Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:13:
- Kupsabiny: “Guard everything I have told you. Don’t kneel/worship any other things or even talk of their names.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not worship other gods and mention the name of any other gods.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “[You (plur.)] obey carefully/[lit. well] everything that I have-said to you (plur.). [You (plur.)] do- not -pray to other gods or even mention their names.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘Listen well and be following all the talk which I speak to you (pl.) with. You can’t/mustn’t pray to other gods. And don’t be calling the names of other gods either.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Warn yourself, you (sing., imp.) do that which I say all. not (imp.) name of gods other call. They must not (imp.) its name hear from you.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Make certain that you obey everything that I have commanded you to do. Do not pray to other gods. Do not even mention their names.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:14:
- Kupsabiny: “You (plur.) ought to be celebrating/eating (a) festival which honors me three times in a year.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] celebrate three feasts/festivals each year for my honor.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘In each and every year, you (pl.) must do three big feasts to lift up my name.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “By year by year, you (sing., imp.) remember me times three with holidays.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “‘Every year you must celebrate three festivals to honor me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:15:
- Kupsabiny: “Celebrate the festival of bread which has not risen in the month of Abib as I told you, because those are the days you left Egypt. For seven days while celebrating this festival, eat bread which has not risen, and no one should come to this function with empty hands.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Celebrate the feast of unleavened bread. You are to eat bread made without yeast as you have been commanded. Do this as the appointed time in the month of Abib because in that month you came out of Egypt. ‘No one is to appear before me empty-handed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “[You (plur.)] celebrate the Feast of Bread which Has-None of That-Which-Causes-to-Expand. According to-what I have-commanded you (plur.), [you (plur.)] eat bread that has-none of that-which-causes-to-expand for seven days. You (plur.) do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for that is the month that you (plur.) came-out of Egipto. Everyone should bring me a sacrifice at that time.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘Do the big feast of Bret Not Having Yis Existing in it as I told you (pl.) about. For these seven days, you must eat bret not having yis existing in it. Do this feast rightly on its day in the month of Abip. For in this month, you left Isip and came.
‘You (pl.) can’t be empty-handed and come to me at these three feasts. You must come with your offering.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Holiday first, be Day of Joy of Bread which Lacks Yeast. you (sing., imp.) eat bread which lacks yeast with day seven, as I have said to you in Egypt. you (sing., imp.) remember it on day which I first put down, on month one, because that is what be month which you had left [body] from Egypt.
On that day [which] you will remember me by it , people [do] not (imp.) [let] to my altar come hand empty.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “The first one is the Festival of Bread That Has No Yeast. Celebrate it in the month that is named Abib. That is the month in which you left Egypt. Celebrate it in the way that I commanded you. And always bring an offering when you come to worship me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:16:
- Kupsabiny: “Make (a) festival of sacrifices/offerings for dedicating the firstfruits when you start harvesting. After that, make (a) festival of gathering all fruits to come into (the) house when plucking.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Celebrate the feast of Harvest with the first fruits of the crops you sow and in your field then celebrate the feast of the last ingathering crops when you gather in your crops from the field.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “[You (plur.)] also celebrate the Feast of Harvesting by-means-of bringing to me the first crops of your (plur.) fields. [You (plur.)] also celebrate the Feast of the End of the Harvest at the end of the year, when [you (plur.)] now gather your (plur.) crops from your (plur.) fields.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘And do another big feast for Remembering the Taking of Ripe Food. You (pl.) must offer whichever of your food ripens and goes first in order that it be an offering to me.
‘And do another big feast for Remembering your Living in Shelters, in the month of the food’s season. In the day in which you gather up your oliv fruit and the fruit of other food, then do this feast.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “Second holiday which you will remember, be Day of Joy of Harvest. you (sing., imp.) remember it with food first which you harvest.
Third holiday which you will remember, be Day of Joy of Harvest-end. you (sing., imp.) remember it on end of years which you gather food your [body] finish.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “The second one is the Festival of Harvesting. During that festival you must offer to me the first parts/harvest of your crops that grow from the seeds that you planted. The third one is the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters. That will be after you finish harvesting your grain and grapes and fruit.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:17:
- Kupsabiny: “Every year whenever you are eating/celebrating these three festivals, men should be coming to kneel to/worship God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Three times a year all men are to appear before the Lord.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Your (plur.) men should attend these feasts every year to worship me, the LORD your (plur.) Master.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘In these three great feasts, all your males must come to me and so lift up my name. I, am the Chief who stands and is leading over everything.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “On those three days by year by year, men your let them come my face, I The Lord namely Yahweh, let them come show themselves.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Every year, at each of these times, all the men must gather together to worship me, Yahweh God.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:18:
- Kupsabiny: “Do (plur.) not give me bread which has risen when you are making an animal sacrifice for me. Never leave till morning any animal fat which you are using to make sacrifice for me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with bread made with yeast.’ The fat of my festival offering must not be kept until morning.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “[You (plur.)] do- not -offer blood to me together-with bread that has that which-causes-to-expand (in it). The fat of the animal that you (plur.) offered to me during the feast, [you (plur.)] do- not -leave-(it) until-morning.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘You can’t/mustn’t offer any animal to me together with food which has yis.
‘In these feasts, you can’t/mustn’t set [aside] the fat of any offering animal to remain until morning.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “When you will give me blood sacrifice on altar, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) it give with bread which had yeast together.
On holiday, animal which you will burn with fire on altar, its fat let it not (imp.) for tomorrow be present.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “When you sacrifice an animal and offer it to me, you must not offer bread that has been baked with yeast. When you offer sacrifices, burn the fat from the animals on that same day. Do not allow any fat to remain until the next morning.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:19:
- Kupsabiny: “In every year, you (plur.) should be bringing to me your God the firstfruits from your (plur.) garden.
No one should cook a young goat using her mother’s milk.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Bring the best of the first fruit of your field to the house of the Lord your God’ Do not cook a young goat in its mother’ s milk.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘[You (plur.)] bring to the temple of the LORD your (plur.) God the best part of your (plur.) first crops.
‘[You (plur.)] do- not -cook the young-goat in the milk of its mother.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “‘Your (pl.) good food which ripens and goes first, you must bring it to my shelter, and so it becomes an offering to me, your Chief God.
‘You can’t/mustn’t cook any newly grown meme in a clay pot together with its mother’s milk.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “From food beginning which you will harvest, that which be good, you (sing., imp.) carry it [this direction] my house, I Yahweh who be God your.
Child of goat, you (sing., imp.) not (imp.) it boil with milk of its mother.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Each year, when you harvest your crops, bring to the place where you worship me, Yahweh God, the first part of what you harvest. When you kill a young animal/kid or lamb or calf, do not prepare to eat it by boiling it in its mother’s milk.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:20:
- Kupsabiny: “I will send (an) angel to lead you to the land I have prepared for you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The Lord said, ‘See, I send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘Now, I am-sending an angel to watch-over and to guide you (plur.) to the place I have-prepared.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “God spoke again like this, ‘Yo, I send my anggelo to precede you (pl.), and so he will watch over you on the road. He will take you so that you go arrive in the area which I’ve readied (lit. made good) in advance for you.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “«Look! I will send [your direction] angel [so that] it guard you on the road, [so that] it take you the place which I prepare for you [body] in health.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “‘Note this: I am going to send an angel ahead of you, to guard you as you travel and to bring you safely to the place that I have prepared for you. Pay attention to what he says and obey him. Do not rebel against him, because he will have my authority and he will punish/not forgive you if you rebel against him.” (Source: Translation for Translators)