Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Genesis 7:1)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:1:

  • Kankanaey: “When the ark then was finished, God said to Noe, ‘Go-inside all of you (in the) family, because you (sing.) only are whom I know on the surface of the earth whose behavior is righteous.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Then the LORD said to Noah — ‘You and all your family go and stay in the ship. I see you [as] the only righteous man in this generation.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The LORD said to Noe, ‘[You (sing.)] go-inside the ship with your whole family. Because of all the people in this generation you are the only (one) that I have-seen that (is) righteous.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then Yahweh said to Noah, ‘I have seen that out of everyone who is now living, you alone always act righteously. So you and all your family go into the boat.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:2:

  • Kankanaey: “Also cause-to-enter (you-pl) those-who-pair-together among all kinds of animals which are counted/considered as filthy. As for those which are counted/considered as clean by-contrast, cause-to-enter seven-each that pair-together.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Bring along seven pairs of animals, male and female, all clean, and only one pair of unclean animals.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “[You (sing.)] bring/[take] seven pairs of every kind of clean animals, but only one pair of every kind of not clean animal.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Take with you seven pairs of every kind of animal that I have said I will accept for sacrifices. Take seven males and seven females. Also take a male and a female from every kind of animal that I have said that I will not accept for sacrifices.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:3:

  • Kankanaey: “So also with all kinds of birds, cause-to-enter seven-each that pair-together. That is what you (sing.) are to do so-that they will all have a way to have-offspring and became-many again on this earth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “In the same way also bring along seven pairs, male and female of all kinds of birds. In this way all kinds of birds may be enabled to survive on the earth.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “And you also take seven pairs of every kind of animal that fly. You do this so-that they will-live on earth.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird from all over the earth to keep them alive.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:4)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:4:

  • Kankanaey: “Because when seven days go (by), I will send rain, and it will continue-without-letup to rain-hard for forty days and nights until all that I created on this surface of the earth will drown.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Seven days from now I will cause rain to come on the earth. This rain will come for 40 days and 40 nights. I will annihilate everything that lives on the earth that I made.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “For after seven days from now, I will-cause- (it) -to-rain the whole earth for [lit. inside of] 40 days and 40 nights, so-that all that I made will-die.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Do this because seven days from now I will cause rain to fall on the earth. It will rain constantly for 40 days and nights. By doing that, I will destroy everything that I have made that is on the earth.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:5:

  • Kankanaey: “That’s what God said, and-so Noe did/made all that was instructed to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Noah did everything the LORD told him [to do].” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Noe obeyed all that the LORD had-commanded him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:6:

  • Kankanaey: “Six hundred were the years of Noe upon his-entering the ark.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “When the flood came on the earth Noah was 600 years old.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Noe was 600 years of age when the very serious flood arrived on the earth.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:7)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:7:

  • Kankanaey: “They who were a married-couple and their children Sem and Ham and Jafet and their spouses, they all entered so-that they would have a way to escape/evade the flood.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Noah, his wife, [and] his sons and daughters-in-law went into the ship to be saved from the flood.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “He went-into the ship with his wife, children, and (children)-in-laws so they would- not -die in the flood.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Before it started to rain, Noah and his wife and his sons went into the boat to escape from the flood water.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:8:

  • Kankanaey: “All kinds of animals and birds who paired also went to where- plural Noe -were, including those-that-slithered and those-that-crawled, there were those that were considered clean, there were also filthy,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “All animals, clean and unclean, birds, [and] ones that creep on the ground” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “According to what God had-commanded Noe, he caused-to-go-inside the ship every pair of all kinds of animals that were clean and not clean that came-near to him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Pairs of animals, those that God said that he would accept for sacrifices and those that he would not accept for sacrifices, and pairs of birds and pairs of all the kinds of creatures that move close to the ground,” (Source: Translation for Translators)