Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 4:16)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 41:6:

Kupsabiny: “These rooms were built to rest above one another to reach three stories. Each story had thirty rooms. There were walls that protruded outward in the House of God. The rooms were built supporting themselves on those walls so that they did not touch the House of God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “These rooms had three levels/stories, and each level/story had 30 rooms. The stone-wall of the temple gradually became-thin on each level/story so-that the rooms can-rest on the stone-wall that no-longer needed beams.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “There were three levels of rooms, one above the other. There were thirty rooms on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple that were supports for those side rooms; so those supports were not built into the wall of the temple.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 41:7:

Kupsabiny: “Those rooms around the House of God continued to widen as the building climbed/went upward. So the upper (ones) were more wide that the lower ones. A staircase was built passing through the middle and going up like that until the top floor.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “These rooms surrounding the temple gradually becomes-wider from the first level/story until the third story. There were stairs from the first story going-up to the second story until to the third story.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “Each of those side rooms was wider than the one below it. The most narrow rooms were built first, at the bottom. Then a wider set of rooms was built over it, and the widest set was at the top. A set of stairs was built from the lowest level through the middle level to the highest level.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 41:8:

Kupsabiny: “Those rooms stood on a foundation outside the House of God all around it. (It) had a length of ten and a half feet going up. That was what the rooms were built on.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “I saw that the temple was-founded on higher place which was 10 feet high, and this served-as the foundation of the rooms at the side of the temple.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “I saw that there was a terrace (OR, raised platform) around the temple. The terrace was the foundation for those side rooms; it was 10-1/2 feet/3.3 meters high.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 41:9:

Kupsabiny: “The outside wall of those rooms had a width/thickness of nine feet. There was an empty space at the ground level which separated those rooms” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “On the outside stone-wall of the rooms was eight feet thick. There was a vacant place in the center of these rooms” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “The outer wall of those side rooms was 8-3/4 feet/2.6 meters thick. All around those side rooms there was an open area that was 35 feet/10.6 meters wide.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 41:10:

Kupsabiny: “and the houses of the priests. That place/space had a width of thirty-five feet all around.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “and other rooms that has 35 feet wide and it surrounded the temple.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “There was a row of rooms for the priests on each side of the outer wall of the inner courtyard.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 41:11:

Kupsabiny: “There were two doors/entrances that went into those rooms. One was towards the North and one was towards the South. There was a side/area without anything and that had a width of nine feet.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “There were two gates going-inside to those rooms at the side of the temple. These gates face the vacant place; the one in the north side and the one in the east. Beside the vacant place there was way whose width was eight feet around.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “There were two doors from those side rooms into another open area; one faced north and one faced south. That open area was 8-3/4 feet/2.6 meters wide.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 41:12:

Kupsabiny: “There was another house at the West side of the House of God. That house had a length of one hundred and twenty feet and a width of one hundred and fifty-seven and a half feet. And the thickness of the wall was nine feet.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “I saw one building facing the inner courtyard of the temple in the west. The width of it was 118 feet and the length was 150 feet, and the thickness of its stone-wall was eight feet.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “There was a large building on the west side of the temple area. It was 122-1/2 feet/37.1 meters wide and 157-1/2 feet/47.7 meters long. And its walls were also 8-3/4 feet/2.6 meters thick.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 41:13:

Kupsabiny: “Then he measured the House of God. The length of the house reached one hundred and seventy-five feet. And from the wall of the courtyard of the House of God through the empty space to the house on the side of West, was a length of one hundred and seventy-five feet.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “Then the man measured the temple, and 170 feet was its length. The distance from the back of the temple going-towards the other stone-wall of the building in the west was 170 feet.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “Then the man measured the temple. It was 175 feet/53 meters long, and the temple courtyard, where the large building was, including its walls was also 175 feet/53 meters wide.” (Source: Translation for Translators)