Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:28:
- Uma: “‘The owner of the garden said: ‘That is the work of our (incl.) enemy.’ ‘From there, the paid workers also said: ‘If you (sing.) want, we will go pull out that grass!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The owner of the field answered, he said, ‘My enemy has done that.’ His servants said, ‘Do you want us to go and pull out those weeds?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the person said, ‘It’s my enemy that planted that.’ And they said, ‘Shall we pull them up or not?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “”Someone who hates us did that,’ he said answering. ”Do you (sing.) want us (excl.) to go weed-the-rice-field?’ they said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The owner replied, ‘Oh, that is the mischief of my opponent.’ ‘Well,’ said those slaves of his, ‘do you want us to weed them out now?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The boss said to the workers who were speaking with him: ‘It is my enemy who planted the weeds you are talking about.’ Then the workers said to their boss: ‘Do you want us to go pull up the weeds which are along with the wheat?’ they said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 8:13:
- Uma: “For if we follow the evil desires of our hearts, the end will be we will die and be separated from God. But if we release/give-up our evil behavior by the power of the Holy Spirit, we will receive good life with God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because if we (dual) really obey/follow the will/wish of our (dual) greedy-desire, our (dual) destiny is to die and go to hell. But if we (dual) really now abandon our (dual) deeds which are evil by the help of God’s Spirit to us (dual), we (dual) will live forever.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For if what we obey are the desires of our body, we will be punished with death which is forever. But if by the help of the Holy Spirit, we abandon the evil actions of our bodies, we will be given life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because if we are obeying our human minds, it is unavoidable (lit. forced) that we be separated from God forever. But if we accept the help of the Holy Spirit in order to turn-our-backs on the evil that we are doing, we will have the life that has no end.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because should we continue along with the evil we committed before, then we will go to punishment. But if we do what we are taught by the Holy Spirit to do, that we separate from evil, then we will be given the new life which is forever.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
The Greek and Hebrew that is translated as “(man) after my (or: his) heart” in English is translated in a number of ways:
- Teutila Cuicatec. “(a man who) respects what I want”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “whom I look well on”
- Chichimeca-Jonaz: “who pleases my heart”
- Xicotepec De Juárez Totonac: “thinks like I do”
- Tzotzil: “with his heart the same as mine (we think the same way)”
- Isthmus Mixe: “his heart and mine meet together”
- Morelos Nahuatl: “a good man whom I like”
- Shipibo-Conibo: “does what I desire in my heart” (source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
- Kupsabiny: “a person my stomach loves” (source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Bariai: “a man who follows my mind (lit. interior)” (source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Mairasi: “one who has My throat and makes My liver good” (source: Enggavoter 2004)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I am very pleased with his customs” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “his ways/nature really please me for they are really in harmony with my ways” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
The Greek in Luke 10:40 that is translated as something like “(Martha) was distracted by all the preparations” is translated by other languages as:
- “all kinds of work to do had gone to Martha’s heart” (Tzeltal)
- “Martha was wearing-herself-out how/the-way her feeding them” (Tboli)
- “because much work fell to Martha, her agitation flew/flared-up” (Marathi)
- “Martha’s mind was stirred up with excess of service” (Zarma)
- “she danced to and fro in serving” (Uab Meto)
- “much work overwhelmed Martha” (Sranan Tongo) (source for all above: Reiling / Swellengrebel)
- “her face kept on getting turned with her work inside the house” (Mairasi) (source: Enggavoter 2004)
- “she was alone in the kitchen because she was making food for them, and there were many problems that she had with what she was doing” (Western Bukidnon Manobo) (source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- “Marta’s eye was here and there with the doing of tasks” (Bariai) (source: Bariai Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:34:
- Uma: “‘Don’t say like this, that I have come to make-in-harmony people. No! I have come to cause-differences among people / make people disagree.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Is it that you mistakenly-think I come to bring peace to the world? I did not come to bring peace but I came to bring a reason for opposition/resistance.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t you think that I came here to the world so that there would be no trouble for mankind. I didn’t come here so that there would be peace, for because of my coming here, people will be against each other.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus also said, ‘Don’t say that I came to bring peace to this earth, because the truth of it is that I came to bring quarreling/fighting and separating of people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s necessary that you don’t think that I came here to bring peace so that people here in the world will be harmonious. Because some will believe in me, others not. Therefore it’s like a bladed-weapon is what I have brought when I came here, because the outcome will be conflict.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do not think that I came to earth so that you would not suffer anything at all. That is not right. Rather there will be wars (all kinds of enmity between people).” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Martu Wangka: “I came to the ground to tell you all the Father’s talk. Some people will hear that talk and rejoice and live for the Father, and others will hear that talk and will dislike the Father. Those ones will also dislike the Father’s relatives.” (Source: Carl Gross)
The Greek in Romans 2:14 that is often translated into English as “they are a law to themselves” is translated these ways:
- Bilua: “they follow their own law” (source: Carl Gross)
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “it is just as if they had a law in their hearts”
- Highland Totonac: “on their own they think of the law they should do”
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “what their head-hearts tell them to do is like the law for them”
- Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “their very hearts is a law which issues orders to them”
- Tzeltal: “it is because there are commandments in their hearts”
- Sierra de Juárez Zapotec: “show that they themselves know what they ought to do” (source for this and five above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
- Uma: “their own hearts become like the Lord’s Law to them” (source: Uma Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “they have a Law there in their breath” (source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “their minds are like their law which directs them” (source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
See also a law unto themselves.
The Greek that is translated as “principalities” or “rulers” in English is translated in various ways:
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 6:10:
- Uma: “He died one time only to defeat the power of sin forever. And at this time he lives on-and-on following the desire of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He died and sin was really done away with by him. Now he is alive and all his deeds praise God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He died only once as a substitute for all people and that was sufficient and because of this His being troubled by our sins has now been removed from Him. And now He is raised from the dead and His life has become that which is the reason for God to be praised.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because his death was only once. He will not repeat his bearing of sin. And his living now/today is so that he will serve God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because Christ one time only died for the sins of the people. Now that he lives, he is living to do the will of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
