complete verse (Exodus 21:21)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:21:

  • Kupsabiny: “But if his slave wakes/gets up before a day or two elapses and walks around, (he) should not be punished because that slave belongs to him.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If a male or maiden servant is able to walk around after a day or two, he will not be punished for the slave is his property.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “But if the slave does- not -die and this-one can-get-up after one or two days, the man is- not -to-be-punished for he (is) also the owner of the slave.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “But if that laborer remains for a day or two, and afterward dies, you (pl.) can’t/mustn’t punish his chief. For that laborer was living under his chief’s authority (lit. in his hand), and so his death is a matter of his chief’s.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “But, if slave will arise up with day one or day two, let them not his chief bind, because he be his own.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “But if the slave lives for a day or two after he is struck and then dies, you must not punish the one who struck him. Not having that slave to be able to work for him any longer is enough punishment.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 22:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 22:17:

  • Kupsabiny: “And/But if the father of the girl refuses that man to marry his daughter, that man will still give money which is equivalent to the dowry of a girl who is still a virgin.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If her father refused to give her to him, he must pay the bribe price (for virgins).” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If the father of the woman will- absolutely not -allow- his child/(daughter) -to-marry to that man, the man should- still -pay the (bride)-price.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “But if the woman’s father doesn’t want that man to marry his daughter, then the two of them won’t marry, but that man must bring the bride-wealth objects to the woman’s father.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “If father will reject him let him not (imp.) her buy, one who lay with her, let him give money which be the same with money of her buying.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “But if her father refuses to allow her to marry him, he must pay to the woman’s father the amount of money that is equal to the amount of bride price money that men pay for virgins.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 23:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “Do (plur.) not give me bread which has risen when you are making an animal sacrifice for me. Never leave till morning any animal fat which you are using to make sacrifice for me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with bread made with yeast.’ The fat of my festival offering must not be kept until morning.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “[You (plur.)] do- not -offer blood to me together-with bread that has that which-causes-to-expand (in it). The fat of the animal that you (plur.) offered to me during the feast, [you (plur.)] do- not -leave-(it) until-morning.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘You can’t/mustn’t offer any animal to me together with food which has yis.
    ‘In these feasts, you can’t/mustn’t set [aside] the fat of any offering animal to remain until morning.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “When you will give me blood sacrifice on altar, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) it give with bread which had yeast together.
    On holiday, animal which you will burn with fire on altar, its fat let it not (imp.) for tomorrow be present.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “When you sacrifice an animal and offer it to me, you must not offer bread that has been baked with yeast. When you offer sacrifices, burn the fat from the animals on that same day. Do not allow any fat to remain until the next morning.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 24:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 24:17:

  • Kupsabiny: “The other Israelites who were at the foot of the mountain saw as if that light of God was like fire which was in the peak of the mountain.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “So Moises entered the cloud as he climbed-up the mountain. He stayed there on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights. For the Israelinhon there at the bottom, the powerful presence of the LORD on top of the mountain looked-like a burning fire.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “In the sight of the Israel people, the Chief‘s radiance looked like a big fire blazing there at the top of the mountain.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Therefore, when children of Israel had seen light of presence of The Lord, it looked like fire which blaze on top of mountain.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “When the Israeli people looked at the top of the mountain, the glory of Yahweh was like a big fire that was burning there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 25:31)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 25:31:

  • Kupsabiny: “Someone make a thing where lamps are placed. Pure gold is to be formed and attached on that thing at the floor/down and the backbone/stem. Something like flowers which have blossomed should be made for that thing and all should sprout from the backbone/stem of that thing.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “‘You make a lampstand of pure gold. To make its base, buds, flowerlike cups, blossomes of one piece pure gold.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘[You (sing.)] also have-(someone)-make a thing-to-put- the lamp -on, that its feet, body, and the decorative flowers are pure gold, wherein some/others are still buds and some/others are- already -blossoming. The decoration was- already -formed previously along-with the body of the thing-to-put- the lamp -on when it was-made.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “God spoke again like this, ‘You (pl.) must take good gol and then make it into a lam’s stand (lit. leg), for putting lams onto. Hit the gol with a pounding stone and so make the lam stand’s base and its trunk and its branches to be for spaces for the putting of lams. And make the lam’s spaces from gol so that they look like hibiscus blossoms. And all of the lam stand’s things, you must make from a single piece of gol.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “«And you take gold which not [eye] mixed with other things, pound it for lampstand. Its stool with mother of its wood, with its bowls, with its leaf, with its flower, you forge it together.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “‘Tell them to make a lampstand from pure gold. They must hammer one large lump of gold to make its base and its shaft. The branches of the lampstand, the cups for holding the oil, the flower buds and the flower petals that decorate the branches of the lamp, the base, and the shaft are all to be hammered from one big lump of gold.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 26:23)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 26:23:

  • Kupsabiny: “and other two for the corners.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “And make two planks for the two corners of the back side.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “and two boards for its corners.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And also, make two more pieces of wall bones for joining together the shelters long sides and its short side there in the back, in order for them to go and be flush at the shelter’s corners.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “On corner of back both, you shall build wood two for the one.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Also, tell them to make two extra frames, one for each corner of the rear of the Sacred Tent, to provide extra support.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 27:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 27:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “That compound should be having a length of forty five meters, a width of twenty two and a half meters and going up seven feet and a half. And its curtains should be from an expensive cloth and woven. And the things where it stands on should be of bronze.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The courtyard must be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide. And the height must be five cubits. The curtain must be of fine linen and bases of bronze.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘The whole measurement of the courtyard/yard is about 150 feet long and about 75 feet wide. It was-surrounded with a linen curtain, that was seven and a half feet high. Its posts are-set-inside/are-inserted-into bronze bases.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “This fence’s length will amount to twenty-five fathoms. And its width will amount to twelve and a half fathoms. Make all the fence’s cloths from good cloths. And the height of the fence will amount to one fathom and an [extra] part extending for 18 inches (lit. our[incl] elbow’s bending). And make its post bases from bras.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Thus width of big of fence will be joint of hand which be 100, and width of its small will be joint of hand which be 50, and its height will be joint of hand five. you will hang cloth which they make with flax cloth, and you will erect it in hole which they pound with metal red.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “The whole courtyard, from the east entrance to the west end, must be 50 yards/44 meters long, and the curtains that enclose it must be 7-1/2 feet/2.3 meters high. All the curtains must be made of fine linen, and all the bases under the posts must be made of bronze.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 28:29)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 28:29:

  • Kupsabiny: “And when Aaron is going into where it is Holy, he should put on the pocket worn on the chest which the names of the people of Israel have been engraved in it so that God will always be remembering/thinking about them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he must bear the breast piece of judging with the engraved names of the sons of Israel so in the sense that the Lord will have memorial continually.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘When Aaron enters the Holy Place he must wear this like-pocket(s) which is on the chest with the names of the tribes of Israel so that I will- always -remember them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘Therefore when Aron enters the interior of the shelter, in the place which has a somewhat great taboo, then Israel’s male children’s names will be existing on his chest’s cloth, and so I will see [it] and then remember my people always and it continues and goes.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “So, when Aaron wears cloth of chest which will have tassel which he hits seeking me, when he comes enters [this direction] sacred-place inside of tent, he will come with name of tribes of children of Israel, in order that he might remember them in front of me, I Yahweh.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “In that way, Aaron will have the names of the twelve Israeli tribes in the sacred pouch close to his chest when he enters the Holy Place. This will remind him that I, Yahweh, will never forget my people (OR, that he represents my people when he talks to me, Yahweh).” (Source: Translation for Translators)