The Hebrew that is translated as “fine leather” or “badger/porpoise skin” in English is translated in Kutu as ng’hwembe ya mhala or “skins of bushbuck” (for bushbuck, see here ). (Source: Pioneer Bible Translators, project-specific translation notes in Paratext)
In Yao, it is translated as “soft leather of a big sea animal” (source: UBS, project-specific translation notes in Paratext), in Newari as “dolphin skin” (source: Newari Back Translation), in Kupsabiny as “hides of a hippo” (source: Kupsabiny Back Translation), and in Opo as “soft skins” (source: Opo Back Translation).
The English Jewish Orthodox ArtScroll Tanach translation (publ. 2011) transliterates it as tachash-hide. (Source: Zetzsche)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 32:10:
Kupsabiny: “So, do not prevent/withhold me any more! The issues of these people have really pained me, so, I am going to destroy them completely! Although it is like that, I will slowly elevate/strengthen you and your family until you become a great nation.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Newari: “Now don’t stop me because my anger is burning like a fire. I am going to burn them up. Then from you (emph.) I will make a great nation.’’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “So let me destroy them with my extreme anger. And only you (sing.) and your (sing.) descendants I will-make into a famous/prominent nation.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Bariai: “I am very angry. You (sing.) stay here first, and then I’ll kill them off. But I will make your children and descendants to become a very great tribe.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
Opo: “Therefore, do not me warn, in order that my heart it heat with them, in order that I shall go destroy them. And I will make you with seed your, you will be nation which will be many.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
English: “I am very angry with them, and so I am going to get rid of them. Do not try to stop me! Then I will cause you and your descendants to become a great nation.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 33:19:
Kupsabiny: “God told Moses that, ‘I will come and pass in front of you so that you see my goodness then I will tell you my name. I will have mercy upon the one whom I have accepted to have mercy on and sympathize with the one I have accepted to sympathize with.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Newari: “He said, ‘I will show all my good works before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will have mercy on whom I want to have mercy. I will have compassion on whom I want to have compassion.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “The LORD answered, ‘I will-show to you all my goodness, and I will-mention to you my name, the LORD. I will-show-kindness to whom I want to show-kindness.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Bariai: “And then God said, ‘Right now I will show you (sing.) that I am a very good person, and so I will call my name Chief to you. Listen. If I want to have compassion (lit. have a wounded interior) toward someone, then I will have compassion toward him. And if I want to feel sorry for someone, then I will feel sorry for him.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
Opo: “And he say to him «I will make my goodness [so that] it come pass you in front, calling my name namely Yahweh. Therefore, my heart will be good with one who my heart will become good with him, and it will be cold with one who it will be cold with him.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
English: “Yahweh replied, ‘I will let you see how great and glorious I am, and I will tell you clearly that my name is Yahweh. I will act very kindly and be merciful to all those whom I choose.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 1:6:
Kupsabiny: “Joseph and his brothers stayed/lived in that land until they were old and they died there.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Newari: “Joseph, his brothers and all the people of his generation died.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “Later-on Jose and all his siblings died. That generation came-to-an-end,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Bariai: “It came about that Iosep together with his older brothers and all the people in that day were living their lives until it was finished. And after their death,” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
Opo: “Afterwards, Joseph, with brothers, with generations their all, they became old died.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
English: “Eventually Joseph and his older and younger brothers and everyone else in their family who lived in that generation/at that time died.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 2:16:
Kupsabiny: “There was a certain man there who was called Jethro or Reuel who was priest in the land of Midian and he had his seven daughters. Those girls came to the well to draw water for the troughs so that the flock/goats/sheep of their father could drink.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Newari: “Seven daughters of a priest of Midian came to draw water from this well. They drew water from the well putting it into a trough for their father’s flock to drink from.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “Now, the seven female children/(daughters) of the priest in Midian went to the well to draw-water for the watering-troughs/drinking-places of the animals/livestock of their father.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Bariai: “And a man of offerings in the Midian area whose name was Ietro, he had seven female children living. His female children went to that water hole to fill up water to [pour] into the trough (lit. giant clan shell) of their father’s sipsips and memes.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
Opo: “During that time, priest of people of Midian who is named Jethro, he had female children seven. And well which Moses sit down there, they come to water bring there for animal of father.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
English: “The man who was the priest/one who offered the people’s gifts to God for the Midian people, whose name was Jethro, had seven daughters. One day as Moses/I sat down beside a well, those girls came to the well and got water, and filled the troughs in order to give water to their father’s flock of sheep.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 4:1:
Kupsabiny: “Then/later, Moses told God that, ‘But/And if I tell those people those words and they do not listen to me, what can I tell them when/if they say to me that, ‘God did not appear to you.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Newari: “Moses said, "If they do not believe me and do not listen to my words, and they answer me saying, ‘the Lord did not appear to you, then what shall I do?’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “Moises answered, ‘What if the Israelinhon do- not -believe me or do- (not) -listen to what I say? They might say that you (sing.) did- not -appear to me.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Bariai: “And then Moses answered his talk like this, ‘But if the Israel people don’t trust me and they don’t listen to my talk and so say, ‘You’re lying. The Chief didn’t appear to you,’ then what will I do?’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
Opo: “And Moses answered for God «Maybe, elders of people of Israel not me will believe. Maybe, they not my word will hear! Maybe they will say to me ‹The Lord not you [body] showed!›»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
English: “Moses/I replied, ‘But what if the Israeli people do not believe me/are not convinced or not do what I tell them? What if they say, ‘Yahweh did not appear to you!’’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:2:
Kupsabiny: “But that ruler said that, ‘Who is this God who says I should obey him and release the people of Israel go? I do not know that one, and I will not release these people of Israel.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Newari: “Pharaoh said, ‘Who is lord? Why should I heed him and let the Israelis go?’ I don’t know the Lord and I neither will let them” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “The king said, ‘Who really (is) the LORD that I should-listen-to/-obey him and should-allow the Israelinhon to go? I do not acknowledge/know the LORD and I will- not -cause/allow the Israelinhon to go.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Bariai: “And the great chief of the Isip people said, ‘Who is the Chief? Why is it that I [should] listen to his talk and so allow you (pl.) Israel people to go? I don’t know that Chief. And I certainly won’t allow you (pl.) Israel people to go.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
Opo: “And king said to them «This Yahweh and be who? What is it that I listen for it his word, letting go for it people of Israel? I not Yahweh know. I not people of Israel will release that they might go.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
English: “But the king said, ‘Who is Yahweh? Why should I pay attention to what he says and let the Israeli people go? I do not know Yahweh! And furthermore, I will not let the Israeli people go!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 6:11:
Kupsabiny: “‘Go and tell that ruler of Egypt, ‘Allow the people of Israel to leave your land.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Newari: “You go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, ‘’Let the Israelites go out of this country. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “‘Go, and tell Faraon king of Egipto that he is-to-let- the Israelinhon -leave now from his nation.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Bariai: “‘Go to the great chief of the Isip people and then tell him, he must allow the Israel people to leave his area.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
Opo: “«go! you say to king of Egypt that he must leave people of Israel that they might leave from his country.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
English: “‘Go and tell the king of Egypt again that he must allow the Israeli people to leave his land!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)