Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 4:11:
- Kupsabiny: “You are only allowed to drink only two cups of water.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And about half a liter only of water is what you are-going-to-drink each day at set times also.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Also measure out 1.5 pints/0.6 liter of water to drink each day.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 4:12:
- Kupsabiny: “You shall use dried excrements to burn/light a fire and bake bread and eat (it) while everybody is watching.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You bake bread each day while the people are looking. Bake this like the baking of barley bread. Use as firewood the dried dung of a man. And then eat the bread.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Eat that bread like you would eat a loaf of barley bread. But use your own dried dung for fuel to bake the bread while people are watching.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 4:13:
- Kupsabiny: “This shows that the people of Israel shall eat food that the law does not allow when they are in the middle of the other/foreign communities where they have been scattered to.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For like this also is what will-happen to the people of Israel, they will-eat food which is-considered dirty in the places where I will-cause- them -to-be-captives.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “That will symbolize that the Israeli people will be forced to eat food that is unacceptable to me when they are living in the nations to which I will force them to go.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 4:14:
- Kupsabiny: “Then I said, ‘Oh no, God of power, but I have never defiled myself. I have not eaten anything unclean from when I was a child until now like: something that has died, something an animal has killed or any food that is not clean.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But I said, ‘O Lord GOD, I have never ever let- myself -get-dirty/become-unclean since my childhood until now. I never ever have-eaten an animal that just died or was-killed by another animal. I have not eaten an animal that is-being-considered unclean.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then I said, ‘No, Yahweh God!Do not force me to do that! I have never caused myself to become unacceptable to you by doing anything like that. From the time when I was young, I have never eaten meat of any animal that was found dead or that had been killed by wild animals. And I have never eaten any meat that is unacceptable to you.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 4:15:
- Kupsabiny: “He said to me, ‘Well then, light the fire with dry cow dung instead of excrements of people.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD replied, ‘Okay, just use the dung of a cow as firewood instead of the dung of a man.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh replied, ‘Okay, I will allow you to bake your bread using dried cow manure instead of human dungfor fuel.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 4:16:
- Kupsabiny: “He then said to me, ‘Ezekiel, I shall make scarce the food that is being brought to Jerusalem. People shall scramble for the rationed food with much anxiety and drink water in anxiety” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD still said, ‘Man, I will-cause-to-become-scarce the food in Jerusalem. The residents of Jerusalem will-measure their food and water and they will-eat and will-drink worrying and mourning.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then he said to me, ‘You human, I will cause the supply of food to Jerusalem to be cut off. Then the people will eat the small amounts of food and drink the small amounts of waterthat the government permits them to have, and they will be very distressed and anxious as they do that,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 4:17:
- Kupsabiny: “because food and water shall be in short supply. They shall be in trouble/despair and be ashamed on account of their sins.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And because of the scarcity of food and water, they will-look-at-each-other stunned, and they will- gradually -die because of their sin.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “because water and food will be very scarce. They will see each other becoming extremely thin, and they will be appalled; but this will happen because they are being punished for the sins that they have committed.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 5:1:
- Kupsabiny: “God said to me, ‘Ezekiel, take a sharp sword and shave your beard and your hair. Collect it all in one place and then divided it into three.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD still said to me, ‘Man, you take a sharp sword and use it to shave your hair and beard. Then weigh your hair and beard to divide it into three parts.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘Also, you human, when you start doing those things, take a sharp sword and use it like a razor to shave your head and your beard. Then put the hair that you shaved off on scales, and divide the hairinto three equal parts.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
