Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Exodus 37:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 37:17:

  • Kupsabiny: “He made the thing for placing the lamps on. He shaped (it) from pure gold and put it at the bottom of that thing and (on) the stem. He made for that thing some things like flowers which have blossomed and all branched from the stem of that thing.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Bezalel made a lampstand of pure gold beating by hammer. He made its bases, handle, flowerlike bowls, buds and flowers all from the same piece of gold.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “They also made place-to-put the light/lamp that/which its leg, body were pure gold, and decorative flower wherein some/others are still buds and others are- already -blossoming. The decoration was already formed previously along-with the body of the place-to-put the light when it was made.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And when it was done, then he took good gol and then made it so that it became a lams stand (lit. leg), for putting lams onto it. He pounded gol with a pounding stone and so made the lams stand’s base and its trunk and it branches to be places for putting the lams. And he made the lams places from gol so that they looked like hibiscus blossoms. And all the lams stand’s things, he made from a single piece of gol.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And they take gold which not [eye] be mixed with other things, forge it into lampstand. Its stool with its stem, and its bowls, and its leaf, and its flower, they pound it together.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “He made the lampstand from pure gold. Its base and its shaft were hammered from one large lump of gold. The branches of the lampstand, the cups for holding the oil, the flower buds and the petals that decorated the branches of the lamp, the base, and the shaft were all hammered from one big lump of gold.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 37:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 37:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “He made six branches on that thing, three being on this side and the other three of the stem.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Six branches of it were extended out. Three branches at one side of the lampstand and three branches at the other side.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The place-to-put of the light has six branches, three on each side.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And he made the lams stand’s trunk together with its six branches, three on one side and three on the other.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “They made it it have hand six, the three on one half, the three on one half.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “There were six branches on the lampstand, three on each side of the shaft.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 37:19)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 37:19:

  • Kupsabiny: “Each of those six branches had three things which were like flowers who had opened the heads to beautify/decorate that thing.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “He made three bowls like an almond flower with flowers of buds and blossoms in one branch. Then the same three branches came out in other side. In this way the six branches were made there.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Each branches had three decorative flowers shaped like almond.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “On each of the lams stand’s branches, he made decoration to look similar to three almond tree blossoms together with their small leaves.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And they forged that which looked like flower of gardenia on its hand, with its fruit with its leaf. On hand one, they made flower three, on second hand they made flower three also. They made it on hand six all thus.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Each of the branches had on it three gold decorations that looked like almond blossoms. These decorations also had flower buds and flower petals.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 37:20)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 37:20:

  • Kupsabiny: “The stem was also decorated with four things like blossoming flowers.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The bowls like almond flower and flowers with bud and blossom were in the lampstand.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The body of the place-to-put the light has four decorative flowers shaped like almond, wherein some/others are still buds and others are- already -blossoming.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And he decorated the lams stand’s trunk also like that so that it looked similar to four almond tree blossoms together with their small leaves.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “On mother of tree of lampstand, they make flower of gardenia four, with its fruit with its leaf.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “On the shaft of the lampstand there were four gold decorations that also looked like almond blossoms, each one with flower buds and flower petals.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 37:21)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 37:21:

  • Kupsabiny: “One was on the lower side of where the branch of this side meet with the one (branch) of the other side lined up three on the stem.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Then he made one –one knob with handle in between of two-two branches under the flower of handle in the three branches that came out of handle.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “There was one flower on the junction of each pair of branches.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And below the three split-offs of the lams stand’s trunk, he decorated [it] with gol so that it looked like the small leaves of an almond tree.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “The one be present underneath of hand two which be present below. The second be present underneath of hand two which be present in middle. Its third be present under hand two which be present above.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “On each side, beneath and extending from each of the branches, there was one flower bud.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 37:22)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 37:22:

  • Kupsabiny: “The flowers and branches were made to join as one thing coming from pure gold.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Lampstand, its buds and branches were of the same piece of pure gold beating by hammer.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The decoration and the branches was already formed previously along-with the body of the place-to-put the light when it was made.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “He took a single piece of gol and then hit it with a pounding stone to make the lams stand together with all its things.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Its hand with its flower all, they forge it together with lampstand with gold which not [eye] be mixed with other things.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “All these flower buds and branches, along with the shaft, were hammered from one large lump of pure gold.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 37:23)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 37:23:

  • Kupsabiny: “Bezalel made seven lamps, the things used for cutting wicks and things to remove ashes/burned wicks with from pure gold.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “They made seven lamps, a wick trimmer and trays of pure gold.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “They also made seven lights/(lamp), the trimmers/tongs of-it, and the thing-to-catch the ashes from the wick of the light. It is- all -pure gold.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “He did like that and when it was done, then he made seven lams. And he made things like gol tongs to be for the cutting of the edges of the lams wiks. And also, he made a gol plate for the lams.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And they pound for it bowl seven, and its candle-extinguisher, and platter which they throw candle which be quenched in it. They pound be it with gold which not [eye] be mixed with other things.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Bezalel also made seven small cups for holding oil. He put one cup on top of the shaft and he put the others on top of the branches. He made from pure gold the tongs for removing the burned wicks and the trays in which to put the burned wicks.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 37:24)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 37:24:

  • Kupsabiny: “He used thirty-four kilos of pure gold to make the thing the lamps stood on and everything that went with the lamps.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “They made a lampstand and its needed materials from about thirty-four kilograms pure gold” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “About 35 kilogram of pure gold were used to make the place-to-put the light and all the things-for-use of-it.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “All the gol for the lams stand and its things, its heaviness amounted to about thirty-four kilo.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “These many things, lampstand with its things, they make it with kilo gold which be 35.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “He used 75 pounds/35 kg. of pure gold to make the lampstand and all the things that were used to take care of it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)