Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 7:8:
- Kupsabiny: “God told Moses and Aaron that,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD said to Moises and Aaron,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “It came about that the Chief spoke to Moses and Aron like this,” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “And The Lord said to Moses and Aaron” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh said to Moses/me,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 17:37:
- Kupsabiny: “Follow my commands and my laws which I gave you. Do like this always.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Obey the decrees, regulations, laws and commands that He wrote for your sake. You are not to do puja to other gods.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) must always obey my commands, decrees, teachings, and laws that I wrote for you (plur.). [You (plur.)] do- not ever -worship other gods.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You must always obey the laws and commands that I told Moses to write for you. You must not worship other gods.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 2:36:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, everyone from your family will come to that priest begging for money and food pleading, ‘Please allow me to go and stay with (the) priests and then I shall get something to eat.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “All in your family who are [still] living, having come, having bent down before him for small piece of silver or a piece of bread, will have to make requests like this — "’Put me helper the priests so that I may have food to eat."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Those remaining of your (sing.) descendants will-plead to the descendants of this priest that they be-given money or food. They will-ask them to-make them as a helper priests so-that they can- just -eat.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “All of your descendants who remain alive will have to go to that priest and ask him to give them money and food, and they will each have to say, ‘Please allow me to help the other priests, in order that I may earn some money to buy some food.’’’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 37:8:
- Kupsabiny: “It was (the time) when the assistant left Jerusalem going to where king Sennacherib was. But he then discovered/found out that the king had already left Lachish and he was fighting against the city of Libnah.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The captain heard that the Assyrian king had gone from Lachish and was waging war on Libnah, so the captain went there.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Now, when the commander of the soldiers of Asiria heard that their king has already left Lakish and fought (against) Libna, he went there.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The official from Assyria found out that the King of Assyria and his army had captured Lachish city and that they were attacking Libnah, which is a nearby city. So the official left Jerusalem and went to Libnah to report to the king what had happened in Jerusalem.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 24:19:
- Kupsabiny: “A king/ruler shall appear from the home of Jacob,
and he shall finish the remainder of his enemies.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “A ruler will come out from Jacob
and he will destroy, one by one, those who live there [and] who have been spared.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “A leader/[lit. head] will-rule in Israel and he will-destroy the ones (who) remain alive in the city of Moab.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “A ruler who is a descendant of Jacob will come;
he will get rid of the people who still live in the city where Balaam first met Balak.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 13:25:
- Kupsabiny: “Why scare a person whom the wind brings? (a leaf blown by the wind)
Can you waste your power/strength on something like grass?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Do you even pursue the leaves of trees blown by the wind?
Do you go in pursuit of chaff/dry wheat awns?” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Why do- you (sing.) -frighten and pursue me? I am just like a straw or a leaf being-blown by the wind?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I am as insignificant as a leaf that is blown by the wind;
why are you trying to cause me to be afraid?
Why are you pursuing me?
Am I useless, nothing more than a bit of dry chaff?” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 8:15:
- Kupsabiny: “And/But when the ruler saw that the land had become good, he again hardened his head so that he did not listen to Moses and Aaron as God had said to them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Just as the Lord had said, when Pharaoh saw that all the frogs had died he again hardened his heart. And he did not listen to Moses and Aaron.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But when- the king -saw that the frogs were- now -no-more/none/(gone), he again hardened his heart, and he did- not -listen to Moises and Aaron, just-as the LORD had-said.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “And the great chief of the Isip people saw that the frogs were dying, and so he was relieved of anxiety (lit. his interior popped). Therefore he was unwavering again and refused to listen. And so he didn’t consent to Moses’ and Aron’s talk, as Chief God spoke about.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “But, when king of Egypt saw it that curse finished, he again be hard heart, not them listen, as The Lord had said to them.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “But when the king saw that the problem was ended, he became stubborn again. And just as Yahweh had predicted, he would not pay attention to what Aaron and Moses/we told him.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 18:28:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, that person shouted in the language of the Hebrews, ‘Listen to the words of the great king, the one of Assyria!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then the field commander stood up and spoke loudly in the Hebrew language like this, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then the commander stood and shouted in a Hebrew language, ‘[You (plur.)] listen to the message of the mighty king of Asiria!” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then the official stood up and shouted in the Hebrew language to the people sitting on the wall. He said, ‘Listen to this message from the great king, the king of Assyria. He says,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
