Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 29:20:
- Kupsabiny: “Even a foolish person has something to hope for/trust in,
more than one who jumps into issues (makes too hasty decisions.)” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “There is more hope for fools
than for those who tend to speak out wrecklessly.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Better is the end-result of a foolish man than a man who only speaks harshly/without-thinking.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Better as a cause-for-hope/expectation is a person who is mindless than the one who is quick to speak who does not think-about-it first.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “God can help/bless foolish people more easily
than he can help/bless people who speak without thinking first.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 21:4:
- Kupsabiny: “He must not touch the body/corpse of his wife or any of his parents-in-law because it will make him become unclean.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “It is not OK for them to make themselves defiled for any people related to him by marriage.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) are- also not -to-make- yourselves/[lit. your (plur.) own self] -dirty/unclean by participating in the burial of the blood-relative of your (plur.) wife.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Priests must not cause themselves to become unfit to do my work by touching corpses of people who were married to one of their close relatives.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 22:12:
- Kupsabiny: “Joash stayed with those people for six years being hidden in the home of God, and during all that time, Athaliah was ruling the land of Judah.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Joash was hidden with them in the temple of the LORD for six years, while Athaliah ruled over the land.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Within the (period) of six years, Joash hid there in the temple of the LORD while Atalia reigns as queen of Juda.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “He remained hidden there for six years while Athaliah ruled Judah.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 25:15:
- Newari: “Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Nafish, and Kedema.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Hadar, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 7:2:
- Kupsabiny: “That compound had five houses. The first house was called the House of Trees/Wood of Lebanon. That house was very large and it had the length of one hundred and fifty feet. It had the width of seventy five feet but the height of forty five feet. That house was built using sixty pillars/post of cedar tree. Those pillars were arrange in four columns/lines and every column had fifteen pillars. Cedar beams were put across in three, and timber was fixed on those beams to become a ceiling.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “He built a palace called "Forest of Lebanon" [that was] 44 meters long, 22 meters wide, 13.5 meters high and had four rows of cedar pillars above which were cedar ceiling beams.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “One of its building was-called Forest of Lebanon. Its length was 150 feet, the width was 75 feet, and the height was 45 feet. It has four rows of cedar pillars — 15 for-every row, and they support the 45 wood of the frame where the cedar ceiling was-attached.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “One of the buildings they constructed was a large ceremonial hall. It was called the Hall of the Forest of Lebanon. It was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It was supported/held up by four rows of pillars of wood from cedar trees. There were 15 pillars in each row. There were cedar beams across each row.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Micah 4:13:
- Kupsabiny: “Get up, oh, people of Jerusalem
and destroy your enemies.
I shall give you horns of iron
and hooves of bronze.
You shall crush many countries
and you shall set aside/dedicate to me their wealth.
Set aside their wealth
to the God of the whole world.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Oh, daughter Zion, stand up and thresh the grain
because I will give your horns of iron.
I will make your hoofs out of bronze
and you will be able to crush many nations.
You will dedicate their ill-gotten earnings
and all their wealth to the LORD of the whole earth.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘Ones (who) come-from-Jerusalem, [you (plur.)] go and [you (plur.)] destroy your (plur.) enemies like the trampling-upon/threshing of stocks-of-grain. For I will-make you (plur.) like a bull/[lit. bull cow] who has iron horns and has bronze hooves. You (plur.) will-smash-into-pieces the many nations who have-gathered to fight against you (plur.). And their wealth which they took through violence you (plur.) will-offer to me, the Lord of the whole earth.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So, you people of Jerusalem, rise up and punish the nations who oppose you.
I will cause you to be very strong,
as if you had horns made of iron,
as if you had hoofs made of bronze;
and you will crush many nations.
And then you will take from your enemies the valuable things that they have taken from other countries,
and you will dedicate those things to me, the one who is the Lord of all the people on the earth.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joshua 10:38:
- Kupsabiny: “After that, Joshua and all the people of Israel turned to Debir and fought.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then, with all the Israelites, Joshua came back to Debir and attacked it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “After this, Josue and the Israelinhon turned-back and attacked Debir.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then Joshua and his army turned south and went to Debir city and attacked it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 30:25:
- Kupsabiny: “Termites are weak
but they store their food until famine season.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Ants — Even though they are not strong,
they gather their food for the winter in the rainy season.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The ants, even-though they are weak, they store-up their food in the summer-season,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The ants, they are weak but they know-how to store food in the dry-season.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
