Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 20:17:
- Kupsabiny: “Don’t admire/desire someone’s wife, house, servants/slaves, cows, donkeys or any other of a person’s belongings.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “You shall not be envious of your neighbors’ house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] do- not -crave/desire the house of your (plur.) fellowman, or his wife, servants/slaves, cows or donkeys, or whatever that he has.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘You (sing.) can’t/mustn’t admire and want the house of your fellow human, and don’t admire and want his spouse, and don’t admire and want his male and female laborers, and don’t admire and want his bulmakao and donki, and don’t admire his other possessions either.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Heart your, let it not be big for thing of another, even if be his wife, or his servant (fem.), or his servant, or his cows, or his donkey, or other thing which he has.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Do not covet/desire to have someone else’s house, someone else’s wife, someone else’s male or female slave, someone else’s livestock, someone else’s donkeys, or anything else that some other person owns.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Chronicles 2:41:
- Kupsabiny: “Shallum produced Jekamiah who came to produce Elishama.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Shallum was the father of Jekamiah. Jekamiah was the father of Elishama.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Shalum was the father of Jekamia, and Jekamia was the father of Elishama.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 22:27:
- Kupsabiny: “The leaders are wild dogs that has torn an animal to pieces. Those people are murdering in order to become rich.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Their officials are-like fierce wolves that tear-up their victims. They kill in-order just to get-money.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Their officials are like wolves that tear apart the animals that they have killed: They murder people in order to get their money.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 17:9:
- Kupsabiny: “If that man defeats me and kills me, we shall become your slaves, and if I defeat that man and I kill him, you (plur.) will become our slaves.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If it happens that he alone kills me, we will become your slaves. But if it happens that I kill him, you will have to serve, having become our slaves.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “If he can-kill me, we (excl.) will-become your (plur.) slaves, but if I can-kill him, you (plur.) will-become our (excl.) slaves and you (plur.) will-serve us (excl.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “If he fights with me and kills me, then my fellow Philistines will all be your slaves. But if I defeat him and kill him, then you Israelis will all be our slaves.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 33:1:
- Kupsabiny: “You are in a bad position, you person
who destroy people without you having been destroyed!
How bad it is with you
you betrayer who has not been betrayed.
You shall also be destroyed
when you have finished destroying others
and you shall also be betrayed,
when you have finished betraying others.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Woe to you who destroy,
who have not yet fallen into destruction!
Woe to you who betray,
who have not yet been betrayed by anyone!
The time at which you stop destroying,
will be the time at which you also will be completely destroyed.
The time at which you stop betraying will be the time
at which you also will be betrayed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) are-to-be-pitied who are destroyers who have- not yet -experienced being-destroyed. Woe to you (plur.) who are traitors, who have- not yet -experienced being-deceive. When you (plur.) have-finished destroying and betraying, you (plur.) will- also now -be-destroyed and betrayed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 34:4:
- Kupsabiny: “After that, it heads towards the Southwest and follows the way that one climbs going to Akrabbim and stretches/goes on like that to Zin. It continues from there and heads towards Kadesh-barnea and goes to Hazar-addar and stretches/continues like that until Azmon.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “It will proceed toward Zin by way of the Akrabbim pass and go south of Kadesh Barnea and pass over to Azmon Hazar-addar.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then it will-turn towards-south going to the Ascent/[lit. Going-up] of Akrabim, till the desert of Zin, and will-continue to the south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it will-go-straight to Hazar Adar till Azmon,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “It will extend to a little south of the Scorpion Pass, and extend west through the Zin Desert and south of Kadesh-Barnea. From there it will extend to Hazar Addar and from there to Azmon.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 10:13:
- Kupsabiny: “Even so, I know that you were
preparing in your stomach/heart to destroy me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “But I know that you were secretly planning to harm me,
you have hidden it in your heart,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But now I know that your (sing.) real plan for me” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “’But you kept secret/did not reveal what you were planning to do to me;
I am certain that you were planning to do these things to me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:23:
- Kupsabiny: “And/But if a person has been hit badly, then that person who beat him should be punished life being lost/paid for life, (tit for tat)” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If the woman is injured and she dies, you are to take life for life.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But if what happened to the woman is serious the-one-who (is) responsible will-be-punished according-to what happened to the woman. If the woman has-died, he will- also -be-killed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “And if that woman receives bad pain and remains, you (pl.) must do similarly like that to the man who struck her. And if that woman dies, you must strike that man so that he dies also.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “But if child will fall down be bad some part, one who hit mother, let them bind him with binding which be the same with part bad: life with life,” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “But if the woman is injured in some additional way, the one who injured her must be caused to suffer in exactly the same way that he caused her to suffer. If she dies, he must be executed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
