Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:39:
Noongar: “And you already know this truth: if a man owns his house and he knows when the thief will come, he will not allow the thief to break his house and enter it.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “‘Store my parable in your hearts: If the house-owner knows ahead-of-time what time robbers will come, he will definitely guard so that they do not enter.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But remember this, that if the owner of a house knew at what time the thief will arrive he would certainly watch/stay awake and he would not let/abandon his house to be broken into and entered.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said again, ‘Don’t you forget that if the owner of the house knew when the thief would come, he would have carefully be on guard and that thief could not have entered into his house.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “‘Remember this also: if the house owner had known the hour that the thief would arrive, he would have been prepared so the thief would not have-been-able-to-enter.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Consider this. Supposing a householder knew at what hour a thief would come, of course he wouldn’t just allow his house to be entered.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Kabwa: “If a house owner would know the time when a thief is coming, he would prepare himself, and the thief would not enter inside his house.”
Suba-Simbiti: “If only a house owner would know the time at which a thief would come, he would prepare himself. He would not sleep, leaving the thief destroying his house.” (Source for this and above: R.M. Mészároš in Journal of Translation 18/2022, p. 115ff. )
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 17:2:
Uma: “The kings of the world do [sexual] wrong with her, and she makes all the people who live in the world drink a drink that is intoxicating, its meaning: she encourages them to follow her deeds that are not fitting.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “The leaders in the world have practised illicit sex with this famous bad woman. And all the people in the world have been influenced also by her doings, figuratively like people caused to be drunk by grape juice who are no longer ashamed to do bad.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The kings of the earth have had sexual relations with her. And her wine, which is to say, her worship of idols has made the people on the earth drunk.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Those who rule on the earth, they have slept-with her, and even also the people on the earth, it’s as if they are drunk with her alcoholic-beverage which is her filthy behavior that they have followed.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Really the kings and the people here under the heavens have become very much involved in this disgusting habit of hers.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “The rulers who live all over the world all have committed fornication with this woman. The people all over the world have been made drunk by drinking the liquor of fornication,’ he told me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 12:10:
Uma: “Love each other like the mutual love between relatives, and surpass/get-ahead-of each other in honoring each other.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “You ought to love each other because it is as if you were siblings because you equally trust Isa Almasi. You ought to be happy to honor your fellow trusters in Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “We (incl.) who have become siblings by means of Christ, must show that each one of us is precious in His breath. And let us rejoice in respecting our companions.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Love-one-another like the love of brothers. Count your companions as being more important than yourselves.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “It is necessary that you love your fellow believers, each one of you, because all of you are brothers because of Christ. Each of you seek how to have your brother respected.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:12:
Noongar: “When Jesus saw the woman, he said, ‘Woman, you are freed of your sickness!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “When Yesus saw that woman, he called her and said to her: ‘Mother, you are healed, you no longer have a disease that ties you.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “When Isa saw her, he called her and he said, ‘Woman, you are free now from that sickness of yours.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when Jesus saw her, he called to her and he said, ‘Auntie, you can be cured of that disease of yours.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “When Jesus saw her, he called her and said, ‘Mother (term of address for an older woman), you (sing.) are cured from your (sing.) sickness!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “When Jesus saw that woman, he called her and spoke saying, ‘Daughter, that illness of yours will now stop.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 18:16:
Uma: “they say: ‘How-sad! How-sad for that big village over there! Usually the Babel people wear fine clothes, white ones, bright red ones and purple [lit., grayish likenew mango leaves] ones. Usually they are decorated with gold, gems [ring eyes], andpearls.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “They say, ‘Allo. It is all over (lit. no longer becoming). What a pity. That famous city was like a woman dressed in expensive purple and red clothes and her body was covered with jewelry and precious stones and pearls.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They say, ‘How great the city will be missed! The inhabitants there were clothed in expensive cloth, white, red and purple. They decorated their bodies with gold, expensive stones and pearls.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “saying, ‘Oh how-awful (expression of sympathy)! Extremely to-be-pitied is that famous (lit. newsed) city! Because previously, the inhabitants there dressed in expensive (garments) which were white and blue and red. They were extremely decorated-all-over with gold, valuable stones and pearls.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “What they will say is, ‘Alas, this really is extremely hard! Gooseflesh-causing is this which has now happened to this famous city. In the past, the clothes were really ornate and the body decorations dazzling of the people from there. For as for their clothes, they were first-class cloth, and those dyed dark-blue/purple and red. And as for their body decorations, they were gold and expensive mined stones and far-from-ordinary beads.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “They will say: ‘Pity the city. It was like a woman who wore good clothing. Who wore clothing of purple. Who wore clothing of red, who had ornaments of gold with little beautiful stones, and pearls.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 14:7:
Uma: “For there is not one of us who lives following our own desires. Nor is there one of us who dies following our own desires.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “All of us (incl.) belong to Isa Almasi, our (incl.) Leader. That’s why in our (incl.) life and in our (incl.) death we (incl.) ought to please him not ourselves (incl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For there isn’t any one of us believers that doesn’t belong to God while he’s still on the earth or whether he is already dead. For while we are still alive we are subjects of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Because all of us who believe, it is not our being-honored/praised that we are searching for in our living and even in our dying,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “No one can decide on his own how he will live, because all of us are in the hand of our Lord Jesus Christ. While we are living we are in his hand. When we have died we are in his hand.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Mezquital Otomi: “Because not one of us lives to do what we want to do ourselves, and not one of us dies according to our own will.”
