Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 2:46:
- Uma: “Every day they gathered in the House of God. They broke bread to remember the Lord Yesus’ death, and they ate together in their houses with glad and holy [i.e., sincere] hearts.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Every day they met together there in the temple/big prayer-house. They ate together in their homes. They ate with joy and they were generous in giving to one another.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And everyday all the believers were gathering in the big church which was called the House of God. And they became one also with great joy as they ate in their houses.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Every-day they were joining-in-congregating in the Temple. They were eating-together also in the houses, and their joy was heartfelt/sincere in their doing that.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And what they did every day was, they gathered together in the like-a-yard of the Templo. A custom of theirs also was, they went to eat at one another’s homes with a happy mind which had no motive which wasn’t good.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Isthmus Mixe: “They gathered together every day at the big Israelite church building. They celebrated the Lord’s supper at their houses. They were joyful and contented as they ate together.”
- Desano: “Every day in the temple they talked with God and in their houses they ate together and in their hearts they were content.” (Source for this and one above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 2:47:
- Uma: “They continued praising God, and all people/crowds were glad about them. Every day the Lord added-to their number; its meaning, every day there were more-and-more people who believed in the Lord Yesus and [lit., until] were lifted from the punishment of their sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They always praised God and all the people respected them. And every day there were people who newly trusted in Isa being added to them by God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they praised God and everybody respected them. And everyday at that time there were people who believed. And all of them, God set them free so that they would no longer be punished by him, and those were added to the believers.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They were praising God continually, and all the people acknowledged-with-respect their good behavior. Every-day also those whom God was saving were joining/being-added to them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They were always praising God, and they were highly-spoken-of by people who hadn’t yet believed. Really every day there were those being graced with salvation by God, whom he was adding to those believers.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Lalana Chinantec: “They worshipped God. All of the townspeople spoke well with regard to those people. Every day the Lord made there to be more people who were saved. They joined with the people of Jesus.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “And the believers glorified God and all the people had respect for them and God caused that day by day more believers walked with them.”
- Chichimeca-Jonaz: “They were telling that God did them good he helped them and they pleased the hearts of all the people. Also always each day he who is Chief gradually was gathering and joining those who were being saved with the others who were already believing and meeting together.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “They would praise God and the townspeople respected them. Day by day our Lord God was saving some from among the townspeople and causing them to join them.”
- Desano: “Thus making God happy and saying that he is good, they lived in peace with the people. God added to the group which was close to him many more whom he was saving well.” (Source for this and four above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 1:7:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘My Father himself is the one who sets when will be fulfilled all his purposes that he has established by his authority/powerb [kuasa]. It is not necessary for you to know.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He answered, he said, ‘You don’t have/are not supposed to know about those (things). My Father is the only one who decides/rules over the happenings in the world and when he will let them happen.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered, ‘It is only our Father God who has power to know at which time the things which he does will be fulfilled, and it is not permitted to you to know this.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘It is not possible for you to come-to-know that, because my Father only has the authority to designate (lit. sentence/convict) what will happen in a future day (lit. addition of days) and when it will happen,’ said Jesus answering.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied to them, ‘Only my Father knows at what time or hour he will fulfill all which he has determined. As for you, it’s not possible/acceptable for you to know these things.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Desano; “These things are not for you to know. Only God the Father knows what he is going to do by his power, and the day when he is going to do it.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “Jesus answered them: ‘It is none of your concern to know on what day or at what hour what God the Father himself has established will be fulfilled.'”
- San Mateo Del Mar Huave: “Father Jesus said to them: ‘You do not need to know when or what hour that will be because only Father God knows when he will cause that to be.'” (source for this and two above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 3:15:
- Uma: “You did indeed kill Yesus. But God made him live again, since after all Yesus is the one that gives good life. We (excl.) here are witnesses, because we (excl.) have seen with our eyes [emphatic] that he lives again.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You killed the one who gives life, but God caused him to be alive again and we (excl.) can testify to this.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But the source of life forever you killed, however, God raised him from the dead. We can testify that Jesus was raised from the dead because we saw him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You had-the one who gives life -killed, but God, he made-him-alive again. And we (excl.) confirm that he truly came-alive because we (excl.) saw (him).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really back to front is what you did for, as for that Jesus, he is the source of our life, but death is what you rewarded him with. However he was made alive again by God, and we (excl.) testify to this, for after he came alive again, we (excl.) indeed saw/met him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Desano: “You asked that death be given to the one who gives life. Him God the Chief resurrected after he was dead. This we saw that it happened to him.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 1:17:
- Uma: “That Yudas, he was indeed our companion, and Yesus himself chose him as a disciple, the same as with us.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Judas ley was hep one of our (incl.) companions and he had also been commissioned by Isa to work like this our (incl.) work.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for Judas, he was our (incl.) companion apostle because that which the Lord gave us (incl.) to do was entrusted also to him,’ said Peter.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “but previously he was our (excl.) companion, because Jesus appointed him to serve-with us (excl.) apostles.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really as for him, he was the twelfth of us (excl.) apostles, and he did indeed have his share of this which the Lord is causing to be done.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Isthmus Mixe: “Judas was our companion. He had this same work.'”
