Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Genesis 41:46)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 41:46:

  • Kankanaey: “He also named Jose Zafenat Panea which was a name of one-from-Egipto, then he gave-him a young-lady as his spouse. That young-lady, it was Asenat the child of Potifera who was priest at Heliopolis. Thirty were the years of Jose upon-his-beginning to serve the king in Egipto. And he went and traveled-around the entire country Egipto.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “When Joseph became the head of the land of Egypt, he was thirty years old. Coming out from Pharaoh’s place, he travelled all over the land of Egypt.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Jose at-that-time was-aged 30 years when he started to serve the king of Egipto. One time,Jose left for-a-while the palace and went-around the whole of Egipto.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Joseph was 30 years old when he started to work for the king of Egypt. To do his work, he left the king’s palace and traveled throughout Egypt.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 41:47)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 41:47:

  • Kankanaey: “In the seven years with good crops,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “For seven years, a great deal of grain was grown there.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Within seven years of abundance, the harvests (were) in great/[emphasis marker] abundance.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “During the next seven years, the land produced abundant crops, so there was plenty of food.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 41:48)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 41:48:

  • Kankanaey: “Jose caused-to-be-gathered what the people harvested in each town and he caused-it-to-be-stored in their granaries there.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “During those seven years Joseph collected all the plentiful grain and stored it in the cities. In all the cities he collected the grain of the surrounding areas and stored it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “And in those years, Jose gathered-up all that was-collected from the harvests. He had-kept/stored-away in each city the harvest from the farms in the surrounding-(areas)” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “As Joseph supervised them, his helpers collected one-fifth of all the grain that was produced during those years, and stored it in the cities. In each city, he had his helpers store up the grain that was grown in the fields that surrounded that city.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 41:49)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 41:49:

  • Kankanaey: “What-was-stored was-more-than-sufficiently heaped-up like the quantity (lit. manyness) of the sand/gravel at the edge of the ocean, therefore Jose caused-to-be-stopped that what-was-being-packed-in was-caused-to-be-counted (i.e. he ordered that people stop counting).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Since what was gathered was like the grains of sand on the seashore in number, impossible to count, Joseph even gave up keeping count of it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Jose gathered a very great/[two emphasis markers] amount of wheat; as-if like the amount in the sand on the seashore. He just stopped the measuring of-it because it was no-longer measureable.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Joseph had them store up a huge amount of grain. It looked as plentiful as the sand on the seashore. There was so much grain that after a while they stopped keeping records of how much grain was stored, because there was more grain than they could measure.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 41:50)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 41:50:

  • Kankanaey: “Before the famine arrived, Jose’s spouse Asenat gave-birth twice.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Before the famine came, Joseph had two sons from Asenath.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Before the famine came, the children of Jose with Asenat the child/(daughter) of Potifera the priest of the city of On were-born.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Before the seven years of famine started, Joseph’s wife Asenath gave birth to two sons.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 41:51)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 41:51:

  • Kankanaey: “Their firstborn male, Jose named Manasses, because she said, ‘God has caused- me -to-forget my hardship/suffering and my relatives.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Joseph said, ‘God has enabled me to forget all my troubles, He has even enabled me to forget about my father’s house,’ so saying, he named his first son Manasseh.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Jose named the oldest-one Manase for according-to him, ‘Because of the help of God, I forgot my sufferings and my longing for the household of my father.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Joseph named the first one Manasseh, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘forget’, because, he said, ‘God has caused me to forget all my troubles and all my father’s family.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 41:52)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 41:52:

  • Kankanaey: “The second was also a male, and Jose named-him Efraim, because he said, ‘God has given me children in this country where-I-was-hardshipped.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Then he named his second son Ephraim, saying, ‘God has given me children in the land [where] I experienced trouble.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “He named his second child Efraim, for according-to him, ‘Because of the help of God, I became-prosperous in the place where I experienced pain.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “He named his second son Ephraim, which means ‘to have children’, because, he said, ‘God has given me children here in this land where I have suffered.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 41:53)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 41:53:

  • Kankanaey: “When that was so, what Jose prophesied came-true. When the seven years with good crops were finished, seven years of famine took-their-place. There was also famine in the other collective-countries, but in Egipto by-contrast, food was still in-excess.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Egypt’s seven years of very fruitful grain growing came to an end.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The seven years of abundance in Egipto were- now -finished,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Finally the seven years in which there was plenty of food ended.” (Source: Translation for Translators)