Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 18:22:

• Kupsabiny: “Let (them) counsel/guide the people all days. And/But when there are things/words that are hard let them bring to you, but they must first finish (the) simple ones. There/Then, they will ease your work.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Let them serve as judges for the people at all times but have them bring every difficult problem to you; the simple problem they can solve themselves. This is how your work will be easier because they share it with you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They are-to-serve as judges at all times. They will-be-the-one-to-settle the simple cases, but the hard/difficult cases they could-bring to you (sing.). In this way, your (sing.) work will-be-lighter for they can-help you (sing.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “They will straighten disputes for people all the time, but if some dispute is very big for them, they they’ll let it go to you (sing.). They alone will straighten small disputes. [When] it’s like that then they will be helping you with this work, and so your (sing.) work will be easy/lightweight.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “Those people, be they that will judge people by day by day. They will judge them with that which be small, and that which be hard, they will tell for you it. If you will do it thus, it will make work your will be lightened, because you will do it together.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “Allow them to serve permanently to settle disputes for the people. The difficult matters the people can bring to you; but the matters that are not difficult, they can decide themselves. That will make the work easier for you, as they help you do that work.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 18:23:

• Kupsabiny: “If you do these things, and believe/accept that God is the one who said (it), then you will not be overloaded. This people will go to their homes without murmuring when their things have been solved.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “If you do this, and if God agrees, you will be able to work for a long time and all these people will go homes satisfied.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “I know that this is what God wants you (sing.) to-do, and if you (sing.) follow/obey this you (sing.) will- not -be-burdened/have-a-hard-time. And these people can-go-home in peace.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “If you follow like this, and God is in agreement with it also, you will stand strong in this work, and the people will be at peace (lit. have smooth interiors) and so return back.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “If you will do thought my this [which] God says to you thus, this work, you will endure it, and this people, they will return home with joy.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “If you do that, and I think that God is telling you to do it (OR, if God tells you to do it), you will not become exhausted, and all the people will be able to go home feeling satisfied about the decisions, with their disputes settled quickly’.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 18:24:

• Kupsabiny: “Moses accepted what his father-in-law told him.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything as he said.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Moises obeyed the adviced to him of his father-in-law.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “Okay, Moses listened to his father-in-law’s talk and so did everything as he told him about.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “And Moses heard word of his father-in-law. He did it all.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “Moses/I accepted what his/my father-in-law Jethro suggested.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 18:25:

• Kupsabiny: “From there/then he chose elders of the council who were able to counsel, coming from all those social groups. Those councilors were in charge of one thousand, one hundred, fifty and ten people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “He chose able men from all over Israel and made them leaders over the people thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “He chose from the Israelinhon the people that have ability to judge, and he made them officials over groups of people in one thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “He chose good people of knowledge from amongst all the Israel people, and so he appointed them to be leaders over a thousand people, and [over] a hundred people, and [over] fifty people, and [over] ten people.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “Amongst people of Israel, he selected wise people, put them for head of they who be 1,000 and they who be 100, and they who be 50, with they who be 10.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “Moses/I chose capable men from among the Israeli people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 18:26:

• Kupsabiny: “They were all the time counseling/guiding the people all the days and took hard cases/things to Moses and/but the simple ones they would solve those.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “From that day they served as judges for the people. The difficult cases they brought to Moses, but the simple cases they solved themselves.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They served the people as judges at all times. They settled the simple cases, but the hard cases they brought to Moises.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “They straightened disputes for the people all the time. And so they alone ended (lit. killed) the small disputes. But the big disputes, they let them go to Moses.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “By day by day, be they that judge people. That which be small, they decided it amongst themselves, and that which be hard, they took it for Moses.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “They were appointed permanently to make decisions about the people’s disputes. They brought the difficult cases to Moses/me, but they decided the matters that were not difficult by themselves.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 18:27:

• Kupsabiny: “And thereafter, Moses escorted his father-in-law on the way. Jethro went back to his own land.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro returned to his own country.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Sometime later, Moises had-/let- his father-in-law -return to his nation.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “And when it was done, then Moses brought his father-in-law Ietro to go to the path, and so he returned back and went to his village.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “Afterwards, Moses said to father-in-law [that] he go with peace, and father-in-law again left.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “Then Moses/I said goodbye to his/my father-in-law, and Jethro returned home.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 19:1:

• Kupsabiny: “The people of Israel had left Rephidim and/but when two full months had passed since they left Egypt, they reached the wilderness of Sinai. They stretched/pitched their tents at the foot of mount Sinai.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “The Israelites arrived in the Sinai desert there months after they had left Egypt.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The Israelinhon left Refidim and went to the desolate-place of Sinai. There they camped in-front-of the mountain. That was in the third month from when they left Egipto.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “Three months after the Israel people left Isip, on the day which went first in that month, the Israel people arrived at the desolate area named Sainai.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “On day of beginning for month three, after leaving their from Egypt, they went arrived the wilderness of Sinai.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “The Israeli people then left Rephidim, and exactly two months after leaving Egypt, they/we came to the desert near Sinai Mountain. They/We set up their/our tents at the base of the mountain.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 19:2:

• Kupsabiny: “The people of Israel had left Rephidim and/but when two full months had passed since they left Egypt, they reached the wilderness of Sinai. They stretched/pitched their tents at the foot of mount Sinai.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “After they came from Rephidim, they reached the desert of Sinai and they camped to the base of Mt. Sinai” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The Israelinhon left Refidim and went to the desolate-place of Sinai. There they camped in-front-of the mountain. That was in the third month from when they left Egipto.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “They left the area of Repidim, and when it was done then they went and arrived there. And so the Israel people made camp in the desolate area close to the side of Sainai mountain.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “Therefore, when they arose from Rephidim went had arrived the wilderness of Sinai, they made camp under Mountain of Sinay, erected tent.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “The Israeli people then left Rephidim, and exactly two months after leaving Egypt, they/we came to the desert near Sinai Mountain. They/We set up their/our tents at the base of the mountain.” (Source: Translation for Translators)