Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Genesis 15:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 15:13:

  • Kankanaey: “Then after-that God said to him, ‘Your (sing.) descendants will most certainly (prophetic formula) be-strangers in the country of different people so-that they will-be-enslaved to them and will-be-hardshipped until four hundred years go (by).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “And the LORD said to Abram — ‘Understand this — your descendants will have to live in a land as outsiders, and will have to live there 400 years being oppressed as male and female slaves.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then the LORD said to him, ‘Surely [intensifier] that your (sing.) descendants will-become strangers in another nation. They will-become slaves there and mistreated for [lit. inside of] 400 years.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then God said to Abram, ‘I want you to know that your descendants will become foreigners living in a land that does not belong to them. They will become slaves of the owners of that land. The owners of the land will mistreat them for 400 years.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 15:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 15:14:

  • Kankanaey: “Then I will punish the slave owners of them and your (sing.) descendants will depart from there taking-along many possessions.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “I will give punishment to the nation that makes them male and female slaves. And they will come out taking much wealth from there.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “But I will-punish the nation that will-enslave them. Later/Afterwards your descendants will-leave that nation [linker] bringing much/[lit. many] wealth.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But then I will punish the people of that country that made them become slaves, and then your descendants will leave that country, taking many possessions with them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 15:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 15:15:

  • Kankanaey: “But it will nevertheless go to the fourth generation (lit. three-times of the offspring), then they will return to this country, so-that meanwhile the sinfulness of the Amorreo who inhabit here will-become-worse and it will-be-necessary that I punish them. That is what will happen to your (sing.) descendants, but as for you (sing.), you (sing.) will-become-very-old, then you (sing.) will die and they will bury you (sing.). Be-assured that (lit. reassurance/comfort particle) you (sing.) will not attain that difficulty,’ God said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “You will just go with joy to live in the place of your ancestors. After you become a sufficiently old man, you will be buried.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “But concerning you (sing.) Abram, I will-prolong your (sing.) life and you will-die in old-age with peace.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But as for you, you will die peacefully when you are very old.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 15:16)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 15:16:

  • Kankanaey: “But it will nevertheless go to the fourth generation (lit. three-times of the offspring), then they will return to this country, so-that meanwhile the sinfulness of the Amorreo who inhabit here will-become-worse and it will-be-necessary that I punish them. That is what will happen to your (sing.) descendants, but as for you (sing.), you (sing.) will-become-very-old, then you (sing.) will die and they will bury you (sing.). Be-assured that (lit. reassurance/comfort particle) you (sing.) will not attain that difficulty,’ God said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “After four generations your descendants will come back here. The sins of the Amorites will not be full until that time.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Four generations will-pass-by first before your descendants can-return here, because not yet sufficient/enough is the sinning of the Amornon for them to-be-punished and to-be-driven from this land.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “After your descendants have been slaves for 400 years, they will return here, and take control of this land and defeat the Amor people-group. Those people will, because those people have not yet sinned enough to deserve to be punished now.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 15:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 15:17:

  • Kankanaey: “When the sun then had-gone-from-sight and it was already dark/night, there-was suddenly a place-for-cooking that appeared that was like a cooking-pot from-which-kept-coming-out smoke and fire, and it passed-by in the middle of the two lines of meat.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The sun set and ite became dark. At that time, between the pieces of meat that had been cut in two and laid out, Abram saw a burning torch and a firepot, which had smoke coming out of it,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “When the sun had- already -set and (it) had-become dark now, Abram suddenly saw a steaming clay-pot and a burning lamp, that was-passing-by in the middle of the cut-in-two animals.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “When the sun had set and it had become dark, unexpectedly a blazing torch and a clay pot containing burning coals from which smoke was rising appeared and went between the halves of the animals.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 15:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 15:18:

  • Kankanaey: “That was God’s confirmation/ratification of what he had promised Abram saying, ‘I will most certainly (prophetic formula) give to your (sing.) descendants all of this land starting-from the river Nile at Egipto until the river Eufrates.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “At that time the LORD made a covenant like this with Abram — ‘I have given to your descendants this land from the river of the land of Egypt to the great river Euphrates –” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “In that very day, the LORD made an agreement with Abram. He said, ‘I will-give to your descendants this land which is from the river that borders Egipto going-towards the big/great river which-(is) the Eufrates.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “And on that day Yahweh made an agreement with Abram. Yahweh told him, ‘I will give to your descendants all the land between the river that is on the eastern border of Egypt to the south, and north to the huge Euphrates River.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 15:19)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 15:19:

  • Newari: “the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadomonites,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “This land is now the dwelling-place of the Kenhanon, Keniznon, Kadmonhon,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “That is the land where the Ken, the Keniz, the Kidmon,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Genesis 15:20)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 15:20:

  • Newari: “the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaites,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Hithanon, Periznon, Refaimnon,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “the Heth, the Periz, the Repha,” (Source: Translation for Translators)