Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 34:21:

• Newari: “‘These are good people. Keeping them here we will allow them to do business. There is still much room for them to live in our place. Then we will also be able to marry their daughters, we will also be able to give our daughters to them.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They said, ‘These people (are) friendly. So we (incl.) will- just -let- them -stay here now and be-allowed to-do-business here. Anyway, this place of ours is also big. We (incl.) can-marry their young-ladies and they can- also -marry our (incl.) young-ladies.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “‘These men are friendly toward us. We should let them live here and travel around (OR, buy and sell things) and if they find land that they want, they can buy it. There is plenty of land for them to live here. Our young men can marry their daughters, and their young men can marry our daughters.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 34:22:

• Newari: “They say they will be able to live as one people with us only if all the men living in our place get circumcised like their men [are].” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But they will- only -agree to- live/settle with us (incl.) as one people if all our (incl.) men will- also -agree [linker] to-be-circumcised like them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But these men will agree to live among us and become one people-group with us only if all our males are circumcised, as they are.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 34:23:

• Newari: “If this happens will not all their cows, sheep and wealth be ours? So we should listen to what they have said, and keep them here.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “If they will-live/settle here now, surely all of their livestock and possessions will- also -become ours. So let- us (incl.) just -agree now to their condition so-that they will-settle with us.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But if we do that, just think! Their livestock and their possessions and their other animals will become ours! So we should agree to do what they suggest, and then they will live among us!'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 34:24:

• Newari: “All who lived in the city listened to what Hamor and his son Shechem said. And all the men were circumcised.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “All the men of the city agreed to what Hamor and his child Shekem said. So all the men were-circumcised/[lit. were-caused-to-be-circumcised].” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Shechem was the most respected person in his father’s household, so all the men who were there at the city gate agreed to what Hamor and Shechem suggested. So every male in the city was circumcised.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 34:25:

• Newari: “Three days later when the pain of being circumcised had not yet gone, two sons of Jacob, Dinah’s elder brothers Simeon and Levi, took their swords, without anyone knowing, and went into the city and killed all the men.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “After three days, while the men were- still -in-great-pain, the two sons of Jacob who (were) Simeon and Levi, the siblings/(brothers) of Dina, went-into/[lit. enter] the city. The people there did- not -know that their purpose (was) in-fact/[surprise particle] bad. They brought a sword/(swords) and they killed all the men.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “On the third day after that, when the men of the city were still sore because of being circumcised, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, who were Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and entered the city without anyone opposing them, and killed all the men.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 34:26:

• Newari: “They killed Hamor as well as his son Shechem with the sword. Then they retrieved Dinah from the house of Shechem and brought her with [them].” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They also killed Hamor and his child Shekem. They then took Dina from the house of Shekem and went-(away).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “They even killed Hamor and his son Shechem. Then they took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and left the city.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 34:27:

• Newari: “Jacob’s other sons came and plundered the city. In this way they took revenge for their sister’s disgrace.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Afterwards, the other children of Jacob also went-inside the city and took its possessions. They did this because the character/[lit. being/person] of their sister Dinawas-defiled/[lit. made-dirty].” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then the other sons of Jacob went into the city where all those dead bodies were. They looted/took everything in the city to get revenge for the shameful thing that had been done to their sister.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 34:28:

• Newari: “They also took away all their sheep, cows, donkeys as well as all the cattle that lived inside and outside the city.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They took the sheep, cows, donkeys, and all the things there in the city and in the field.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “They took away the people’s sheep and goats, their cattle, their donkeys, and everything else that they wanted from inside the city and from out in the countryside.” (Source: Translation for Translators)