Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 18:21:
- Kupsabiny: “Look here, you are relying on Egypt, a fragile stick which when it breaks will injure the hand of anyone who wants to lean on it. That is how the king of Egypt is like with respect to people who trust in him.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Listen! You are depending on the land of Egypt. That is like using a broken reed for a staff. It will pierce people’s hands. If one leans on it, a wound will happen. The same will happen to anyone who has confidence in Pharaoh, king of Egypt.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Was it Egipto? This nation and its king are just like a broken cane/staff/walking-stick that when you (sing.) use (it) as a thing-to-give-support/thing-to-lean-upon (it) could-wound your (sing.) hand.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Listen to me! You are relying on the army of Egypt. But that is like using a broken reed for a walking stick on which you could lean. But it would pierce the hand of anyone who would lean on it! That is what the king of Egypt would be like for anyone who relied on him for help.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 12:21:
- Kupsabiny: “God said to me,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD said again to me,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh gave me another message. He said,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 5:6:
- Kupsabiny: “God punished the people of Ashdod and of other cities which were near there. God sent boils to all those people so they became very afraid.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD punished the people of Ashdod severely, and because of that they became very much afraid. He punished the people who were living in the area around them by striking them with a sprouting disease (boils).” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD punished those of/from-Ashdod severely/[double emphasis marker] and the places surrounding it. The LORD caused- a tumor -to grow upon them to-cause- them -to-suffer.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then Yahweh powerfully caused the people of Ashdod and the people who lived in nearby villages to have a very great plague/serious illness of tumors.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 16:9:
- Kupsabiny: “But now, I am crying over the people of Jazer
because of the grapes/vines of Sibmah.
Tears are flowing because of you (plur.), oh, people of Heshbon and Elealeh.
because there is no crop/food which people can pluck so as to be happy.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “So for the grapevines of Sibmah I will weep
like I will weep for [the grapevines of Jazer.
O Heshbon, O Elealeh,
I will drench you with my tears.
You have become ripe fruit
and no sound of the joy of harvest has come.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore I (am) crying, as those of/from-Jazer are-crying, because of the fields of grape/(vineyards) of Sibma. I cry for Heshbon and Eleale for the shouts of joy over their produce can- no-longer -be-heard.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So I will weep for Jazer
and for the grapevines of Sibmah.
I will shed tears for all of you.
I will cry because people will no longer shout joyfully, like they usually do
when they gather the fruit that ripens in the summer/hot season and the other crops that they harvest.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 26:29:
- Kupsabiny: “These are the houses of the clan of Manasseh: House of Machir and house of Gilead who was son of Machir.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The descendant of Manasseh –
The clan of the Makrites from Makir,
the clan of the Gileadites from Gilead, the son of Makir” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The descendants of Manase were the families of Makir and of his child Gilead.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They counted 52,700 men from the tribe of Manasseh, who was one of the sons of Joseph. They were in clans descended from Machir, from his son Gilead, and from his six grandsons—Jezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Shemida, and Hepher. Hepher’s son Zelophehad did not have any sons, but he had five daughters—Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Esther 6:4:
- Kupsabiny: “The king said, ‘Is there any leader outside?’ Haman had come early to tell the king that Mordecai should be hanged on that pole that he had prepared.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The king asked, "Who is in the courtyard?" Just then Haman had come to the king’s gate to request of the king that he hang Mordecai on the wooden pole that facilitates hanging.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “At that exact moment Haman was-entering into the courtyard of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai in the place-of-hanging which he caused-to-be-made for Mordecai. The king asked, ‘Who is that standing in the courtyard?’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Eastern Bru: “The king asked them again "Who is outside?" But at that time Haman was going into the courtyard of the king’s house. He was coming to ask the king wanting to hang Mordecai in the place he had already prepared.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
- English: “At that moment, Haman entered the outer courtyard of the palace. He wanted to talk to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had just set up. The king saw him and said, ‘Who is that out there in the courtyard?’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 10:20:
- Kupsabiny: “But God made that ruler to harden his head again so that he did not accept the Israelites to go.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart yet more. He did not let them go.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But still the LORD hardened the heart of the king, and he did- not -let- the Israelinhon -go.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “But Chief God made so that the great chief of Isip was unwavering and refused to listen again. And so he didn’t allow the Israel people to go again.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “But, The Lord made heart of king be present with hardness, and he not people of Israel let go [that] they might go.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “But Yahweh made the king stubborn again, and he did not let the Israeli people go.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 19:16:
- Kupsabiny: “Oh, my God, bend/trap your ear and hear these words. Open your eyes wide and look. Please hear the words of king Sennacherib in which he insults you the living God!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “O LORD, hear! O LORD, open your eyes and look. Please listen, paying attention to the words belittling the living God spoken by Sennacherib.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “LORD, listen and look what is-happening. Listen to all that Senakerib has-said to mock you (sing.), O living God.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So, Yahweh, please listen to what I am saying, and look at what is happening. And listen to what King Sennacherib has said to insult you, the all-powerful God.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
