Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 15:5:
- Kupsabiny: “The water covered those people,
they sank down like stones.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The deep waters have covered them;
they sank to the depths like a stone.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They have-drowned in the deep water;
they sank to the depth like a stone.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “The big ocean covered them,
and so they sank and went down to the interior of the deep ocean like a stone.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Water climb here covered them head,
They sunk as stone.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “The water covered them like a flood;
they sank to the bottom like a stone.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 16:10:
- Kupsabiny: “As Aaron was still speaking to them, all those people looked towards the wilderness because the light of God was revealed/seen in (a) cloud.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Whild Aaron was talking to the Israelites, they looked toward the desert and there appeared the glory of God in the cloud.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “While Aaron was-speaking to the entire community, they looked toward the desolate-place and they saw the powerful presence of the LORD in a cloud.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “Okay, Aron was talking still to the people of Israel when they looked toward the desolate area and then saw the Chief‘s great radiance come forth from the cloud and descend.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “because he heard grumbling your.› »
When Aaron said to people of Israel thus, they looked [eye] to the wilderness, and they saw afar light of The Lord shining [this direction] from inside of cloud.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “So Aaron told them that. And as Aaron was talking to all the Israeli people, they looked toward the desert, and were surprised to see the dazzling light/incredible brightness of Yahweh in the cloud that had been leading them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 17:7:
- Kupsabiny: “Moses named that place that Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and again because they tested God saying that, ‘Is God with us or not?’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Moses called the place Massah and Meribab because the Israelites quarreled and tested the Lord saying, ‘Is the Lord among us or not?’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Moises called that place Masa and Meriba, because the Israelinhon argued-with him and they tested the LORD by saying, ‘Is the LORD with us (incl.) or not?’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “And so they gave two names to that area as follows: Masa and Meriba. This is because the Israel people spoke angrily to Moses and so asked, ‘Is the Chief present amongst us (incl.), or not?’ And in doing like that, they tested the Chief‘s strength.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “He called that place Masa and Meriba, because people of Israel quarreled mouth, testing The Lord saying «Yahweh be present place our (incl.) or not?»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Moses/I gave that place two names in the Hebrew language: Massah, which means ‘testing’, and Meribah, which means ‘complaining’. He/I gave it the name Massah because the Israeli people were testing Yahweh, saying ‘Is Yahweh really among us and able to help us, or not?’, and he/I gave it the name Meribah because they were continually complaining.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 18:23:
- Kupsabiny: “If you do these things, and believe/accept that God is the one who said (it), then you will not be overloaded. This people will go to their homes without murmuring when their things have been solved.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If you do this, and if God agrees, you will be able to work for a long time and all these people will go homes satisfied.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I know that this is what God wants you (sing.) to-do, and if you (sing.) follow/obey this you (sing.) will- not -be-burdened/have-a-hard-time. And these people can-go-home in peace.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “If you follow like this, and God is in agreement with it also, you will stand strong in this work, and the people will be at peace (lit. have smooth interiors) and so return back.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If you will do thought my this [which] God says to you thus, this work, you will endure it, and this people, they will return home with joy.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “If you do that, and I think that God is telling you to do it (OR, if God tells you to do it), you will not become exhausted, and all the people will be able to go home feeling satisfied about the decisions, with their disputes settled quickly’.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 20:3:
- Kupsabiny: “Kneel to/worship (plur.) me alone, and do not worship other/any useless things.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “You shall not worship other gods besides me.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] do- not -worship other gods besides me.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘No other god is able to exist as your (sing.) god. I alone am your God.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Not god other have. Have be me alone.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- Mofu-Gudur: “You must not bow-down/worship other gods, (as for) bow-down. For me only (the only one). (Source: Ken Hollingsworth)
- Buduma: “That you add to-me god another not.”
- Nigerian Fulfulde: “You all will not follow other gods, except me only.” (Source: Mark Gaddis)
- Jur Mödö: “Do not make (or “take”) anything as God for yourselves except me.” (Source: Andrew Persson)
- North Azerbaijani (Azərbaycan Bibliyası 2008): “Except from me other gods must not be.”
- English: “So you must worship only me; you must not worship any other god.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:9:
- Kupsabiny: “When a man has bought a girl and let his son marry her, then he should take care of her like his (own) daughter.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If he selects her for his son, he should treat her as a daughter.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “If the master lets- the slave -marry his child/(son), he must consider her as his female child/(daughter).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “And if he chooses that woman to be his son’s spouse, he must be doing good and upright behavior toward her, as he is doing to his daughter.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If he bought her as wife of his son, he must count her as his daughter.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “If the man who buys her wants her to be a wife for his son, he must then treat her as though she were his own daughter.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 22:5:
- Kupsabiny: “If someone is grazing his livestock/animals in the grazing area and they come and eat/destroy the crops in somebody’s garden, he has to give out/compensate to the other person using the crops/food in his garden.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If a man deliberately lets his animal loose and it goes into another man’s vineyard; he must pay for all damages by giving him from the best of his own field or vineyard.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘If a man lets his livestock/animals graze in the field of another, he must pay-for the plant that-was-grazed with the best produce of his field or his field of grapes/(vineyard).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘If a man brings his tame animals to eat grass at the garden, or close to a oain garden, but those animals overstep the boundary and then go eat another man’s garden, the owner of those animals must pay back good food and good oain to the owner of the garden.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If a man herds animal or untie it [that] it might go eat, and it went eat sorghum or fruit in farm fields of a man, he must give it with his sorghum with his trees which be good.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “If someone allows his animals to graze/eat the grass in his field or in his vineyard, and if they stray away and eat the crops in another person’s field, the owner of the animals must pay the owner of those crops by giving him the best crops from his own field or vineyard.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:6:
- Kupsabiny: “A vulnerable/weak person should not be pressed down when he is being reconciled with (the) other person.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Do not hold back to offer justice to the needy people.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘You (plur.) be-sure that the poor will-get justice in their case.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘If they make a poor man to testify on charges, you (pl.) can’t mustn’t speak falsely about him. Lest they not straighten his dispute well.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If they judge people, judgement of poor people and judgement of rich people let it not (imp.) [body] divide.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Decide the cases of poor people who are on trial as fairly as you decide the cases of other people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
