Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 24:1:
- Uma: “Five nights after that, Big Priest Ananias and several Yahudi leaders went to Kaisarea with a person who was smart at speaking, his name Tertulus. When they arrived there, they went to Governor Feliks presenting their accusation.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “After five days, Ananiyas, the leading priest, went to Kesarea together with a number of elders and a lawyer named Tertullus. They went before the governor and they stated their accusation against Paul.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Five days after that, the High Priest went to Caesarea along with some of the elders and a lawyer whose name was Tertullus. They came before Governor Felix and they told him their charges against Paul.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When five days had gone, the highest priest and some of the elders arrived at Cesarea. There was also a lawyer whom they took-along named Tertullus. They all went to where-Governor Felix -was to file-charges-against Pablo to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “After five days, the Most-important Priest Ananias arrived in Cesarea. His companions were the important tribal-leaders and Tertulo who was a lawyer. They then brought before the governor their case against Pablo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 3:21:
- Noongar: “After John had baptised all the people in water, John also baptised Jesus. While Jesus spoke to God, Heaven opened.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Before Yohanes was imprisoned, while he was still baptizing the people, Yesus also came asking-to-be-baptized. After he was baptized, while he was praying, suddenly the sky opened,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “At the time when Yahiya bathed all the people, Isa was also bathed. When Isa had been bathed he prayed and while he was praying the sky opened” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: (includes verse 22) “Now one of those days when all the people had finished being baptized, Jesus also had himself baptized by John. And then Jesus prayed, and while He was still praying, the heaven was opened and there landed on him the Holy Spirit who looked like a dove. And then God was heard speaking in Heaven, and He said, ‘You are my precious son; I am very pleased with you.’ There were very many things still that John taught those people, because he caused them to understand the good news. And as for John, he told the people that the custom of Governor Herod was bad because Herod had stolen his sister-in-law, Herodias, who was the wife of his younger brother Philip. And that which John told about was not the only evil doing of Herod because there were many other very evil things that he did. And that’s not all the evil that he did because he put John in prison.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When Juan had not yet been imprisoned when he was baptizing the many-people, Jesus also got-baptized. When that was finished and he was still praying, heaven opened” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Juan had not yet been imprisoned, masses of people caused themselves to be baptized by him. Jesus also caused himself to be baptized. When Jesus was praying when coming-up-from-water, he saw that suddenly/unexpectedly the sky/heaven opened.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Peter 3:5:
- Uma: “People who speak like that, they deliberately have shut their eyes. Its meaning, they do not want to remember how God created the sky long ago with just his word. And he created the world with water, and the dry land appeared from the water.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They purposely/willfully don’t remember that in the old times God just/simply spoke and immediately sky and earth came-into-existence, and he caused the earth to come out of the water. And everything in this world lives because of water.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for those who talk like this, what they are forgetting is: long ago God created the heaven only by His Word, and as for the earth also, He created it by means of water, and He caused the earth to appear from the water.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That is what the mockers say, but they are intentionally forgetting what God did long ago. Because long ago, God created the earth and what is in the sky by-means-of his command. Water is what he used to make the earth and the earth appeared from the water.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But what they are saying that nothing has changed, that’s really not true. For they are-deliberately-forgetting the punishment when the world was destroyed/dissolved. For isn’t it so that the sky/heaven and the world were created by the power of the word of God? Water he’d created is what he used in creating the land/world, and because of water all this which was created continues/remains.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “These people want to say that they don’t understand, but now it is known that God made the heavens and the earth. And he determined that the earth rose in the midst of the water, and it is the water that causes the earth to produce when it rains.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 25:6:
- Uma: “Festus was in Yerusalem around eight or ten nights, and he returned to Kaisarea. When they indeed arrived in Kaisarea, the next day he gathered all the judges, and he sent someone to bring Paulus to their gathering.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Pestus stayed yet with them there in Awrusalam about eight or ten days, then he went-down to Kesarea. When he arrived there, the following day he sat in the judgment room and he commanded that Paul be brought inside.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And it was more than one week that Festus stayed there, and then he returned to Caesarea. The next morning he sat down in the judging place, and he commanded that Paul be brought before him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He stayed in Jerusalem eight or ten days, then he returned to Cesarea. On the next day (lit. its tomorrow), he prepared to hold-court, and then he had-Pablo -called.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It truly wasn’t long that Festo was in Jerusalem. After eight or ten days only, he returned to Cesarea. When he arrived there, the next day, he then sat down on the seat of the judge and then had Pablo fetched.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 4:15:
- Noongar: “Jesus taught people in the synagogues, and all people spoke well of him.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “He taught in the houses of prayer of the Yahudi people, and all the people praised him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He preached in their prayer-houses and all the people praised him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And He taught in the churches of the Jews there in the villages, and all the people praised Him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He was teaching in the many-synagogues (loan sinagoga) and they all praised/honored him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He taught in the Judios’ worship-places, and he was really highly spoken of by everyone.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 2:9:
- Uma: “People who say they are in the light, and they hate their relatives, they are still in the darkness.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Whoever says that he is already in the light, but he hates his fellow truster in Isa Almasi he is still in darkness up to now.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If there is a person who says that God has illuminated his mind, but he is the enemy of his companion, he is still in the darkness.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If there is one who says that he is in the light/brightness while-at-the-same-time he hates a companion of his, he is still in the darkness just the same.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The one who says that as for him, he is now in the light/enlightenment, but he is still ignoring/spurning his sibling in believing, the truth is, he is still in darkness.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He who says that he is now living good, yet he hates his brother, is still living in evil.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “If we say we are present where there is light because of our doing good, but if we hate our fellows, we are still in darkness because we are doing evil by hating our fellows.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “He who says he is living in God’s light, and hates his sibling, but still the same-as-before he is living in the darkness.”
- Tzotzil: “If we say ‘I am in the sunlight,’ if we hate a Christian brother, we are still in darkness.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: “The one who says, ‘I live in the light,’ but hates his brother, because of that he is still living in the darkness.”
- Yanesha’: “The one who says he is already in the light, if still he despises his countrymen, he is still in the darkness.”
- Aguaruna: “‘I walk in light-place,’ although saying, one who is angry at his brother, that one yet walks in darkness-place,” (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 26:11:
- Uma: “Many times I persecuted them in the houses of prayer, and I forced them to repudiate their belief in Yesus. My heart just boiled, with the result that I went to far towns to persecute them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I often inflicted-pain-on/beat the ones trusting in Isa in the prayer-houses in order that they would let-go-of their believing in Isa. And because of my anger (lit. painful liver) toward them, I kept going after them even in other lands/places so that I could persecute them.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I was always causing them to be punished in the churches because I tried to force them to give up their faith. And because of the fact that I was so angry at them, I pursued them even in far towns so that they could be punished.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Many times also I went to the various-synagogues to punish those who believed to force, if possible, that they speak-evil-of Jesus. Even to the far countries of the Gentiles, I also went there to persecute (lit. make-pitiful) them (i.e. believers), because extreme was my hatred for them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I would enter the worship-places and whoever I caught who was a believer, I would cause them to be beaten/hurt for I wanted them to be forced to insult that Jesus. Proof that my anger against them was great was, I hounded them even to/in other cities.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 5:3:
- Noongar: “Jesus stepped into Simon’s boat and said to Simon, ‘Shove away near the shore.’ Jesus sat inside the boat and taught all the people.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus went to climb/ride one boat, Simon’s boat and he asked that Simon shove/row the boat a little from the edge of the lake. After that, and he sat in the boat teaching the people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One was the boat of Simon. Isa got into it and told Simon to push it out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and he preached to the people from inside the boat.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus got into one of the boats that belonged to Simon, and he had Simon move the boat out just a little way from the shore. And Jesus sat down there in the boat and he taught the very many people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So Jesus got-into (lit. rode) one that belonged to Simon and said to him that they should distance-it a little from the shore. Then he sat down to teach and he taught the many-people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus got into one of the boats, that one being Simon’s. And then he said to Simon to shove off a bit, so as to go a little way from the edge. Well, he sat down in that boat and taught the people again.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