- Desano: “Judas also was with us and worked with us.'”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “That fellow joined us and the work we were doing he was also doing.'”
- Eastern Highland Otomi “The same work we did with Judas because Jesus chose Judas like he chose us.'” (Source for this and three above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 4:3:
- Uma: “That is why they caught/arrested those two apostles, and they put them in jail. Because it was almost dark, that is why they detained them there until the next morning.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore, they seized Petros and Yahiya. Because that was already evening/late afternoon, they imprisoned them until the morning.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they arrested Peter and John, and since it was already quite late in the afternoon, they put them in prison because they would have them wait until morning.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That being so, they held-them -tightly and took them to the prison so that on the next day (lit. its-tomorrow) they would then try them, because it was already getting-to-be-night.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore what those who had arrived did was, they arrested Pedro and Juan, and because it was already late afternoon, they just jailed them. They would interrogate them next day.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Sierra de Juárez Zapotec: “They put them in jail the night before hearing the complaint against them because it was late in the day when they laid hold on them.”
- Desano: “They put them in jail and left them there because it was already very late in the day, and they were going to bring them out the next day.”
- Lalana Chinantec: “They put them in jail for one night, because it was nightfall-there was no longer time to judge them.” (Source for this and two above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 2:5:
- Uma: “At that time also, there were in Yerusalem many Yahudi from towns all over the world. Those people were all ones who submitted to Lord God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “At that time there were in Awrusalam Yahudi from the-many-countries in the world. They were very religious people.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there were Jews there in Jerusalem who had come from every country here on top of the earth, and they were faithful in carrying out the commands of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There were Jews who were serving God who were staying in Jerusalem. They were from all the nations in this world.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, at that time, there were in Jerusalem Jews who came from many different lands here under the heavens. As for those people, they were indeed devout-worshippers of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “At the same time, there in Jerusalem, there were some godly Jews who came-from the different nations of the whole world.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Mairasi: “At that time Yehudi people, from the various villages and languages of this whole who honored Above-One, lived in Yerusalem.” (Source: Enggavoter 2004)
- Bariai: “And in that day, some people of Iuda who respected God were living in the areas of all tribes on earth, and they went to Ierusalem for the feast and so were visitors.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Kupsabiny: “There were some Jews in Jerusalem who had dedicated themselves to God. They came from different parts of the world.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Desano: “In those days there were many people in the city of Jerusalem from all parts of the world. They had the same belief in God that the Jews did.”
- Morelos Nahuatl: “At that time Jews who believed very much went to the town of Jerusalem. They had come from all other nations.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “A number of people of the race of Israel who obeyed what was established in God’s law had come from all over the world and were in the city of Jerusalem that day.” (Source for this and two above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation
August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 4:11:
- Uma: “He is the one that the words of the Holy Book aim at that say like this: ‘The rock that you [emphatic] house-builders discarded, that very rock is the one that became the main foundation-stone.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “About Isa hep it is said in the holy-book, ‘The stone which you, the experts in building stone houses, rejected because you mistakenly-thought it useless, now that one is already the stone of ultimate/greatest use.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus is that stone which was prophesied in the word of God written long ago which says, ‘The stone which is used for building the house, you carpenters threw it away because you thought mistakenly that it had no purpose. However it has become today the stone which is the only one that can be used to finish this house.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He is also the one who was illustrated by what God caused-to-be-written that says, ‘The stone that you rejected, you who are building a house, that’s what God caused-to-become the most-valued stone that makes-firm the house.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And he is the one meant as being like a stone in this which is written, saying, ‘The stone which was not acceptable to the house builders, that after all was the one which was used as the main-support of the house.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Desano: “Jesus is like the post which you builders threw out. This post in actuality is now turning out to be the main support of the house.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 118:22 and Psalm 118:23.
