Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 33:13:
- Newari: “Jacob said — ‘You certainly know — these children are still very soft. Furthermore I must also care for these cattle that drink milk. If they walk the whole day they will die.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But Jacob said, ‘You (sing.) know that the children (are) slow walking, and I must very carefully/[lit. well] care-for the animals that are-nursing. If we (incl.) will-force the animals to-walk for the whole day, maybe they will-die.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Jacob had no intention to go with Esau, but he said, ‘You know, sir, that the children are weak, and that I must take care of the female sheep and cows that are sucking their mother’s milk/nursing their young. If I force them to walk fast for a long distance in just one day, the animals will all die.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 33:14:
- Newari: “So you go first. I will come slowly with these children and cattle and will meet you at Mt. Seir.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Better yet, [you (sing.)] just go-ahead of us (excl.) now. We (excl.) will- just -little-by-little follow you (sing.) according-to the speed of the children and of the animals ahead of us (excl.). We (incl.) will- just -meet-each-other there at Seir.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You go ahead of me. I will lead the animals slowly, but I will walk as fast as the children and animals can walk. I will catch up with you in Seir, in the land where the descendants of Edom live.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 33:15:
- Newari: “Esau said — ‘If so I will leave my men with you.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Esau said, ‘If that is-the-case, I will- now just -leave some of my men with you (sing.).’ Jacob replied, ‘(There-is) not now a need. What (is) important (is that) you (sing.) have-accepted me.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Esau said, ‘Then allow me to leave with you some of the men who came with me, to protect you.’ But Jacob replied, ‘Why do that?/There is no need to do that! The only thing that I want is for you to act friendly toward me.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 33:16:
- Newari: “So Esau went back to Seir that day.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “So Esau just now returned to Seir that very day.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So on that day Esau left to return to Seir.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 33:17:
- Newari: “Jacob, however, went toward Succoth. He built a house for himself there. And he made shelters for the cattle. So the name of that placed was called Succoth.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But Jacob and-company went there to Sucot. When they arrived there, Jacob made a dwelling-place and he also made a shelter for his livestock/[lit. animals]. So that place was-called Sucot.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But instead of going to Seir, Jacob and his family went to a place called Succoth. There he built a house for himself and his family, and built shelters for his livestock. That is the reason they named the place Succoth, which means ‘shelters’.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 33:18:
- Newari: “Having come from Paddan-aram, Jacob arrived peacefully near a city called Shechem of Canaan. He set up his tent there outside the city.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Later-on they finally/[emphasis marker] were-able-to-reach Canaan from Padan Aram wherewith/[Linker] nothing bad had-happened to them. They reached the city where Shekem was-residing. They erected/[lit. caused-to-stand] their tents near the city.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Some time later, Jacob and his family left Paddan-Aram in Mesopotamia, and they traveled safely to the Canaan region. There they set up their tents in a field near Shechem city.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 33:19:
- Newari: “He bought that place from the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem by giving [him] one hundred pieces of silver.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And the land where they erected the tents was-bought by Jacob from the children of Hamor for a price of 100 pieces of silver. Hamor was also the father of Shekem.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “One of the leaders of the people in that area was named Hamor. Hamor had several sons. Jacob paid the sons of Hamor 100 pieces of silver for the piece of ground on which they set up their tents.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 33:20:
- Newari: “He built an altar there. And he named it El-Elohe-Israel.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Jacob made an altar there which he named El Elohe Israel.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “He built a stone altar there, and named it El-Elohe Israel, which means ‘God, the God of Israel.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)