complete verse (2 Chronicles 31:7)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 31:7:

  • Kupsabiny: “Those people began to give out those things in the third month, and they finished doing like that in the seventh month.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “They started gathering in the 3rd month, and finished in the 7th month.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “They began piling this in the third month, and finished in the seventh month.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Translation commentary on 2 Chronicles 31:7

In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month: The third month in the Jewish calendar corresponds to mid-May to mid June in the Gregorian calendar (see the comments on 2 Chr 15.10; see also Ellington’s article on the Jewish calendar in The Bible Translator). It was the time of grain harvest. The seventh month is equivalent to mid-September to mid-October (see the comments on 2 Chr 5.7). It was the time of grape and other fruit harvest. So the whole process of bringing the gifts, which took place during the harvest season, took a total of four months, as indicated by the rendering of Good News Translation. Pentecost was celebrated in the third month; and the Feast of Tabernacles, in the seventh month.

For heaps see the comments on the previous verse.

Quoted with permission from Omanson, Roger L. and Ellington, John E. A Handbook on 1-2 Chronicles, Volume 1. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2014. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .

SIL Translator’s Notes on 2 Chronicles 31:7

31:7a In the third month they began building up the heaps,

They began making the piles on the third month
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They started to make the piles on month three

31:7b and they finished in the seventh month.

and finished making them on the seventh month.
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and continued on doing this until month seven.

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