Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 27:8:
- Uma: “It was very hard for us to go along the coast of the island of Kreta. At-last we arrived at the ship stopping-place called Good Stopping-place, near the town of Lasea.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “We (excl.) followed-the coastline and even though it was difficult for us (excl.) we (excl.) eventually arrived at the harbor/docking-place named in our (dual) language, ‘Good Harbors.’ That was not far from the town of Lasea.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “We did not go very far away from the shore, and our travel was very difficult. After a long time we landed in the place called Good Landing Place near the town of Lasea.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But even though we (excl.) kept-close-to-the-edge along Creta, we (excl.) had-difficulty nonetheless until we (excl.) arrived at what was called Good Docking-Place which was close to the town of (lit. at) Lasea.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When we had crossed to the other side of that island, we continued our voyage gradually keeping close to shore. However it really took us a long time to be able to reach a docking place called Good Docking-place which was near the city of Lasea.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 5:32:
- Noongar: “I didn’t come to call good people so they could repent of sinning, only bad people.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “I do not come to call those whose behavior is straight. My coming here is I call sinners so that they repent from their sins.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I have not come here to look for the straight/righteous ones but I have come to look for the sinful people so that they will regret and leave their sins.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for me, I did not come here so that I might cause the righteous to stop doing evil, but rather those who are transgressors against God.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I didn’t come to go call/invite the righteous people but rather the sinful so that they would repent of their sins.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What I came here for wasn’t to call the straight/righteous but on the contrary the sinful, who need to repent/be-sorry and drop/give-up their sins and submit themselves to God.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 4:17:
- Uma: “If we love our relatives, this is a sign that we really do love God, with the result that we are brave to face him on the judgment day. We are brave to face him, because our behavior in this world is like the behavior of Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Our (incl.) love to God is caused-to-be complete in order that we (incl.) will not be afraid on the day when he judges all mankind, because we (incl.) know that our (incl.) custom/behavior here in the world is like Isa’s behavior.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He will draw tight our love for him here in our breaths so that we will have no fear in the future on the day when he investigates the activities of all mankind. The reason we will not be afraid is because, just like Jesus was dear in the breath of our Father God, we also are dear to Him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And if that is what our lives are like, our love will be added to until it has no lack/fault and we will have nothing to fear on the day that God judges people, because our behavior on this earth, it will be like the character of Cristo just the same.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therein we can now comprehend that this valuing by us has been completed. That’s why we are not now afraid of that day of judgment. Because what more is there to fear since we are now making-ourselves-like Jesu-Cristo here in this world?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It is necessary that we love God with all our hearts in order that we will be afraid about nothing on the day we are judged. The Father of Jesus Christ is God. Also for us here on earth his Father, God, is also our Father.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “We now love God as we ought to if we are constantly present loving him all the time. If we do that then we will not fear in the day of judgment because like Jesus’ head-heart is, so are our head-hearts in this world.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “Now our hearts lack nothing of God’s love. So we aren’t afraid when we think of the day God will do judgment. We do not fear it because we are residing with God, just like our Lord Jesus Christ, even though still (the -same-as-before) we are living in the world.”
- Tzotzil: “Because if we truly love thus we will not be afraid in the presence of God when comes the time that he receives our word about our sins (judges us for our sins) all of us. Because thus are our hearts while we are here in the world like his heart.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: “By means of this, love is brought-up-to-standard in us. Therefore in the day in which God Himself scolds people we will be at ease. We won’t be afraid.”
- Yanesha’: “Here, already completely it fills us, love, thus not will we be afraid when he causes us to know how he sees us, our Father. Because how he is, we too, thus we are here on the earth.”
