Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:40:

• Newari: “From the sunlight of the day and from the cold of the night, how exhausted my body was. As for sleep, it did not come to my eyes.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “This was my situation: if (it was) day I suffered from the heat, and if (it was) night I suffered from the cold. And I always was deficient of sleep.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was often not even able to sleep!” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:41:

• Newari: “For twenty years I lived in your house in this way. For fourteen years I worked in your place for your two daughters, and for six years [I] worked for your sheep and goats. You changed my wages ten times.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “For/[lit. inside-of] the 20 years of my staying with you (pl.), 14 [emphasis marker] years I served you (sing.) for your (sing.) two daughters. I served for six more [emphasis marker] years to tend/[lit. watch] your (sing.) livestock/animals. But what did- you (sing.) -do? Ten times you (sing.) changed-again-and-again my wages.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I lived in your household for 20 years. I worked for you for 14 years to buy your two daughters, and for six more years to buy some of your sheep and goats. During that time, you changed and reduced my wages many times.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:42:

• Newari: “If the God of Abraham, whom my father Isaac feared [lit.: before whom my father Isaac was afraid], had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away with empty hands. God saw my trouble and [my] work, so last night [He] rebuked you.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Perhaps if the God whom my father Isaac reveres/honors, who is also the God of Abraham, had- not -been-with me, maybe you (sing.) would-have-sent- me -away empty-handed/[lit. with nothing whatever at-all to-bring]. But God saw my hardship and work/labor, so he rebuked you (sing.) last night.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “If God, the one whom my grandfather Abraham worshiped and before whom my father Isaac trembled in fear, had not been with me and helped me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands/owning nothing! But God saw how much I was suffering and how hard I was working, so last night he told you that what you have done to me was wrong.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:43:

• Newari: “Laban said to Jacob — ‘These women are my daughters, These children are also my children. And this flock of sheep is also mine. As much as you see here is also all mine. But what can I do today for my daughters and their children?” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Laban replied, ‘Those women (are) my children, and their children (are) my grandchildren. And those livestock (are) also mine. All that you (sing.) can-see are mine. But now, what more/yet can- I -do for/to/with my children and grandchildren?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Laban replied, ‘These two women are my daughters, and their children are my grandchildren, and the animals are my animals. Everything you see here is mine! But what can I do today to keep my daughters or the children they have given birth to?” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:44:

• Newari: “So come, now [we] will make a treaty between you and me. And as a reminder of this [lit.: in accordance with the memory of this] we will set up a rock [lit.: cause a rock to stand] here.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Perhaps (this) would-be-good, we (incl.) will-make an agreement. We (incl.) will-erect/[lit. -cause-to-stand] a remembrance stone that will-testify-to our agreement.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I cannot do anything in order to keep them, so hey, we should make a peace agreement, you and I, and do something that will remind us about our agreement.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:45:

• Newari: “So Jacob brought a rock and set it up like a pillar.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “So Jacob took a big stone and he erected it as a remembrance.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So Jacob took a large stone and set it on its end.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:46:

• Newari: “He told his affinal kin also to gather stones and bring [them]. Having brought stones, [they] made a heaps of stones there.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then he commanded his relatives to also pile-up stones besides it. Afterwards, they ate there at the piled-up stones.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then Jacob said to his relatives, ‘You also gather some stones.’ So they gathered some rocks and put them in a heap, and they ate some food there near the heap.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:47:

• Newari: “Laban named it Jegar-sahadutha. Jacob named it Galeed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Laban named the piled-up stones Jegar Sahaduta. But Jacob named it Galeed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Laban gave the heap the Aramaic name Jegar-Sahadutha, which means ‘rock-pile to remind us’, but Jacob gave the rock-pile the Hebrew name Galeed, which has the same meaning.” (Source: Translation for Translators)