complete verse (Exodus 21:33)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:33:

  • Kupsabiny: “If a person has opened or dug a hole/grave/pit and not closed it and after that someone’s cow or donkey falls into that hole/pit,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “if anyone uncovers a pit and an ox or a donkey falls into it,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Example, a man takes-off the cover of a well or digs a well and does- not -cover it, and a cow/bull or donkey falls into that well,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘If a man removes the opening of a hole-trap’s cover, or if he digs a hole-trap yet doesn’t cover it, and so another man’s bulmakao or donki falls down into it and dies,” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “If a man dug hole, not it head cover, and cow or donkey fall there,” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Suppose someone has a pit/cistern and does not keep it covered, and someone’s bull or donkey falls into it and dies.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 22:29)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 22:29:

  • Kupsabiny: “Offer me my portion of your food, and you need to give me your first born sons.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Do not hold back offerings from your granaries and set apart your firstborn sons to me.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] do- not -forget to-give offerings to me from your (plur.) crops and the juice of the fruit.
    ‘[You (plur.)] dedicate to me your (plur.) first-born sons,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘You (pl.) can’t/mustn’t hold back your wit and oain and oliv oil from me. You must offer some of it to be your offering to me.
    ‘You must put your firstborn male children up into my control/authority (lit. hand).” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “If you will harvest sorghum, or make alcohol, or squeeze oil, you (sing., imp.) give me mine all, not (imp.) a portion take away.
    Give me male firstborn your.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Do not withhold from/Give me the best parts of the grain that you harvest and of the olive oil and the wine that you produce.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 23:30)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:30:

  • Kupsabiny: “But I will be chasing them away little by little until you all come and occupy that place.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “But I will drive them out before you a little at a time, until you possess the land.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will-drive- them -out little-by-little until you (plur.) have-become-many/have-increased and can now take-possession of the land.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “I’m going to destroy them a little at a time until you (pl.) become numerous and so completely fill that land and stand strong in it.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Therefore, I will chased them away out slowly, until you will go be many, will possess that country all.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “I will expel those people-groups slowly, a few at a time, until the number of your people increases and you are able to live everywhere in the land.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 25:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 25:11:

  • Kupsabiny: “Inside and outside (it) should be coated with pure gold and a rim of gold should be attached to surround/encircle (it).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “You overlap pure gold inside and outside. And gold molding around it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Cover/(Overlay) this with pure gold inside and outside, and have- a gold strip/(molding of gold) -put-on the sides of-it.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And you (pl.) must take good gol and then cook it with fire so that it becomes soft, and then blow away all its rubbish. And when it’s done then take a wide piece of that gol, and then affix it onto the box’s interior and wrap it on its exterior outside also. And also, you must affix a long piece of gol to be for the box’s fastening strap which goes around it.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “you apply it with gold red, its back with its belly, you add gold red on its edge.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Cover it with pure gold inside and outside, and put a gold border around the top of it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 26:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 26:3:

  • Kupsabiny: “Someone stitch/sew the five curtains together to become one big cloth and then someone stitch/sew also the other five to become one big cloth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Make a single cloth by joining the five cloth panels. And do the same to the other five cloth panels too.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Join five of these (together); (join) five of them twice.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “Sew five cloths so that they go and join together and so become long. And do like that also with the other five cloths.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Five, you shall sew it together, and five other, you do it thus.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Tell them to sew five strips together to make one set, and sew the other five strips together to make another set.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 26:35)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 26:35:

  • Kupsabiny: “In that Tent of God, place the table of the breads of God in the sitting (outer) room on the right hand as you enter in. Place the thing on which lamps are put at the left hand side as you enter into the Tent.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Then outside of the curtain put the table on the north side of the Holy Place. Likewise, on the south side of the Holy Place put the lampstand opposite of the table.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Put the table outside the Most Holy Place, on the north side of the Tent, and put in-front-of the table the thing-to-put- the light/lamp -on.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And when it’s done, then take the table which exists for the bret offering, and then put it in my shelter’s interior, in the place which has a somewhat great taboo toward the not. And place the lams stand in that interior of the shelter toward the saut.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And table, you put it inside of tent on the left outside of sacred-place, and lampstand, you shall put it on the right before its face.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “In the room that is outside of the Very Holy Place, they must put the table for the sacred bread on the north side, and put the lampstand on the south side.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 28:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 28:9:

  • Kupsabiny: “Someone get two onyx stones and engrave the twelve names of Jacob’s sons inside.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Taking two onyxes engrave the names of the sons of Israel in it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Then [you (sing.)] have-(someone)-get two onyx stones and engrave on-them the names of the male children of Jacob.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘And also, they must take two oniks stones and then engrave (lit. make cuttings) Iakop’s twelve children’s names onto [them].” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And they must also take gem black two, writing name of male children of Israel there.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “A skilled workman must take two expensive onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the twelve sons of Jacob.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 28:41)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 28:41:

  • Kupsabiny: “After that, dress your brother Aaron and his sons with these clothes. and anoint them with olive oil to serve me in burning sacrifices.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Having put on these clothes to be worn by your brother Aaron and his sons anoint them. Consecrate them. After they have been installed in this way to be priests they can serve me as priest.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Have- your (sing.) sibling/(brother) Aaron and his children/(sons) -put-on these clothes/garments, and then [you (sing.)] rub-on them with oil and ordain (them). Dedicate them to me so they may-serve me as priests.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And when you (pl.) decorate Aron and his male children with all these decorations and it’s done, pour oil onto their heads in order to place a mark of ownership on them for doing my work.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “So your brother namely Aaron and his male children, you shall dress them those clothes together, apply them oil, consecrate them, in order that they might be my priests, they might do for me thing.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Put these clothes on your older brother Aaron and on his sons. Then set them apart/dedicate them for this work by anointing them with olive oil, in order that they may serve me by being priests.” (Source: Translation for Translators)