Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:27:

• Newari: “Laban said to him — ‘If it is true that you actually love me, stay right here. I have learned that the LORD has given me blessing through you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Laban replied, ‘If possible do not (go-home) for-a-while. According to my divination, I have-learned/[lit. have-come-to-know] how-much the LORD has-blessed me because of you (sing.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But Laban said to him, ‘If you are pleased with me, stay here, because I have found out by performing a magic ritual that Yahweh has blessed me because of what you have done for me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:28:

• Newari: “Tell [me] how much wages you want. That much I will give.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Just say how-much I will-pay-as-wages to you (sing.) for I will-pay you.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Tell me what you want me to pay you for continuing to work for me, and that is what I will pay you.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:29:

• Newari: “Jacob said to him — ‘You know how I have worked here, and you also know how many cattle you already have through my care.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Jacob said, ‘You (sing.) have-known how my service to you (sing.) (has-been) and how your livestock/[lit. animals] has-become-many because of my care.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Jacob replied, ‘You know how I have worked for you, and you know that your livestock have increased greatly as I have taken care of them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:30:

• Newari: “Before I came you only had much less. Now you already have much. Wherever I put [my] hand, the LORD has blessed you. But now I need to do something for my family.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “When I arrived here your livestock (were) still few, but now (they are) very many, for the LORD has-blessed you (sing.) because of me. Now maybe I should try-hard/strive for my own household.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “You had only a few animals before I came here. But now you have very many, and Yahweh has caused them to increase greatly in number wherever I have taken them. But now I need to start taking care of the needs of my own family.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:31:

• Newari: “Laban said — ‘Then what should I give you?'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Laban asked, ‘What would you (sing.) like me to-pay you?’ Jacob replied, ‘Don’t pay- me any -wages. I will- continue to take-care-of- your -livestock if you (sing.) will-agree with this condition:” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Laban replied, ‘What do you want me to give you?’ Jacob replied, ‘I do not want you to pay me anything. But if you will do this one thing for me, I will continue to take care of your flocks and protect them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:32:

• Newari: “Today allow me to choose the spotted female goats and the black sheep [from] among your cattle. That will be my wages.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “I will- now -look-at your livestock and I will-take the dark-colored/black sheep and spotted goats. That only will-be my wages.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Allow me to go and look at all of your flocks today and remove from them all the speckled sheep, all the spotted sheep, and every dark-colored lamb, all the goats that are speckled, and all the goats that are spotted, and keep them for myself. They will be my wages.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:33:

• Newari: “Later you will also be able to learn how much trustworthiness I have. If you come to see the cattle which you gave me as wages, [and] if among them [lit. in that] is found even one [head of] cattle which is not spotted or black, I would have stolen it.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “In the later days, you (sing.) will-know if I can-be-trusted or not if you (sing.) will-check the animals which you paid- me -as-wages. If you (sing.) find a goat which is not spotted or a sheep which is not dark-colored/black, count that as what- I -have-stolen.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “In that way, in the future, you will be able to know whether I have been honest regarding what you have paid me. If any of my goats are neither speckled or spotted, or if any of my lambs are not dark-colored, you will know that I have stolen them from you.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:34:

• Newari: “Laban said — ‘Good. It will be just as you have said.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Laban replied, ‘If that is what you (sing.) want, I agree.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Laban agreed and said, ‘Okay, we will do as you have said.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)