Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Zephaniah 3:3:
- Kupsabiny: “(Its) leaders are like a lion that roars and (its) judges/advisers are like wild dogs that leave nothing of what they have caught.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Her leaders are roaring lions.
Her rulers are wild wolves,
they will not leave
until tomorrow morning.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Their officers seem like a roaring lion and their leaders/[lit. heads] seem like a violent/fierce dog who looks for his/her something-to-devour at night-time, and he/she finishes- (it) -up his/her victim and none (was) left in the morning anymore.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joshua 17:17:
- Kupsabiny: “Then Joshua said to those people, ‘You are many and you have much strength, so you shall get a big highland.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then Joshua said to Ephraim and Manasseh of the tribes of Joseph, "You are many, and strong, so there will not only be one share for you,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Josue replied again, ‘Because you (plur.) (are) so numerous and very powerful, your (plur.) part/portion/allotment (is) not just one,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Joshua replied to them, ‘Your tribe is very numerous and very powerful. So I will allot more land for you in the hilly area,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ecclesiastes 8:8:
- Kupsabiny: “As no person can prevent/stop the wind, he also has no power to stop his death. As a person is not released from a fight/war, sin is unable to leave behind the sinner.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “No one has the power to restrain the wind either.
In just the same way no one is able to change the day of his death.
No one will get leave in time of war,
In just the same way those who do evil also cannot be delivered from doing it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “As a man can- not -hold-back the wind, he can- not also -hold-back his death. This is like a war that he can- not -flee. And his wickedness can- never -save him from his death.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “We cannot control the wind,
and we cannot control when we will die.
Soldiers are not permitted to go home during a battle,
and evil people will not be saved by doing what is evil.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:1:
- Kupsabiny: “God said to Moses,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD said to Moses –” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD commanded Moises” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh also 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 Chronicles 32:3:
- Kupsabiny: “he held a council meeting with (the) other leaders who were in charge of soldiers and (he/they) prepared to close off the water springs that were outside the city because he did not want the Assyrians to get that water. Those people gathered many other people and then they closed all the springs together with the small river that flowed through the middle of the city of Jerusalem.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “He took counsel with his officials and the leaders of the army to block the waters of the springs outside the city. They gave him help in this.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “he talked/(ask for counsel) to his officials and to the leaders of his soldiers. They decided to stop the flowing of the springs outside the city.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “he consulted with his officials and army leaders. They said among themselves, ‘Why should we allow the king of Assyria and his army to come and find plenty of water to drink?’ So they decided to stop the water from flowing outside the city. So a large group of men gathered together and blocked all the springs and the stream that flowed through that area.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:24:
- Newari: “That night God came to Laban in a dream and said — ‘Be careful. You are not to threaten Jacob in any way.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “That night, God appeared to Laban the Arameanhon in a dream. God said to him, ‘Do not harm Jacob.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then God appeared to Laban in a dream at night, and said to him, ‘When you catch up to Jacob, be sure that you do not say anything at all to him in an angry manner!'” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 12:7:
- Kupsabiny: “Those elders replied to him, ‘If you honor those people now and do for them the way they wish and talk to them in a good manner, they shall honor you always.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The old men said to Rehoboam, "If you deal respectfully with these elders and if you give them a favorable answer, and if you speak nicely with them, they will always serve you."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They replied, ‘If you give to them what they are-requesting, and you show to them that you are ready to serve them, they will-serve you forever/[lit. until whenever].’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They replied, ‘If you want to serve your people well, speak kindly to those men when you reply to them. If you do that, your people will always serve you faithfully.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 1:15:
- Kupsabiny: “when it was the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius ruling.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “They started rebuilding from the 24th day of the 6th month in the 2nd year of the reign of King Darius.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They started to build on the 24th day of the sixth month, in that second year of the reign of Darius.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They started work on September 21st, during the second year that Darius was the king.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
