Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Leviticus 27:27)

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

  • Kupsabiny: “But a person may pay money by which he can bring back a firstborn animal that is not clean for the purchase price which has been put on it and add twenty in a hundred on top. But if the person does not bring/buy it back it may be sold to someone else for the price that was put on it.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If it is the first-born of an unclean animal, it must be redeemed by adding one-fifth to its declared value. But if it is not redeemed by paying the value, it must be sold for the declared value.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If this animal (is) dirty/unclean, this may be-bought-back/redeemed by the owner. He is-to-pay the price of the animal and he is-to- yet -add 20 percent of its price. But if he is- not -buying-(it)-back/redeeming-(it), the priest is-to-sell this for its value.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “If someone gives to me a kind of animal that is not acceptable to me, that person may later buy it back by paying what it is worth plus an additional 20 percent of its value. If he does not buy it back, it must be sold (OR, the priest must sell it) for its standard price.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:28)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:28:

  • Kupsabiny: “It is not possible for a person to redeem something that he gave to God with one stomach. Those things are a person, an animal or a farm. It is like that because that thing has been completely dedicated.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “’But [any] person, animal or family land which has been devoted to the LORD cannot be sold. It also cannot be redeemed. Everything that is devoted to The LORD is very holy. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “There-is-no thing whatsoever which has- now -been-entrusted/wholly/totally to the LORD that may be-sold or be-bought-back/redeemed, whether this (is) a person or an animal or an inherited land. This now belongs to the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘However, no slave or animal or family land that someone owns can be sold or bought back after it has been dedicated to me and no price has been paid for it. That kind of gift belongs to me permanently/forever.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:29)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:29:

  • Kupsabiny: “Every person who has been judged/decided to be destroyed, he is to be destroyed and cannot possibly be saved.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If anyone among the people has been devoted to be killed, it is not OK to pay the price and redeem him/her. He/she must be killed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The person who has-been-entrusted wholly/totally to the LORD may not be-redeemed/be-bought-back. He must be-killed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘No person who has done something that I consider to be very wicked is permitted to be freed from being punished; that person must surely be executed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:30)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:30:

  • Kupsabiny: “One out of ten of all food that comes from the ground belongs to God. All those things are set aside for God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “’In the same way one part in ten of the grain of the fields and the fruit of the trees is the LORD’s and it is holy to the LORD. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The tenth portion/part of all the crops/produce now belongs to the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘One tenth of all the crops and grain or fruit that is produced on anyone’s land is sacred and belongs to me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:31)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:31:

  • Kupsabiny: “If there is a person who wants to buy those things to come back to him, let him add twenty in a hundred.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “And if anyone redeems anything by paying the value of [the LORD’s] one part in ten, he/she must increase it by one part in five.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If a man redeems/buys-back the tenth of his crops/produce, he must pay its price and he is-to- still -add 20 percent of its price.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Mokole: “If someone wants to buy back something of the tenth part that he gave, he will pay the priests its value as it is fixed and in each five one more.” (Source: Hilary Deneufchâtel)
  • English: “If anyone wants to buy back any of that tenth, he must pay to the priest what it is worth plus an additional 20 percent.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:32)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:32:

  • Kupsabiny: “One out of ten among all the animals that a person keeps/guards whether it is a cow or sheep/goat belongs to God. All are set aside for God” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “One animal in [every] ten that goes under the counting stick — cows and oxen of cattle, sheep [or] goats of flocks — will be holy to the LORD.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “When you (plur.) count your (plur.) cows, sheep, or goats, one of the tenth of this you (plur.) are-to-give to the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “One of every ten domestic animals belongs to me. When a shepherd counts his animals to decide which ones he will give to me, he must mark every tenth one as belonging to me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:33)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:33:

  • Kupsabiny: “whether it is good or not good which/so that it is not to be replaced by another (animal). If another animal is taken/brought to replace that one, both are then dedicated and none of them is to be bought to be returned.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “It is not OK to distinguish animals, [whether] good or bad. and it also not OK to exchange [them]. If there is an exchange, both exchanged animals will be holy. It cannot be redeemed by paying the price.’"” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “And you (plur.) must not select or exchange this. If you (plur.) exchange this, both this animal and the animal which was-exchanged will- now -belong to the LORD and (it) may not now be-bought-back/be-redeemed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “When he does that, he must not pick out the good ones for himself or leave the bad ones, or substitute bad ones for good ones. If he substitutes one animal for another, both animals will belong to me, and he will not be permitted to buy them back (OR, the shepherd cannot buy them back).’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Leviticus 27:34)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Leviticus 27:34:

  • Kupsabiny: “These are the laws that God gave to Moses on the Mountain of Sinai for the people of Israel.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “These are the commands the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Those are the commands which were-given by the LORD to Moises there on the Mountain of Sinai for the Israelinhon.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Those are the commands that Yahweh gave to Moses/me on Sinai Mountain to tell to the people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)