Highland Totonac: “Because no one of us is our own boss in our living, and neither is any of us our own boss when we die.”
Sayula Popoluca: “We don’t live just for ourselves, nor will we die because we want to.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:9:
Noongar: “and your friend who invited you, he will come and say to you, ‘Give him your seat’. Then you will be shamed and you must go to the lowest seat.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “The houseowner will come and say to you (sing.) like this: ‘Give that seat to him!’ You will be embarrassed/ashamed going to sit in a seat in a low place.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “And then the host (lit. owner of the feast) will come and say to you, ‘Change your place. Let this person sit here.’ Then you will be ashamed and you will have to sit at the lower end of the table.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the one who is giving the feast will say to us, ‘Let’s transfer because that place is for someone who is higher in rank than we are.’ And we will be very much ashamed then, if we have to be seated in a seat which is not as good.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Because when the higher-up person arrives, then the house-resident (i.e. host) will come to you (sing.) and say, ‘Please move-over so this-one can sit there.’ Surely that would be embarrassing, because you (sing.) will have to move-over to go join-in-sitting at the edge.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Well after you sit, the one who invited you will approach you, and he will say to you, ‘Go ahead, let this person sit down on this seat.’ Well, isn’t it so that you will be embarrassed being moved to where the insignificant are seated?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 20:3:
Uma: “He grabbed the dragon — the one named Snake of Old, King of Evil-ones and Seta [seta means ‘demon’ in Uma] — he tied it up and threw it into the sinkhole whose depth cannot be measured, he locked the door and he sealed it so that it would not be opened for a thousand years. So, the King of Evil-ones is not able to deceive man for a thousand years. After that, he still must be released again for a short time.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “And then the angel threw him into the bottomless hole and locked the door and made a sign so that it could not be opened. The leader of demons was imprisoned so that he could no longer deceive the tribes until the one thousand years are up. When those one thousand years are over he will be let loose for a short while.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he threw Satan in the pit whose depth has no end, and he locked it up and marked it so that it could not be opened. The reason he did this was so that Satan might not be able to deceive the people of the kingdom on the earth before the thousand years are finished. When the thousand years are finished, Satan will be freed for a very short time.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “He caught the dragon who was none other than the one who appeared as a snake long ago who is the Devil who is also named Satanas. He chained him and threw him into the prison below. After-that he padlocked it and marked the entrance so he had no way of deceiving the collective-people in the collective-towns/countries until a thousand years were finished. When that is finished, he must be-set-free again, but only for a little-while.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Without anything further, that angel threw him into the ravine and then shut him in. After closing, it was fastened by the angel so that Satanas couldn’t get out, to be able to again deceive the nations as long as the end of those thousand years hadn’t yet been reached. But when it is now reached, he will be released for a short time.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “He was thrown into the hole which had no end to its depth. There the devil was kept. And there was put a seal over the hole in order that no longer would the devil deceive the people who lived on earth until one thousand years had passed. When the one thousand years would have passed, then he would be let loose for a little while.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