- Aguaruna: “This being so, we learn to truly love. When it is so, we are those able to stay (be) without fear when the day arrives when God condemns (punishes) people. Jesus, just the same as he, we also we live in this world.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 27:41:
- Uma: “But in fact it didn’t keep going to the land, it instead struck sand because the water was shallow. The prow [head] of the ship stayed-stuck in the sand, with the result that it no longer moved. Yet on its back side it was struck by the big waves of the sea, with the result that it was smashed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But they met a shallow place so-then the ship was grounded there. The ship’s prow was the part that was aground and could not move but its back part was destroyed/broken-to-pieces because of the strength of the waves.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The ship struck some shallow land and stuck. The forward end could not be moved, however the after end began to break up from the strength of the big waves.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But whereupon the ship struck-against the ridged sand/gravel, and its front became thoroughly stuck. As for the back of it, the waves repeatedly-smashed-against-it, and it was-coming-apart.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But the ship was taken by the current to where waves were meeting. What else but the bow grounded for there was evidently a pebble-ridge. It couldn’t get away. And because it was there where waves were breaking, the stern of that ship at once was broken to pieces.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Isthmus Mixe: “There were waters meeting against each other there. Then the boat struck a big hill of sand in the water. Then the front of the boat got stuck in the sand. The boat would not come out of there. Because the water was making big waves the boat split in back.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:25:
- Noongar: “It is awful for you people with plenty food now! You will be hungry! It is awful for you people laughing now! You will be sad and crying!” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Disaster to you who are satisfied/full at this time, because you will be hungry. Disaster to you who are glad/joyful at this time, because you will be sad and weep.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘You are to be pitied who are satisfied now, for there is a time in the future when you will be hungry. ‘You are to be pitied who are now laughing, for there will be a time in the future you will have sorrow and will weep.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Pity you whose hunger is always satisfied now, because there will be a time in the future when you will be hungry. Pity you who rejoice now, because there will be a time in the future when you will be very sorrowful.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Pitiful also are you who are satisfied now, because in the future you will be hungry. ‘Pitiful also are you who are smiling/laughing now, because in the future you will mourn and cry-bitterly.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Very hard is what is in store for you who have-all-you-want now, who have no awareness of being-in-need, for it really will come that you will be hungry, for hardship/suffering will come to you. Very hard is what is in store for you who give-priority-to happiness, who aren’t grieved about sin, because grief really will come to you and you will cry.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:7:
- Uma: “I write this to you, for many deceivers are going-around all over the world. They don’t believe that Yesus is the Redeemer King who became a human. People who are like that, they are deceivers and they are indeed enemies of Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Many people are teaching which is not true in the places/countries here in the world. These people don’t believe that Isa Almasi came to the earth in a human body. These people are really deceiving. They are already the ones opposing Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Many have appeared teaching lies here on the earth. They say that, as for Jesus, the one chosen by God to rule, He is not the one who became a human. Anyone who says that, he is a liar and the enemy of Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I have reminded you of this, because there are many who have come-out/appeared now who are deceiving people. What they are teaching is not true because they do not acknowledge that Jesu Cristo became a true person when he came to this earth. Those like that, they are characteristically-deceiving/lying people who oppose Cristo.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s true, this world/land is really full of misleaders of believing, those people who don’t acknowledge-as-true that as for Jesu-Cristo, he really became a man/human. Those people who are like that, they are the ones who lead astray and who oppose Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Thus I tell you, because here on earth there are many lying speakers going about. These say that Jesus Christ did not truly become a human. The person who thus says this is a deceiver, and he is the enemy of Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “Many deceivers have gone out from among us and are going about in this world. They say that Jesus Christ is not born a man on this earth. Those people who are deceivers do contrary to Christ.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “This I am telling you, because a lot of deceivers are walking around in the world, who say that God’s Chosen-One didn’t become a person, that is, Jesus. But they are false, and they follow God’s enemy.”
- Isthmus Zapotec: “There are many who go around in the world and say that Jesus Christ did not become a person (of the world). And one who speaks that way is deceiving and he is an enemy of Christ.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 28:29:
- Uma: “[[After Paulus spoke like that, the Yahudi people went-home from there and argued among themselves.]]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “After Paul said this, the Yahudi left and they argued greatly.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And after Paul said this, the Jews went out and very intense was their arguing.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “[Upon his saying that, the Jews left, extreme being their arguing-together.]” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Pablo had ended that which he said, those Jews then left to go home. Their arguing as they went was far-from-ordinary.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:9:
- Noongar: “Jesus heard this and he was surprised. Many people followed Jesus. He turned and said, ‘I tell you, I don’t see faith like this man, not in Israel, no!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus was surprised to hear the words from that warchief. That is why he turned to the people who were following him, and he said to them: ‘No kidding the faith of that person! Even among the Yahudi people descendants of Israel, I have not yet found even one person whose faith is as great as that person over there.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Isa heard this, he wondered at the words of the captain. Then he faced the crowds of people who followed after him and he said to them, ‘I tell you, even among the tribe of Isra’il have I not met a person like that captain who trusts so much.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When Jesus heard this He was very much surprised, and he turned and he said to the people that had come with him, and he said, ‘I have not yet come across a person who is a descendant of Israel who is like this one, whose faith is so strong.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus was amazed at hearing that. He faced the many-people who were following him and said, ‘This that I tell you is indeed true that I have not come-across anyone that has trust like this, even among us who are from-Israel.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus was amazed when he heard that. He faced the masses who were going along with him and spoke, saying, ‘It’s true, I really haven’t observed anyone here among the Judio, the descendants of Israel, whom like this is the big-size of his belief-in/obeying-of me.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
