Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:2:
- Uma: “He says: I know what you do. You work diligently doing my work, you also endure when persecuted because of your belief in me. I know that you hate evil people. There are those who say that they are my apostles, but they are not. You carefully-look-at their deeds and as-a-result you find that they are lying.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I do know your doings. I know that you work very hard and that you persevere enduring even whatever difficulty you have. I also know that you are not pleased with the doings of those bad people and you have closely-questioned the people there who pretend that they are apostles and you know already that they are lying/liars.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I know all the things you are doing; I know that you work hard and that you endure hardship because of your believing. I know also that you do not permit wicked people to be your companions. For the people who say that they are apostles of Jesus, you have tested, and by this you know that they are not true apostles.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I know your way-of-life. You are industrious in working for me and you are patient. You have also been-opposing what evil people are teaching, because you have tested those who say they are apostles, and you have-come-to-know that they are lying.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I really know the deeds/work of you believers there. You persevere with real perseverence and you really hold fast to your believing in the truth. I can really see that you do not tolerate those among you who do evil. You tested those there who were-claiming-falsely-to-be-apostles , and comprehended that they truly were just claiming-falsely-to-be-apostles.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I know what all you are doing. I know how strongly you do the work of God. And you endure however much suffering you go through. I know that you do not carry along with you people who are evil. I know that there have arisen people who want to deceive you, saying that they are my representatives. But you have judged how these people walk and found that they are liars.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:8:
- Uma: “If it’s like that, we can actually say like this: ‘It’s better if we just do evil actions, so that good will appear.’ There in fact are people who falsely-accuse me, they say that I have at one time talked like that. People like that are very fit to be punished by God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If like this is your (pl.) defense/argument, it means we (dual) ought to continue to sin so that its outcome is good. There are people slandering me and they accuse me that this ko’ is my teaching. God will punish the people who say this and they are worthy to be punished.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now there are some people that say that what I teach is like this; however, I do not accept arguments like this because they teach that it’s good to do evil, if by means of that, good can come. The people who teach things like this, it will be very just for God to punish them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The one who says this, it’s as if he is saying, ‘We might-as-well-just (lit. Even-if we) do evil in order that the result will be good.’ Some people, they are speaking-evil-of me by saying that that’s what I teach, but it is definitely not true. So they deserve their punishment.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Then we could do more evil in order that we say we were trying to make it seem that God is very good. Concerning this word, there are some people who accuse me of speaking like this when I teach. These people who say this are people who deserve to go to punishment.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:30:
- Noongar: “Jesus asked him, ‘What is your name?’ ‘My name is ‘Many’,’ he said, ‘Because many evil spirits live inside me.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus asked him: ‘What is your (sing.) name?’ He answered: ‘Legion.’ (That ‘Legion’ means ‘thousands’because there were many demons possessing him.)” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Isa asked him, he said, ‘What is your name?’ He answered, he said, ‘My name is Thousands’, for many demons hep had entered that person.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus asked this demon, ‘What is your name?’ And he answered, ‘My name is thousands upon thousands.’ The reason he said this was because these demons who had controlled this man were very many.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus inquired of him, ‘What is your (sing.) name?’ ‘By-the-thousands,’ he said, because many were the evil-spirits who had possessed him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus asked him, ‘Well what is your name?”Multitude,’ replied that one possesssing, because there were many evil spirits possessing that person.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 1:14:
- Aguaruna: “That word, when he arrived here, was born a human being, and in this way he lived with us. That completely good person was a speaker of the truth. And also we came to know his greatness because his Father, God, had said to his only Son, ‘You are great.'”
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “The Person who is the Word was born human and he was with us. He loved mankind very much and he taught mankind all the true words of God. We saw him and we realized that he is the Person of greatest worth because he is the only Son of our Father God.”
