Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Timothy 2:7:
- Uma: “Consider this advice of mine, the Lord will make clear your heart so that you understand it all.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Keep thinking of these comparisons/parables of mine because God will help you so that you will really understand all.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Think about this which I have taught you, and the Lord will help you so that you might thoroughly understand it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Think carefully about these-things that I have told you (sing.), and the Lord Jesus will help you (sing.) so that you (sing.) are-able-to-understand all.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Be always thinking about these things I’m saying, for the Lord will cause it to be understood by you all.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Know why I tell you this word. God will do that your hearts finds well all the word I tell you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 6:8:
- Uma: “As for Stefanus, God really blessed him, he gave him authority to do many surprising signs that showed the power of God to the people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “That Estepan was a man who was helped very much by God, and was given by God supernatural power by God that’s why he did powerful works and wonder-causing works among the people in Awrusalam.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now as for Stephen, God blessed him and he had great power. There were many miracles and signs which he showed to the people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Esteban, the miracles and signs he was doing that the people were seeing were extremely amazing, because God’s help to him was great and he was also full of his power.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, as for that Esteban, it was obvious that with him was much grace/help and far-from-ordinary means/ability which comes from God. Proof was, many were the signs which were amazing things which he was able to do before the eyes of everyone.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 5:18:
- Uma: “While Yesus was boarding, the person who had been possessed earlier asked if he could go with him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Isa got into the boat, the man who had been demon possessed begged him to come along with him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When Jesus was getting into the boat, the person who was cured from being afflicted by demons begged to go along with Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus was-climbing into the boat while-simultaneously also the man whom the evil-spirits had-left was begging to go-with him koma.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jesus and company were about to sail, he was asked by that person whom he had healed to take him along.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Timothy 3:13:
- Uma: “But evil people and deceivers, the evil of their character will just get worse. They deceive others with their lying teaching, but in fact it is they also who are deceived.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And the people who are bad/evil and the ones who are foolish, their bad/evil deeds will increase. They fool/deceive their companions but they are fooled/deceived also.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, the evil people and the false believers, their behavior will continue to get worse. They lead the minds of people astray, but their minds are also led astray.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “While as-for the people who are evil and those who deceive their companions, the evil they are doing will grow-worse-and-worse/more-and-more, because they will continue to deceive their companions while at-the-same-time they are also being-deceived.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For those whose nature/ways are evil who are deceitful, they will become much more evil, keeping on with their leading astray of their fellowman, and well, what else but they themselves are being led astray too.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The people who are evil people and are lying teachers will more and more turn out evil in how they walk. As they deceive they will also be deceived.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 7:25:
- Uma: “Musa thought [emphatic] that his relatives would know that he was the one God would use-as-hands to free them from their slavery. But they did not know.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He thought-mistakenly that his tribe/nation would understand that he was the one God would use to set them free, but they did not understand.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Moses thought mistakenly that his companion Jews already understood that he was the one God had chosen to set them free from the Egyptians. However they didn’t understand it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Moses thought his companions would understand that he was the one God had chosen to set-them -free, but surprisingly they did not understand.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Moises mistakenly-thought that his own people would understand that he was the one God would use to release them from their slavery. But well, they didn’t understand.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Lalana Chinantec: “‘My companions realize,’ Moses thought, ‘they realize that God has sent me. They realize that I will save the people of Israel’. ‘That’s what Moses thought. But that was not what his companions thought.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 6:7:
- Uma: “He called his twelve disciples, he sent [with a message–implied in verb; this is the root word we use for "apostle"] them in groups of two, and he gave them authority to expel evil-spirits.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then he called his twelve disciples to him and he told/commanded them to go two-together to proclaim the word/message of God. He also gave them power to cast out demons.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He gathered together his twelve disciples to send them out. He divided them up by twos, and he also gave them power to drive away demons.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he called/invited his twelve disciples to send them by-twos. He gave them authority to make-evil-spirits -leave” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then he gathered together his twelve disciples for he was going to send them out in twos. He gave them authority with which to drive out evil spirits from the people being possessed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Titus 1:6:
- Uma: “As for people who become religious leaders, they must be persons whose behavior cannot be faulted, who have just one wife, their children must also believe in Kristus, and they must not be children who are called rebellious and unruly.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “an elder should have no fault/nothing to blame him for and he should have only one wife. His children ought to trust Isa Almasi and they ought not to have hard heads (idiom – disobedient) and they should not satisfy their greedy-desires.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for the elder, it is necessary that he have no transgressions, he has only one wife whom he does not commit adultery against, his children must also be believers, and people do not think of them as seeking only for worldly happiness. They must be obedient to the things commanded to them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The leader of a congregation, there must be nothing of-which-he -is-accused. He must also have only-one spouse and not commit-adultery (lit. woman-with). Even his children, they must believe and consistently-obey and have no reputation (lit. no reporting of them) for doing wrong/evil.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, this overseer, it’s necessary that no fault can be found in his nature/ways, he hasn’t switched wives, there being only one. And it’s necessary that as for his children, they too are believers in God, and there’s nothing which could be criticized-negatively because of their naughtiness/irresponsibility or disobedience.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “You should appoint those men against whom no word can be found. And they must have only one wife. Their children must be believers. And no one should be able to say that their children are unrestrained or are disobedient.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 7:57:
- Uma: “From there, those religious judges covered their ears, and they yelled loudly so that they would no longer hear the words of Stefanus. They went toward him to grab him,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But the people were shouting loudly. They covered/stopped their ears so that they could not hear what Estepan was saying. And immediately they all went toward him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then as for those leaders, they shouted and they covered up their ears so they couldn’t hear what Stephen was saying. And they jumped at him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon the leaders of the Jews, they blocked their ears while-simultaneously they shouted so that they wouldn’t hear what he was saying. Then they rose-as-a-group and suddenly-grabbed him,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When they heard that, they shouted-angrily, covering their ears so they wouldn’t hear what Esteban was saying. And then they rushed at him together.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
