Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:7:
- Kupsabiny: “that, ‘Do not any more give these slaves straw for making clay for building. They must look for their own alone.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “‘Now do not give the straw to the people who used to be provided with straw for making brick, they must search the straw for themselves.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] no-longer give the workers straw for them to use for making bricks, but-rather they themselves now (are)-the-(ones) to-look-for this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘You (pl.) can’t/mustn’t do like in the recent past and since. You can’t/mustn’t give dry weeds to the people for mixing together with earth for making those hard stones. They alone must go gather their dry weeds.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “«From now on, you not people of Israel grass give that they might make bricks with it. Let them go harvest and bring back grass by themselves.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “‘Do not continue to give the Israeli people straw for making bricks, as you have done previously. Make them go into the fields and gather straw for themselves.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 16:3:
- Kupsabiny: “He did very bad things surpassing the kings of Israel. He would even make his child pass through fire something that God hated. He followed the bad behaviors of those communities God had been chasing from that country which the people of Israel migrated to.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “He went the way the kings of Israel went. Like the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites because of their repulsive work, like them he even offered his own son as a sacrifice in the fire.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and he even sacrificed his child in the fire. He followed the detestable doings of the nations that the LORD had-caused- the Israelinhon -to-drive-out.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Instead, he was as sinful as the kings of Israel had been. He even sacrificed his son as an offering to idols. That was worse than the disgusting things that the people who previously lived there had done, people whom Yahweh had expelled as the Israelis were advancing through the land.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 1:6:
- Kupsabiny: “The co-wife used to insult Hannah because she had not gotten a child.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Because she did not have a child, Hannah’s junior co-wife, would give her trouble and would speak insultingly to her.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And because she could- not -give-birth, Penina her rival always would-cause- her -to be-angry and would-put- (her) -to-shame.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “And his other wife, Peninnah, would ridicule Hannah to make her feel miserable, because Yahweh had not allowed her to bear children.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 34:3:
- Kupsabiny: “Many people shall die
until no one is present to bury another!
Their corpses shall smell bad
and their blood shall flow down the hillsides.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The corpses [of the] people will be taken out and thrown away.
Their corpses will stink badly
and their blood will be on the mountains.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Their corpses will- not -be-buried, therefore the smell of-these will-leak-out, and the mountains will-become-red of their blood.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 22:36:
- Kupsabiny: “When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went to meet him in a city of Moab which was near the river Arnon at the border of his country.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Balak, having heard that Balaam had come, went to meet [him] at a Moabite town on the Arnon River at the farthest border of his land.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “When- Balak -knew that Balaam was-approaching, he went-out to meet there in a town of Moab near Arnon, in the border of his territory.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “When King Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went to meet him at a Moab town alongside the Arnon River that was at the border of his own land.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 11:16:
- Kupsabiny: “All your troubles shall vanish and you forget (them),
like rain that falls and then stops.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then you will forget your suffering.
You will remember it as the water of a flood that has subsided.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then you (sing.) will- now -forget of your (sing.) pains, as-if like water that has-passed-away.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You will forget all your troubles;
they will be like the water of a flood that has all disappeared.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 6:16:
- Kupsabiny: “The men/people who come from the house/family of Levi are: Gershon, Kohath and Merari. Levi died when he was having one hundred and thirty seven (137) years.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The male children of Levi according-to the story/history concerning his descendants they were-namely Gershon, Kohat, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “Livai’s male children’s and male descendants’ names were as follows: Gerson and Koat and Merari. And Livai was living for a duration of one hundred thirty-seven (137) years, and when it was done, then he died.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “And male children of Levi be Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. When he died, Levi had years which be 137 ((one hundred thirty seven)).” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “These are the names of the sons of Levi, in the order in which they were born: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi was 137 years old when he died.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 17:15:
- Kupsabiny: “Those people despised the wishes/commands of God and his covenant which he made with their forefathers. They also despised everything which God said to them wanting that they would keep away from idols. They became fools and followed the deeds of the communities which were their neighbors.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “They did not obey His commands, they scorned the covenant He had sealed with their ancestors and the warning He had given them. They followed useless idols, and thus they also became useless. They did like the neighboring nations. Yet the LORD spoke to them like this, "The command has been given that you are not to do like they do." Yet they did the very work which the LORD said not to do.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They rejected his decrees/things-that-should-be- followed and the covenant that he made with their ancestors, and they considered-nothing his warnings to them. They followed the worthless little-gods, and they became worthless also. They followed the nations around them even-though the LORD commanded them that they were- not -to-follow. They really did the things the LORD had-forbidden them to do.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They rejected Yahweh’s laws and the agreement that he had made with their ancestors. They ignored Yahweh’s warnings. They worshiped worthless idols and as a result they themselves became worthless. Although Yahweh had commanded them not to imitate the evil behavior of the people-groups that lived near them, they disobeyed that command.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