- Xicotepec De Juárez Totonac: “And the One who is called Word, he became a Person, and he lived in our midst. And we saw how he had power. That power is that of the only Son of Father God. He is very kind and merciful and all which he says it is true.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
- Uma: “That Word, he became man[kind], and he lived among us (incl.). We (excl.) saw his power. That power of his he received from his Father, for He is the Only Child. [It is] from him that we know God and his grace [lit., white insides] to us.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then, the Word appeared/was-born here in the world having a human body and living among mankind. All love and truth was there with him. We (excl.) were-able to see his power and his brightness, and this his power and brightness were fitting for him for he is the only Son of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the one called the Word of God became human and joined himself to us. He is very gracious and his words are very true. We saw his great high rank which is the high rank of the only child of God. And as for that high rank of his, it was given to him by his Father God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The Word, he became a person and stayed-with us (excl.). He was consistently-compassionate and what he said was all true. We (excl.) saw his godhood which was the godhood of the only Child of God who came-from his Father.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This Jesus who is called Word, he became a human and then lived here in the world together-with us. His praiseworthiness/glory was experienced by our (excl.) eyes, this glory of his being the glory of the one-and-only Son/child of God the Father. We (excl.) also comprehended the big-size of his grace/mercy and that everything which he revealed/came-out-with is indeed truth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He who makes known how God is became a person. He lived here where we live. We saw that he is the greatest. He is the greatest because he is God’s only son. He spoke only what is true and he loves the people without limit.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “That which is-being-called the Word was-born and dwelt/joined-with us (incl.) here. We (excl.) have-seen his high-position as the only Child of the Father. He is very [intensifier] merciful and what he is-telling is pure truth.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Mairasi: “This Message lived as a person, and He lived among us and we saw the height of His shining Glory. This person is the only Child of Our Father, He Himself has good insides and gave us goodness which is tuberfully correct.” (Source: Enggavoter 2004)
- Bariai: “And the Talk became human, and so he came living in our (excl.) midst. And so we saw his light and his great power, it’s the light of the one child whose Father sent him to come. He was full of the action/practice of a soft interior and true talk.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Kupsabiny: “That word became a person, it came to live with us and we saw his greatness. That greatness is what a son who is only one, gets from where the father is. He loved people completely and brought the word of truth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Anindilyakwa: “And that same one who revealed God who was hidden from us, he became a human being like us. He was born, he had flesh and bones and then he lived here and went around with us people. He is rich in love, he was very kind and he kept on and on speaking the truth. We saw that he was the leading powerful and beautiful one, the one who was his Father’s one and only Son, the one who came from his Father to here.” (Source: Julie Waddy in The Bible Translator 2004, p. 452ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 16:14:
- Uma: “From there, he again appeared to his eleven disciples while they were eating. He admonished/reprimanded them because they faith was lacking and their hearts hard. Even though there had been people who had seen him, they still hadn’t believed that he had indeed come back alive.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “After that, Isa appeared to his eleven disciples while they were eating. He scolded them because they did not believe and because they were stubborn (lit. had hard heads). He said, even though they had been told by those who had seen him that he was alive again from his death, they had not believed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Jesus also appeared to the eleven disciples while they were eating. He scolded them for the hardness of their thinking, for they wouldn’t believe the people who had reported that they had seen Jesus alive.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus appeared to eleven of his disciples while they were eating and scolded them because of their absence of faith and hardness of their minds/thoughts, because they had not believed what those who had seen him upon his coming-to-life again had reported.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then Jesus next went-to-see/meet his eleven disciples. He coincided it with their eating. He rebuked then because their believing was still lacking, and because of their stubbornness (lit. the hardness of their heads) that they didn’t believe those he had-gone-to-see/meet on his coming alive again.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 5:4:
- Uma: “And if we become able to endure, we can defeat temptation, to-the-point-that God likes our behavior. And if we know that God likes our behavior, our hope in God gets stronger-and-stronger.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If/when we (incl.) endure our (incl.) hardships, God is pleased with us (incl.). And if/when we (incl.) know that God is pleased with us we (incl.) are assured that there is (something) good that we (incl.) expect/hope-for from God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if we are able to endure, this pleases God; and when we know that God is pleased with our behavior, then it is absolutely true that there is something good which we can expect.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And when we have endured hardship, it is confirmed that our faith is steady/persevering. And if our faith is persevering, we expect that God’s plan for us will be fulfilled.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When we endure all the suffering we go through then God looks well upon us. When God has looked well upon us then we know that there will come the day we will see the good he gives.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “And when we are strong in enduring trouble, then we will indeed be proven men, and if we are proven men, then we will wait for God to do well with us.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “When we find patience it comes out that we are good, when it comes out that we are good we hope in God.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
- Mairasi: “Furthermore that fact of our having well-split bones [diligence] will increasingly work in our liver until we will experience good life/behavior. Then that good life/behavior which we experience will work in our liver with the result that our vision resting place [hope] will increasingly certainly get strong.” (Source: Enggavoter 2004)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Peter 1:2:
- Uma: “You were chosen by God the Father because thus was his purpose from the beginning. He chose you with the work of the Holy Spirit who made you his portion, with the result that you submit to Yesus Kristus and he made you holy with his blood. Many greetings: I cry out to God, that he give you more-and-more of his blessings and goodness of life.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God our (incl.) Father knew you already beforehand and chose you to make you his people and your (pl.) livers have been cleaned/made holy by the Spirit of God. You are chosen so that you follow/obey Isa Almasi and so that your sins are forgiven because of Isa Almasi’s blood that was poured out at his death. May (karayaw) God’s help to you increase and may the peace in your livers increase.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Our Father God has chosen you according to His desire long ago which was: He wanted to make you righteous by means of the Holy Spirit so that you might become subjects of Jesus Christ and so that you might also be forgiven because of your being annointed with the blood of Jesus. May He show you kindness, and may you be very peaceful.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God the Father chose you according to his original/previous decision (doesn’t imply later change of mind) to turn-you -into his holy people through the Holy Spirit. That’s what he decided in order that you would obey Jesu Cristo and be cleansed through his blood. May you increasingly experience grace/mercy/kindness and peace.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for you, you were chosen by God the Father in harmony with what-he-had-in-mind already and had determined from the distant past. He chose you so that by the power of the Espiritu Santo who indwells your body, you will be made obedient to Jesu-Cristo, your sins now having been forgiven because of his blood which was shed (lit.caused to drip). I pray that hopefully always plentiful there with you is the grace/mercy and peace/protection of mind/inner-being which God gives.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God our Father chose you because he knew what must come about in the future. The Holy Spirit caused you to become God’s people. It is wanted that you do what Jesus Christ orders you to do and to be acquitted of your sin by means of his blood which he shed. I want that God will very much give you his blessing and give you peace of heart.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
