Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:13:
- Uma: “So he left them, he got on a boat and went to the other side of the lake.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then Isa left them. He rode again in a boat crossing over to the other side of the lake.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Jesus and company left those people. They got into a boat again to cross the lake.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus said that, then he left them and they rode in the boat again to cross-over-(body of water) to its other-side.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, then he left them. Jesus and company again sailed in a boat, crossing over to the other side of the lake.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 2:18:
- Uma: “Yesus underwent suffering when he was tested, that’s why he can help people who are tested, for he too got/ underwent testing.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And now he can help the people who are tempted so that they are not carried to sin because he has experienced temptation and persecution/suffering.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And it’s possible for Him to help those who are tempted by Satan, because He has experienced difficulty because of His being tempted.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And because he experienced hardship and temptation, he knows how to help all people who experience temptation.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And because he was hardshipped and really tested/tempted by Satanas (to see) if he might-be-made-to-fall(fig., into sin), therefore he can really help us when we also are tested/tempted. 2:2 According to the perception of the Jews in the past, when God set in motion his laws, the angels were the ones he entrusted (with the task) (Deuteronomy 33:2). 2:6-8 Psalm 8:4-6. 2:8 Genesis 1:26-28. 2:12 Psalm 22:22. 2:13 Isaiah 8:17. 2:13 Isaiah 8:18.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He knows how to strengthen the hearts of the people when they are urged to sin. Because here on earth he went through the sufferings there and he himself was urged to sin.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:11:
- Uma: “In this vision of his, he saw the sky open and there was like a wide blanket hung at its four corners and lowered here to the ground.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He saw the sky open and he saw what looked like a wide blanket its four corners tied being let-down to the earth.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He saw the heaven opened, and there was something let down like a very wide sail. And it was tied at the four sides and it was let down.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What he saw, it was heaven opened, and there was that which was-being-lowered to where he was that was like a large cloth suspended from its four corners.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What he saw was, heaven/sky opened and there was lowered to the world what was like a wide cloth. It was hung by its four corners.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:7:
- Uma: “At that time also, a cloud arrived enveloping them, and from the cloud they heard a speaker who said: ‘This one here is my Child whom I love. Listen to his words!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then a bright-cloud appeared and they were overshadowed and there was a voice from inside this cloud saying, ‘This is my Son (whom) I really love. Listen to him.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then they were engulfed in a cloud, and they heard someone suddenly speaking from the cloud, ‘This is my beloved son, Hear/obey his words.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then a cloud arrived and blocked-them all -from-view. Then there was a voice from the cloud saying, ‘This one is my child whom I greatly-love. Listen to what he says!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well suddenly/unexpectedly they were overshaddowed by a cloud, and there was a voice which seemed-to-come-from that cloud, which said, ‘This one is my very-dear Son. Listen well to him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 4:13:
- Uma: “There isn’t anything that is hidden in his sight. Everything is plain and clear/exposed to him. It is to him that we must admit/confess our behavior.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There is nothing whatsoever that one can hide from God because all that he created is open/visible in his sight. And in the future all of us (incl.) have to face him confessing/saying-the-truth about all we (incl.) have done.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for God, nobody can hide from Him. He can always see anything that we are doing, and if there is anything we are doing, He is the one to check up on us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Even whatever creature, it is not able-to-hide-from God. It’s as if they are all naked in his sight, because he knows absolutely-everything about them. And he is the one to-whom-we -answer/will-answer for all that we have done and thought.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There is really nothing that can be hidden from God. All things are clear in his sight, and he is the one to whom we will all answer for everything that we have done.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And now, concerning whatever word is in our thoughts, there is not a word which we can hide from God, thinking that he doesn’t know what our thoughts are. Because there is nothing of our thoughts closed to him, God knows all that we think. And it is God we will submit to for judgment concerning how we have walked.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:43:
- Uma: “All the prophets long ago spoke of him, they said: whoever believes in Yesus, their sins are forgiven because of his redemption/redeeming-work.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “All the prophets also spoke about Isa Almasi. They said that whoever trusts in Isa, their sins will be forgiven because of what Isa has done.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus Christ was prophesied by all of those whom God inspired long ago. And they said that by means of the power of his name all who trust in him, he will forgive them of their bad custom.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “All the prophets moreover long ago, they said that by-means-of Jesus, the sins of all who believe in him will be forgiven.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He also is the one being testified about by all the prophets of the past whose writing said, whoever will believe-in/obey and trust in him, their sins will be forgiven through the saving which he would do.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Isthmus Mixe: “In all the books God’s speakers have written, it tells there that all of us (incl.) can be saved from our sins if we believe his words. He has the authority to save us.”
- Highland Popoluca: “Since long ago prophets have said that there is a man coming who if we should believe, would make our hearts clean. This man that they said was the coming one, he is Jesus.” (Source for this and above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:39:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘Don’t forbid him, for people who do powerful things with my name, they won’t disparage me later.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Don’t forbid him,’ said Isa. ‘For whoever utters my name when he does powerful deeds, cannot easily speak evil about me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said, ‘Don’t scold one like that because if there is a person who can do miracles by using my name, he will not easily become my enemy.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Don’t be forbidding-him,’ said Jesus, ‘because the one who does miracles using my name, he can not speak-evil-of me in a-little-while.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But when Jesus heard, he said, ‘Don’t tell him to stop. Because there’s nobody who after he has done an amazing thing in my name will at once speak evil against me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 6:15:
- Uma: “Abraham, he faithfully [lit., remained] believed in God, until he got what he had promised him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Ibrahim did not become tired/fed-up waiting for God’s covenant/promise therefore he received what God had promised to him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for Abraham, he was very faithful to trust God until God fulfilled His promise to him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Since Abraham waited patiently, what God promised was fulfilled to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Abraham really did not get fed up with waiting. He eagerly awaited until what was promised to him arrived.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When people say that it is true what they are saying, they call upon God to be their witness. When a person has called on God to be his witness, then his friend with whom he is talking cannot say that it is not true in what he said. But God promised a word to Abraham and since no one is greater than God, therefore he used his own name, telling Abraham it is God’s own word that which was said. He said to him: ‘It is true what I say to you, overflowingly I will bless you. I will cause that very much will increase your children,’ he said. But Abraham did not get anxious concerning the word God spoke. Rather he waited, waited until there came the day when it happened according to the word God promised would happen.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
