Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 4:11:
- Kankanaey: «Therefore the soil just the same will be the source of your (sing.) punishment, because it soaked up the blood of your (sing.) younger-sibling.» (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: «Now you will have to bear a greater curse than the earth. For this earth has opened its mouth to receive your younger brother’s blood from your hand.» (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: «Because of what-you-have-done, I am cursing you. From now on you can no longer farm on the land that absorbed/[lit. sipped] the blood of your sibling/(brother) whom you killed.» (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: «You have killed your younger brother, and the ground has soaked up his blood. So now I will expel you from this land and curse your efforts to produce crops.» (Source: Translation for Translators)
