Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 15:26:
- Kupsabiny: “And if he does not love me, let him do anything with me that he likes.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If he is not pleased with me, look, I am here. So what he thinks is good, may he do just that to me."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But if he is not pleased with me, I am ready whatever he wants to do with me.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But if he says that he is not pleased with me, then I am willing for him to do to me whatever he thinks is good.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 2:7:
- Kupsabiny: “That woman will be following after he lovers and not get them.
She shall search for those lovers and not see them.
Then (she) will say,
‘I am going back to my husband from before,
because I was in a better position then than I am in now.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “She will go in pursuit of her lovers, but she will not be able to catch up with them.
She will search for them but will not find them.
Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my former husband,
for my former situation was better than my situation now.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “She will-chase her lovers/(lit. men) but she can- not -catch them. She will-look for them but she can- not -find them. Then she will-say, ‘I will- just -go back to my first husband, for my situation (is) better before than now.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 26:14:
- Kupsabiny: “I have not eaten even a little of that food which is set aside when I was mourning, and I have not touched where it was unclean. And again, I have not taken of that food to the people who are dead. I am obeying you, God, and I have done everything like you said.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “I have not eaten anything from the sacred portion when I was in mourning. And I have not removed any of it while I was unclean. And I have not offered any of it to those who have died. I have obeyed all the words of the commands you have given.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I have- not -eaten it while I mourn; I have- not -touched it while I was-being-considered unclean; and I have- not -offered it to the dead-one. O LORD my God, I have-obeyed you (sing.). I did everything you (sing.) commanded us (incl.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I declare that I have not eaten any food from the tithe while I was mourning for someone who died. And I have not touched any of it while I was unacceptable to you; I have not offered any of it to spirits of dead people. Yahweh, I have obeyed you and done everything that you have commanded us concerning the tithe.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 13:7:
- Kupsabiny: “There is a person who pretends to be rich but/yet has nothing,
another pretends to be poor and has riches.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Some people keep claiming to be rich
even though they don’t have anything.
And some,
even though they have everything,
keep claiming to be poor.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “There are people who pretend that (they) are rich, but indeed poor. And there are also people who pretend that (they) are poor, but indeed rich.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There are some pretend-rich but come-to-find-out they are shaved (id. = penniless, without anything). There are also pretend-poor but come-to-find-out many are their possessions.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Some people who have nothing pretend to be rich,
but other people who are very rich pretend to be poor.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 6:11:
- Kupsabiny: “Then he shall change clothes and put on others and then he shall take the ashes and heap it where it is a clean place outside the camp.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Then he must take off the clothes that he had put on, put on other clothes and take the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Afterwards, he is-to-change his clothes and he is-to-bring the ashes outside the camp, to a place which is-considered clean.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then he must take off those clothes and put on other clothes, and take the ashes outside the camp, to a place that is acceptable to me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Chronicles 29:3:
- Kupsabiny: “Look, I myself have also given myself to dedicate my gold and my silver for the House of God to be beautified.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Without [counting] all these things which I gathered, I have [also] given gold and silver from my own treasury, because I want to build the temple of God. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And because of my dedication to the temple of my God, I am giving my personal gold and silver for the building/construction of-it, not including the materials that I have- already – collected/gathered for the holy temple.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “In addition to all these things that I have given for the temple, I am giving treasures of gold and silver, because I very much desire that this holy temple for my God be built.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:4:
- Kankanaey: “Because when seven days go (by), I will send rain, and it will continue-without-letup to rain-hard for forty days and nights until all that I created on this surface of the earth will drown.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “Seven days from now I will cause rain to come on the earth. This rain will come for 40 days and 40 nights. I will annihilate everything that lives on the earth that I made.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For after seven days from now, I will-cause- (it) -to-rain the whole earth for [lit. inside of] 40 days and 40 nights, so-that all that I made will-die.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Do this because seven days from now I will cause rain to fall on the earth. It will rain constantly for 40 days and nights. By doing that, I will destroy everything that I have made that is on the earth.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 16:21:
- Kupsabiny: “Ahithophel replied that, ‘Go and sleep with your father’s concubines those he left to keep/guard for him the home. If you do that, all the people of Israel will know that your relationship with your father is cut/ended, that will encourage/strengthen the people who support you.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Ahithophel answered, "Sleep with the father’s concubines whom your father left to take care of royal palace. Then all the Israelites will hear that your father hated you. Then the hands of those who go to follow you will be very strong."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Ahitofel answered, ‘You lie-down-beside/(have-sexual-relations-with) the wives of your father whom he left to take-care of the palace. Then all the Israelinhon will-know that you really provoked-to-anger your father, and because of this your men will-become- more -brave.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Ahithophel replied, ‘Your father left some of his slave wives in the palace to take care of it. Have sex with them. When everyone in Israel hears that you have done that, they will realize that you are acting very contemptuously toward your father. Then all those who are with you will be very encouraged.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
