complete verse (John 6:10)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:10:

  • Uma: «Yesus said: ‘Tell them to sit down!’ So they said down using the grass as a mat, because there was much grass there. In the midst of those people, there were five thousand just counting men.» (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: «So-then Isa said to his disciples, ‘Tell the people to sit down.’ In that place there was a wide expanse of grass. They all sat down there. The men only, their number was five thousand. Women and children were still extra.» (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: «And Jesus said, ‘Tell the people to sit down.’ And then they told them to sit down. It was a wide grassy place there, and five thousand was the number of the men alone.» (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: «‘Please have-them -sit-down,’ Jesus said to his disciples. There was much grass in their location there, and that’s where the many-people sat-down. The number of grown-men and young-men, it was about five thousand.» (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: «‘Have those people sit down,’ said Jesus. There was a wide expanse of clear ground there. The people sat down, their number being about five thousand if the men alone were counted.» (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: «Then Jesus said, ‘Tell all of the people to sit down.’ There were about five thousand men who sat there in the grass.» (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Chol: «Jesus said, ‘Tell the men and women to sit down. There is grass.’ he said. The men and women sat down. There were 5000 men.» (Source: Larson 1998, p. 107)
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