Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 4:42:
- Kupsabiny: “Then one day, a person came from where it was called Baal-shalishah bringing the first-fruits to Elisha. Those foods were twenty breads of barley and also one bag of barley heads/grains. Then Elisha said to his servant, ‘Give the food to those men to eat.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “A man of Baal-shalishah came bringing twenty loaves of bread made from the first barley harvested that year and a few new ears of grain for the man of God from his first harvest. Elisha said, "Give this to these men to eat."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “One other time, there was a man from Baal Shalisha who brought Elisha 20 loaves-of-bread made from the first harvest of barley, and newly harvested grain. Elisha said, ‘Give that to the group of the prophets so-that they will-eat (it).’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “One day a man from Baal-Shalishah town brought to Elisha a sack of freshly cut grain and 20 loaves of barley bread, made from the first grain that they harvested that year.
Elisha said to his servant, ‘Give it to the group of prophets, so that they can eat it.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
