complete verse (Exodus 29:26)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 29:26:

  • Kupsabiny: “Take (sing.) the chest of this ram that you (sing.) anointed/inaugurated Aaron with and raise it up while waving to show that it is given it to me. This part is yours.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Taking the breast of the ram for the Aaron’s ordinations wave before the Lord. It will be your own share.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then take the breast of the sheep and raise/lift-up this to me as a lifted-up offering. This is your (sing.) part/share of the sheep which is-offered for the ordination of Aaron and his children/(sons).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And the sipsip which hasn’t gone onto the fire yet, you (sing.) will take its breast and then wave it back and forth in my sight. And when it’s done, then it exists for your (sing.) own eating.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Also, you shall take side of right of sheep of consecration of Aaron, lift it above. That will be for me gift(s) of uplifting, and it will be your own.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Then take the meat of the ribs of the second ram that was killed, and lift it up high as an offering to me. But then this part of the animal will be for you to eat.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 30:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 30:12:

  • Kupsabiny: “‘When you are counting the Israelites, tell everyone to give me some money for his life so that (he) is not destroyed when counting is on.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “‘When you take census of the Israelites all of them must pay the price of ransom to the Lord at the time of their counting so that plague may not come on them. Then plague will not come when you count their number.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘When you (sing.) take-a-census of the people of Israel, each one to-be-counted should-pay me for his life, so-that no terrible-things/disaster will-come to them while you (sing.) are-taking-the-census of them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘When you (sing.) count the number of the Israel people, each man must bring a coin to me, the Chief for buying himself. Lest he die. In the day in which you count them, when they buy themselves with that money, then no bad plagues (lit. killing-offs) will happen to them.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “«Hour which they will count children of Israel, a man he must exchange his life, give Yahweh its thing. On hour which they will count people, if they will do it thus, evil thing will not them find” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “‘When your leaders take a census of/count the Israeli people, each man who is counted must pay to me a price to save his life. They must do this in order that no disaster will happen to them while the people are being counted.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 31:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 31:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “I have also chosen Oholiab son of Ahisamach who is from the clan of Dan to help each other with Bezalel in doing that work. I have also given the other people of skill the power to do everything I desire from them to do” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “I have chosen Oholiab the son of Ahisamach from the tribe of Dan to help him. I have given skills to craftsmen to make all things that I have commanded you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I have- also -chosen Oholiab child/(son) of Ahisamac, who came-from the tribe of Dan, to help Bezalel. I also have-given ability to all the good carpenters so-that they will-be-able-to-do/can-make all that I have-commanded you (sing.) to-do:” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And yo, I chose another man for helping him, whose name is Ooliap. He is Aisamak’s son in the clan [descended] from Dan. And I gave great knowledge to other workers to do all these things as I’ve spoken to you (sing.) about.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And his second, they call him Oholiab Ahisamach who be man-of-Dan. He must be his helper. And there be others who be wise for that which I say to you [that] they must make:” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Note that I have also appointed Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, to work with him. I have also given special ability to other men, in order that they can make all the things that I have commanded you to be made.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 32:20)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 32:20:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then he got/took that thing resembling a calf which those people had molded and burned (it) and then he crushed (it) into powder form and poured it into water and gave that water to the Israelites to drink.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Then taking the bull calf they had made he burnt it in fire and made it into powder and mixed it with water and made the Israelites drink it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then he took the little-god cow that they had-made and he burnt (it). Afterward he ground it into-fine-powder and mixed (it) with water, and had- the people of the Israel -drink (it).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “It came about that he took that carving of the bulmakao and then threw it into the fire and cooked it. And when it was done, then he pounded it so that it became small [pieces] like dust, and then cast it down into the water, and so he made the Israel people to drink that water.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “He carry calf which they make, burn it with fire, grind it changing into ashes, throw it in water. And he say children of Israel they must drink it.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Then he/I took the statue of the young bull that they had made and melted it in the fire. When it cooled, he/I ground it into fine powder. Then he/I mixed the powder with water and forced the Israeli people to drink it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 33:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 33:17:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then God told Moses that, ‘I will do everything you have asked, because I love you and know you completely.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘I will do as you said, because I am pleased with you, and I know you well.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The LORD answered Moises, ‘I will-do what you ask, for I am happy/pleased with you, and I know you very well.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And then the Chief said to Moses, ‘I will do exactly as you (sing.) speak of, because I’m feeling kindly toward you and I know you well.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And The Lord answered it for Moses like this «This [that] you tell for me , that is what I will do, because my heart be good with you, and you be my friend.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Yahweh replied to Moses/me, ‘What you have asked is exactly what I will do, because I know you well and I am pleased with you.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 34:26)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 34:26:

  • Kupsabiny: “Be bringing to me your God in each year the firstfruits coming from your (plur.) garden.
    No one should cook a young goat using his/her mother’s milk. ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Bring the best first grains and fruits of your field to the Lord your God. Do not cook any young goat in its mother’s milk.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘You (plur.) bring the best part of your first crop to the temple of the LORD your God.
    ‘You (plur.) should- not -cook the young goat in the milk of its mother.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘Your (pl.) good food which ripens and goes first, you must bring it to me, your Chief God and so offer it at my shelter.
    ‘You (pl.) can’t/mustn’t cook a newly grown meme in a clay pot together with its mother’s breast milk.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “From that which you plant which first produce fruit in field your, you shall take its good to my house, I Yahweh who be God your.
    Child of goat, you must not (imp.) it boil with milk of its mother.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “I am Yahweh God. You must bring to my Sacred Tent the first part of the grain that you harvest each year. When you kill a young animal/kid either a lamb or a calf, do not prepare to eat it by boiling it in its mother’s milk.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 35:23)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 35:23:

  • Kupsabiny: “Whenever there was anyone with threads which are blue, purple or red or an expensive cloth, goats fur or rams skins or smoothened hide, or a hippo.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Whoever has blue, purple and red thread, fine linen, goat’s hair, ram’s skin dyed with red color, skin of dolphin, they brought them.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “There was- also -(some)-who-offered blue, purple and red yarn, fine linen, cloth that made of hair of the goat, skin of the male sheep that dyed red, and good kind of leather.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And other people brought their needle thread which was red and somewhat red and blue which they made from sipsips’ hair, and good cloths, and male sipsips’ skins on which they rubbed red paint, and dugong skins.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And thread good which be green/blue, with that which be purple, with that which be red, with hair of sheep/goats, with skins of sheep/goats which they apply with red stuff, with skins of which be soft, they who have it all, they took it.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “And many people who had blue, purple, or red cloth or fine white linen or cloth made from goats’ hair or rams’ skins that were tanned/dyed red or leather made from goatskins brought some of these things.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 36:21)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 36:21:

  • Kupsabiny: “All those frames had a height of fifteen feet and width of two feet and three inches.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Each plank was ten cubits long and a cubit and half wide.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The length of each frame was 15 feet and the width was two feet.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “Each of the studs had a length amounting to two and a half fathoms. And the cross-pieces between each of the studs had a length of 27 inches (lit. extending to our[incl] armpit).” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Tree which they build, its height be joint of hand which be 10, and width of the one be joint of hand one and a half.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Each frame was 15 feet/4.5 meters long and 27 in./66 cm. wide.” (Source: Translation for Translators)