Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 5:10:
- Uma: “Those demons kept asking Yesus that he not send them out of that village.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And the demons really begged Isa, that they would not be sent away from that place.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The demon begged Jesus not to drive them away to a far land.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he begged again-and-again to Jesus that he not make-them -leave that town/country.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then the evil spirit kept on begging-for-pity from Jesus that they wouldn’t be driven out of that place.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Timothy 3:5:
- Uma: “In behavior that others see, they will follow religious customs like people who submit to God. But the power of God that can change their hearts, they just reject it. Don’t you associate-with [lit., mix-with] people whose behavior is like that.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “It is true that they are religious but there is no use in it because they do not want their livers to be changed. Beware of people like that.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They will pretend to worship God, however they will not believe that He has any power. Avoid people like that.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They will be pretend worshippers of God, but they will not acknowledge his power to change their bad behavior. Distance-yourself (sing.) from people like those.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Their believing/obeying and worship of God is only pretending now. It’s clear from their lives that they really haven’t submitted to his control. Don’t you make-friends/have-fellowship with people like these.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “In appearance, it seems that truly they reverence God. But they do not really believe that God alone has power. Do not be friends with those who do thus.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 7:17:
- Uma: “‘A long time after that, the time had almost come for God to make-come-true his promise to Abraham. Our ancestors proliferated in the land of Mesir until there became very many of them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘When the time was approaching when they would be caused-to-go-out from Misil as God had promised Ibrahim, there were already very many of our (incl.) nation/tribe in Misil.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when God was about to carry out his promise to Abraham that he would free his descendants there, very many there in Egypt were the descendants of our ancestors.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘When it was almost the time-that God -would-fulfill what he had previously promised to Abraham, our ancestors increased-in-number even-more in Egipto.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Esteban further said, ‘Well, when our fore-fathers were there now in Egipto, they continued to increase in number. When it had been a long time already, being now near the time when what God had promised to Abraham would be fulfilled, they were really numerous then.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 5:42:
- Uma: “The child got/woke up and immediately walked. (Her age was twelve years.) No kidding the surprise of the people who saw [this].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Immediately the child got up and walked about in the house. She was twelve years old. They were very amazed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The child got up and immediately began to walk around. She was twelve years old. The mother and father of the child were very much amazed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “She truly got-right-up and walked. (That young-lady was twelve years old.) They were extremely amazed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s like the child was-suddenly-wakened, and sat up at once, going on to stand up and walk around, for she was twelve years old. Those companions of his/hers were really amazed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Timothy 4:20:
- Uma: “Erastus, he is still in the village of Korintus. Trofimus I left in Miletus because he was sick.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Erastus stayed there in Korinto. Toropimus was left by me there in Miletus because he was sick.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Erastus stayed behind in Corinth, and I left Trophimus in Malta for he was sick.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Erastus was left-behind in Corinto, and as for Trofimus, I left him in Miletus because he was sick.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Oh yes, as for Erasto, he stayed behind at Corinto. As for Trofimo, I left him at Melito because he was ill.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning Erastus, he stayed in Corinth. And Trophimus I left in the city of Miletus because he was sick.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 7:49:
- Uma: “The Lord God says: ‘The sky is my seat, and the earth is my stepping-on-place. What kind of house do you want to build for me? Where would be fitting to become my staying house?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Heaven is the-chair/where-I-sit to rule. And the earth is the-resting-place for my feet. You cannot make a house where I live, and you also cannot make a stopping/resting place for me,’ God said.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘God says, ‘Heaven is where I sit, and earth is where I place my feet. There is no house that you can build that would hold me. You also cannot build a proper place for me to rest” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘In heaven is where I sit to rule, and the world, that’s where-I-stretch-out-my-legs. Therefore whatever house you build, it will not suffice as a place-for-me-to-stay.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “”The heavens really are my seat in kingship. The world is just the stepping-stool of my feet,’ says God. ‘What kind of house could you make to house me? Or what place is fitting for me as my resting place,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 6:31:
- Uma: “At that time, a great many people were coming and going, to the point that they didn’t even have time to eat. So Yesus said to his followers: ‘Let’s go to an uninhabited place to get away from the many people, so we can stop a while.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore Isa said to them, ‘Let us (incl.) go to the lonely place, we (incl.) only so that you can rest a little-while.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to them, he said, ‘Let’s go for a while to a land where there are no people so we can rest.’ The reason he said this was because many people were coming to see Jesus, and they had no time, not even to eat.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he said, ‘Let’s go to an isolated place to be-alone so that we will have a way to rest for a little-while.’ Because those-going to where they were kept-exchanging-places (i.e. going and coming) and they had no opportunity to eat.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But since many people again were going and coming, Jesus and his disciples weren’t even able to eat. That’s why Jesus said to his disciples, ‘It would be good for us just to go to a place far from people, in order to be able to rest.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Titus 2:14:
- Uma: “He gave himself / his body to be killed to redeem/take-the-place-for our sins, he freed us from all our evil character, he made us holy and made us his people and his portion, who are eager to do good character/actions.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa Almasi submitted to dying in order to redeem us (incl.) and to set us (incl.) free from all badness/evil. His wish is that our (incl.) livers are clean/holy and that we (incl.) become people that belong to him and that our (incl.) only wish is to do good.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He allowed himself to be killed as our (incl.) substitute so that He might set us (incl.) free from our having to do evil, and so that He also might make us (incl.) people who belong to Him who are cleansed and who greatly desire to do good.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He is the one who gave himself (lit. his body) to die for us in order that we would be set-free from all the power of sin and in order that he would cause-us -to-become his holy people who are eager to do good.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He took our place, so that he might save/free us from the control of evil, and so that he might make us clean in that our sin has been removed. He did this so that he could now make us really his people, who would be wanting very much to do good works.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He gave his own life for us. He died in order to save us from evil. And he fixed up our hearts. He wanted that we be in his hand. And he wanted that we be eager to do what is good.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
