Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 15:10:
- Kupsabiny: “But God, you blew using your breath,
the water returned with power and totally covered them all!
Those people sank like metals
that are thrown in deep water.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “You blew them with your breath
and the sea covered them.
They sank as lead
in the mighty waters.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But in just one of your (sing.) blowing they were-drowned in the sea.
They sank to the depths like lead.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “But you blew your breath once,
and right then the ocean covered them.
They sank down to the interior of the deep ocean like a stone.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “But, you God, you made wind blow, and water covered them head.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “But you blew on them with your breath,
and then the sea covered them.
They sank like lead/rocks in the big waves.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 16:15:
- Kupsabiny: “When the Israelites saw those things, they did not know those things. Then they asked themselves/one another that, ‘What is this now?’ Moses replied that, ‘This is the food God has given you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “When the Israelites saw it, they asked each other, what is it?’
for they did not know what it was so Moses said to them, ‘It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat’.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They did- not -know what it was, so they asked-each-other, ‘What is it/that?’ Moises said to them, ‘That is the bread which the LORD gave to you (plur.) for you (plur.) to-eat.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “And so the Israel people asked amongst themselves like this, ‘What is this?’ For they hadn’t seen anything like that previously.
And Moses spoke to them like this, ‘This is your food which the Chief gave to you.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “When people of Israel saw it, they questioned amongst themselves «And be kind of what that?» Because they not it recognized that be bread. And Moses said to them like this «It is bread which Yahweh gave you [that] you might eat.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “When the Israeli people saw it, since they had never seen it before and did not know what it was, they said to each other, ‘What is it?’ Moses/I replied to them, ‘It is something Yahweh has given you to eat, to take the place of bread.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 17:12:
- Kupsabiny: “Moses lifted up (the/his) hands and/but when he got tired, Aaron and Hur brought (a) stone for him to sit on. One was standing at the left hand of Moses, the other standing at the right hand so as to raise up (the) hands of Moses until sunset.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “When Moses’ hands got tired, Aaron and Hur took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Then Aaron and Hur stood on each side, holding up his hands until sunset.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Later Moises arms became-tired. So Aaron and Hur took a stone and had- Moises -sit-on it. Then Aaron raised one hand of Moises and Hur also did the same on other/[lit. one] hand until the sun set.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “It came about that Moses arms were going numb, therefore Aron and Ur brought a stone to come, and then Moses sat down on it. The two of them stood on one side and the other close to him, and so they held his arms up so that they remained until the sun set.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “When hand of Moses died [eye], they carried for him stone he sat down there. And Aaron and Hur grasped him hand lifted it up, a man on the right, a man on the left, in order that his hand it might not down return until sun was setting.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “But his/my arms became tired. So Aaron and Hur rolled a large stone for Moses/me to sit on. While he/I was sitting on it, those two held up his/my arms, one on one side and the other on the other side. In that way, they kept his/my arms lifted up, and his/my arms held steady until the sun went down.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 19:1:
- Kupsabiny: “The people of Israel had left Rephidim and/but when two full months had passed since they left Egypt, they reached the wilderness of Sinai. They stretched/pitched their tents at the foot of mount Sinai.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The Israelites arrived in the Sinai desert there months after they had left Egypt.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The Israelinhon left Refidim and went to the desolate-place of Sinai. There they camped in-front-of the mountain. That was in the third month from when they left Egipto.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “Three months after the Israel people left Isip, on the day which went first in that month, the Israel people arrived at the desolate area named Sainai.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “On day of beginning for month three, after leaving their from Egypt, they went arrived the wilderness of Sinai.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “The Israeli people then left Rephidim, and exactly two months after leaving Egypt, they/we came to the desert near Sinai Mountain. They/We set up their/our tents at the base of the mountain.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 20:8:
- Kupsabiny: “Honor (plur.) the day of Sabbath and keep it.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] remember/follow/[lit. obey] the Day For-Resting, and [you (plur.)] make this as a special day for me.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘You (sing.) must remember well the Day of Rest and so respect that day’s taboo.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Remember The sabbath, let it be holy.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Do not forget that the seventh day of every week is mine, so dedicate those days to me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:14:
- Kupsabiny: “But if someone has intended and kills somebody and after that he flees to the place of sacrifice with the intention of him not to be harmed, then he should be killed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If anyone kills a man intentionally and he comes to my altar for the refuge, drag him even from my altar and kill him.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But if the killing was-planned and was-intentional, you (plur.) kill him even-if he still goes-near my altar.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “But if he was searching for a way to strike the other man so that he die and then did like that, you (pl.) must strike that man dead. He isn’t able/permitted to flee from his punishment and so go to my table of offerings. If [it’s] like that, apprehend him there and then bring him to another place and then strike him dead.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “But, if he hunted him, kill him intentionally, even though he hide at side of my altar, you take him with force let them kill him.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “But if someone gets angry with another person and kills him, even if the murderer runs to the altar, a place that God designated as a place to be safe, you must execute him.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 22:10:
- Kupsabiny: “If a neighbor lends a donkey, cow, sheep or any animal to a person for safe-keeping, and then that animal dies or breaks (a leg) or enemies come and steal (it) when no one is watching,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If a man lets his ox, sheep, or any other animal keep to his neighbor for safekeeping and it dies or is injured or is taken away while no one is looking,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘For-example, a man has- someone-take-care-of his donkey, cow, sheep or any animal to his neighbor, and it died, or was-wounded, or disappeared/was-lost, which no sees-(what happened).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘If a man takes his donki, or bulmakao, or sipsip, or some other tame animal so that it goes to his fellow companion for him to watch over it, but that animal receives an injury, or it dies, or a man of stealing runs off with it, and no one else sees it,” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If a man give a man animal he might safekeep for it [eye], even if it be donkey or cow or sheep/goats or animal other, and it die, or it be bad some part, or they steal it during time when others not see,” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Suppose someone gives his donkey or bull or sheep or some other animal to someone else and asks him to take care of it for a while, and the animal dies or is injured or is stolen while no one is watching.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:11:
- Kupsabiny: “and/but in the seventh year, let the gardens sleep/lie fallow. Don’t pick any crop which has grown by itself in your gardens. Leave that to the vulnerable/weak people and animals to be picking/eating. Do the same to the vineyards and olive gardens.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “In the seventh year let the land rest then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grave.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But in the seventh year you (plur.) should- not -plant-on it. If any plant grows on your land, you (plur.) just let-it-be-for the poor ones to get the food from the plants, and what is-left cause/allow-to-eat the wild animals. This is the same that you (plur.) are-to-do with your (plur.) fields of grapes/(vineyards) and your (plur.) fields of olives/(olive groves).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “But in the seventh year, you (pl.) must leave that garden to remain as an old [previously cultivated] garden, and don’t take whatever food is existing in it. Do like that also with your oain garden and your oliv grove. [When] it’s like that then the poor people will be taking their food from it, and the wild animals also will eat whatever food the poor people left to remain.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “On year seventh, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) it cut, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) thing harvest there. Therefore, poor people which you (sing., imp.) place your, they will find food there, and wild animals, it will eat that which they remain. you (sing., imp.) do it so with farm fields of vine your and farm fields of fruit your also.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “But during the seventh year you must not plant anything. If things grow without your planting seeds, allow poor people to harvest and eat the crops. If there are still crops left over/that they do not harvest, allow wild animals to eat them. Do the same thing with your grapevines/vineyards and your olive trees.” (Source: Translation for Translators)