Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 21:14:
- Kupsabiny: “These people say to God,
‘Do not disturb us, leave us alone!
We do not want to know your will.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Yet the wicked say to God, ‘Please leave us [alone].
We do not want to know your way.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But they say to God, ‘Just leave- us (excl.) -alone! We (excl.) do- not -desire to know your (sing.) ways.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “While they are alive, they say to God, ‘Do not bother us;
we do not want to know how you want us to conduct our lives!” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 14:27:
- Kupsabiny: “Moses stretched his hand and on the next morning the water returned as it was before. The Egyptians were trying to escape from that water but God pushed all of them into the sea.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and in the morning the water went back to its place.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “So Moises stretched-out his hand to the sea, and when the sun was- now -rising, the water returned to its place. The Egiptohanon tried to flee but the LORD caused- them -to-be-carried-off in the sea.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “Okay, the pre-dawn sky brightness appeared and then Moses lifted up his hand and pointed toward the ocean. Just then the ocean crashed back down to its place. The Isip people saw and so they were about to flee from it, but they weren’t able, because the Chief threw them into the middle of the ocean.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “And Moses stretched out hand on top of water. When sun had set, water returned to its state of beginning, in order that Egyptians they might flee [from] its return, and The Lord threw them in midst of water.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “So Moses/I stretched out his/my arm, and as the sun was rising, the water returned to its normal level. The Egyptians tried to escape, but Yahweh hurled them back into the sea.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 25:21:
- Kupsabiny: “Nebuchadnezzar said that those people should be beaten and killed there in Riblah in the area/land of Hamath.
So, the people of Judah were driven to a country that was far from their own country.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The King of Babylon had them killed in the city of Riblah in the land of Hamath.
In this way the people of Judah were deported away from their land.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “which is-part-of Hamat. And there the king had- them -killed.
So the people of Juda were-brought away from their land as captives.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “There at Riblah, in Hamath province, the king of Babylon commanded that they all be executed.
That is what happened when the people of Judah were taken forcefully/exiled from their land to Babylon.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 13:17:
- Kupsabiny: “The Philistines sent three groups of soldiers to go and check/patrol. One went to the city of Ophrah which was in Shual region.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “From the tents of the Philistines came three groups who plundered. One group went towards Ophrah which was in the district of Shual.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Now, the Filistinhon went-out from their camp in three groups to-attack. One group went to Ofra, in the land of Shual.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Three groups of Philistia men soon left the place where their army was staying, and went and raided the Israeli towns/attacked the Israelis and took their possessions. One group went north toward Ophrah city in the Shual region.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 45:22:
- Kupsabiny: “Please, all the people of the world!
Return to where I am and you shall be well.
Because, I am God and there is no other.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Turn toward me, and be saved,
O, all peoples who are at the ends of the earth,
for I am God, there is no one [else] besides me. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘You (plur.) take-refuge in me, you (plur.) all in the whole world, so that you will-be-saved, for I am God, and there is no other.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 31:24:
- Kupsabiny: “And on the seventh day, you must wash the clothes to cleanse them. When you have done like that, you are allowed to enter into the camp.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “On the seventh day you must wash your clothes then you will be clean. After that if you come into the camp it will be OK."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “On the seventh day, you (plur.) must wash your (plur.) clothes/garments, and then you (plur.) now be-considered clean, and you (plur.) now can-enter into the camp.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “On the seventh day, wash your clothes, and then you will become acceptable to God again. After you do that, you may return to the camp.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 22:12:
- Kupsabiny: “Is it not clear that God is in heaven/up?
Just look at how the stars are staying in heaven.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Isn’t God is in the highest place of the heaven?
Look at the highest stars! How high their places are! ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘God is there on the highest of heaven, above-all the highest stars.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘But consider this, Job: God lives high up in the heavens.
From there he looks down on the highest stars.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 16:1:
- Kupsabiny: “All the Israelites left Elim and went to the wilderness of Sin when it was (the) fifteenth day in the month of two/second month. They had completed one month since they migrated from/left Egypt. Sin was between Elim and Sinai.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “All the Israelites walked from Elim and came to the desert of sin which is between Elim and Sinai on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “From Elim, the entire community of Israel continued to travel until they arrived/reached the desolate-place of Sin, which is there between Elim and Sinai. They arrived there on the 15th day of the second month after they had-come-out of Egipto.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “Two months after the Israel people left Isip, on that month’s fifteenth day, all the Israel people left the area of Elim and then walked and went to the desolate area named Sen. That area was located between the Elim area and Sainai mountain.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “When they arose up from Elim, they went arrived wilderness which is named Sin, which be present in middle of Elim and Mountain of Sinai. Day which they arrived there, it was day 15 for month two after leaving their from Egypt.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “They/We left Elim, and all the Israeli people came to the desert named Sin. That is between Elim and Sinai Mountain. That was on the fifteenth day of the second month after they/we left Egypt.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
