complete verse (Exodus 1:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 1:17:

  • Kupsabiny: “But as those midwives/women obeyed/feared God, they did not strangle/kill the boys as the king had told them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “[But] the midwives were the God-fearing, so they did not even kill the sons that were born as the Pharaoh of Egypt commanded them.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “But because the midwives were-afraid of God, they did- not -obey what the king said, instead they allowed the newly-born males/(boys) to-live.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “But those two women feared God and so didn’t follow the talk of the great chief of the Isip people. They left the male children so that they stayed [well].” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “But, women those two, they fear God. That which king of Egypt said to them, they not it did. They leave male children of Hebrew that they might live.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “But the midwives feared/revered God. So they did not do what the king told them to do. They allowed the baby boys to live.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 3:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 3:2:

  • Kupsabiny: “There, God showed himself to Moses in a fire which was burning/shining inside a bush. As Moses wanted to investigate, the fire was shining but the bush was not on fire/burning (up).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “There in the flame of fire within the middle of bush, the angel of the Lord appeared. Moses saw that there was no effect on the bush from the burning fire.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in the form/appearance of a blazing fire in the middle/midst of a bush. Moises saw that the bush was-blazing/on-fire but it did- not -burn-up.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “There the anggelo of the Chief appeared to him as a fire blazing on a small tree’s branches. Suddenly Moses saw the small tree on which fire was blazing, but the fire didn’t cook that tree’s leaves and branches at all.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And angel of God showed him [body] there, appearing as fire which blaze was burning inside of tree. And Moses saw it that fire which blaze was burning inside of tree, it not tree consumes.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “One day Yahweh appeared/revealed himself to him/me, looking like an angel. The angel appeared in a flame of fire in the middle of a bush that was burning. Moses/I looked at it, and he/I was surprised that the bush was burning, but it was not burning up.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 4:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 4:12:

  • Kupsabiny: “Therefore, go! I will help you when you are talking/speaking and I will show you what you are going to say.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “That being the case, go, I will help you speak and will teach you what you must say."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “So go, for I will-help you (sing.) speak and I will-teach you (sing.) what you (sing.) (are) to-say.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “Therefore go. I will help you with talk, and so teach you with what talk you [must] speak.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Therefore, you go. I will help you speak. That which you will speak, I will show you it.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “So start going to Egypt, and I will help you to speak , and I will tell you what you should say.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 5:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:13:

  • Kupsabiny: “Those in charge and the guards forced those servants/slaves to make as many bricks as they used to make when they were still given straws.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The slave drivers pressurized the people saying, ‘How ever much work you were doing before when you were getting the straw, you must do that much work.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The ones who-rule-over kept-pressing/hurrying them saying, ‘You (plur.) make particularly the same number of bricks each day like what you (plur.) were-doing before when you (plur.) were- still -given straw.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “But the work leaders of the Isip people hurried them and so said, ‘You (pl.) must finish your work each and every day, similarly as in the recent past [when] we were giving weeds to you.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And chiefs of work their were rushing them, saying to them like this «Finish work your! Bricks which you make by day by day which they bring here for you grass at the beginning, you make it that it might be sufficient like it!»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “The slave bosses kept telling them insistently, ‘Finish the work you are required to do each day, making the same amount of bricks as you did before, when we gave you straw!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 6:22)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 6:22:

  • Kupsabiny: “And the men of Uzziel are: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan and Sithri.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The male children of Uziel they were-namely Mishael, Elzafan, and Sitri.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And Usiel’s male children’s names were as follows: Misael and Elsapan and Sitri.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And male children of Uzziel, be Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 7:24)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 7:24:

  • Kupsabiny: “The people of Egypt began to dig besides the riverbanks because they could not be able to drink the water of the river.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “All the Egyptians dug right and left along the river Nile to get drinking water, because they could not drink the water from the river.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The Egiptohanon dug around of Nile River so-that (they) could-get a drink (of) water, for they could- no-longer -drink the water in the river.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And the Isip people weren’t able to drink the water [of] the Nail, therefore they were digging water holes at the edge of the Nail to get their water.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And people of Egypt all, they dug well at side of river, because they not water of Nile be able to drink.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “The Egyptians dug into the ground near the Nile River to get water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 8:31)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 8:31:

  • Kupsabiny: “God did as Moses had prayed.The flies left the house of the ruler, his leaders/officials and his people. There was no single fly that was left.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The Lord did what Moses said. The flies left Pharo, his officials and his people; not even a single fly remained.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “and the LORD fulfilled what Moises asked-for/requested. The insects left all the Egiptohanon. There-was-not left any [emphasis] of insects.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And then the Chief did as Moses asked him about. The flies left the great chief of Isip and his leaders and his people. No fly stayed at all.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And The Lord did it as Moses entreated. He chased away fly from place of king, and place of his servants, and place of his people. There was not one which remained.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “And Yahweh did what Moses/I asked, and he got rid of the swarms of flies from around the king and his officials and the rest of his people. No flies remained.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 9:31)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 9:31:

  • Kupsabiny: “(Other/Some things like barley were destroyed because those were the days of harvesting those things,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The blossoms of the flax and the barley harvest were destroyed because the barley had formed heads and the flax was budding.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “(The plants which (are) flax and barley were-ruined/destroyed for the barley (is) now ready-to-be-harvested and the flax is- now -flowering.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “In that day, the hard raindrops destroyed all the pleks and bali in the garden, because that day was the season of those things.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “(On season which this occurred, flax flowered and barley fruited. Therefore, it was spoiled all with falling of hail.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “When the hail fell, the flax was ruined because the buds were forming, and the barley was ruined because its grain was ripe.” (Source: Translation for Translators)