Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 19:19:
- Kupsabiny: “Leave/Allow a hot tempered person to meet the consequences,
because if you rescue (him), he will return to his things/words.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “People whose anger is evil always give trouble,
If you forgive them once
they will always be giving trouble.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Let a man who easily gets-angry answers to what he is-doing, for if you (sing.) will-help him, he will- only -keep-on-repeating what he is-doing.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The person who is fierce/easily-angered always has-problems. If you (sing.) help (him), it will-be-necessary that you (sing.) do it again.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Those who do not control their temper/quickly become very angry will have to endure what happens as a result;
but if we rescue them from those troubles once, we will have to continue rescuing them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 25:15:
- Kupsabiny: “If you buy a field from another person, you (plur.) should agree about it in a way that is in accordance with the days that have passed from the year of release. The person who sells a field to you should pay back/refund to you according to the years which remain before the year of release arrives.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “When you settle on the price for a field, agree upon it, keeping account of the time [you] have done field work since the last Year of Jubilee. The price is to be set according to the number of years the land can produce crops before the next Year of Jubilee.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The price of the land must (be) according-to the number of years which it can-produce before/[lit. not yet] the next Year of the Setting-Free and Returning.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “If you buy land, the price that you will pay will depend on the number of years there will be until the next Year of Celebration. If someone sells land to you, he will charge a price that is determined by the number of years until the next Year of Celebration.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 27:8:
- Kupsabiny: “So Jotham began ruling when he had twenty-five years, and he ruled in Jerusalem for sixteen years.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. He reigned in Jerusalem 16 years.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Jotam was 25 years old when he became king. He lived in Jerusalem, and he reigned within a (period) of 16 years.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “After Jotham had ruled Judah for 16 years, he died when he was 41 years old.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Amos 4:9:
- Kupsabiny: “God is saying,
‘I brought frost and insects
to destroy your gardens and vineyards.
Grasshoppers ate the fig trees
and your olive trees.
In spite of that,
you did not return to me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “‘Very many times I have stuck your
gardens and vineyards with disease and fungus.
Your fig trees and olive trees have been destroyed by locusts.
Yet you have not returned to me,’
says the LORD.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘I destroyed your (plur.) fields many times already through the hot wind and pestilence. The locusts attacked your (plur.) fig trees and olives. But you (plur.) still did- not -return to me. I, the Lord GOD, (am) the-(one) saying this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 8:58:
- Kupsabiny: “May God direct our minds to himself so that we follow him and take hold of his laws and his decrees which he told our ancestors.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “May he turn our hearts to him, to obey the His commands, decrees and regulations that he gave our ancestors and to walk all his ways.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “May he will-make us (incl.) faithful to him so-that we (incl.) will-live according to his ways, and will-obey his commands and regulations which he gave to our (incl.) ancestors.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I pray that he will cause us to loyally serve him, to conduct our lives as he wants us to, and to obey all his commandments and statutes and laws that he gave to our ancestors.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:6:
- Kupsabiny: “Days are coming when guards/watchmen shall cry out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Let us go to Zion where our God is.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Time will-come that the guards there in the hills of Efraim will-shout, ‘[You (plur.)] come, let us go-up to Jerusalem to worship the LORD our God.’ ’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “There will be a time when watchmen will call out from the hills of Samaria ,
‘Come, let’s go up to Jerusalem
to worship Yahweh, our God!’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joshua 15:35:
- Kupsabiny: “Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Jarmut, Adulam, Soco, Azeka,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 20:22:
- Kupsabiny: “If a person does evil to you, do not revenge with evil,
but commit it to God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Do not say "I will do evil in return for evil."
Put your trust in the Lord. Let him solve it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “[You (sing.)] do- not -revenge. You (sing.) just trust the LORD, and he will-help you (sing.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Do not curse one who does evil to you (sing.). Trust in God and he will save/rescue you (sing.).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Do not say, ‘I will do evil to those who do evil to me;’
wait for Yahweh to do something about it, and he will help you/do what is right.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
