complete verse (Jonah 3:4)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jonah 3:4:

  • Kupsabiny: “Jonah entered that city, and went a journey that took him one day. He went along telling the people the message all that time. He told them, ‘It has remained only forty days for God to destroy this city!’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Walking around the whole day, Jonah proclaimed to those who were living there — "Forty days from now the city of Nineveh will be destroyed."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Jonas entered/went-inside Nineve. And after one day journeying, he said to the people there, ‘Just 40 days (are) now left/remaining and Nineve will-be-destroyed!’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Jonas began to go-through the city and one day is what he walked and he said making-known to them, ‘When forty days pass-by, this city Nineve will-be-destroyed.’” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “On the first day after Jonah arrived, he began walking through the city. He was proclaiming (OR, At the end of that day he started proclaiming) to the people, ‘Forty days from now, Nineveh will be destroyed {God will destroy Nineveh}!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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