complete verse (Luke 4:25)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 4:25:

  • Noongar: “Listen to me! Truly, many widows lived in Israel in the days of Elijah. No rain came for three and a half years, and bad days came across the land, days without food.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “These words of mine are very true: what [will] happen at this time, is just like what happened at the time of Elia long ago. At that time, there was a drought for three years six months, with the result that famine came to all the towns. There were many widows in the land of Israel whose lives were pitiful at that time.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “I tell you, in the old days yet, at the time when Eliyas was prophet it did not rain for three years and a half and this whole country had a great famine. It is true that there were many widow women here in the country of Isra’il at the time of that famine,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It is true what I say, that what you are doing today is like the time long ago when Elijah that prophet of God was still alive. God did not allow it to rain here for three years and six months, and all of these towns here were struck by a severe famine. There were many of our companion Jews who were widows, who were hungry at that time.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Think-of what happened in the time of Elias. It absolutely didn’t rain for three and a half years, and the famine in the entire country was extreme. There were many widows here in Israel,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “For think about this, that when in the time of Elias it hadn’t rained for the space of three and a half years, and all the place was suffering a severe famine, there were many widow women at that time in this land of ours(incl.) which is Israel.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
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