Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 42:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 42:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “The floors at the top level were narrow more than those on the mid-level and those at the mid-level were also narrow more than the bottom ones. It was like that because where one could walk on finished/used up some space.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The rooms in the third story were narrower than on the second story, and the rooms in the second story were narrower that the first story, for it needed a way to the upper story.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Each of the upper rows of rooms was narrower than the row of rooms below them, because the upper rows needed to have a walkway in front of them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 42:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 42:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “Because the rooms did not have pillars like those of the courtyard, the walls were set inwards. The one at the top was set inwards much more that the one in the middle.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The three stories had no pillars, not the same-as in the courtyards. And because these were just on-top-of-the-others, the rooms gradually become-smaller from above going-down.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The rooms on the upper levels had no pillars to support them like the ones in the courtyard. Instead, each of those row of rooms were supported by the walls of the row of rooms on the level below.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 42:7)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 42:7:

  • Kupsabiny: “There was a wall that separated the rooms from the outer courtyard. That wall had eighty-seven and a half feet.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “This building was-separated [from] the outer courtyard by a stone-wall which was 85 feet long.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The wall of the building extended 87-1/2 feet/26.5 meters past the set of rooms built along the outer courtyard, separating all the rooms from the outer courtyard.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 42:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 42:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “The rooms that had turned the back towards the outer courtyard had eighty-seven and a half feet. And those that turned the back towards the inner courtyard reached one hundred and seventy-five feet.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “For if this stone-wall is not there, half of the building of 85 feet could-be-seen [from] the outer courtyard. The entire length of the building, which was 170 feet, could-be-seen [from] the temple.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The row of rooms that were along the outer courtyard was 87-1/2 feet/26.5 meters long, and the set of rooms that faced the temple was 175 feet/53 meters long.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 42:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 42:9:

  • Kupsabiny: “One entered that path between the rooms from/by the East side coming from the outer courtyard.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “There was a way going-inside to the lower story of this building from the outer courtyard in the east.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The lowest row of rooms had an entrance from the outer courtyard, on the east side.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 42:10)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 42:10:

  • Kupsabiny: “There were rooms on the South side that stretched along the outer side. The rooms were arranged like those on the North side.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “There were also rooms in the south stone-wall of the inner courtyard. These rooms were beside the inner courtyard near also to the building at the west.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “On the south side, along the wall of the outer courtyard, next to the temple courtyard, was a a building with two rows of rooms,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 42:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 42:11:

  • Kupsabiny: “There was also a path in front of the rooms like on the North. They were of the same size as those on the North side. They had doors which were like those of the North and the way they were built was the same.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “There was also a way in front of these rooms, like the rooms at the north. Its length and width were also the same, as-well-as its ways and measurements. The doors of the rooms in the north” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “with a walkway between them. Those rooms were like the rooms on the north side: they were the same length and width, and had the same kind of entrances.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 42:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 42:12:

  • Kupsabiny: “One would also enter them from the side of East by that path that was in front of those rooms.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “were the same also as the rooms in the south. There was a door at the arrival-place itself of the way going-inside that building. There was a stone-wall beside this way when you go-inside from the east.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The doorways on the south side were similar to the doorways on the north side. There was an entrance in the wall that faced the doors of the set of rooms, and there was an entrance on the east side, at the end of the inside walkway.” (Source: Translation for Translators)