Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Timothy 4:2:
- Uma: “That teaching is delivered by people who lie, their words are one-thing, their character is another [lit., one-thing]. Their hearts are dark, they no longer know to be ashamed when they do evil deeds.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “These their teachings are spread by the lying religious-teachers. These deeds of theirs do not cause their thinking/mind/conscience to be troubled because they are used already to lying.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “by means of the lies of people who say they are believers and whose breaths are not made painful by their own evil deeds.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This teaching, that’s what hypocritical (lit. pretend good) and habitually-lying people are teaching whose consciences (loan konsensia) are already ruined as if burned with a red-hot piece-of-iron.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Those who teach these lies which were put in their minds by the evil-ones/spirits, they are liars. Their belief is only superficial (lit. on the beak). Well since for a long time now they have disregarded the supervision by the Espiritu Santo and they deliberately don’t do what they know in their mind/inner-being to be good, therefore now, their minds regard no matter what evil as being good.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “These teachers will speak lies to deceive the people. They will know very well that it is not right what they are doing, but they will not feel sad about what they do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 4:2:
- Uma: “The Saduki people did not believe that the dead will live again. That’s why they were very angry hearing Petrus and Yohanes teaching the people that Yesus lived again, because that teaching of theirs made clear that dead people would live again.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They were very angry because Petros and company were teaching the people, affirming strongly that because Isa was/is alive again, the dead would/will also be alive again in the future.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for these leaders, they were angry at Peter and company for teaching the people that the resurrection of Jesus is proof that people will be raised from the dead in the future.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They became/had-become-angry because plural Pedro were teaching that Jesus lived again, therefore all who die will also live.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They really couldn’t accept what those two were doing teaching the people and saying that Jesus had been made alive again, and that is what gives testimony that people will indeed be made alive again.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Chuj: “Those rulers became angry, because Peter and John were teaching the people. Peter and John were telling out that the dead will come alive again like Jesus came alive again.” (Source for this and above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 3:11:
- Uma: “People who were possessed by evil spirits came too. When they saw Yesus, immediately knelt down in front of him, and shouted, they said: ‘You are the Child of God!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And whenever he was seen by people possessed by demons, they threw (themselves) down before him and shouted/screamed, they said, ‘You are the Son of God.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for the demons, when they saw Jesus they knelt down before him crying out saying, ‘You really are the Son of God!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The people also who were possessed by evil-spirits, when they were seeing Jesus, they were kneeling face-down before him while-simultaneously also the evil-spirits were making-them-scream, saying, ‘You (sing.) are the Child of God!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Each one who was possessed by an evil spirit who saw him, he went down prone in front of him. They were being caused by those evil spirits to cry out, saying, ‘You are the one who is the Son of God!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Ocotlán Zapotec: “Those who had demons in their hearts knelt down before him and the demons cried out: ‘You are the only Son of God.'” (Source: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Timothy 5:18:
- Uma: “For in the Holy Book is written like this: ‘Cows that are being worked stepping-on gandum, don’t muzzle their snouts, allow them to eat as they go along. ‘ And it is also written: ‘The worker is worthy to be given his salary.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because it is written hep in the holy-book, saying, ‘Don’t muzzle the mouth of the carabao while he is threshing rice.’ And there is also another saying, ‘If a person is commanded to work he is worthy to be paid.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They are like a cow caused to thresh, for there is a written word of God which goes, ‘As for the cow which is caused to thresh, it is necessary that you do not muzzle him,’ and there is this also, ‘The person who works is worthy to be paid.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because there is that which God caused-to-be-written which says, ‘Don’t (sing.) muzzle a cow who is stepping-on unhusked-rice to thresh-it, so that he will have a way to eat.’ And it also says, ‘The one who works, he is worthy to be salaried.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because it’s said in the writings, ‘Don’t muzzle the mouth of the cow which you are causing to thresh while it is trampling this which is being threshed.’ It’s also said, ‘As for the worker, he has the right/authority to receive his wage.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because it is written in the Holy Book this word which says : ‘Let the ox eat that is treading on the wheat, don’t tie up its mouth’ it says. Also it is written ‘Concerning the worker who does the work, it is proper that he be given wages.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 4:34:
- Uma: “There was not one follower of Yesus who was in need. Because every so often there were those who sold their land or houses,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Not even a single one of them was needy because from time to time those who had land or houses sold them and they brought the proceeds” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And none of them had difficulty in getting food or anything else because a companion of theirs, if he had land or a house, he sold it,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “None among them lacked, because those who had land or a house were-selling (it/them),” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Proof was, none of them was lacking anything, for each time it happened that any one of them was having hardship, what others would do was, they would sell land or house and what was paid for it,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 4:8:
- Uma: “There were also seeds that fell in rich ground. Those seeds grew well, bigger and bigger, with the result that they fruited. There was some that was thirty times as much as what was planted, there was some that was sixty, there was also some that was one hundred times as much as what was planted.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, some seeds fell on good soil. So-then these seeds sprouted and grew and bore fruit. It’s yield, some had enough, some much, and some also very much.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were also that planted which fell on good ground, and these sprouted, grew large, and bore fruit. There were some plants that bore fruit thirty-fold; there were also those that bore fruit sixty-fold, and there was also that which bore fruit one hundred-fold.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But as for the others, they fell on the good soil, then they grew and they bore-fruit. There were some which bore-fruit a hundred-each, some sixty-each, and some also thirty-each.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But what was scattered on good soil/ground, on sprouting it grew well. Its fruit also did well and was full-headed too. There were thirty grains in one head. Others had sixty and still others, a hundred.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Timothy 1:4:
- Uma: “I keep recalling-vividly [lit., see-the-face-of] the flowing of your tears weeping, and I long to see you so that my happiness will be complete.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I remember that you wept when I left and my desire is that we (dual) see each other again so that I will be really glad.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When I remember your shedding of tears when I left you, I am very lonely for you, and I desire very much that we should meet again so that I might be very happy.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I am also thinking of the tearing of your (sing.) eyes at our (du) parting-ways previously, so I very-much-want to see you (sing.) so that I will-be-thoroughly -made-happy.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I really miss you very much. I want to see you again so that I will be really happy, especially when I remember you in tears there at my leaving there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I remember that when I left you, you even cried. And now very much do I want to see you in order that there will be joy for me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 5:29:
- Uma: “Petrus answered with the other apostles of the Lord Yesus, they said: ‘We(excl.) still follow the command of God, not the command of man.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Petros and the other commissioned ones answered, they said, ‘What we (excl.) must obey is the command of God, not the command of man/humans.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Peter and the other apostles answered saying, ‘It is necessary that we obey the commands of God, not the commands which are made by people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Pedro and his fellow apostles answered and they said, ‘It-is-emphatically -necessary that God is the one we (excl.) obey, not people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But Pedro and his fellow apostles replied. They said, ‘It’s essential that the will of God is what we (excl.) obey, not the will of men which is contrary to what he instructed us (excl.) to do.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- San Mateo del Mar Huave: “So Peter said, together with the other apostles, they say, ‘It is more necessary that we believe that which Father God has commanded us to do, rather than that which the people command us.'”
- Isthmus Mixe: “Then Peter and Jesus’ sent ones answered: ‘By all means we are going to obey what God commands. If people command otherwise, we will not obey.'”
- Morelos Nahuatl: “We must obey God before we obey men.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “We obey God’s commands for this is more important than the commands of the people of the world.”
- Chol: “We (excl.) must obey God even though in doing this we (excl) disobey the commands of men.” (Source for this and four above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
