complete verse (Haggai 2:16)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 2:16:

  • Kupsabiny: “You could think that maybe you would get twenty baskets of wheat, but you got only ten. You had thought that you would collect wine that filled up hundred liters where it was produced, but it was actually only forty.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “For the one who hoped for twenty muris of grain, there were only ten muris. One who came to take 50 liters of new wine only got to take 20 liters from the wine vat.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “For before then when you (plur.) go to the piles of wheat expecting to get 20 measures-volumes, what you (plur.) will-get (is) only 10 measures-volumes. And when you (plur.) go to the squessing-out-place of grapes expecting to get 50 gallons of wine, what you (plur.) will-get (is) only twenty gallons.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “When you expected to harvest 20 bushels of grain, you harvested only ten bushels. When someone went to a big wine vat to get 50 gallons of wine, there were only 20 gallons in the vat.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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