complete verse (Genesis 50:7)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 50:7:

  • Newari: “So Joseph went to bury his father. With him went all the chief official people and all the main people.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “So Jose set-out/went-out with many officials of the king: the rulers of the palace and the rulers of Egipto.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “So Joseph went up to Canaan to bury his father’s body. All of the king’s officials, all the king’s advisors, and all the elders in Egypt went with him.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 50:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 50:8:

  • Newari: “All of Joseph’s household, his brothers and his father’s affinal kin also went. Only their children, the cows, sheep and cattle were left behind there in Goshen.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Joined also (were) the household of Jose and the household of his siblings/(brothers), the whole household of Jacob. The (ones who)-were-left in Goshen (were) their small children and their animals.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “His own family’s small children and their sheep and goats and their cattle stayed in the Goshen region. But all the rest of Joseph’s family and his older brothers and younger brother and his father’s family went with him.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 50:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 50:9:

  • Newari: “People in chariots and riding horses also went with him. This was a very great crowd.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Also accompanying/with them (were) chariots and horsemen. They (were) very many.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Men riding in chariots and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 50:10)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 50:10:

  • Newari: “After they arrived at the wheat-drying threshing floor of Atad near the Jordan, being very sad, they mourned. Joseph mourned his father there for seven days.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “When they reached the place-of-threshing in Atad, near the River of Jordan, they mourned there for Jacob and their weeping was very great. Jose mourned seven days for his father.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “They went to the east side of the Jordan River and arrived at Atad. There was a place there where people threshed/beat the grain to separate the wheat from the chaff. There they mourned loudly for Jacob for a long time. Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for his father for seven days.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 50:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 50:11:

  • Newari: “The Canaanites living there, seeing [them] weeping with broken hearts in the wheat drying field of Atad, said — ‘This turns out to be a dead body bringing of the Egyptians.’ So that place near the Jordan was called Abel Miziraim.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “When the Canaanhon saw their mourning at the place-of-threshing in Atad, they said, ‘The [plural] Egiptohanon mourn very much/great.’ So-that place which (is) near the River ofJordan was called Abel Mizraim.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “When the Canaan people-group who lived there saw them mourning like that, they said, ‘This is a sad mourning place for the people of Egypt!’ So they named the place Abel-Mizraim, which sounds like the Hebrew words that mean ‘mourning of the Egyptians.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 50:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 50:12:

  • Newari: “In this way his sons did as Jacob had said [to do]” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The children of Jacob obeyed his left-behind-(instructions) to them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 50:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 50:13:

  • Newari: “They brought his corpse to the land of Canaan and buried [it] in a cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “For they brought his corpse to Canaan and buried-(it) in the cave there in the field of Macpela, east of Mamre. Abraham bought this farm from Efron the Hithanon to make-(it) a burial-place.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “They crossed the Jordan River and carried Jacob’s body to Canaan. They buried it in the cave in the field at Machpelah, east of Mamre town. That was the field that Abraham had bought from Ephron, who was one of the Heth people-group, to use as a burial place.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 50:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 50:14:

  • Newari: “After burying his father, Joseph, his brothers and all who had come with him, came back to Egypt.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “After the burial, Jose returned to Egipto with his siblings/(brothers) and all who went-with/accompanied-(them) to the burial.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “After he had buried his father, Joseph and his older brothers and younger brother and all the others who had gone up to Canaan with him for the funeral returned to Egypt.” (Source: Translation for Translators)