complete verse (Exodus 26:25)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 26:25:

  • Kupsabiny: “So, all the frames on the West side are eight, and the things which the frames stand on are sixteen and each frame will stand on the bases which are together in pairs.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “In this manner there must be eight planks in total. And there must be sixteen silver bases two-two under each plank. para” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “So there will-be-eight boards on this part of the Tent, and it was-inserted to the 16 silver bases — two bases to each board.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “[When] it’s like that then the pieces of [wall] bones at shelter’s short side at the back will amount to eight with their sixteen silva post bases. Below each of the pieces of wall bones, you (pl.) must put two silva post bases each.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “So, behind tent, there will be building-wood eight with its planting-holes which be 16. put hole two under each building-wood.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “In that way, for the rear of the Sacred Tent there will be eight frames, and there will be 16 bases, two under each frame.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Translation commentary on Exod 26:25

And there shall be eight frames refers to the six regular frames in verse 22 plus the two corner frames in verse 23. With their bases of silver is literally “and their bases of silver.” These bases are like those mentioned in verse 19. Sixteen bases is the number needed for eight frames, with two bases per frame. Two bases under one frame … under another frame simply means, as Good News Translation puts it, “two under each frame.” Contemporary English Version has a good model: “Altogether, this back wall will have eight frames with two silver stands under each one.”

Quoted with permission from Osborn, Noel D. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Exodus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1999. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .