Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 42:36:

• Kankanaey: “Jacob said to them, ‘Surely you will gradually use-up my children. Jose is-no-more, Simeon also is-no-more, and here-now you want to run-off-with Benjamin also. I am the one just the same who is-being-hardshipped by that.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “Their father Jacob said — ‘You have already taken my sons Joseph and Simeon away. Are you now about to take Benjamin away? Does all this have to happen to me?'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Jacob said to them, ‘Do you (pl.) want that my children be-lost? Jose (is) no more, Simeon (is) no more and now you (pl.) also want to get Benjamin. I am-the-one suffering.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Their father Jacob said to them, ‘You have caused two of my children to be taken from me! Joseph is dead, and Simeon is gone! And now you want to take Benjamin from me! It is I who am suffering because of all these things that are happening!'” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 43:30:

• Kankanaey: “Upon his saying that, he suddenly left, because he was not able-to-restrain his extreme lonesomeness for his younger-sibling and he felt-like-crying. Therefore he went to his room and went and (not redundant) cried.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “Because his heart became ill at ease seeing his younger brother, he turned away from there, went into his own room, and wept.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then Jose hurriedly went-out for as-if he would- now really -cry (due)-to his missing his younger-(sibling). He entered his room and there (he) cried.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Joseph quickly left the room. He realized that he was about to cry because he was full of emotion about his younger brother/loved his younger brother so much. He went into his private room and cried there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 45:5:

• Kankanaey: “But don’t you be-worried. Do not moreover blame yourselves (lit. your bodies), because it was God just the same who caused- me -to-go-ahead here so that there would be a way for starving/famined people to live.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “Now do not feel grief about sending me here, seeing me, also do not be angry. God has sent me here to protect all the people here.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Now [you (pl.)] do- not -be-distressed and do- not -hate yourselves that you (pl.) sold me here, because God sent- me -ahead here to-save your (pl.) lives.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But now, do not be distressed, and do not be angry with yourselves for having sold me to people who brought me here, because it was to save you from dying because of the famine that God sent me here ahead of you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 46:27:

• Kankanaey: “If the two children of Jose who were born in Egipto were also to-be-counted, the number of Jacob’s family who went there would go to (i.e., would be approximately) seventy.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “Joseph had two sons born in Egypt. Now in this way Jacob had a total of seventy descendants in Egypt.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Including the two children/(sons) of Jose who were-born in Egipto, 70 (in)-all was the entire household of Jacob when he went to Egipto.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Including Jacob and Joseph and Joseph’s two sons who were born in Egypt, there were 70 members of Jacob’s family when they were all there in Egypt.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 47:26:

• Kankanaey: “And Jose made-it a law in Egipto that the king would take-possession of the fifth of the crop, and that is their law until today. That alone which the king did not take-possession-of was the land of the priests.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “So in the land of Egypt Joseph prepared a law of the fields. This law still exists in Egypt, even until now. According to this law one part of a field in five belongs to the king [lit.: is the king’s]. Only the fields of the priests did not become the king’s.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “So Jose made a law in the land of Egipto that the fifth portion of the harvest (be) for the king. This law still continues until now. Only the land of the priests was not owned by the king.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So Joseph made a law about all the land in Egypt, stating that one-fifth of the crops that are harvested belongs to the king. That law still exists. Only the land that belonged to the priests did not become the king’s land.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 50:20:

• Kankanaey: “Admittedly bad was what you intended to do to me in the past, but God caused-it-to-turn-into good/lovely. Because here-now many people have been saved because of that-aforementioned happening.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Newari: “You tried to harm me, Instead of this God did good. And the consequence of that is that today we are all being spared.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “(It is) true that you planned evil for me, but God had- already -planned that it would-result in goodness which (is) the saving of the many people from famine.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “As for you, yes, you wanted to do something very evil to me. But God caused something good to come from it! He wanted to save many people from dying of hunger, and that is what happened! Today they are alive!” (Source: Translation for Translators)