complete verse (Genesis 1:29)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 1:29:

  • Kankanaey: “The fruit of the trees and other-things that can-be-planted, I will give you so that that’s what you will eat.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Newari: “God said — ‘Listen, I have given you all kinds of seed-bearing grain and fruit-bearing trees with seeds. This will be your food.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then God said, ‘I am-giving you (pl.) the plants that have seeds and trees that bear fruit in-order for you to eat.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “God said to the humans, ‘Listen! I have given you all the plants that produce seeds, all over the earth, and all the trees that have seeds in their fruit. All these things are for you to eat.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
  • Cashinahua “Look, all the vegetables that have seeds, which are certainly all around, each of these vegetables with seed I certainly give you them. The trees which have fruit and their fruit has seed, I certainly give you them; you are to eat them.” (Callow [1972, p. 16] explains: “Cashinahua has a range of verbal affixes indicating certainty or uncertainty on the part of the speaker […] They are of frequent occurrence in conversation, and must be used correspondingly frequently in the translation, otherwise the reported conversation on Scripture will sound flat and unnatural.”)
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