Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Leviticus 27:19)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:19:

  • Kupsabiny: “If a person wants to take back the right to rule/decide over the things that can be gotten from that farm, he needs to give an amount that fits with the value of the farm and add twenty in a hundred on top.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If, having paid the price, the one who dedicated that field redeems it, the agreed-upon price must be increased by one-fifth. [lit.: by another one part in five]. Then it will be his.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If the owner reclaims/takes-back his field, he must pay the price of the field and he is-to- still -add 20 percent of its price. And his field will-be-returned to him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “If the person who dedicated the field later wants to buy it back, he must pay to the priest the price that the priest says it is worth, plus an added one-fifth, and then the field will belong to that man again.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:20)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:20:

  • Kupsabiny: “But if the person does not redeem the farm and it is sold to another person, it can no longer be returned.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “But if he does not redeem that land by paying the price, or if that field is sold to someone else, he will never be able to redeem it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “But if he sells the field that he has-not yet bought-back/redeemed [this], he can- no-longer ever -reclaim this/take- this -back.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “However, if he does not buy it back, or if it has been sold (OR, the priest has sold it) to someone else, that person will never be permitted to buy it back again.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:21)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:21:

  • Kupsabiny: “When the year of release arrives and the farm is freed it is dedicated to God to belong to the priests.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “When that field is released in the year of the festival of the Year of Jubilee, and it will be like a field devoted and holy to the LORD. It will be judged to be the family property of the priests.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “And when the Year of Setting-Free and Returning arrives, this will- now -belong-to the LORD and this can- no-longer ever -be-reclaimed/taken-back; this will- now -become the property/possession of the priests.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “In the Year of Celebration, it will become sacred again, and it will be given to the priest.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:22)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:22:

  • Kupsabiny: “If a person has dedicated to God his farm that he has bought and it has not been given as inheritance in his house/family,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “’If any person dedicates a field, a field that was bought and was not from his ancestors, ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If a person has-offered/dedicated the field which he had-bought,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘If someone dedicates to me some land that he has bought, land which is not part of the land that his family has always owned,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:23)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:23:

  • Kupsabiny: “it is the priest who shows the amount that fits with the farm until the year of release. Then the person shall on that day pay what has been decided to be the amount which is dedicated to God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Considering the number of years until [lit.: of] the festival of the Year of Jubilee, the priest will decide on its value. From [lit.: on] that day is considered holy to the LORD [and] he must decide on its value.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “the priest is-to-give/set the price which (is) according the number of the years which were-remaining until the Year of Setting-Free and Returning. This then must be-redeemed/bought-back by a person. His payment for redeeming/buying-back now belongs to the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “the priest will count the number of years until the next Year of Celebration to determine how much it is worth, and the man must pay that amount to the priest on that day, and then that land will belong to that man again.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:24)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:24:

  • Kupsabiny: “The farm shall return in that year to the person whom the land was bought from.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “One who dedicates a field, having bought it from someone, and whose family property is this must return that field in the year of the festival of the Year of Jubilee.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “In the Year of Setting-Free and Returning that field will-be-returned to the owner who sold this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But in the Year of Celebration, the land will again be owned by the person from whom he bought it, the person whose family had always owned that land.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:25)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:25:

  • Kupsabiny: “Each value is to be measured according to how things are weighed/measured in the Tent of God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “All values must be declared in terms of the silver shekel in the holy place. One shekel is 20 Gera.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “All the prices/values of these offering/sacrifices to the LORD must (be) according-to the weight/heaviness of the silver on the scale of the priests.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “All the silver that is paid must be compared with the official pieces of silver in the Sacred Tent.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:26)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:26:

  • Kupsabiny: “All the firstborn of the animals belong to God whether it is sheep/goats or cows. So, there is no person who is able to promise to dedicate those first-borns to God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “’Do not dedicate a first-born animal, whether it be a cow or bull a sheep, [since] they are already [lit.: from the first] the LORD’s. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The first-born animal already belongs to the LORD, so this must- no-longer -be-offered to him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘No one is permitted to dedicate to me the firstborn of any cow or sheep, because the firstborn already belongs to me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)