complete verse (Genesis 7:7)

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

  • Kankanaey: “They who were a married-couple and their children Sem and Ham and Jafet and their spouses, they all entered so-that they would have a way to escape/evade the flood.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Noah, his wife, [and] his sons and daughters-in-law went into the ship to be saved from the flood.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “He went-into the ship with his wife, children, and (children)-in-laws so they would- not -die in the flood.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Before it started to rain, Noah and his wife and his sons went into the boat to escape from the flood water.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:8:

  • Kankanaey: “All kinds of animals and birds who paired also went to where- plural Noe -were, including those-that-slithered and those-that-crawled, there were those that were considered clean, there were also filthy,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “All animals, clean and unclean, birds, [and] ones that creep on the ground” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “According to what God had-commanded Noe, he caused-to-go-inside the ship every pair of all kinds of animals that were clean and not clean that came-near to him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Pairs of animals, those that God said that he would accept for sacrifices and those that he would not accept for sacrifices, and pairs of birds and pairs of all the kinds of creatures that move close to the ground,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:9:

  • Kankanaey: “and they all joined-to-enter, because that just the same was what God commanded. And then afterwards God shut-the-door.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “entered the ship with Noah, male and female just as God had said.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “According to what God had-commanded Noe, he caused-to-go-inside the ship every pair of all kinds of animals that were clean and not clean that came-near to him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “males and females, came to Noah and then went into the boat, just as God told Noah that they would do.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:10)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:10:

  • Kankanaey: “When seven days had passed, the flood truly arrived.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “On the seventh day the rain came.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “And (after) seven days had-passed, (it) flooded upon the earth/world.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Seven days later, it started to rain and a flood began to cover the earth.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:11:

  • Kankanaey: “It coincided-with date 17 of the second month in the six hundredth year of Noe. On that day, the source of springs and rivers burst and all the water within the earth suddenly-came-out. God also suddenly-opened the place of water above” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “When all the currents of the waters which were under the earth burst out, Noah had completed 600 years. It was as if the windows of heaven were being opened.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Noe was 600 years of-age back-then. And on the 17th day of the second month, (it) rained very [emphasis marker] strong and all the springs/water-sources overflowed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “When Noah was 600 years old, on the 17th day of the second month of that year/late in October, all the water that is under the surface of the earth burst forth, and it began to rain so hard that it was as though a dam in the sky burst open.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:12:

  • Kankanaey: “and it began to rain-hard.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Then for 40 days and 40 nights the rain continued to come. This all began on the 17th day of the 2nd month of that year.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “And (it) rained on the earth for [lit. inside of] 40 days and 40 nights.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Rain fell on the earth constantly for 40 days and nights.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:13:

  • Kankanaey: “But as for plural Noe by-contrast, they all in the family had entered the ark OK,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “On that day Noah and his wife entered the ship, taking [their] three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth and their wives.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “On the very day the rain started, Noe and his wife and their three children Shem, Ham, and Jafet together-with their wives entered/went-into the ship.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “On the day that it started to rain, Noah went into the boat with his wife, and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 7:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 7:14:

  • Kankanaey: “including all the kinds of animals and birds that God commanded, who were the time and the wild, the large and the small that were male and female.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “With them went all kinds of domesticated animals, wild animals, beings that creep on the ground, and all kinds of birds.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Also going-with them were all kinds of animals: the (ones-that)-walk, the (ones-that)-crawl, and the (ones-that)-fly.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “They had already put in the boat some of every kind of wild animal and every kind of livestock and every kind of bird and every other creature that has wings.” (Source: Translation for Translators)