Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 9:17:
- Uma: “So also it is not good to pour new wine into an old putting-place. Because when it bubbles [word used of fermenting], that old putting-place will break, with the result that the wine just spills, and the putting-place also is wasted. New wine must be poured into a new putting-place, so that all is good.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa also compared his teaching with fresh grape juice/water put in bags of goat skin. He said, ‘Nobody also puts fresh grape water which still bubbles/ferments into an old bag. Because if he does that, the bag will tear. So-then the grape water will be spilled and the bag is destroyed. Instead fresh grape water should be put in new bags. Then both will not be destroyed.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “In the same way also, wine which is just newly made and is placed in a goatskin container, it is not possible to put it into an old container because the container will burst, and the wine will spill out, and the container also will be ruined. It is necessary for wine which has just been made to be put into a new container. In that way, neither the wine nor the container is not ruined.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Neither of course does anyone put recently-yeasted grape juice in a dried-up leather bag for rice-wine, because when it ferments, the leather will crack-open and the bag will be ruined while-simultaneously the grape juice will also be thrown-away. Recently-yeasted grape juice then, it must be a new leather in which it is placed so that nothing will be ruined or thrown-away.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Also no-one puts new drink into an already old container made of skin which no longer gives/stretches. For if one does like that, as (the drink) develops/ferments (the container) will of course burst. Well isn’t it so that the drink put in will be spilt and the container destroyed as well. Of course what is fitting to put new drink in is indeed a new skin container. Well isn’t it so that both will last a long time.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It is like new wine cannot be put into an old wineskin to ferment. Because the new wine will split the wineskin when it ferments, and be lost. Therefore the new wine is put in new wineskins in order that neither will be lost.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
