Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 12:18:
- Uma: “When it was indeed the next morning, the soldier guards were frantic. They were confused about what had happened to Petrus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When it was morning, the guards were greatly troubled. What in-the-world (ente’) had happened to Petros?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when morning came the soldiers in the prison were very confused, because where maybe was Peter.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When it was morning, the guards excessively made-a-racket. ‘How-come Pedro has-disappeared?’ they said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore next day, those soldiers who were guards were really troubled as to how Pedro had been able to run away.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 10:43:
- Uma: “But you, don’t let your behavior be like that. Whoever of you wants to have a big rank must become a servant [lit., one-ordered].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But you,’ Isa said, ‘shall not be like that. Whoever of you wants to be great/important, he shall be your servant.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But as for you by contrast, it cannot be that you act like that. If there is any of you who wants to be greatest, he must be the servant of all of his companions.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But you should not do like that. Because if someone among you wants to become-greater (lit. become-higher), he must serve his companions like a servant,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But hopefully not like that will be practised/made-a-habit-of here with you. On the contrary, whoever of you wants to be praiseworthy, he must be the servant of his companions.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 9:7:
- Uma: “But the one who could enter the second room was only the Big Priest. He entered only one time in a year, and he could not enter if he didn’t bring/carry blood. That blood was the blood of livestock that he offered to God to pay-for his own wrongs, and the wrongs of the people that were not done deliberately.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But as to the innermost room, only the high priest could enter there. And he entered there only once a year. And when he went entering there, he had to take blood of an animal sacrificed that he presented/gave to God to take away his sins and the sins of the people of which they didn’t know that those were sins.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But as for that room that was called the ‘Very Precious Room’, the only who could enter was the high priest, and he only entered there once every year. And when he went inside of there, it was necessary that he bring blood to sacrifice so that his sins might be removed, and also the sins which were not committed on purpose by all of his fellow descendants of Israel.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the second room, it was only the highest priest who was-able-to-enter there and only once yearly. Neither was it possible for him to enter if he didn’t enter-with blood to offer to God for his sins and also for people’s sins which they didn’t do-deliberately.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But in that second room which was much the-most-important, the only one who could go in was just the Most-important Priest, and just once in one year. When he would enter, it was not possible that he would not take blood of an animal which had been sacrificed to ask for forgiveness from God. First (for) his own sins, and then the sin of the people which was being attributed to them even though they had no knowledge concerning that sin.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But concerning the second room, it is overflowingly holy inside. Only the high priest has permission to enter it. And only one time in the year can he enter. When he does enter, he takes blood to offer for clearing his own sins and also he takes blood to offer for clearing the sins of the rest of the people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 13:25:
- Uma: “When the work of Yohanes was almost done, he said to the people: ‘According to your opinions, who am I? I am not the King you are waiting for. He will come when my work is finished. Even to become his servant that undoes the strings of his shoes, I am not fitting.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Yahiya’s work that God had given him was almost finished, he said to the people of Isra’il, ‘If you think, who am I? I am not the one you are waiting for. But there is (someone) coming after me, I am not even worthy to untie the string of his shoes.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then when John was about to finish that which God had given him to do, he said to the people, he said, ‘You suppose mistakenly perhaps that I am the king you are expecting. But I am really not. He will come after me, and he is greater than I, because even to loosen the tie of his shoe, I am not yet worthy.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When Juan’s work was almost done, he said to the many-people, ‘Do you perhaps think that I am the one God sent to save you? It is not I but-rather the one who succeeds me. Due-to his greatness (lit. highness), I am not worthy to even untie the ties of his shoes.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Juan was now finishing that work of his, he next said to the people, ‘Who am I in your opinion? Maybe, in your perception, I am the one who is the Savior. It’s true, I am not he. But before long, he will come. And really as for him, he is far superior to me. Proof is, even to undo the tie of his footwear, it isn’t possible/acceptable for me to do it, for his importance is so extremely great.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 11:23:
