Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nahum 3:6:
- Kupsabiny: “I shall make you smell bad and you shall be dishonored.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “I will pelt you with filth.
I will treat you with contempt.
I will make you an object of mocking.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I will-curse you (plur.) like a man/person who is-being-thrown-upon with garbage. So the people will-look-at you (plur.) hilariously.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I will cause rubbish/garbage to be thrown at you;
I will show others that I despise you very much,
and I will cause you to be publicly ridiculed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joshua 13:33:
- Kupsabiny: “but Moses did not give to the clan of Levi any land because they should get everything from God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Moses, however, did not give even a single piece as inheritance to the tribe of the Levi. He told to them, ‘According to His promise, the LORD, the God of Israel, himself, is their inheritance."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But he did- not -give the tribe of Levi the land as their inheritance because their inheritance is the LORD, the God of Israel, according-to what he said to them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But Moses did not allot any land to the tribe of Levi because Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis worship, promised that he himself would always provide for them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ecclesiastes 3:2:
- Kupsabiny: “There is a day for a person to be born and a day for that person to die,
there are days for planting and for harvesting.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “There is a time to be born, there is a time to die.
There is a time to plant, there is a time to harvest.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “There is a time for birth and there is also a time for death,
there is a time to plant and there is also a time to harvest,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 24:20:
- Kupsabiny: “If he has broken a bone, his bone is also to be broken. If he has gouged the eye of another, his eye shall also be gouged. And if he has pulled the tooth of another, his tooth shall also be pulled. It shall be done to a person the way he has done to the other one.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If a bone was broken, his bone will be broken in return, an eye in return for an eye, a tooth in return for a tooth. Just as he/she injured someone, so just like that it must be done to him/her.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “If a person destroys/harms his fellowmen, he must be-destroyed/be-harmed according- also -to what he has-done: If he has-broken the bone of another (person) his bones also are-to-be-broken, if he plucks-out the eye of another (person), his eye also is-to-be-put-out, and if he knocks-out the tooth of another his tooth also is-to-be-knocked-out.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “If someone breaks one of another person’s bones, that person is allowed to break one of the bones of the person who injured him. If someone gouges out an eye of another person, that person is allowed to gouge out the eye of the person who injured him. If someone knocks out the tooth of another person, that person is allowed to knock out one of his teeth. What is done to the offender must be the same as what he did to the other person.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 28:9:
- Kupsabiny: “There was there in Samaria a prophet of God who was called Oded. That man met with the soldiers of Israel as they were returning to Samaria. Then, he said to (them), ‘The God of your forefathers has caused you to defeat the people of Judah because he was angry with those people. But your rage pushed you to kill those people to shambles so that therefore God in up/heaven is angry.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “But there was a prophet of the LORD called Oded. When the soldiers were coming back to Samaria, he went to meet them. He said to them, "Because the LORD God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he gave them into your hand. But the report of your killing them in anger without showing mercy or compassion has arrived in heaven.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But when the soldiers arrived in Samaria, they were met by Oded the prophet of the LORD, and were-told, ‘The LORD your God handed-over to you (plur.) Juda because of his anger to them. But you had-done too-much; you (plur.) killed them without mercy, and the LORD (who) is there heaven knew this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But a prophet of Yahweh whose name was Obed was there in Samaria. He went out of the city to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, ‘Because Yahweh, the God whom your ancestors belonged to, was angry with the people of Judah, he allowed you to defeat them. But God has seen the cruel way that you slaughtered them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 28:19:
- Kankanaey: “And he named the town where-he-was Betel, because Luz was its name previously.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “He named that place Bethel. Formerly that place had been named Luz.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Jacob named that place Betel. But before/in-time-past Luz was the name of that place.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “He named that place Bethel, which means ‘house of God’. Previously its name was Luz.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 9:2:
- Kupsabiny: “God again came to him the same way he came to him in Gibeon.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD appeared to him again, as he had at Gibeon.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then the LORD appeared to him again the same as he had-done there at Gibeon.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh appeared to him in a dream a second time, like he had appeared to him at the city of Gibeon.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Habakkuk 2:2:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, God answered me, ‘Write this revelation on a flat stone to be clear/seen well so that it is not difficult when it is being read.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then the LORD replied to me —
"Write my message clearly on wooden tablets
so that the runner can read it well.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “This is the answer of the LORD to Habakuk: ‘Write(-down) clearly on stone that-is-something-to-write-on my revelation to you (sing.) so-that it would-be-easy to-read.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This was God’s answer to me, ‘Be-thorough/diligent to write on a rock what I tell you (sing.) so that it will be easy to-be-read.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
