Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 20:16:
- Kupsabiny: “Don’t (sing.) tie a lie on someone/accuse someone falsely.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] do- not -testify with lies against your (plur.) fellowmen.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘If/when you (sing.) testify in court (lit. stand up for talk), you can’t/mustn’t lie and so accuse your fellow human with false (lit. nothing) charges.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Not [mouth] lie for another.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Do not falsely accuse anyone of committing a crime.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:22:
- Kupsabiny: “If two people fight and one of them knocks a pregnant woman until she bears (the) child without having reached its/her days, the person who knocked should pay basing on what her husband will ask for and that should be what the council has decided.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely, but nothing happens to her, then the man who injured her shall be fined whatever amount the man’s husband shall demand and as the judges approve.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘If there-has-been a fight and a woman who was-pregnant got-hit, and this-one has-given-birth before the hour/time, but nothing bad happened to her, the one-who-hits will-be-made-to-pay according-to the price that the husband asks-for and judges approve-of.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘And if people are fighting, and a pregnant woman is standing nearby, and then they strike her, and so her child dies, yet that woman doesn’t die, the man who struck the woman, he must pay that woman’s spouse however much he wants. But the people of straightening disputes, they must be in agreement with how much he pays to the woman’s spouse.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If some will hit (recip.), if they will hit one (fem.) who is pregnant, and child will fall down with health, one who hit her, let him give her money which her husband say which judges approve.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Suppose two people are fighting and they hurt a pregnant woman with the result that she has a miscarriage/her baby is born prematurely and dies. If the woman is not harmed in any other way, the one who injured her must pay a fine. He must pay whatever the woman’s husband demands, after a judge approves of the fine.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 22:18:
- Kupsabiny: “A woman who is a sorcerer should be killed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “’Do not allow a sorceress to live.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] kill/put-to-death the sorceresses.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘If any woman practices magic, you (pl.) must strike her dead.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “tassel-hitter (fem.), let her not (imp.) live.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “You must execute any woman who practices sorcery/is a shaman.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:19:
- Kupsabiny: “In every year, you (plur.) should be bringing to me your God the firstfruits from your (plur.) garden.
No one should cook a young goat using her mother’s milk.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Bring the best of the first fruit of your field to the house of the Lord your God’ Do not cook a young goat in its mother’ s milk.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] bring to the temple of the LORD your (plur.) God the best part of your (plur.) first crops.
‘[You (plur.)] do- 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 my shelter, and so it becomes an offering to me, your Chief God.
‘You can’t/mustn’t cook any newly grown meme in a clay pot together with its mother’s milk.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “From food beginning which you will harvest, that which be good, you (sing., imp.) carry it [this direction] my house, I Yahweh who be God your.
Child of goat, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) it boil with milk of its mother.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Each year, when you harvest your crops, bring to the place where you worship me, Yahweh God, the first part of what you harvest. When you kill a young animal/kid or lamb or calf, do not prepare to eat it by boiling it in its mother’s milk.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 24:18:
- Kupsabiny: “After that, Moses moved up until he entered into that cloud. He stayed in that mountain for forty days.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “So Moises entered the cloud as he climbed-up the mountain. He stayed there on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights. For the Israelinhon there at the bottom, the powerful presence of the LORD on top of the mountain looked-like a burning fire.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “It came about that Moses climbed and ascended to the top of the mountain, and he entered the interior of the cloud. And then Moses stayed living there on the mountain for a duration of forty days and nights.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Moses go enter inside of cloud, go climb top of mountain. And he stay there during daytime and night with day which be 40.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Moses/I went into the cloud on top of the mountain. He/I was there for 40 days and nights.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 25:32:
- Kupsabiny: “That thing should be having six branches three being on this side and three being on the other side of the stem/backbone.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “It will becomes six branches are to extend of out sides. three on one side of lampstand and three on the other side.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The thing-to-put- the lamp -on has six branches, three from each side.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “You (pl.) must make the lam stand’s trunk together with its six branches, three on one side and three on the other.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Make it [so that] it have hand six, the three on one half, the three on one half.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “There are to be six branches on the lampstand, three on each side of the shaft.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 26:24:
- Kupsabiny: “The two frames for the corners on the lower side should be made/fused together and then they are to be fixed tightly with one ring on the upper side.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “These must overlap from top to bottom.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “These corner boards will-be-joined/connected well from the bottom and made-tight to the top passing-through the one loop/thing-like-a-ring. The two corner boards must be-made the exact same way.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “At these two corners of the shelter’s back side, attach those pieces of wall bones with ring-handles and hooks, from its base going upward. Attach both of the corners of the shelter’s back side like that.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Wood these two [which] you will build on a corner , not (imp.) it bind below, bind it approximately crossbeam of above and its head. you shall did it thus on its both.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “The two corner frames must be joined from the bottom to the top (OR, joined at both the bottom and the top). At the top of each of the two corner frames there must be a gold ring for holding the crossbar.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 27:19:
- Kupsabiny: “All the utensils in this Tent should be made of bronze, including all the pegs used for stretching the Tent and the compound.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “All the utensils used in the tent, pegs of tent and pegs of courtyard must be of bronze.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “All the things-for-use in the Place-of-Worship Tent must- all -be pure bronze including all the pegs to-support the Tent and the curtains of the courtyard.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “And you (pl.) must take only bras and so use it for all the work-things of my shelter. And also, make small bras fasteners (lit. holders) for holding the ropes of the shelter, and so later you will pound them into the ground.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “And other things which will be present inside of Dwelling-Tent-of-God all, and nail of tent with nail of fence all, you shall forge it with metal red.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “All the things that are not made of gold that are to be used inside the Sacred Tent and in the courtyard, and all the tent pegs to support the Sacred Tent and the curtains, must be made of bronze.” (Source: Translation for Translators)