Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 2:1:

• Kankanaey: “That was the completion of God’s creating the earth and all that is there and all also that is in the sky.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “In this way the heavens and the earth and all that was to be made in them was finished.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “So God finished creating the heavens, the earth, and all that is in them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “That is the way God created the heavens and the earth.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

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

• Kankanaey: “When the seventh day arrived, that was when- God -rested, because his work was completely/already finished.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “With six days God finished all His work and on the seventh day He rested.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “He finished this within six days, and on the seventh day he rested from all his work.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “By the time it was the seventh day, God had finished the work of creating everything, so he did not work any more on that day.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 2:3:

• Kankanaey: “He blessed this day and designated it so-that it would be set-apart from the other days, because that was when-he-finished his work of creating everything.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “God blessed the seventh day and made this day holy. For on this day God finished all the work of creation and took rest.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “He blessed the seventh day and considered it as a special day, because on that day he rested after he created everything/all.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “God blessed each seventh day, and he set those days apart to be special days, because on the seventh day God did not work any more, after finishing all his work of creating everything.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 2:4:

• Kankanaey: “Here then is the story about what happened in/to the world and all that is in the sky when it-was-finished that God created (it).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “This is how the creation of the heavens and the earth were completed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “This is the story about the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “That is how God created the heavens and the earth. God, whose name is Yahweh, made the heavens and the earth.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 2:5:

• Kankanaey: “At first, there were still no plants that grew and seeds that sprouted, because there was still no rain that God had-caused-to-be. There-were- also -no people to cultivate the earth/land.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “There was still no grass on the earth, there was still not a single tree. For at that time He had not yet caused rain to come and there were also no people who would work in the fields.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “all the cultivated plants in the open-field were not yet in the world, for he had not yet caused-it-to-rain and there-was no man who would take-care of the land.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “At first there were no plants growing, because Yahweh God had not yet caused rain to fall on the ground. Furthermore, there was no one to till the ground for planting crops.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 2:6:

• Kankanaey: “But even though it was thus there-being no rain, there was nonetheless water that kept-coming-from below which is what wet the soil.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “Rather, water came out of little springs and drenched the whole earth.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But even-though there-was no rain, the springs on the earth was that which was-causing- the soil/land -to-wet.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Instead, mist rose up from the ground, so that it watered the surface of the ground.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

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

• Kankanaey: “This is the way that God made mankind (= person). He took dust and that is what he shaped into his body. Then he blew into his nose the breath that gives life, and then the person lived.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “Then the LORD God, taking clay that was on the earth, made man, and He breathed the breath of life into his nose. In this way the man became one who had life.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then the LORD God made man from the soil. He blew/breathed into- the -nose of-the man the breath that gives life. So the man became a living creature.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then Yahweh God took some soil and formed a man. He breathed into the man’s nostrils his own breath that gives life, and as a result the man became a living person.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 2:8:

• Kankanaey: “When that was so, there was a good/nice land that God had prepared to be the residing-place of the person he had made. That land, it was at Eden which is located-toward the east (lit. coming-out of the sun).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “The LORD God made a garden toward the east in a place called Eden. He then put there the man whom he had made.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then the LORD God made the garden in Eden, in the east side, and there he caused-to-live/dwell the man that he had-made.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Yahweh God made a park/garden in a place named Eden, which was east of the land of Canaan, and he put there the man that he had created.” (Source: Translation for Translators)