Language-specific Insights

complete verse (2 Corinthians 8:7)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 8:7:

  • Uma: “Relatives, in your following God, you have had no lacks: your faith is big, you know the true teaching and you know how to teach others, you have done much work to help others, your love to us (excl.) is big. That is why, relatives, I request that there not be any lack of yours in your work of helping others who are poor in the land of Yudea.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “As to all good (things) you are not surpassed (lit. left behind). Your trust is strong, you are experts in preaching about Isa, your knowledge/wisdom is deep, you persevere helping your companions and your love for us (excl.) is great. Therefore we (excl.) also want that you will not be surpassed (lit. left behind) when you help your companions in need.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I know that you have no lack in all of the skills and good works. Your faith is large; you know how to teach; you know how the true doctrine; you are always helping each other, and your favor toward us is big. Because of this, it is our desire that you also have no lack in showing your kindness to the believers in Judea.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “You are already (appreciation particle) rich in faith. You are also rich in your knowing God and in your ability to teach. You are moreover industrious in serving God and big also is your love for us (excl.). Is it not indeed possible that you show that you are also rich in kindness to your companions so that you will help them?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “You really are well-spoken-of people. You are well-spoken-of for your believing/obeying, for your wisdom/understanding and explaining of God’s word, for perseverance, and for your holding us (excl.) dear. Hopefully you will also strive to be well-spoken-of also in this (matter of) giving grace/aid.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “And now, even greater is what you are doing. Because your faith is strong. And you know how to teach well the word, because you understand very well about the word. You have pleasure in doing the work of God. And very much do you love me. Therefore now be supreme in that you help very much in helping your brothers.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 5:8)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 5:8:

  • Uma: “Yesus said to him: ‘Get up, roll up your (sing.) mat, and walk.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Isa said to him, ‘Stand up, take your for-lying-on and go.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to him again, ‘Get up, roll up your mat and walk around.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said, ‘Get up, pick-up that mat of yours (sing.) so you (sing.) will walk.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus said next to him, ‘Stand up and carry this on-which- you -are-lying and go now.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said to the sick person, ‘Get up. Pick up your mat and go.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 12:2)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:2:

  • Uma: “There were Parisi people who saw them. Those Parisi people said to Yesus: ‘Look at your (sing.) disciples! They are breaking our (incl.) religion laws, they are working on the day of worship!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When the Pariseo saw that, they said to Isa, ‘Do look. Your disciples do what the law forbids on the day-of-no-work.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The Pharisee people saw this and they said to Jesus, ‘Look at your disciples, because they have broken God’s command to us because they have harvested today on the day of rest.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “However there were Pharisees who saw what they did and they said to Jesus, ‘Look (sing.), your (sing.) disciples are breaking the law of us Jews which forbids harvesting on the day for-resting.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “When the Pariseo saw, they said to Jesus, ‘Look at what those disciples of yours are doing! Isn’t it so that it is taboo to harvest on the Day of Rest?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “When the Pharisees saw what Jesus’ disciples did, they said: ‘Look, your learners are working. And it says in the law that on the day of rest it is not permitted to work,’ they said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (2 Corinthians 9:15)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 9:15:

  • Uma: “It is so fitting we say think you to God, for we cannot finish telling the bigness of his gift to us!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Therefore we should really thank God because his love-gift to us is unspeakable.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of this, we (incl.) will give thanks to God because He has given to us (incl.) His Son. And there is nothing which can equal His preciousness.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Let us thank God for what he has given us whose value cannot be counted.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But there is something he has freely-given us which is really superior to everything. We must give big thanks to God because of this which he freely-gave, the good-quality of which really is unspeakable.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “And now let us thank God that he sent his Son here. Concerning the favor he did for us, it is supreme, it is not possible to be said how great is the value of what he did for us.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 5:40)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 5:40:

  • Ojitlán Chinantec: “And you do not want to believe in me so that I might give you eternal life.”
  • Alekano: “But though you should come to me and have eternal life, you confusedly reject me.”
  • Lalana Chinantec: “Even though the word of God speaks about me, you are not willing to become my people. If you became my people, you would come to life.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
  • Uma: “But even so, you still do not want to come to me, in order to receive that good life.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But you do not want to follow me and-what’s-more I can give you life without end.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I would that you would believe because you would be given eternal life.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “and you still refuse to be-joined-to me so that I would give you life.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But well, you just don’t want to follow/obey me so that I might give you life which has no ending.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “And you do not want to believe in me to have the new life.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 12:34)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:34:

  • Uma: “You are very evil! Of course you can’t speak good words, being evil like you are. Because what it is contents of our (incl.) hearts, that also is spoken by our (incl.) lips.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “You are deceiving people. You cannot say good (things) because you are bad/evil in your liver. Whatever is in the liver of man/mankind, that is what comes out of his mouth.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It is just the same with you. There is nothing good you can say because your customs are bad. You are like snakes, because you are harmful. What is in your breath comes out of your mouth.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “You are admittedly too-much, like snakes that have poison! If you are bad, how then will you say good-things? Because what a person says is from what is in his mind/thoughts just the same.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “You children of snakes! How could you say good things when your nature/ways are evil? For it really is true that whatever is in a person’s mind/inner-being, that indeed is always what comes out of his mouth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “You do like snakes which have poison in their mouths. Because you are not able to speak a good word. Now the word which sits on the heart of a person is what comes out of his mouth.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (2 Corinthians 11:14)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 11:14:

  • Uma: “But we (incl.) aren’t surprised by their behavior, for the King of Evil-ones also changes-himself to be like an angel who brings light.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “This their doing does not cause wonder/is not amazing because even the leader of demons changes himself into the appearance of an angel.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “This doesn’t surprise me because even Satan, he can change his form into what is like a very bright angel of God which comes from Heaven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “We ought not to be surprised-at that, because even Satanas, he can appear as if he is a dazzling angel of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “It’s not necessary to be amazed at this deception of theirs, because they are just being-the-same as their boss who is Satanas. For as for this Satanas, even though he is the epitome of evil, he is deceiving people so that they will regard him as an angel coming from the light-place where God is.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “It shouldn’t cause people to be surprised about this word which I say. Because the devil himself can change his appearance, becoming like an angel of heaven.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 6:25)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:25:

  • Uma: “When the people arrived on the other side of the lake they met Yesus, they asked him: ‘When did you (sing.) arrive here, Teacher?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When they found Isa on the other side of the lake, they said to him, ‘Sir, when did you come here?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when they landed they saw him, ‘Hey Teacher,’ they said, ‘when did you arrive here?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When they found him on the other-side of the lake, they inquired of him, ‘Sir teacher, when did you (sing.) arrive here?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “They found Jesus there on the other side of that lake. When they had found him, they asked him saying, ‘Teacher, when did you get here?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “After the people arrived at the other side of the lake they found Jesus there. They asked, ‘Teacher, how did you get here?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)