Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 15:16:

• Kankanaey: “But it will nevertheless go to the fourth generation (lit. three-times of the offspring), then they will return to this country, so-that meanwhile the sinfulness of the Amorreo who inhabit here will-become-worse and it will-be-necessary that I punish them. That is what will happen to your (sing.) descendants, but as for you (sing.), you (sing.) will-become-very-old, then you (sing.) will die and they will bury you (sing.). Be-assured that (lit. reassurance/comfort particle) you (sing.) will not attain that difficulty,’ God said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “After four generations your descendants will come back here. The sins of the Amorites will not be full until that time.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Four generations will-pass-by first before your descendants can-return here, because not yet sufficient/enough is the sinning of the Amornon for them to-be-punished and to-be-driven from this land.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “After your descendants have been slaves for 400 years, they will return here, and take control of this land and defeat the Amor people-group. Those people will, because those people have not yet sinned enough to deserve to be punished now.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 15:17:

• Kankanaey: “When the sun then had-gone-from-sight and it was already dark/night, there-was suddenly a place-for-cooking that appeared that was like a cooking-pot from-which-kept-coming-out smoke and fire, and it passed-by in the middle of the two lines of meat.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “The sun set and ite became dark. At that time, between the pieces of meat that had been cut in two and laid out, Abram saw a burning torch and a firepot, which had smoke coming out of it,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “When the sun had- already -set and (it) had-become dark now, Abram suddenly saw a steaming clay-pot and a burning lamp, that was-passing-by in the middle of the cut-in-two animals.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “When the sun had set and it had become dark, unexpectedly a blazing torch and a clay pot containing burning coals from which smoke was rising appeared and went between the halves of the animals.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 15:18:

• Kankanaey: “That was God’s confirmation/ratification of what he had promised Abram saying, ‘I will most certainly (prophetic formula) give to your (sing.) descendants all of this land starting-from the river Nile at Egipto until the river Eufrates.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “At that time the LORD made a covenant like this with Abram — ‘I have given to your descendants this land from the river of the land of Egypt to the great river Euphrates –” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “In that very day, the LORD made an agreement with Abram. He said, ‘I will-give to your descendants this land which is from the river that borders Egipto going-towards the big/great river which-(is) the Eufrates.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “And on that day Yahweh made an agreement with Abram. Yahweh told him, ‘I will give to your descendants all the land between the river that is on the eastern border of Egypt to the south, and north to the huge Euphrates River.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 16:1:

• Kankanaey: “When plural Abram had stayed in Canaan for ten years, he and his wife Sarai still had no children. But there was an-unmarried-young-woman who was a slave of Sarai who was from-Egipto who had-the-name Hagar. So Sarai said to Abram, ‘It’s-all-right-if you (sing.) (i.e., why don’t you) go sleep-with this slave of mine so-that maybe she will give-birth, so-that it will-be-counted as our (dual) child, because here-now God has made- me -childless.’ And Abram agreed, so Sarai handed-over her slave to him so-that she would be his second wife.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “From Abram’s wife Sarai there were no children. She had a maid servant of the land of Egypt called Hagar.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Sarai the wife of Abram was- not -able-to-give-birth. She had an Egiptohanon female servant whose name is Hagar.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Up to that time, Abram’s wife Sarai had not given birth to any children for Abram. But she had a female slave from Egypt, whose name was Hagar.” (Source: Translation for Translators)