Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 10:30:
- Newari: “Their territory reached from Mesha [to the] mountains of the east, called Sephar.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The lands they were living started from Mesha and went-to/[all-the-way-to] Sefar, to the hills in the east.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The areas in which they lived extended from Mesha westward to Sephar, which is in the hill country/area that has a lot of hills.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 10:31:
- Newari: “These descendants of Shem were each living in various places according to tribe, ethnic group, and language.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “These were the descendants of Shem. Each family of theirs was living in their own place which-is under-the-jurisdiction of their nation, and they had their own language.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They are descendants of Shem. They became groups that had their own clans, their own languages, and their own land.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 10:32:
- Newari: “These were the descendents of the sons of Noah, line by line. After the flood came, these spread out in the earth as various tribes and ethnic groups.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “These were all the descendants of the children of Noe. They were there in the different nations. Because of them, nations were-built in the whole world after the very severe flood.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “All those groups descended from the sons of Noah. Each group had its own genealogy/record of people’s ancestors and each became a separate ethnic group. Those ethnic groups formed after the flood and spread all around the earth.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 11:1:
- Kankanaey: “When that was so, only-one was the speech/language of all people on-this earth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “At that time people all over the earth used the same language and the same kinds of words.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Before, only one language is what was-being-used by all the people in the whole world.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “At first, all the people in the world spoke the same language.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 11:2:
- Kankanaey: “When they journeyed then to go to the place of the coming-out of the sun, there-was a wide plain at Sinar which they arrived-at and they resided there.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “When they went, proceeding eastward, they arrived at a plain in the country of Assyria. And they settled there.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “While the people were-transferring for a place-to-live eastward, they were-able-to-reach a plain in the place of Shinar, and there they lived.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “As people moved further east, they arrived at a plain in Babylonia region and began to live there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 11:3:
- Kankanaey: “On one-occasion, they conversed-together and they said, ‘Let’s go mold/form-and-bake clay so-that there-will-be something that we can-use-to-make our houses.’ And that is what they did. They thoroughly cooked the clay so-that it-became-hard, and asphalt (loan aspalto) also is what they used-for-plugging-the-cracks.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “They said to one another — ‘Now let us make bricks and bake them in fire.’ And they used bricks in place of stone and tar in place of clay.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Now, the people said, ‘We will-build a city that has a tower that reaches to the sky/heavens, in-order-that we (incl.) will-become famous and so-that we (incl.) will- not -be-scattered over the whole world.’ So they made bricks, and they heated them well so it would-become- very -hard. Brick are what they used instead of stone. And asphalt is what they used as cement.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then they said to each other, ‘Hey/Come on, let’s form bricks and bake them to make them hard, for building!’ So they used bricks instead of stones, and used tar instead of mortar/a mixture of cement, sand and lime to hold them together.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 11:4:
- Kankanaey: “Then they said, ‘Let’s make a city that has a house/building that reaches to the sky so-that we will be praised/honored and we will not separate-from-one-another on the surface of the earth (id. = earth).'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “And they said — ‘Now we will build a city, and building a tower that touches heaven we will establish [lit.: ‘put’] our name. In this way it will not happen that we will be scattered all over the earth.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Now, the people said, ‘We will-build a city that has a tower that reaches to the sky/heavens, in-order-that we (incl.) will-become famous and so-that we (incl.) will- not -be-scattered over the whole world.’ So they made bricks, and they heated them well so it would-become- very -hard. Brick are what they used instead of stone. And asphalt is what they used as cement.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They said, ‘Hey, let’s build a city for ourselves! We also ought to build a very high tower that reaches up to the sky! In that way we will become famous! If we do not do this, we will be scattered all over the earth!'” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 11:5:
- Kankanaey: “When then God looked-down-at the city and the tall house that they were making,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD came down to look at the city and the tower which the people were building.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Now, the LORD got-involved/interfered with the erecting/building of the people of the city and (the) tower.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So they began to build the city and the tower. Then Yahweh looked down and saw the city and the tower that those puny men were building.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
