Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:44:

• Newari: “So come, now [we] will make a treaty between you and me. And as a reminder of this [lit.: in accordance with the memory of this] we will set up a rock [lit.: cause a rock to stand] here.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Perhaps (this) would-be-good, we (incl.) will-make an agreement. We (incl.) will-erect/[lit. -cause-to-stand] a remembrance stone that will-testify-to our agreement.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I cannot do anything in order to keep them, so hey, we should make a peace agreement, you and I, and do something that will remind us about our agreement.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:45:

• Newari: “So Jacob brought a rock and set it up like a pillar.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “So Jacob took a big stone and he erected it as a remembrance.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So Jacob took a large stone and set it on its end.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:46:

• Newari: “He told his affinal kin also to gather stones and bring [them]. Having brought stones, [they] made a heaps of stones there.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then he commanded his relatives to also pile-up stones besides it. Afterwards, they ate there at the piled-up stones.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then Jacob said to his relatives, ‘You also gather some stones.’ So they gathered some rocks and put them in a heap, and they ate some food there near the heap.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:47:

• Newari: “Laban named it Jegar-sahadutha. Jacob named it Galeed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Laban named the piled-up stones Jegar Sahaduta. But Jacob named it Galeed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Laban gave the heap the Aramaic name Jegar-Sahadutha, which means ‘rock-pile to remind us’, but Jacob gave the rock-pile the Hebrew name Galeed, which has the same meaning.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:48:

• Newari: “Laban said — ‘Today this rock heap is standing having been a witness between you and me. So its name is Galeed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Laban said, ‘These piled-up stones will-testify-to the agreement (between) the two of us.’ That is the reason why those piled-up (stones) were-named Galeed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Laban said to Jacob, ‘This pile of rocks we have put here today will help us to remember our agreement.’ That is why Jacob called it Galeed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:49:

• Newari: “Again he spoke — ‘May God watch us, even when we are separated from one another.’ So this rock was also called Mizpah.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “That was- also -called Mizpa, because Laban yet said, ‘May the LORD watch-over us (incl.) in our parting-ways.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “They also named the place Mizpah, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘watchtower’, because Laban said, ‘We will ask Yahweh to watch you and me while we are separated from each other, so that we do not try to harm each other.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:50:

• Newari: “Laban spoke once more — ‘If you slander my daughters and marry other women, even though no one is among us, be careful, God is your witness and mine.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “And if your treatment to my children is not good, or you (sing.) marry still others, remember that even if I do- not -know, there-is God who testifies-to our (incl.) agreement.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take other women to be your wives, even if no one tells me about it, don’t forget that God sees what you and I are doing!'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 31:51:

• Newari: “He said — ‘I have put here between you and me a rock pillar and a heap of stones.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Laban yet again spoke to Jacob, ‘Here is the piled-up stones and the stone which (is) a remembrance that will-testify-to our (incl.) agreement.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Laban also said to Jacob, ‘You see this large stone and this pile of rocks that we have set up to be between us.” (Source: Translation for Translators)