complete verse (1 Samuel 25:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 25:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “Immediately that woman got two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, meat of five sheep and one small bag of roasted wheat. She also took one hundred cakes made from dried grapes and two hundred shaped/molded/pressed food/fruit of fig-tree. That lady gathered all those things and put them on the donkeys to carry.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “So, feeling the urgency, Abigail took 200 loaves of bread, 2 skin bags of new wine, 5 sheep prepared for cooking, 22 kg of roasted grain, [and] 100 dry grapes and 200 fig cakes which had been dried in the sun and put them on donkeys.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Abigail wasted no time. She took 200 loaves of bread, two leather/[lit. skin] containers full of wine, five slaughtered sheep, a sack of roasted grain, 100 bunches of raisins, and two hundred (loaves of) bread which were-made from the fruit of fig(s). Then she had- them -loaded on the donkeys,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “When Abigail heard that, she very quickly gathered 200 loaves of bread, and also got two leather bags full of wine, the meat from five sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, 100 packs of raisins, and 200 packs of dried figs. She put all those things on donkeys.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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