Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:31:

• Newari: “Laban said — ‘Then what should I give you?'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Laban asked, ‘What would you (sing.) like me to-pay you?’ Jacob replied, ‘Don’t pay- me any -wages. I will- continue to take-care-of- your -livestock if you (sing.) will-agree with this condition:” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Laban replied, ‘What do you want me to give you?’ Jacob replied, ‘I do not want you to pay me anything. But if you will do this one thing for me, I will continue to take care of your flocks and protect them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:32:

• Newari: “Today allow me to choose the spotted female goats and the black sheep [from] among your cattle. That will be my wages.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “I will- now -look-at your livestock and I will-take the dark-colored/black sheep and spotted goats. That only will-be my wages.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Allow me to go and look at all of your flocks today and remove from them all the speckled sheep, all the spotted sheep, and every dark-colored lamb, all the goats that are speckled, and all the goats that are spotted, and keep them for myself. They will be my wages.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:33:

• Newari: “Later you will also be able to learn how much trustworthiness I have. If you come to see the cattle which you gave me as wages, [and] if among them [lit. in that] is found even one [head of] cattle which is not spotted or black, I would have stolen it.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “In the later days, you (sing.) will-know if I can-be-trusted or not if you (sing.) will-check the animals which you paid- me -as-wages. If you (sing.) find a goat which is not spotted or a sheep which is not dark-colored/black, count that as what- I -have-stolen.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “In that way, in the future, you will be able to know whether I have been honest regarding what you have paid me. If any of my goats are neither speckled or spotted, or if any of my lambs are not dark-colored, you will know that I have stolen them from you.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:34:

• Newari: “Laban said — ‘Good. It will be just as you have said.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Laban replied, ‘If that is what you (sing.) want, I agree.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Laban agreed and said, ‘Okay, we will do as you have said.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:35:

• Newari: “But Laban, however, picked out all his spotted male and female goats as well as the blacksheep and sent them off with his sons.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But that very day, Laban set-apart the spotted goats which were male and female, including the dark-colored/black sheep. He had- them -taken-care-of by his sons.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But that same day Laban removed all the male goats that had black and white stripes on them or were spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled or spotted, all the goats that were partly white, and all the dark-colored lambs. He separated them and told his sons to take care of them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:36:

• Newari: “Then Laban’s sons went to a place three day’s distance from the place where Jacob lived. Jacob did the work of caring for the rest of Laban’s cattle.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “He separated them from Jacob in a distance of three days walk. The remaining animals were the-(ones) Jacob tended.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then he took these flocks and walked a distance of three days, in order that he could be that far from Jacob. Jacob continued to take care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:37:

• Newari: “Jacob cut branches of poplar, almond and chestnut, pealing [them] white, spilting them into strips,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Now, Jacob took branches of almond, abilyano, and platano/kastanyo and then he peeled/[lit. skinned] some parts of these, so there (were) white stripes when looking-at the branches.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then Jacob cut some branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees/three kinds of trees that had white wood. He peeled strips of bark from the branches, so that where the bark had been peeled off, the branches were light in color.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 30:38:

• Newari: “When the sheep and female goats came to drink water, he would put them in the trough of drinking water where they would be seen. For he knew that cattle would come there to mate.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “He then placed those branches in-front-of the watering-trough of the animals so-that the animals could-see (the branches) when they (came-to-)drink. There in-front-of those branches the goats would-mate when they drank. When they gave-birth, their young (were) spotted.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then he placed the peeled branches in the troughs where they put the water for the animals to drink, so that the branches would be in front of the flocks when they came to drink.” (Source: Translation for Translators)