Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 2:11:
- Kupsabiny: “What you are asking is too difficult, oh king. No person is able to show/reveal, except maybe it is the spirits who do not live with people who can reveal/show out those dreams.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “What the king asks is so difficult that only the gods can speak to such matters. Those gods do not live among men."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “What you (sing.) are-asking is too[intensifier] difficult, Beloved King/Your Majesty. Only the gods can-do that, but they do-not reside among the people.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “What you are asking us to do is impossible. Only the gods can tell you what you dreamed, and they do not live among us!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 11:29:
- Kupsabiny: “And when God has led you to that country you will be taking to be yours, you shall announce blessings at the mountain of Gerizim and announce curse at the mountain of Ebal.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “When the LORD your God brings you into the land, you are to proclaim blessings from Mount Gerizim, and curses from Mount Ebal.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “When the LORD your (plur.) God will- now -bring/take you (plur.) to the land that you (plur.) are-going-to-possess, you (plur.) will-proclaim the blessings on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “And when Yahweh brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy, some of you must stand on top of Gerizim Mountain and proclaim what will cause Yahweh to bless you, and the others must stand on top of Ebal Mountain and proclaim what will cause Yahweh to curse you.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 1:11:
- Kupsabiny: “If they say to you that we go and ambush some people who are innocent on the way/path and kill (them), refuse their words/things.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “They may say — ‘Come with us,
Let’s hide and kill someone!
Let’s attack and loot unsuspecting people..!’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “or go with them if they say, ‘Come, you (sing.) join us (excl.); let- us (excl.) -lie-in-wait for the innocent people and let- us (incl.) -kill them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “if/when they say, ‘Come so that we will wait-for someone we will kill, even-though he has no sin/crime.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 34:21:
- Kupsabiny: “Be working for six days and/but on the seventh day, you (plur.) rest. Even if its the season for digging/ploughing, planting or harvesting, you must rest.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Work up to sixth day but take rest on the seventh day. Take rest also during digging fields and harvest.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘You (plur.) should-work within six days, but on the seventh day you (plur.) should-rest, even during the plowing-season and harvest-season.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘For a duration of six days, you (pl.) will do your work. But on the seventh day, you must rest yourselves. It doesn’t matter, [if] the seventh day is coming about in your month for planting food and coming about in your month for taking ripe food, you can’t/mustn’t do work on that day. You must rest yourselves.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “you shall do thing with days six, you shall rest on seventh. Even if it be day of cutting, or day of harvest, you must rest on day seventh.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Each week you may work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even during the times when you plow the ground and harvest your crops, you must rest on the seventh day.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Chronicles 16:4:
- Kupsabiny: “David gave to the people of the clan of Levi to thank God, and praise (him) there at the Box of the Covenant.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “David chose some Levites to [lead in] worship before the Ark of the LORD, to make requests of Him, to offer thanks to Him, and to praise Yahweh, God of Israel” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “David chose some Levites to serve before the Box of the LORD, to pray, to give-thanks and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then David appointed some of the descendants of Levi to stand in front of the Sacred Tent in which the Sacred Chest had been placed, to lead the people who worshiped and thanked and praised Yahweh, the God of the Israeli people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 3:23:
- Kupsabiny: “When Joab arrived with his people, he was told that, ‘Abner has come to talk with the ruler/king. After finishing, the king released him to go in peace.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “So when Joab and the troops that had plundered and brought came back, having arrived there, then he heard that Abner son of Ner had gone back from the king’s place rejoicing.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “When Joab heard-the-news that Abner went to the king and was-sent-away without harming (him),” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “When Joab and the soldiers who were with him arrived, someone told him that Abner had come there and talked with the king, and that the king allowed to go home safely.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 2:43:
- Kupsabiny: “Just as iron is mixed with clay, the people too shall mix through marriage like iron and clay.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “So they will also be a mixed nation like the mixed iron and clay that you saw. And just as it is not possible to mix iron and clay, it will also not be possible to mix them together.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The mixture/combination of iron and clay also means that the leaders/[lit. heads] of these kingdoms will-unite through intermarriages. But their unity will not be for a long-time, just-like the iron and clay can not possibly be-mixed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The mixture of iron and clay in the statue shows also that the rulers of those kingdoms that separate from each other will try to form alliances with each other as a result of members of the royal families of those kingdoms marrying each other. But that will not succeed, just as iron and clay do not stick together.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 12:29:
- Kupsabiny: “Moses continued to say, ‘When/If your God has destroyed the communities that you are going to take the land from so that you can live there,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD your God will destroy from before you the nations you are about to drive out. When that happens and you are living in their land,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘The LORD your (plur.) God will-cause- you (plur.) -to-destroy the nations that you (plur.) are-going-to-attack. You (plur.) will-drive-out its residents and dwell on their place.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘hen you enter the land that you will occupy, as you advance, Yahweh our God will get rid of the people-groups that live there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
