Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 15:8:
- Kupsabiny: “When you blew your breath on the water from your nostrils, it (the water) piled up.
You made that water solid and it stood like a wall.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “At the blast of your breath
the waters piled up
the surging waters stood
firm like a wall;
the deep waters
congealed in the sea.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “In just one of your (sing.) blowing/blasts-of-air the waters separated/[lit. left-an-open-passage].
The rushing waters separated/[lit. left-an-open-passage] and stood as-if a stone-wall;
as-if the deep sea became-hard.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “The breath of your mouth blew the ocean so that it swelled and went up.
And the great sea-swells stood upright on one side and the other like a railing/barrier.
And so the great sea stood strong there in the interior of the deep ocean.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “When you breathed with nose, water backed up,
It stopped as fence,
Water dried up in middle of mother of water.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “You blew on the sea,
and the water piled up high;
the water stood up like two walls.
In the deepest part of the sea the water became thick/solid,
as though it was frozen.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 16:13:
- Kupsabiny: “On the evening of that day, the quails fell from up/heaven to fill the camp until it heaped. And on the next morning, there was dew covering all around the camp.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “That evening quail came and covered the camp in the morning there was dew all around the camp.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “When evening-came, many quails arrived as-if/like their camp was-covered. In-the-morning, the land on their camp was-wet with dew.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “Okay, on that afternoon bush-hen birds flew and came down and so filled their camp. And in the morning on the next day, dew of the night [had] come down and so made the edges of their camp wet.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “At that evening, quail landed place which they stay there. Tomorrow morning, dew dripped there.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “That evening, quails/small plump birds appeared, and there were so many that they covered the campsite. The next morning there was something like dew all around the campsite.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 17:10:
- Kupsabiny: “When Joshua was fighting the Amalekites as he was told, Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of (a) hill.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Joseph went to fight the Amalekites as Moses had ordered. Then Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “So Josue and-company fought-against the Amaleknon according-to what Moises had-commanded while Moises, Aaron and Hur climbed the mountain/hill.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “Therefore Iosua together with the Israel people’s fighting people fought against the Amalek people, as Moses spoke about. And Moses and Aron and Ur arose and went to the top of the hill.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Therefore Joshua and his army, they went made war with people of Amalek as Moses said to him, and Moses and Aaron and Hur, they climbed mountaintop.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “So Joshua did what Moses/I told him to do. He took some men to fight against the Amalek people-group. While they were fighting, Aaron, Hur, and Moses/I went up to the top of the hill so that they/we could see the whole battle area.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 18:26:
- Kupsabiny: “They were all the time counseling/guiding the people all the days and took hard cases/things to Moses and/but the simple ones they would solve those.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “From that day they served as judges for the people. The difficult cases they brought to Moses, but the simple cases they solved themselves.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They served the people as judges at all times. They settled the simple cases, but the hard cases they brought to Moises.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “They straightened disputes for the people all the time. And so they alone ended (lit. killed) the small disputes. But the big disputes, they let them go to Moses.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “By day by day, be they that judge people. That which be small, they decided it amongst themselves, and that which be hard, they took it for Moses.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “They were appointed permanently to make decisions about the people’s disputes. They brought the difficult cases to Moses/me, but they decided the matters that were not difficult by themselves.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 20:6:
- Kupsabiny: “But I will love those who love me and obey my commandments, and it proceeds like that to all generations.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “But I will show love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But I show my kindness to the very many generations who love me and obey my commands.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “But whoever (pl.) loves (lit. whose interior likes) me and follows my law, I will love them also and follow behavior of faithfulness (lit. of a straight eye) toward them together with their children and descendants and it goes as far as their thousands of family groups after them.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “But, they who love me, who hear my word, I show them love with seed their arriving to generation which be thousand.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “But I will steadfastly love thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my commandments (OR, I will love for thousands of generations.)” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:12:
- Kupsabiny: “A person who has beaten someone to death, should himself be killed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If anyone hits a man so hard that he dies, shall surely be put to death.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘Anyone who hurts/hits a person and he kills this-one, he must also be-killed/(put-to-death).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “God spoke again like this, ‘If anyone strikes another man so that he dies, you (pl.) must strike that man so that he dies.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “one who will hit a man and he dies, let them kill him.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “You must execute anyone who strikes another person with the result that the person who is struck dies.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 22:8:
- Kupsabiny: “And/But if he is not found, the one who kept those things should be brought before God to defend himself.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “But if no thief is found, then the owner of the house must go before the judges to determine whether he has laid his hands on the other man’s property.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But if the thief is- not -caught, the one who was-left-with the property/things should-be-brought to the presence of God, so-that (it) will-be-determined/known whether or not he took the (thing)(that)-was-caused-to-be-stored-away with him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “But if they don’t apprehend the man of stealing, the house owner will go stand in the presence of the people who straighten disputes, and then he must make talk to them like this, ‘[It’s] true, I didn’t steal my fellow companion’s things.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If they not thief find, one who safekeep for it [eye], he must go in front of God in order that God, he might show it that that man be thief or not.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “But if the thief is not caught, the owner of the house from which the things were stolen must stand before the judges, so that the judges can determine whether the owner of the house was the one who took the other man’s goods and sold them to someone else.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:9:
- Kupsabiny: “Do not mistreat a stranger because you have known the badness of that thing/matter when you were in Egypt.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Do not oppress a foreigner, you yourself know how it feels to be foreigners because you were foreigners in Egypt.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘You (plur.) should- not -oppress a foreigner, for you yourselves knows what the feeling of a foreigner (is like), for you (plur.) (were) also foreigners a-long-time-ago in Egipto.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘If a man from another area is living in your midst, you (pl.) can’t/mustn’t deal harshly with him. For you remember your difficult experience which the Isip people were doing to you before.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Foreigner who lives home your, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) him evil do. Because you people of Israel, you see troubles of foreigners during years when you were foreigners in Egypt.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Do not mistreat foreigners who live among you. You know how people often treat foreigners, because the Egyptians did not treat you well when you were foreigners there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)