Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:37:

• Kupsabiny: “They worshipped idols and murdered (people). They listened to idols and killed their children whom they bore for me to become sacrifices to those idols.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “For they committed-adultery and killed. They committed-adultery by worshipping little-gods, and their children themselves, whom they dedicated to me when they were born, they offered to the little-gods/false-gods as their food.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “It is as though the people of those cities have committed adultery and have murdered people. They have been unfaithful to me by worshiping idols. They have even sacrificed their own children, who belonged to me, to be food for their idols.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:38:

• Kupsabiny: “They also insulted my house and broke the day of Sabbath that I had set aside.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Aside from that, they still defiled my temple and the Day For-Resting which I caused- them -to-be-followed. On the day they offered their children to their little-gods, they entered my temple, and that even on the Day For-Resting.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “They have done otherdisgraceful things: They have caused my temple to be an unacceptable place for worship, and have not respected the Sabbath days.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:39:

• Kupsabiny: “On that same day when they killed their children to make them sacrifices to those idols, they came to enter that house of mine to defile it!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Aside from that, they still defiled my temple and the Day For-Resting which I caused- them -to-be-followed. On the day they offered their children to their little-gods, they entered my temple, and that even on the Day For-Resting.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “On the same day that they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my temple, which caused it to be an unacceptable place for worshiping me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:40:

• Kupsabiny: “(He/they) sent also people to go and call men to come from countries far away. And when they arrived, those two girls bathed and blackened their eyelids and put on necklaces.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They even sent for men from far places. And when these men arrived, they took-a-bath and caused-[themselves-] to-become-beautiful, and wear jewelries.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “They sent messages to men in countries far away. And when those men arrived, the women of those two cities bathed themselves for them, painted their eyebrows, and put on jewelry.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:41:

• Kupsabiny: “Those girls sat down on beautiful chairs and there was in front of them a table with things that smell sweet and my oil.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then they sat-down on a beautiful bed, where in front of this there is a table. They put incense and oil there on the table which would-have-been-offered to me.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “They sat on a beautiful couch, with a table in front of it on which they had put incense and olive oil that belonged to me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:42:

• Kupsabiny: “Then drunkards who had come from a desert land made a lot of noise. They put arm rings on those women and beautiful hats on them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “(It) can-be-heard from their room the noise of the drunkards and people who-are-easy-go-lucky, who came from the desolate-place/desert. These people caused- them -to-put bracelets and put-on a beautiful crown.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Soon there was a noisy crowd around them. Among the crowd there were men from Sheba who had come from the desertof Arabia. They put bracelets on the arms of the two sisters and put beautiful crowns on their heads.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:43:

• Kupsabiny: “I said to myself (in my stomach), ‘Let these people sleep with these women whom men have stepped on until they were worn out.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then I said to myself, ‘Let- them -be-satisfied having-sex with those women who just became-old in selling their body.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then I said about the woman who had become exhausted by her having sex with many men, ‘Now allow those men to act toward her as though she is a prostitute, because that is all that she is.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:44:

• Kupsabiny: “Those men repeatedly came to the prostitutes Oholah and Oholibah.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Indeed that-was what they did. They laid-down-beside/(have-sexual-relations-with) Ohola and Oholiba, the two dirty/rude women who sell their body.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So they had sex with those two women, Oholah and Oholibah, like men have sex with prostitutes.” (Source: Translation for Translators)