Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 19:32:
- Kupsabiny: “Barzillai had age of eighty since he was born. So, he was a man who was aged and he had wealth which was big. He was the one who was feeding the king when he was up there in Mahanaim.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Barzillai, however, was an old man who was 80 years old. When the king stayed in Mahanaim he was the one who brought food for the king to eat, for he was a rich man.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Barzillai was old now; he is 80 years old now. He was very rich, and he was the one-who-provided the needs of David when David stayed there at Mahanaim.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Barzillai was a very old man, 80 years old. He was a very wealthy man, and he had provided food for the king and his soldiers while they were at Mahanaim.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 10:15:
- Kupsabiny: “It will happen like that with you Bethel
because your sin has become great.
When that day dawns,
the king of Israel will be destroyed completely.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “O people of Bethel,
by reason of the evil work you have done, that same kind of trouble is about to come on you.
When that day dawns,
the king of Israel will be devastatingly destroyed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “That is also what will-happen to you (plur.) who come-from-Betel because of your (plur.) great wickedness. While (it)-is-still dawning, very surely the king of Israel will-die.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You people of Bethel city, that is what will happen to you,
because you are very wicked.
And when the sun rises on that day,
the King of Israel will be killed in the battle.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 29:29:
- Kupsabiny: “There are hidden words/things belonging to God, and/but those that God has revealed are for us and for our grandchildren forever. We must follow all these words of this law.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The secret things belong to the LORD our God. But He has shown us His decrees so we and our children must obey them.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘There are secret things that only the LORD our (incl.) God knows, but he has-revealed to us (incl.) his law and we (incl.) and our (incl.) descendants should follow it forever/[lit. until whenever].” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘There are some things that Yahweh our God has kept secret/not revealed, but he has revealed his laws to us, and he expects us and our descendants to obey them forever.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 17:9:
- Kupsabiny: “A person who forgives another (person) brings love/harmony,
but he who clings words/things in the stomach/heart (bears a grudge), destroys friendship.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “To forgive someone’s fault
is to deepen one’s friendship.
If one interrogates only about blunders,
it separates friends.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “If you (sing.) forgive your (sing.) friend who has-sinned against you (sing.), your (sing.) friendship will-remain, but if you (sing.) keep saying his sin, your (sing.) friendship will-be-destroyed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The one who forgives, his friends do not abandon (him), but the one who stories-about a sin of his friends, they will turn-their-backs-on him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “If you want people to like/love you, forgive them for the wrong things that they do to you.
If you continue to remind them about those wrong things, they will no longer be your friends.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 10:11:
- Kupsabiny: “I want you to teach the people of Israel all the laws that I gave you through Moses.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “And you must teach the Israelites all the precepts that the LORD has given them through Moses."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And you (plur.) must teach your fellow Israelinhon all the regulations which I have-given you (plur.) through Moises.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “And you must teach to the Israeli people all the laws that I gave to the Israeli people by telling them to Moses.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 6:13:
- Kupsabiny: “Solomon had already/earlier prepared a thing of bronze to stand on and placed it in the middle of the outer courtyard. That thing has a length and width of seven and a half feet and a height of four and a half feet. Solomon knelt down having raised the hands up” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Solomon [had] made a bronze platform and [had] placed it in the middle of the courtyard. It was 2.2 meters long, 2.2 meters wide and 1.3 meters high. He went to that platform and kneeling down before them all, he lifted his hands toward heaven.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “He then stood up on the bronze platform that he caused-to-make. This platform has length and width of seven and a half feet, and has height of four and a half feet. Afterwards Solomon knelt-down before/[lit. in front of] the community of Israel raising-up his hands.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “His workers had built a bronze platform there for him to stand on, which was 7-1/2 feet long and 7-1/2 feet wide and 4-1/2 feet high. They put it in the outer courtyard. Solomon stood on that platform and then knelt down in front of all the people of Israel who had gathered there, and he spread out his arms toward heaven,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 11:32:
- Kankanaey: “And that is the town where- Tera -died when he was 205 years old (lit. yeared 205).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “But when Terah was 205 years old, he died there [lit.: no longer existed].” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “There Tera died at the age of 205.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “When Terah was 205 years old, he died there in Haran.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 20:21:
- Kupsabiny: “But, I want only one person from the hill of Ephraim who is called Sheba son of Bicri who opposes king David. If you (plur.) give me that person only, I will leave from your town.’ (Then) that woman told Joab that, ‘The head of that person will be thrown from the wall to reach where you are.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “That was not my intention [lit.: thought]. But one man, Sheba, son of Bichri, has risen up to rebel against King David. He is from the hill country of Ephraim. Give that man into my hand, then I will leave this city and go."
That woman said to Joab, "Sheba’s head will be thrown out to you from the wall."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “That is not our (excl.) purpose. We (excl.) attacked because of Sheba the child of Bicri who came-from the mountainous/hilly-area of Efraim. He rebelled (against) King David. Hand-him-over to us (excl.) and we (excl.) will-leave your (plur.) town.’ The woman said, ‘We (excl.) will-throw his head to you from the stone-wall.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “That is not what we want to do. But Bichri’s son Sheba, a man from the hilly area in the tribe of Ephraim, is rebelling against King David. Put this man into our hands, and then we will go away from/not attack this town.’
The woman replied to Joab, ‘Okay, what we will do is, we will cut off his head and throw it over the wall to you.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
