Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 44:21:

• Kupsabiny: “Priests are not to enter the inner courtyard of the House of God after having drunk wine.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They will- also not -drink wine when they will-go to the inner courtyard.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Priests must not drink wine before they enter the inner courtyard.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 44:22:

• Kupsabiny: “A priest must not marry a wife/woman that her husband has chased away. They are allowed to marry a virgin who is an Israelite. And if he wishes to marry a widow, marry a widow of another priest.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They will- not -make-a-wife/marry a widow or with a woman who has-been-separated by her husband. Who they will-make-into-a-wife/marry are only those virgin Israelinhon, or the widows of the priests.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Also, priests must not marry widows of men who were not priests or women who have been divorced. Priests are permitted to marry only Israeli virgins or widows of other priests.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

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

• Kupsabiny: “The priests should teach my people the difference between what is clean/holy and not clean/holy. They should also teach the difference between what is ritually clean and not ritually clean.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They need to teach my people what is holy and not holy, what is clean and dirty.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Priests must teach the people the difference between things that are holy/sacred and things that are not, and they must teach them the difference between things that are acceptable to me and things that are not.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 44:24:

• Kupsabiny: “If people quarrel scrambling for something, the priests are to reconcile (them) using my laws. They are to keep the days for celebrating the feasts of prayer/religion like it is ruled in my laws and my will, and keep the day of Sabbath to be one of righteousness.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “If there are arguments, the priests will-be- the ones -to-judge and will-decide according to my laws. The priest must follow my commands and statutes concerning the feasts which I cause-to-be-followed, and they will-make-holy the Day For-Resting.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “When there are disputes between people, the priests are the ones who must be the judges and decide according to my laws what must be done. They must obey all my laws and decrees concerning the sacred festivals, and they must keep my Sabbath days holy/set apart.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 44:25:

• Kupsabiny: “A priest must not touch a corpse because it may make him unclean except maybe only if it is their parents, children, brothers or sisters who are not yet married.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They should not defile their themselves by touching the corpse aside only if the one-who-died was his father or mother, or his child, or his male sibling/(brother), or his female sibling/(sister) who has no husband yet.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “A priest is permitted to go near the corpse of his father or his mother or his son or his daughter or his brother or his unmarried sister; but he is still defiled by doing that. But a priest must not defile himself by going near a corpse of anyone else.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 44:26:

• Kupsabiny: “But if he happens to touch (them), a cleansing sacrifice must be prepared and he is to stay for seven days so he can become clean.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “If he can-touch the corpse, he needs to-be-cleansed and wait first for seven days.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But even if a priest touches the corpse of a close relative, he must perform the rituals to become acceptable to serve me again. After he performs those rituals, he must wait seven days.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 44:27:

• Kupsabiny: “And when he enters the inner courtyard to bring sacrifices, he must bring a thing that is used as a sacrifice so as to sweep away sin. It is I the God of power who has spoken.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “And when he goes-inside the inner courtyard of the temple to serve there, he should first offer an offering for cleaning for himself. I, the Lord GOD (am) the-(one) saying this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then, on the day that he enters the inner courtyard again to serve me in the temple, he must give an offering to remove his guilt for his sin. That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 44:28:

• Kupsabiny: “The priests do not get fields in Israel because I am the one to take care of them. I have set them aside to do the burning of sacrifices.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The LORD continued to say, ‘There is no land which is-to-be-inherited by the priests in Israel, for I myself will-give their needs.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “The priests are not permitted to own any property. They will have only what I provide for them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)