Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Leviticus 2:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 2:11:

  • Kupsabiny: “There is no food that is being offered to God that are to be added to it ingredients which make it rise. It is like that because there is no honey or any food to which is added an ingredient that makes it rise which is to be burned as an offering/gift that is offered to God through fire.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Every grain offering you bring to the Lord must be made without yeast. For you must not burn honey or leaven in a special gift for the LORD.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “All the gift offerings which are-offered to the LORD must not have that-which-causes-to-expand, for you (plur.) should not burn that-which-causes-to-expand or honey when you (plur.) offered to the LORD the offering by-means-of fire.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘Every offering that is made from grain and that you bring to Yahweh must be made without yeast, because you must not put any yeast or honey in any offering to Yahweh that is burned on the altar.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 2:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 2:12:

  • Kupsabiny: “A person may give to God those foods as the first food in a year but they must not be burned on the altar.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “you must not offer before the LORD as a dedication of the first fruits. As [an offering] burned on the altar for fragrance, however, you must not burned in altar.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) can offer that-which-causes-to-expand or honey as an offering from your (plur.) first crop, but this must not be-burnt on the altar.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You may bring to Yahweh an offering of the first part of your harvest, but that is not to be burned on the altar to produce an aroma that will be pleasing to Yahweh.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 2:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 2:13:

  • Kupsabiny: “If a person brings to God any food, it must be seasoned with salt. No person should forget to put salt on food that is offered because the salt shows that he honors the covenant of God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “You must put salt in all [your] grain offerings. Salt is a sign of the eternal covenant which the LORD has sealed with you. So salt must be put in everything that you sacrifice.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Salt all your (plur.) gift offering, for the salt (is) a symbol of your (plur.) never ending agreement with your (plur.) God. Put-salt-on all your (plur.) offerings.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Put salt on all your offerings that are made from grain. The salt represents the agreement that your God made with you, so be sure that you do not forget to put salt on those offerings.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 2:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 2:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “If a person wants to take/bring to God the first-fruits it is necessary to bring barley that has been beaten/threshed, that has been shelled/husked and which has been fried.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If you wish to offer a grain sacrifice to the LORD for the harvest of first fruits, you must offer fresh grain which has been ground and roasted by fire.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If you (plur.) make-an-offering from your (plur.) first crop as a gift to the LORD, you (plur.) should-offer milled grain/[lit. grain-kernels] which (was) roasted-in-the-fire.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘If you bring to Yahweh an offering of the first part of your harvest of grain, offer some new grain that has been crushed and roasted in a fire.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 2:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 2:15:

  • Kupsabiny: “It is necessary to add to that food olive oil and to make it delicious by adding things that smell sweet.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “[You] must put oil and incense on it. It will be a grain offering.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) put- oil and incense -on it. This (is) a gift offering.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Put olive oil and incense on it, and that will be your offering made from grain.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 2:16)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 2:16:

  • Kupsabiny: “The priest shall burn part/half of those foods having been offered together with those things that smell sweet to become a gift which has been offered to God through fire.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Then the priest, taking a portion of the grain offering into which oil has been put, as well as all the incense, must burn it as a memorial. This is a a special gift for the LORD.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The priest will-burn the other milled-(grain) which has oil, including all the incense which was-put there in the milled-(grain), as a remembrance to the LORD. This is an offering by-means-of fire for the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The priest will take a part of the flour and oil along with the incense. That will symbolize that all the offering truly belongs to Yahweh. He will burn that part on the altar, to be an offering given to Yahweh by burning it in a fire.’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 3:1)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 3:1:

  • Kupsabiny: “If a person wants to offer a cow to make it a sacrifice of fellowship to God, that cow must be a bullock or heifer without blemish.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If anyone offers a cow or bull as peace offering to the LORD, it must be an animal that has no defects.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If someone will-offer a male or female cow as an offering for a good relationship, (it is) necessary-that the-one he will-offer in the presence of the LORD with no defects.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘Also tell the people, ‘When the offering that you bring to Yahweh is to maintain good fellowship with him, you may bring a bull or a cow from your herd of cattle, but what you present to Yahweh must be an animal that has no defects.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 3:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 3:2:

  • Kupsabiny: “The person shall place his hand on the head of the cow for sacrifice and slaughter it near the entrance to the Tent of God. Then priests who are descendants of Aaron shall take the blood and then sprinkle it on all sides of the altar.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “That person must put his hand on the head of the animal. Then, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, he must kill that sacrifice which is offered. Then sons of Aaron’s, the priests must splash the blood of the sacrifice on the sides [lit.: right and left] of the altar.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “He will-put his hand on the head of the cow, and he will-slaughter this there near the entrance of the Meeting-Together-Place Tent. Its blood will-be-sprinkled by the priests who (are) the descendants of Aaron there around the altar.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You must bring the animal to the entrance to the Sacred Tent. You must lay your hands on its head. Then you must slaughter it and drain some of its blood in a bowl. Then one of Aaron’s sons, one of the priests, will sprinkle the blood against all sides of the altar.” (Source: Translation for Translators)