Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 29:11:
- Kupsabiny: “Everybody were speaking well of me
the one who had seen me or the one who knew what I did.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Those who heard me speak would say to me, ‘Blessed!’
All who saw me would praise me” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Whoever saw me or heard me speaking, praise me.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:14:
- Kupsabiny: “But if someone has intended and kills somebody and after that he flees to the place of sacrifice with the intention of him not to be harmed, then he should be killed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If anyone kills a man intentionally and he comes to my altar for the refuge, drag him even from my altar and kill him.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But if the killing was-planned and was-intentional, you (plur.) kill him even-if he still goes-near my altar.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “But if he was searching for a way to strike the other man so that he die and then did like that, you (pl.) must strike that man dead. He isn’t able/permitted to flee from his punishment and so go to my table of offerings. If [it’s] like that, apprehend him there and then bring him to another place and then strike him dead.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “But, if he hunted him, kill him intentionally, even though he hide at side of my altar, you take him with force let them kill him.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “But if someone gets angry with another person and kills him, even if the murderer runs to the altar, a place that God designated as a place to be safe, you must execute him.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Chronicles 4:32:
- Kupsabiny: “Some of the people of that clan lived in these five villages: Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Token and Ashan.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Their villages, five cities which were called Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Token and Ashan,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They also lived in five towns: Etam, Ain, Rimon, Token, and Ashan,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They also lived in villages near those towns: Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Token, and Ashan.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 18:4:
- Kupsabiny: “Jonathan took off his robe and removed the weapons including his sword, a bow and belt and gave them to David to support/confirm the agreement.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Jonathan, taking off the shawl which he had put on to cover himself and the upper garment of the crown prince, together with his sword, bow, and belt, he gave them to David.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “As proof/a witness of his promise, he took-off his outer garment and gave-(it) to David, including his cover/cloak-for-the-back/cape, sword, bow/bow-and-arrows and belt.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Jonathan took off his own outer robe and gave it to David. He also gave David his soldier’s tunic, his sword, his bow and arrows, and his belt.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 56:4:
- Kupsabiny: “This is the word/message that God is saying to the
castrated (men) who keep the Sabbath.
those who do what pleases God
and take good care of his covenant.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “For the LORD says like this,
"To eunuchs who honors my Sabbath day,
who does work that is pleasing to me,
and who faithfully keep the covenant
between me and my people.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will-bless the castrated people who obey what I have-(them)-do in the Day For-Resting, and do the things which give- me -joy and obey my covenant.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They should not say that, because I, Yahweh, say this to the eunuchs
who obey my laws about the Sabbath,
and who choose to do the things that please me,
and who obey all the other laws of the agreement that I made with the Israeli people:” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Numbers 35:17:
- Kupsabiny: “But a person who has used a metal/weapon or a stone or a tree/stick to kill another person, that one is to be killed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If someone kills someone by striking a stone that man is a murderer. He must be killed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “If a man stoned the other man and he/it died, that particular man will-be-considered a murderer/criminal, and he must be-killed also.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘But you must consider that anyone who kills another person with an iron weapon or with a big rock or with a piece of wood, is a murderer, and the one who killed the other person must be executed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 30:18:
- Kupsabiny: “God seizes my collar and squeezes me like a cloth
that has been squeezed to shrink.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “With great strength God grabs my clothing.
He seizes me by the collar of my robe.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “With/By God’s extreme strength, he grasped- me -by-the-collar. He held me by the collar” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “It is as though God seizes my clothes
and chokes me with the collar of my coat.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 22:10:
- Kupsabiny: “If a neighbor lends a donkey, cow, sheep or any animal to a person for safe-keeping, and then that animal dies or breaks (a leg) or enemies come and steal (it) when no one is watching,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If a man lets his ox, sheep, or any other animal keep to his neighbor for safekeeping and it dies or is injured or is taken away while no one is looking,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘For-example, a man has- someone-take-care-of his donkey, cow, sheep or any animal to his neighbor, and it died, or was-wounded, or disappeared/was-lost, which no sees-(what happened).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘If a man takes his donki, or bulmakao, or sipsip, or some other tame animal so that it goes to his fellow companion for him to watch over it, but that animal receives an injury, or it dies, or a man of stealing runs off with it, and no one else sees it,” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If a man give a man animal he might safekeep for it [eye], even if it be donkey or cow or sheep/goats or animal other, and it die, or it be bad some part, or they steal it during time when others not see,” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Suppose someone gives his donkey or bull or sheep or some other animal to someone else and asks him to take care of it for a while, and the animal dies or is injured or is stolen while no one is watching.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
