swords to kill everyone in the city. Then they started to burn the buildings.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 8:22:
- Kupsabiny: “and/or look down, but they only see darkness and suffering that is huge. After that, those people will be chased/expelled to where that darkness is.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “After that, when they look down towards the earth, there they will not experience anything other than suffering, darkness and danger and they will be throw into the darkness.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “or look-down to the ground, they will-see nothing but-rather hardship and darkness. And they will-be-brought there into the terrifying darkness.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They will look around the land and see only trouble/distress and darkness and things that cause them to despair. And then they will be thrown into the very black darkness of hell.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 21:29:
- Kupsabiny: “Oh, Moab,
these people who worship Chemosh are destroyed.
All the young men fell.
women became prisoners of Sihon
that king of the Amorites.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Oh Moab, Woe to you!
You people of Chemosh, you are destroyed!
[Making] his sons like fugitives [lit.: ones who run away]
and his daughters like female slaves
he has given [them] into the hand of Sihon, the Amorite king.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) are-to-be-pitied who come-from-Moab! You (plur.) were-destroyed who worship the god Chemosh. You (plur.) who are his children he abandoned to be-taken-captive by Sihon the king of Amornon.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You people of Moab, terrible things have happened to you!
You people who worship your god Chemosh have been annihilated/wiped out!
The men who worshiped Chemosh have run away and are now refugees,
and the women who worshiped him have been captured by the army of Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 12:24:
- Kupsabiny: “The people who headed the Levite families were: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel together with their other relatives, who would stand facing each other with them when they sung and gave praise to God. They did like that following the way David the man of God had told them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “These are the leaders/[lit. heads] of the families of the Levites: Hashabia, Sherebia and Jeshua the child of Kadmiel, and the rest of their companions who stand opposite them during the singing of praises and thanksgiving to God in the temple. They answer the song of the opposite group, according to the command of David the servant of God.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “These are the leaders of the clans who are descendants of Levi: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel and others who were divided into two groups. The two groups faced each other, one group replying to the other, during the time that they praised and thanked God. They did that just as King David, the man who served God well, had instructed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:16:
- Kupsabiny: “We are not given straws to use. All along we have been forced to make clay for building! Now we are beaten for nothing and the mistake/fault is by your people.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “They don’t give straw to our people but ask us to make as many bricks as before. We, yourselves, are getting the beating but the fault is your people’s only.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “We (excl.) are-given no straw, but we (excl.) are-forced to-make the same number of bricks, and we (excl.) are- yet/still -beaten. This (is) really the fault of your (sing.) people!’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “They didn’t give dry weeds to us, yet they [yell to] hurry us, your laborers, in the making of hard stones. Yo, they’re whipping us, but we don’t have any bad fault. The bad fault is you Isip people’s.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “They not we (excl.) grass give, but they rush us (excl.) in work, saying to us (excl.) ‹Make bricks!› Afterwards they beat us (excl.), but it is your people that sin!»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Now they are not giving us any straw for making bricks, but they keep commanding us to make bricks. And now sometimes they beat us. But it is the fault of your own slave bosses that we cannot make as many bricks as before!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 15:3:
- Kupsabiny: “Uzziah did good things from God’s perspective like what his father Amaziah was doing.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “He did work that was pleasing the LORD, like his father had done.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Azaria did good in the sight of the LORD, the same as his father Amazia had-done.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “He did things that Yahweh was pleased with, like his father Amaziah had done.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 7:7:
- Kupsabiny: “You (plur.) who live in the land are going to be destroyed. The anxiety is great there on the hills and there is no happiness.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “you who live in the land of Israel. This is now your destruction. The time is very near that you (plur.) will-panic. Your happy days in the mountains are now finished.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “It will be the end of you people who live in the landof Israel. The time has come; the daywhen you will be destroyed is near. At that time the people who worship idols on the mountains will not be happy; they will panic.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
