Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:13:

• Kupsabiny: “Those in charge and the guards forced those servants/slaves to make as many bricks as they used to make when they were still given straws.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “The slave drivers pressurized the people saying, ‘How ever much work you were doing before when you were getting the straw, you must do that much work.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The ones who-rule-over kept-pressing/hurrying them saying, ‘You (plur.) make particularly the same number of bricks each day like what you (plur.) were-doing before when you (plur.) were- still -given straw.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “But the work leaders of the Isip people hurried them and so said, ‘You (pl.) must finish your work each and every day, similarly as in the recent past [when] we were giving weeds to you.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “And chiefs of work their were rushing them, saying to them like this «Finish work your! Bricks which you make by day by day which they bring here for you grass at the beginning, you make it that it might be sufficient like it!»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “The slave bosses kept telling them insistently, ‘Finish the work you are required to do each day, making the same amount of bricks as you did before, when we gave you straw!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:14:

• Kupsabiny: “Then those Egyptian leaders beat the people of Israel who were in charge of /the foremen) those slaves. They asked, ‘Why have you not made the bricks like what you used to make?’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “The slave drivers beat the foreman from Israel saying, ‘Why are you making a smaller number of bricks than before?’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then they beat/whipped the Israelinhon foremen and asked, ‘Why were- you (plur.) not -able-to-do yesterday and today the number of bricks that has-been-assigned- for you (plur.) -to-do, which (is) the same number in-time-past?’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “And then the work leaders of the Isip people were whipping the Israel people’s spokespersons of the laborers and so said, ‘Why is it that you didn’t finish your work of making hard stones yesterday and today, as your were doing before?’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “And people of Israel who chiefs of work put for head of work, they took them, beat them, asking like this «Today yesterday, What is it that you not for it bricks make that it might be fulfilled as when you made it previously?»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “When they were not able to do that, the slave bosses had the Israeli supervisors beaten with sticks, and they asked them, ‘Why have all the men you are supervising not been able to make the same number of bricks today/now as they did before ?’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:15:

• Kupsabiny: “So the Israelites who were in charge of slaves went to plead to the ruler and told him that, ‘Ruler/King, what is this you have done to us?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Then the Israelite foremen went to Pharaoh and said, ‘Why are you doing this to yourselves?’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “So then Israelinhon foremen went to the king and complained, ‘Why is (like)-this your (sing.) treatment to us (excl.) your (sing.) servants?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “Therefore the Israel people’s spokespersons of the laborers cried to the great chief of Isip like this, ‘Why is it that you do like this to us (excl.) your laborers?” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “Therefore foremen of work of people of Israel went to king of Egypt, said to him «What is it that servants your are doing for it us (excl.) evil like this?” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “Then the Israeli supervisors went to the king and complained, saying ‘Your Majesty, why are you treating us this way?” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:16:

• Kupsabiny: “We are not given straws to use. All along we have been forced to make clay for building! Now we are beaten for nothing and the mistake/fault is by your people.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “They don’t give straw to our people but ask us to make as many bricks as before. We, yourselves, are getting the beating but the fault is your people’s only.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “We (excl.) are-given no straw, but we (excl.) are-forced to-make the same number of bricks, and we (excl.) are- yet/still -beaten. This (is) really the fault of your (sing.) people!’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “They didn’t give dry weeds to us, yet they [yell to] hurry us, your laborers, in the making of hard stones. Yo, they’re whipping us, but we don’t have any bad fault. The bad fault is you Isip people’s.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “They not we (excl.) grass give, but they rush us (excl.) in work, saying to us (excl.) ‹Make bricks!› Afterwards they beat us (excl.), but it is your people that sin!»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “Now they are not giving us any straw for making bricks, but they keep commanding us to make bricks. And now sometimes they beat us. But it is the fault of your own slave bosses that we cannot make as many bricks as before!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:17:

• Kupsabiny: “That ruler replied that, ‘Lazy ones! That is the thing making you to desire to go and sacrifice to your God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “But Pharaoh said, ‘You are lazy, Lazy. Therefore, you say, ‘let us go to sacrifice to the Lord.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The king said, ‘You (plur.) (are) very lazy (once), that is why you (plur.) are-requesting/asking that I let- you (plur.) -go so-that you (plur.) can-sacrifice/offer to the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “And then the great chief of Isip said, ‘You are people of laziness! Therefore you are insistent and so say, ‘Consent to us in order that we go make offerings to our (excl.) Chief.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “And he answered for them it «you are idle! you are idle! That is what you say for it ‹let us (excl.) go give Yahweh thing on altar.›” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “But the king said, ‘You are lazy and do not want to work! That is why you keep saying, ‘Allow us to go to the desert and offer sacrifices to Yahweh.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:18:

• Kupsabiny: “Now get away from here and go and do work. No one is going to give you straws, but I want to see to it that you make the bricks the same as usual.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Now go and do your work. You won’t be getting a piece of straw but still you must give the same number of brick.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “[You (plur.)] go-back now to your (plur.) work! You (plur.) will- no-longer -be-given straw, but you (plur.) are- still -to-make particularly the same number of bricks.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “Okay, return to your (pl.) work! We won’t give you dry weeds to you, but you must make many hard stones similarly as always.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “you return to work. There is no grass which they will give you. And you make bricks which be sufficient!»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “So go and get back to work! We are not going to give you any straw, but you must keep making the same number of bricks!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:19:

• Kupsabiny: “That is how when those Israelites who were in charge of the other slaves knew that they are in where a person is/in big trouble/danger concerning what the leader had said because they were supposed to make the bricks as many as those they had been making.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “When the Israelites foremen heard that, ’whatever the daily number of bricks you must give that many brick, you must make them realized they were in trouble.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Because the king insisted that they surely must-make the number of bricks that had-been-assigned- for them -to-do each day, the Israelinhon foremen realized that (it) (would be) very hard/difficult for them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “Okay, the Israel people’s spokespersons of the laborers heard the great chief say that they weren’t able to move the number of hard stones down each and every day, and so they knew, a very difficult event had just happened to them.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “And foremen of work of people of Israel saw it be bad for them very, because king said to them «Bricks which you make by day, it not is necessary that it might be few from that of beginning.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “The Israeli supervisors realized that they were in a difficult situation, because they had been told, ‘We are not going to decrease the number of bricks you must make each day.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 5:20:

• Kupsabiny: “And after they had left there, those people met Moses and Aaron on the way/path waiting.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “When they returned from Pharaoh, they met Moses and Aaron who were waiting for them.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “When- they -left the king, they saw Moises and Aaron waiting for them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “Therefore they left the great chief of Isip there, and then went and met Moses and Aron. The two of them were standing and awaiting them,” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “And Moses and Aaron who were waiting for them out, they exited here out met with them.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “As they left the king’s palace, they met Aaron and Moses/me, who were waiting for them there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)