- Uma: “Indeed I tell you: if for example a person says to this mountain: ‘Be lifted up, throw yourself(s) into the sea!’ it will happen, as long as his heart is not uncertain and he really believes that what he says will happen.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Truly I say to you (pl.),’ he said, ‘whoever says to this mountain, ‘O mountain, leave from here and throw yourself into the sea,’ and if the person does not doubt in his liver but really trusts that what he said will come true, it will really be done for him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I tell you the truth, that if anyone says to that mountain, ‘Leave there and jump into the sea,’ and he does not doubt, but rather it is drawn tight in his breath that what he says will come to pass, then that which he says will be fulfilled.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This that I say to you is true, if you believe without doubting that what you say will be-fulfilled, you can say to this hill, ‘You (sing.) leave here and jump in the ocean,’ and it will be-accomplished.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For this is really the truth, that whoever will order this hill, saying, ‘Leave there and throw yourself into the sea,’ as long as his mind isn’t in doubt for he is really sure of this which he has said, it’s certain that God will do it.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 10:11:
- Uma: “All the priests of the Yahudi religion, every day they stand doing their work, and many times they offer worship-gifts that are always the same–yet those worship-gifts of theirs can never wipe-away their sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The Yahudi priests are there in the prayer-house/temple every day doing what they have been given to do and they often repeat their sacrifices. But these their sacrifices cannot remove sin.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And in that old way of worshipping, the Jewish priests, every day they were in the church standing at work because they were carrying out their work in sacrificing. And these sacrifices that they made, they could not at all take away the sins of people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The priests of the Jews, they stand daily doing their work. Daily they twice offer the same kinds of offerings. But those offerings of theirs have absolutely no ability to remove sins.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “In that former way/trail of worshipping, the priests were there standing for they were doing their job/responsibility. Really day-after-day that’s what they were doing, sacrificing animals which were-a-means-of-asking for forgiveness for sin. But well, the truth is, those sacrifices were certainly not the means-of-erasing sin.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But the priests of the Jews day after day continue to kill animals, making sacrifice to God. Yet these sacrifices made for the people can never clear sins.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 10:22:
- Uma: “Our hearts he made-holy with his blood so that we know that we no longer have any guilt/wrong. Our bodies he bathed with water as a sign that he has cleaned us. That’s why I fire-up your hearts, relatives, let us approach God with our whole heart [lit., our real heart] and with faith that is no longer uncertain/wavering.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore we (incl.) should come-close-to/approach God whole-heartedly (lit. with a single liver) and with strong trust in him and our (dual) minds should not be troubled anymore because our (dual) livers have been cleansed and we (dual) have been bathed as a sign that we (incl.) have been cleansed already.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of this we come in the presence of God and our worship of Him is not false. Let us draw tight our faith and let us not doubt. For we know that we have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus. And we know also that this has removed our sins. We (incl.) have been baptized as a sign of our being cleansed by God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “we ought to draw-near to God with our minds sincere (lit. from-the-heart) and our faith persistent. Our minds must also have been cleansed as if we have been sprinkled with the blood of Cristo and as if our bodies have also been washed with clean water.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore let us not now be hesitant, but rather let us now approach into the presence of God not just jokingly, but rather in truth, and our trust and believing/obeying him being sturdy. Because what is now dominant in our mind/inner-being is, we are now clean from all sin, for it’s like Jesus sprinkled us with his blood, and it’s like he washed us with far-from-ordinary water.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore let us approach where God is. We will worship with all our hearts, never will we doubt concerning our faith. The evil thoughts we had have been washed. The same for our bodies, it is as though they were washed so that we can pass to where God is.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 14:16:
- Uma: “Long ago, the Lord God left people all over the world follow their own desires.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “In ancient-times, God abandoned the nations/tribes to follow anything they liked.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “A long time ago he permitted us (incl.), all mankind, that we would do anything we wanted to even if it had no purpose.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Previously God was-letting-alone your ancestors who were Gentiles so that they would do whatever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “In the past when this Good News hadn’t yet come, it’s like God left the people who weren’t Jews alone to worship whatever they wanted to worship.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
