Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Leviticus 25:48)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 25:48:

  • Kupsabiny: “Even though that it is the case that person of Israel has the right to be bought back/released. His brother may redeem/release that person,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “they can again be redeemed. Someone from among his brothers can redeem him.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “that Israelite can still be-bought-back/be-redeemed. He may be-redeemed/be-bought-back by his sibling,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “it is permitted for someone to pay for him to be freed. It is permitted for one of his relatives to pay for him to be released:” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 25:49)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 25:49:

  • Kupsabiny: “his paternal uncle, his brother from another father (cousin on father’s side), or any person from his house/family. And again, that person may redeem/release himself if he has stayed until he later got wealth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “His uncle, his cousins, or even any close kin can redeem him. And that man can even redeem himself later if he has the money.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “uncle, first-cousin, or any one of his close blood-relatives. He may also buy-back/redeem himself/[his own self] if he is able-to.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “An uncle or a cousin or another relative in his clan may pay for him to be released. Or, if he prospers and gets enough money, he is permitted to pay for his own release.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 25:50)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 25:50:

  • Kupsabiny: “He must ask that foreigner who bought him and count the years from when he sold himself until the year of release that is coming. What is to be paid is like what is paid to a person who was hired to work.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Counting from the time the person was sold until the Year of Jubilee, [he] can redeem himself by repaying the money from the account of the wages of a hired worker.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “What he is-to-do (is) he and the-one-who-bought him are-to-add-up/count how many (were) the years of his service and how-much would-be-suitable if he had-been paid just-like/same as it is-done for a hired worker. The suitable price/amount he will-subtract from the price which was-paid for him back-then when he was-bought as a slave. (That amount/price was-based on the number of years since he was-bought until the Year of Setting-Free and Returning.) And if (there-is) a remaining amount that is what he is-to-pay to-redeem him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The man who wants to pay for his own release must count the number of years until the next Year of Celebration. The price he pays to the man who bought him will depend on the pay that would be given to a hired worker for that number of years.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 25:51)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 25:51:

  • Kupsabiny: “If there are still many years before the year of release will arrive, the person should release himself with much money surpassing the money which he was sold for.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If there is still much time remaining [until] the Year of Jubilee comes, he must pay much money to redeem himself.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “What he is-to-do (is) he and the-one-who-bought him are-to-add-up/count how many (were) the years of his service and how-much would-be-suitable if he had-been paid just-like/same as it is-done for a hired worker. The suitable price/amount he will-subtract from the price which was-paid for him back-then when he was-bought as a slave. (That amount/price was-based on the number of years since he was-bought until the Year of Setting-Free and Returning.) And if (there-is) a remaining amount that is what he is-to-pay to-redeem him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “If there are a lot of years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay for his release a larger amount of the money.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 25:52)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 25:52:

  • Kupsabiny: “But if the remaining years are few until the release arrives, the person should pay few money of those he sold himself for.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If there is only little time remaining [until] the Year of Jubilee comes, if he pays little money, it is enough.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “What he is-to-do (is) he and the-one-who-bought him are-to-add-up/count how many (were) the years of his service and how-much would-be-suitable if he had-been paid just-like/same as it is-done for a hired worker. The suitable price/amount he will-subtract from the price which was-paid for him back-then when he was-bought as a slave. (That amount/price was-based on the number of years since he was-bought until the Year of Setting-Free and Returning.) And if (there-is) a remaining amount that is what he is-to-pay to-redeem him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “If there are only a few years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay a smaller amount to be released.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 25:53)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 25:53:

  • Kupsabiny: “The wealthy foreigner should take the person of Israel who sold himself like a person who was hired to work on a yearly basis. The foreigner is never allowed to be harsh to the person of the land (Israelite) who sold himself to him.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “His master may only deal with him as [he would] with wage-earning workmen. And you must be concerned [about whether] his master deals with him in that way or not.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The one-who-bought him is-to-consider him just-like a hired worker and he is- not -to-be-cruel to him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “During the years that he is working for the man who bought him, the man who bought him must treat him like he would treat a hired worker, and all of you must make sure that his owner does not treat him cruelly.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 25:54)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 25:54:

  • Kupsabiny: “If the person who sold himself is not released in any of these ways, he should be released with his children/family in the year of release.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If it turns out that it is not possible to redeem him by any [other] means, at the time of the Year of Jubilee he and his children would be set free by themselves.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If he is not redeem/buy-back in these ways, he and his children will- still -be-set-free in the Year of Setting-Free and Returning.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘nd even if a fellow Israeli who has sold himself to a rich man is not able to pay for himself to be freed by any of these ways, he and his children must be freed in the Year of Celebration,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 25:55)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 25:55:

  • Kupsabiny: “It is like that because the people of Israel are my slaves whom I brought out from the land of Egypt.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “For the Israelites are my [lit.: our] very own servants and maidservants. I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “So you (plur.) do- not -have-(yourself)-enslaved by your (plur.) fellowman forever/[lit. until whenever], for you (plur.) are my slaves, you (plur.) whom I brought-out of Egipto. I am-the-one (who is) the LORD your (plur.) God.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “because it is as though you Israelis are my slaves/servants, whom I, Yahweh your God, freed from being slaves in Egypt.’’” (Source: Translation for Translators)