Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 15:19:
- Uma: “Because from in the heart is the appearing-place of evil thoughts, with the result that there are those who kill, commit adultery, behave wrongly with women or men, steal, give false witness, and curse.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For out of the liver come bad thoughts like killing, committing adultery, and doing other bad things, stealing, lying and slandering.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because from the breath of a person comes bad thoughts which displease God very much like murdering, fooling around with somebody not his spouse, filthy activity, stealing, lying in court, and telling lies in order to destroy the reputation of another person.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because the mind/thoughts of a person are the source of all bad intentions. And bad intentions are what direct a person to do bad-things like these: to kill, to-commit-adultery and other filthiness, to-steal, to-testify telling-lies and to-speak-evil of one’s companion.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because coming from the mind/inner-being is all the evil thinking which leads a person to do all these, which are killing, all kinds of immorality with one not your spouse, stealing, lying and insulting/belittling.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because in the mind of the person come to sit the evil thoughts, murder, fornication, robbery, lies, slandering. All from the mind of the person come these evils.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
