Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:5:
- Kupsabiny: “And if you (sing.) find a donkey of your enemy having fallen down with luggage on its back, do not pass by but you should rescue/save it.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there, but must help him.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “If you (plur.) see the donkey of your enemy has-fallen because its load is too heavy, you (plur.) should- not -leave- it -alone/be but-instead you (plur.) should-help-(it) to-stand.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “And if you (pl.) see your enemy’s donki fall down with its load/bundle, you must help him to lift his donki up. Don’t leave it so that it remains on the ground.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “And one who hates you [eye], if you will see his donkey fall with thing on its back, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) him abandon, you (sing., imp.) help him [that] you lift it.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “If you see someone’s donkey that has fallen down because of its heavy load, help the owner to get the donkey up again, even if he is someone who hates you. Do not just walk away without helping him.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:6:
- Kupsabiny: “A vulnerable/weak person should not be pressed down when he is being reconciled with (the) other person.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Do not hold back to offer justice to the needy people.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘You (plur.) be-sure that the poor will-get justice in their case.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘If they make a poor man to testify on charges, you (pl.) can’t mustn’t speak falsely about him. Lest they not straighten his dispute well.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “If they judge people, judgement of poor people and judgement of rich people let it not (imp.) [body] divide.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Decide the cases of poor people who are on trial as fairly as you decide the cases of other people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:7:
- Kupsabiny: “Don’t tie words on (accuse someone falsely) and do not kill someone who is innocent because I will judge each one who has done like that to another person.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Keep far away from false and do not put an innocent or honest person to death because I will not acquit the wicked.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) are- not -to-accuse (others) with lies. You (plur.) are- not -to-kill righteous or innocent people, for I will- surely -punish anyone who does this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “And you (pl.) can’t/mustn’t lie and so make another man testify on charges for nothing. And if an upright man has no bad fault, you can’t/mustn’t make him testify on charges for nothing and so strike him dead. For whoever has a bad fault in doing this, I will make him testify on charges, and so it won’t be possible for him to bypass his punishment.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “not (imp.) a man bind with lies, and one who not sin, let them not (imp.) him kill, because they who do it thus, I not for them it will forgive.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Do not accuse people falsely. Do not decide that innocent and righteous people should be executed, because I will punish/not forgive people who do such an evil thing.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:8:
- Kupsabiny: “A person should not accept a bribe because that makes people blind so they do not do truth/right and it brings suffering to the innocent.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Do not take bribes for the bribe makes you blind and twists the words of the righteous.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘You (plur.) should- not -accept a bribe, for a bribe makes- people -blind to the truth, and it will-hurt/harm justice for the innocent ones.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘If a man coaxes you (pl.) with money and so says for you to make false talk to help him, you can’t/mustn’t listen/consent to him. For this practice messes up good people’s talk and so it causes the people who straighten disputes to destroy upright people.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “A man, he must not you [mouth] buy, because bribe, they who see, it will injure them eye, and word of they who be good, it will turn it into evil.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Do not accept money that is a bribe, because officials who accept bribes are not able to decide what is right to do, and they do not allow innocent people to be treated fairly.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:9:
- Kupsabiny: “Do not mistreat a stranger because you have known the badness of that thing/matter when you were in Egypt.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Do not oppress a foreigner, you yourself know how it feels to be foreigners because you were foreigners in Egypt.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘You (plur.) should- not -oppress a foreigner, for you yourselves knows what the feeling of a foreigner (is like), for you (plur.) (were) also foreigners a-long-time-ago in Egipto.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘If a man from another area is living in your midst, you (pl.) can’t/mustn’t deal harshly with him. For you remember your difficult experience which the Isip people were doing to you before.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Foreigner who lives home your, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) him evil do. Because you people of Israel, you see troubles of foreigners during years when you were foreigners in Egypt.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Do not mistreat foreigners who live among you. You know how people often treat foreigners, because the Egyptians did not treat you well when you were foreigners there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:10:
- Kupsabiny: “Be (plur.) cultivating your gardens/fields and be harvesting your food crops for six years,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Sow and reap your crops for six years.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘For six years you (plur.) can-plant and harvest on your (plur.) land.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘For a duration of six years, you (pl.) will plant your food in the garden and be taking your ripe food from the garden also.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “«you (sing., imp.) cut field your for years six.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Plant seeds in your ground and gather the harvest for six years.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:11:
- Kupsabiny: “and/but in the seventh year, let the gardens sleep/lie fallow. Don’t pick any crop which has grown by itself in your gardens. Leave that to the vulnerable/weak people and animals to be picking/eating. Do the same to the vineyards and olive gardens.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “In the seventh year let the land rest then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grave.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But in the seventh year you (plur.) should- not -plant-on it. If any plant grows on your land, you (plur.) just let-it-be-for the poor ones to get the food from the plants, and what is-left cause/allow-to-eat the wild animals. This is the same that you (plur.) are-to-do with your (plur.) fields of grapes/(vineyards) and your (plur.) fields of olives/(olive groves).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “But in the seventh year, you (pl.) must leave that garden to remain as an old [previously cultivated] garden, and don’t take whatever food is existing in it. Do like that also with your oain garden and your oliv grove. [When] it’s like that then the poor people will be taking their food from it, and the wild animals also will eat whatever food the poor people left to remain.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “On year seventh, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) it cut, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) thing harvest there. Therefore, poor people which you (sing., imp.) place your, they will find food there, and wild animals, it will eat that which they remain. you (sing., imp.) do it so with farm fields of vine your and farm fields of fruit your also.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “But during the seventh year you must not plant anything. If things grow without your planting seeds, allow poor people to harvest and eat the crops. If there are still crops left over/that they do not harvest, allow wild animals to eat them. Do the same thing with your grapevines/vineyards and your olive trees.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:12:
- Kupsabiny: “Be (plur.) working for six days and on the seventh day you rest, so that the oxen and donkeys can also rest. That will also allow a slave who was born in the home and the one who is a foreigner to rest.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Six days do your work, and rest the seventh, this is to give your oxen and donkeys a rest as well as the servant born in your house and foreigners.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] work for six days, but on the seventh day [you (plur.)] (take-a)-rest, so-that your (plur.) cows and donkeys can- also -rest, and including your (plur.) slaves and the ones (who are) not Israelinhon who lives with you.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘For these six days, you (pl.) will do your work. But on the seventh day, you can’t/mustn’t do any work. [When] it’s like that then your bulmakao and donki and your laborers and man from another area also who is living in your midst, they will rest themselves, and so their strength will return back.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “you (sing., imp.) do work your with day six. On day seventh, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) thing do, let cow your and donkey your, let it rest, and slave your which they bore at home your, and foreigner who live place your, in order that body their will return down.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “You may work for six days each week, but on the seventh day you must rest and not work. And on the seventh day you must allow your work animals and your slaves and the foreigners who live among you also to rest and be refreshed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)