Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezra 2:27:
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nahum 2:11:
- Kupsabiny: “Where is that city which was like a place where lions live? Where is the place where the male and female lion rested, and there was nothing troubling their children/cubs?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Where is the great city of Nineveh now,
where the young lions abounded?
In this place, lions and lionesses roamed
with their cubs fearlessly.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Nineve seems like a cave where a lion and his partner which (is) a lion, and their children live. No-one can-harm there in the cave. A lion kills and bites-into-pieces his victim and distributes them to his partner and to their children. He fills his cave with the flesh/meat of his victim. But now, Nineve (is) now to-be-destroyed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “After that happens, people will say,
‘What happened to that great city of Nineveh?
It was like a den full of young lions,
where the male and female lions lived and fed the young ones.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 17:17:
- Kupsabiny: “Then/Later, that lady’s son became sick. The sickness of that boy intensified until he died.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Some days later the son of the widow, who owned the house, became sick. The disease became more and more severe. Finally that child died.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Some-time later the child of the woman became-sick. His sickness grew-worse until he died.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Some time later, the woman’s son became sick. He continued to get worse, and finally he died.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 42:14:
- Kupsabiny: “and you say that you will go and live in the land of Egypt where you will not see war, or hear the horn be blown, or miss food,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “but we will-go to Egipto and live there for there is never war or famine there,’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “instead, we will go to Egypt. There we will not experience any wars, we will not hear trumpets signaling our soldiers to prepare for battles, and we will not be hungry,’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Judges 1:20:
- Kupsabiny: “So, Caleb was given/allotted the city of Hebron according to how Moses had promised (it). Caleb chased away three clans of Anak who were living in that city.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “As Moses had promised, Hebron was given to Caleb. Who drove out from there the three sons of Anak.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And according-to what Moises had-promised, Hebron was-given to Caleb. Caleb drove-out the three families who were-living in this place who were the descendants of Anak.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Hebron city was given to Caleb because Moses had promised him that he could have that city. And Caleb forced the three clans descended from Anak to leave that area.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 30:16:
- Kupsabiny: “A barren woman
the place of the dead (the grave)
a fire that can’t extinguish
and a dry land that needs rain.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The grave, the barren womb,
the dry desert, and a burning fire.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “the place of the dead-ones,
a barren woman,
the land that has no water,
and fire.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There-are also four things that can- not -ever-be-satisfied, they never say that it’s-enough: the location of the dead, the barren woman, the soil that is-cracked-open-from-dryness and the blazing fire.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 5:15:
- Kupsabiny: “the husband may bring the wife to the priest. He shall bring to the priest the things that are needed for doing the ceremony. He should bring one two-liter container of barley flour and no oil at all should be poured on the flour and no thing that smells sweet is to be put on (it) because these things are for knowing the truth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “he must bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring 1/10 ephah of barley flour as an offering. [He] must bring the barley flour without adding oil or incense. For this is a grain sacrifice to force guilt to be remembered. And it is an offering sacrificed from jealousy [lit. from bursting of the heart].” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “If her husband will-suspect her, her husband must take her to the priest. Even-though it-was- not -true that she acted/did this bad/dirty act, she must be-brought by her husband to the priest. And the husband must bring offering for his wife two kilos of barley flour. He must not put oil or incense, for it is an offering as a gift to-be-offered by him because of his suspicions to his wife. This is an offering to know whether his wife is guilty or not.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “he should take his wife to the priest. He must take along as an offering two quarts/liters of barley flour. The priest must not pour olive oil or incense on it, because this is an offering that the man has brought because he is jealous/wants his wife to sleep only with him. It is an offering to find out if she is guilty or not. Neither olive oil nor incense should be used because are associated with joy and this is not a time for joy.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezra 2:59:
- Kupsabiny: “Another group also returned. They came from the cities of Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Kerub, Addan, and Immer. There was nothing that revealed/proved that their family came from Israel.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “These were the ones who, having returned from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Kerub, Addan, and Immer City, were not able to give proof that their families had come from the lineage of Israel –” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “There were also 652 who returned to Juda from the towns of Tel Mela, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Adon, and Imer. They were descendants of Delaya, Tobia, and Nekoda, but they could- not -prove that they were Israelinhon.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “There was another group who returned to Judah from Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsha, Kerub, Addan, and Immer towns in Babylonia. But they could not prove that they were descendants of people who previously lived in Israel.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
