Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 1:5:
- Kupsabiny: “The people from the stomach of Jacob who went to the land of Egypt were seventy. When Jacob reached there, (he) met/found Joseph living there.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Jacob had seventy offspring altogether. His son Joseph was in Egypt already.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Jose (was) already there in Egipto. (There were) 70 descendants of Jacob altogether when he went to Egipto.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “In that day, the family members [descended] from Iakop, their number amounted to seventy. But Iosep was living already there in Isip.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “In year when they had gone Egypt, seed of Jacob all, they be ones who be 70 (seventy). And son namely Joseph before lived Egypt.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Altogether there were 70 people who went with Jacob. That included his sons, his grandsons, and two great-grandsons. His son Joseph was already in Egypt.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
