Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:2:
- Noongar: “Jesus asked them, ‘What do you say? Those Galileean people, Herod killed them there. You say this happened because they were sinning much more than other Galileeans, do you? You think that, do you?” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Answering that word/speech, Yesus said: ‘Do you really think thus, that the deaths of those Galilea people were like that, because their sins were greater than all the other Galilea people?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa answered them, he said, ‘Do you think-mistakenly that those people had more/greater sins than all the people in Jalil because that happened to them?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to them, ‘Perhaps you are thinking mistakenly that those Galilee people are greater sinners than their other companions from Galilee, and because of this, God permitted that they be killed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus said, ‘You probably think that the manner-of-death of those from-Galilea-folks shows that their sin was heavier than (that of) all their companions from-Galilea.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jesus heard, he said to them, ‘Probably in your mind is that those taga Galilea were more sinful than their fellow countrymen, that’s why like that happened to them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 18:5:
- Uma: “Because their sins are very great, heaped up to the sky. And now God will demand payment for all their sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because the pile of her sins reaches up to the sky. God does not forget any of her bad doings.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If her sins were piled up, they would strike heaven since they are so many. And God has not forgotten her very wicked customs.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because her sins are many as if they are stacked up to heaven, and God doesn’t forget the evil that she has done.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because really as for her sin, it has extended right up to heaven/sky (fig.). These evils of hers will really not be ignored by God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because concerning the sings they commit, they have multitudes, they pile up arriving as high as heaven. But God will not continue to endure the evil done by the people.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 13:10:
- Uma: “If we love our companion, we will of course not do evil to our companion. So if we are loving, we fill-up/fulfill the Lord’s Law.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because if we (dual) really love our (dual) fellow-(men) we (dual) will really not do bad to him. Therefore if we (dual) love our (dual) fellow-(men) we (dual) (happen to) obey/follow all the commandments of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because if we hold our companions dear, then we cannot do harm to them, and we have already obeyed in this, all of the Law.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because if we love our companions, we will do them absolutely no evil, so we will thus obey all God’s commands.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because the person who loves his fellowman will not do any evil to him. Therefore the person who loves his fellow man may be said to know well the law because that which the law says to do is just what he is doing.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:34:
- Noongar: “‘Jerusalem! Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and you stone the people whom God sends to speak to you. Always, I have wanted to embrace your people, like a mother bird gathering her chicks beneath her wing, but you will not let me do it.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘Ee Yerusalem people! Yerusalem people! You killed (emphatic) the prophets and you threw stones at (emphatic) people sent to you by God. Many times I have spread-out-my-arms to hug you, like a hen sheltering her children under her wings, but you do not want [it].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Isa was grieved about the doings of the people of Awrusalam and he said, ‘Oy, people of Awrusalam, I am sad about you. You always kill the prophets and throw stones at the ones God sends to you. How often have I wanted to gather you and care for you like figuratively a mother-hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you do not want to.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Jesus remembered the custom of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and he said, ‘I’m sorrowful because of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, because they kill the prophets of God, and the servants that God has sent there, they kill by stoning. I really wanted to take care of them; I am like a hen who wants to shelter her chicks but they would not be sheltered.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said, ‘Oh (expression of dismay) you people-from-Jerusalem who have stoned and killed the prophets and others whom God has sent! How many times I have wanted to gather you and take-care of you like the way a mother-hen shelters-under-her-wings her children, but you didn’t want it!” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then Jesus said, ‘They who are the taga Jerusalem really are to be pitied! They who keep on killing by throwing rocks the prophets whom God sends to them! How many times now I have persevered to take care of the people from there like a hen takes care of her chicks covering-them-with-her-wing, but they don’t want it.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 19:13:
- Uma: “His clothes had been dipped in blood. And he was named ‘Word/Talk of God.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “His robe was covered with blood. And the name he was called with was ‘Word of God’.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “His shirt was as if it had been dipped in blood, and He was titled the Word of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He was wearing a robe that had been dipped in blood, and what they named him was, Word of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “His clothes were soaked with blood. ‘Word of God’ is what he is called.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning his clothing, it had been dipped in blood. The name he has, is that he is called the Word of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 15:5:
- Uma: “It is God who fires-up our hearts, so we endure in difficulties. That’s why I cry-out to God to help you live in harmony one with another in your following of Kristus Yesus;” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God he is the one who helps us (incl.) so that we (incl.) know how to endure. And he also is the one who encourages our (incl.) liver. May it be that he helps you (pl.) so that you live in harmony like Isa Almasi did so that you will with-one-voice/together praise God, the Father of our (incl.) Leader Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for God, He is the one who advises us and gives us the ability to endure hardship. May He make your breath and your minds one here in your following Jesus Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And God moreover is the source of this patience/endurance and strength of mind. May he be the one to help you so that you will get-along-together in-keeping-with the character of Cristo Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God strengthens our hearts so we endure all the suffering we must go through. I want that God will cause that each one of you will be able to live like Jesus Christ lived and that he will cause that you will be like one in your thoughts.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:31:
- Noongar: “‘A king has 10,000 men. If this king goes out fighting, but the other king comes, and that king has 20,000 men, he will sit first and think whether he has enough strength to fight that other king.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘So also, if a king with ten thousand soldiers fights with a king who has twenty thousand soldiers, he must think first, whether he is able to oppose him or not.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Or if there is for example a king who is going to fight with another king, he sits down first and thinks if in his estimation he and his ten thousand adherents/disciples can challenge the king with twenty thousand adherents.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said, ‘It’s the same way with a certain king. For a king who wants to fight against another king, he must first decide whether his ten thousand soldiers can defeat the twenty thousand soldiers who are coming, sent by another king who is his enemy.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Another illustration/comparison of it, if there is a king who has ten thousand soldiers and he goes to war-with a king with twenty thousand soldiers, he will emphatically think first if he is able to defeat his opponent-in-war.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For it’s also like a king who wants to go-and-attack another king. Isn’t it so that he will first study well whether, with his ten thousand soldiers, he is able to come against the twenty thousand men of that one he wants to attack?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 21:9:
- Uma: “After that, one of the seven angels that held bowls filled with the seven final tortures came. That angel came and said to me, ‘Come, I will show you the woman whom the Lamb bridegrooms [a verb based on the name of the Uma wedding ceremony].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “After this, one of the seven angels who had carried the seven bowls full of the last disasters came to me. The angel said, ‘Come, I will show you the bride who will soon be married to the one called the Sheep.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then one of the seven angels who had poured out the seven bowls full of the seven last torments on mankind spoke to me, He said, ‘Come with me and I will show you the wife of the young sheep.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then one of those seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last hardships came. He said to me, ‘Come so I will show you (sing.) the woman whom the Sheep will marry.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, then one of those seven angels who were each holding a bowl, the contents of these being the final seven epidemics, approached me. He said to me, ‘Come here, for I will show you the one who will be married by this one referred to as Young Sheep.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Then came to me one of the seven angels who had held the bowls filled with the seven calamities which had happened. He said to me: ‘Come here. I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
