Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 15:15:
- Kankanaey: “But it will nevertheless go to the fourth generation (lit. three-times of the offspring), then they will return to this country, so-that meanwhile the sinfulness of the Amorreo who inhabit here will-become-worse and it will-be-necessary that I punish them. That is what will happen to your (sing.) descendants, but as for you (sing.), you (sing.) will-become-very-old, then you (sing.) will die and they will bury you (sing.). Be-assured that (lit. reassurance/comfort particle) you (sing.) will not attain that difficulty,’ God said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “You will just go with joy to live in the place of your ancestors. After you become a sufficiently old man, you will be buried.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But concerning you (sing.) Abram, I will-prolong your (sing.) life and you will-die in old-age with peace.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But as for you, you will die peacefully when you are very old.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 17:26:
- Kankanaey: “And as for Abraham, he immediately obeyed what God had commanded to him. Because on that day, he circumcised Ismael and all his male slaves that were born in his house and all also that he had bought. On that very same day, Abraham also had-himself-circumcised, so they all were-at-the-same-time to be circumcised. Ninety and nine were the years of Abraham upon his being circumcised. Ismael also his child, he yeared ten and three.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “The sign was put in the bodies of both Abraham and his son Ishmael on the same day.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “At that very day that God commanded that all males should be-circumcised, Abraham and Ishmael were-circumcised including all the slaves of Abraham who were-born in his household and the slaves whom he had-bought from-the-other places.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “On that very day Abraham and his son, Ishmael were circumcised.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 18:31:
- Kankanaey: “Abraham again said, ‘Sir/Lord, please excuse again my boldness, because I will have something to say. If for-example twenty only are what you come-upon?’ ‘If twenty are who are there, I will also not destroy their town,’ God said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “Again Abraham said — ‘Might I have the courage to ask my Lord again? If there are just 20 good people, what will you do?'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Abraham still again said, ‘Lord, forgive me for my boldness to continue speaking to you. If perchance there (are) only 20 righteous people?’ The Lord answered, ‘I will- still not -destroy the city for the sake of 20 righteous-(ones).'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Abraham said, ‘I should not be bold and speak to you like this, God. But what will you do if you find that there are only 20 righteous people there?’ He replied, ‘I will not destroy the whole city, for the sake of those 20.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 19:31:
- Kankanaey: “On one-occasion, the older-sibling said, ‘Our (dual) father is already getting-old and there-is-no man in this land with-whom- we (dual) -will-get-married.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “One day the big daughter said to her younger sister — ‘Our father has already become an old man. There are no husbands in this world to marry us.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “One day, the older child said to her younger-one, ‘Our (incl.) father is now old and there is no man here whom we (incl.) can-marry so-that we can-give-birth like what is done everywhere.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “One day the older daughter said to the younger daughter/her sister, ‘Our father is old, and there is no man in this area who can have sex with us, as people all over the earth do.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 22:5:
- Kankanaey: “and he said to the two slaves, ‘Stay here to watch-over the donkey while I and my child go there to worship God. Then we (excl.) will return.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “He said to his servants — ‘You stay here with the donkey. I and my son will go a bit further [and] having prayed, will come [back].'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore Abraham said to his two servants, ‘[You (pl.)] just (stay) here a-while and [you (pl.)] watch/guard the donkey, for we (excl.) will-go- ahead -up there and will-worship God. We will- also -return soon.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Abraham said to his servants, ‘You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go over there. We will worship God there, and then we will come back to you.'” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 24:14:
- Kankanaey: “May it be that when I say to a young-lady, ‘Please lower that jar of yours (sing.) (rice-wine-jar but formerly also used for water) so-that I will drink,’ and she says, ‘Yes indeed, I will then also fetch-water-for your (sing.) camels,’ may it be that the one who says that, that will be the one you (sing.) have chosen whom Isaac will-marry. If that happens, that’s how-I-will-know that you (sing.) are doing what you (sing.) promised to Abraham my master,’ he said praying.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “I will say to one of them, ‘Let your pitcher down a bit to let me drink water.’ If she says to me, ‘Have a drink, I will also give water to your camels to drink’ I will recognize that that is the woman whom you have chosen for your servant Isaac. And I will also know that you have fulfilled the promise that I made to my master.'” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “If in-fact/indeed I ask-for water from the jar of a young-single(unmarried)-lady, and she will-agree to cause- me -to-drink including my camels, may she (be) the woman whom you have-chosen to become the wife of your servant Isaac. In this (way) I will-know that you have-shown your goodness to my master Abraham.'” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I am asking you this: ‘I will say to some girl, ‘Please lower your jar so that I may drink some water.’ If she says, ‘Drink some, and I will draw some water from the well for your camels, too,’ I will know that she is the woman whom you chose to be a wife for your servant, Isaac, and I will know that you have been kind to my master.”” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 25:10:
- Kankanaey: “His children Isaac and Ismael buried (him) in the place-where- Sara -was-buried in the cave at Makpela which was near Mamre, because that just the same was the land that Abraham had bought previously from Efron the child of Zohar who was Heteo.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “This was the field Abraham managed to buy from the Hittities. Abraham and Sarah, the two of them, were buried here.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “That farm was bought by Abraham in the presence of the Hithanon. There Abraham and his wife Sara were-buried.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Isaac and Ishmael buried his body there, where Abraham previously buried his wife Sarah.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 26:17:
- Kankanaey: “And-so Isaac departed from that country and camped in the plain at Gerar there he stayed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Newari: “So Isaac went out from the city, and setting up tents in a place which had a dry river outside Gerar, lived [there].” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore Isaac left, and he erected/[lit. caused-to-stand] his tent in Gerar which (is a) place-where- water -flows, and now settled there.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So Isaac and his family moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley and started to live there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)