Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 22:16:
- Kupsabiny: “God became angry and rebuked, oh my people,
he breathed in anger,
the water has dried up,
and the riverbed can be seen.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “O LORD, Because You rebuked with anger,
and because of the flames which came from Your nostrils
the ocean floor and the foundations of the earth appeared.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “In your rebuking and great anger the sea becomes-dry and the sand/earth under it can-be-seen,
and the foundation of the earth can- also -be-seen.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then the bottom of the ocean was uncovered;
the foundations of the world could be seen
when you rebuked your enemies
with a snort from your nostrils.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joel 2:4:
- Kupsabiny: “They are like horses
and they run fast like horses of war.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The appearance of them is like horses.
They run like mounted soldiers going for war.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Their appearance/form seems-like a horse and they gallop like war horses.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 32:26:
- Kupsabiny: “I wanted to destroy them completely,
to make them get lost never to be remembered any other place/time.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “I said – I will scatter them everywhere (distant places). Among people I will wipe out even every memory of them.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I said that I will-scatter them until they will- no-longer -be- remembered in the world.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I wanted to scatter the Israeli people to distant countries
in order that no one would ever remember them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 20:4:
- Kupsabiny: “A sluggard/lazy person does not want to work at planting season,
so he goes around begging when the fields are ripe.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Lazy people do not plant on time,
so they will not have anything at harvest time.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The one-who-is-lazy to plow in times of planting-season will- never -get-anything in times of harvest-season.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The lazy-one who does not work in ploughing-season, he will harvest nothing in harvest-season.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “If a lazy man does not plow his fields at the right/proper time,
he will look for crops at harvest time, but there will be nothing there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 13:11:
- Kupsabiny: “It is clear that the person has a serious wound. Then the priest shall say that the person is not clean and needs to be put completely aside (from others).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “his/her body certainly has this contagious disease. And the priest must judge him/her as unclean. Since that one has been judged unclean the priest does not need to isolate him/her for seven days,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “it (is) a disease that keeps-coming-back. And the priest will-let-(it)-be-known/will-announce that he/she (is) dirty/unclean. There-is-no need to-separate/to-isolate him/her for observation for (it is) now clear that he/she is dirty/unclean.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “it is a permanent skin disease, and the priest will declare that he must stay away from other people. The priest does not need to tell that person that he must avoid other people, because other people already are wanting to stay away from him.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 9:6:
- Kupsabiny: “But I could not at that time believe those words until I arrived to come and see (them) with my own eyes. Surely I was not told even a portion of all those words/things. Your wisdom goes beyond the matters/things I was told!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “But until I came and saw it with my own eyes, I did not believe what people said. As it turns out, I had not heard the half of your wisdom. As it turns out, you have much more wisdom than people say.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I did- not -believe these-things until I came here and I saw it myself. The truth-is, what I have-heard about you is not even half-part of what I saw. Your wisdom is more than of what I have-heard.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But I did not believe it was true until I came here and saw it myself. You are extremely wise and rich, more than what people told me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 15:15:
- Kankanaey: “But it will nevertheless go to the fourth generation (lit. three-times of the offspring), then they will return to this country, so-that meanwhile the sinfulness of the Amorreo who inhabit here will-become-worse and it will-be-necessary that I punish them. That is what will happen to your (sing.) descendants, but as for you (sing.), you (sing.) will-become-very-old, then you (sing.) will die and they will bury you (sing.). Be-assured that (lit. reassurance/comfort particle) you (sing.) will not attain that difficulty,’ God said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “You will just go with joy to live in the place of your ancestors. After you become a sufficiently old man, you will be buried.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But concerning you (sing.) Abram, I will-prolong your (sing.) life and you will-die in old-age with peace.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But as for you, you will die peacefully when you are very old.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 22:48:
- Kupsabiny: “He repays my enemies for what they did to me,
and makes me defeat the nations to come under me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “He took revenge on my enemies.
He kept nations subject to me.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You take-revenge/[lit. pay-back] my enemies,
and you put- the nations -under- my -jurisdiction.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You enable me to conquer my enemies;
you cause people of other nations to be under my authority/my slaves.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
