Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 3:63:
- Kupsabiny: “They are singing about me all the time
mocking me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Look at them! When they get up or sit down,
they slander me in songs.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Look-at them! They mock me with song, either they sit or stand.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Look at them! Whether they are standing or sitting
they make fun of me with the songs that they sing.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 9:1:
- Kupsabiny: “Moses continued to say, ‘Listen, oh, people of Israel. It is near for you to cross the river Jordan and go to take the land of big communities who have strength surpassing you (plur.). Those people have big cities with walls reaching to the clouds.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Hear O Israel! You are about to go to the other side of the Jordan to conquer nations that are greater and stronger than you [are], and great cities that are enclosed by high walls that reach the sky. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘You (plur.) listen, people of Israel. You (plur.) are- now -to-cross Jordan in-order to possess the nations that are greater and mightier than you (plur.). Their towns are large/big and have high stone-walls as-if reaching-up already to heaven.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘You people of Israel, listen to me! You will soon cross the Jordan River. In the land that you will enter, there are large cities that have very high walls around them that seem to extend up to the sky. There are people-groups in that land that are more numerous and more powerful than you are.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 40:7:
- Kupsabiny: “He said,
‘Stand up like a man/warrior,
and respond to the words that I am going to ask you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Tie up your jani like a man,
I will ask you, you answer me! ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘Prepare yourself, and answer my questions.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 31:18:
- Kupsabiny: “After God finished talking to Moses in Mount Sinai, he gave (him) two flat stones on which he himself had engraved (the) commandments.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of stone written by his own finger.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “After the LORD finished speaking to Moises on Mount Sinai, he gave to Moises the two wide stones upon- which -were-written his own Laws/Commands.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “Okay, the Chief talked to Moses on Sainai mountain like that and it was finished, and then he gave two stones of the law to him. God’s hand’s finger alone/itself wrote his law onto those two stones.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “When The Lord speak for Moses had finished on top of Mountain of Sinay, he give him stone be flat two which he first write many things which he put down on it. Word which be present on stone be flat, be God that write it with his hand.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “When Yahweh finished talking with Moses/me on the top of Sinai Mountain, he gave him/me the two stone slabs on which he had engraved his commandments with his own fingers.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Chronicles 12:25:
- Kupsabiny: “And the people who came from the clan of Simeon were seven thousands and one hundred (7,100) and they were fierce/skilled in battle.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “From the tribe of Simeon 7,100 soldiers able to fight came for war.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “From the tribe of Simeon: 7,100 good soldiers.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “There were 7,100 men from the tribe of Simeon. They were all strong warriors trained to fight battles.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 1:3:
- Kupsabiny: “David asked that person that, ‘Where are you coming from?’ That person replied, ‘I am escaping/fleeing from soldiers of Israel.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “David asked him, "Where have you come from?"
He said, "I have escaped from the camp of Israel."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “David asked him, ‘Where have- you (sing.) -come-from?’ He answered, ‘I have-escaped from the camp of the Israelinhon.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “David asked him, ‘Where have you come from?’ The man replied, ‘I escaped from where the Israeli army had been camped.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 5:7:
- Kupsabiny: “Our forefathers rebelled greatly
but now we are the ones who are punished.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Our ancestors have sinned, now they are no more,
We have to bear the consequences of their iniquity.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Our ancestors who were dead now sinned, and we are suffering because of their sin.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Our ancestors sinned, and now they are dead,
but we are being punished for the sins that they committed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 10:4:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, God wrote on those stone words that were similar to those of before. He wrote the ten laws that he gave to the people when he spoke to them through fire on that day of the meeting. And then, God gave me those stones.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “With His fingers, the LORD wrote the ten commandments on the tablets as He had given you before from the midst of the fire on the mountain when you were assembled, and He gave them to me.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD wrote-down on this wide stone what he had-written before, the Ten Commandments which he gave to you (plur.) when he spoke from the fire on that day you (plur.) gathered on the mountain. When the LORD had-given them to me,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “There Yahweh wrote on the tablets the same Ten Commandments that he had written on the first tablet. They are the commandments that he told to your ancestors from the middle of the fire on the mountain, when they were gathered at the bottom of the mountain. Then Yahweh gave the tablets to me,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
