complete verse (Exodus 20:26)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 20:26:

  • Kupsabiny: “Don’t make something for climbing up on for that altar/sacrificial place, because if/when someone is climbing up, (the) private parts might be seen.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Do not make steps for the altar, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “And [you (plur.)] do- not also -make an altar that has steps for you (plur.) might be-exposed when you (plur.) climb.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And you (pl.) can’t/mustn’t make my table of offerings so that it rises above. Lest you step up onto the stairway/ladder and go up and then people see your skin/body.’ ’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Also my altar, you not its head climb, because they will see you underparts.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Do not make an altar that has steps in front of it, because if you do that, people could see your naked buttocks as you go up the steps.’’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 21:32)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 21:32:

  • Kupsabiny: “And/But if that bull has pierced a male or female slave, then the owner of the bull pays up to thirty pieces of silver to the owner of the slave. After that, the bull is stoned to death.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If an ox gores to someone’s manservant or maid servant to the death, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of the slave, and the ox must be stoned to death.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If the bull/(cow) gores a slave, male or female, the owner must pay 30 pieces of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull/(cow) must be-stoned until will-die.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And if the bulmakao strikes another man’s male or female laborer, the bulmakao’s owner will pay the laborer’s chief with thirty silva coins. And they must strike that bulmakao with stones so that it dies.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “If cow will butt slave, male or woman, they must strike it with stone [that] it might die, and owner of cow, let him give chief of slave coin of gold which be 30 (thirty).” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “If a bull attacks and gores a male or female slave, its owner must pay to the slave’s owner 30 pieces of silver. Then you must kill the bull by throwing stones at it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 22:28)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 22:28:

  • Kupsabiny: “Don’t talk ill of God or curse the any leader of your people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Do not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] do- not -blaspheme God and [you (plur.)] do- not -curse your (plur.) leader.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “‘You (pl.) can’t/mustn’t talk badly about your leader(s). And don’t talk badly about God either.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Do not (imp.) God insult, and not (imp.) chief of people your curse.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Do not revile/speak evil about me, and do not curse/ask me to do harmful things to any ruler of your people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 23:29)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:29:

  • Kupsabiny: “You (plur.) will not chase all within one year because that country will be (too) big/wide for you and animals will be too many for you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become fearful and the wild animals would become too many in their numbers.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “But I will- not -drive them out in only one year so-that this-particular land will- not become lonely/desolate and so-that the wild animals will- not -become too many there.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “But I won’t drive them away so that they’re finished in one year. Lest that land remain empty and so the wild animals become numerous and then be destroying you.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “But, I not them out will chase away with year one, because when they will disappear together, place their will be wild, and wild animals will multiply, will be many there.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “I will not expel all of them in less than one year. If I did that, your land would become deserted, and there would be very many wild animals that would attack you/you would not be able to control.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 25:10)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 25:10:

  • Kupsabiny: “Let a Covenant Box be made using boards from an acacia tree. It should have a length of forty five inches, width of twenty seven inches and a height of twenty seven inches.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “You will make an ark of acacia wood, 1.1 m long, 66 cm wide and 66 cm high.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘[You (sing.)] have-(someone)-make a box of acacia/[akasya] — about 45 inches long, about 27 inches wide, and about 27 inches high.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “God spoke to Moses again like this, ‘And so the people will make a box from akas wood, having a length which extends 45 inches (lit. [from our fingertip to] our[incl] opposite shoulder), and having a width which extends 27 inches (lit. [from our fingertip to] our[incl] armpit), and its height extends 27 inches also.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “«you (sing., imp.) say to them they must build for me sacred box with tree white-acacia. Length of its bottom, let it be joint of hand two and a half, and its width, let it be joint of hand one and a half, and length of its height, let it be joint of hand one and a half.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “‘Tell the people to make a sacred chest from acacia wood. It is to be 45 in./110 cm. long, 27 in./66 cm. wide, and 27 in./66 cm. high.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 26:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 26:2:

  • Kupsabiny: “Those curtains must be of the same size, each having a length of twelve meters and width of two meters.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Each cloth panel must be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide. All cloth panels must be of same size.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Each clothing-material must have a length of 42 feet and have a width of six feet.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “All these cloths must turn out the same. Their length will amount to seven fathoms. Note: a fathom is the equivalent of 6 feet. And their width will amount to one fathom.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “That flax cloth, the one let it not (imp.) the one be greater with length with width. Its length, let it be joint of hand which be 28, and its width, let it be joint of hand four.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Each strip is to be 14 yards/twelve meters long and 2 yards/1.8 meters wide.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 26:34)

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

  • Kupsabiny: “After that the Covenant box is to be closed with a lid.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Put the mercy seat on top of the ark of the covenant in the Most Holy Place.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The Box of the Agreement should be-put there in the Most Holy Place, and it should have a cover/lid.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “Place that box of the law so that it goes into the place which has a very great taboo, and then close that box with its top. That top of the box, it’s the place in which blood wipes away people’s bad deeds, and so I am at peace again concerning them.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And sacred box which be present inside of sacred-place which have stone be flat which I write word of my agreement there, you cover it head with place-of-mercy.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “On top of the chest in the Very Holy Place they must put the lid which will be the place where blood will be sprinkled to forgive people’s sins.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 28:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 28:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “(The) rope/band for the waist should be woven wisely using those things and be sewn into that (aforementioned) cloth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The sash of fine linen must be on top of ephod woven with blue, purple and red thread and gold thread skillfully.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The cloth-belt (is to be) linen embroidered with gold thread and blue, purple, and red wool.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And also, they must take needle thread which is red and somewhat red and blue and then make the belt of his middle. And they must weave small gol cords onto them also. And when it’s done, then they [must] sew this belt onto the edge of that cloth for his trunk, and so it goes and becomes like one cloth.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “They must sew its belt thus, with gold, with thread good which be purple, and that which be red, and that which be green/blue, as wise people do it.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “A carefully-woven sash, which must be made from the same materials as the sacred apron, must be sewn onto the sacred apron.” (Source: Translation for Translators)