Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Timothy 1:2:
Uma: “This letter I send to you Timotius, whom I consider my own child for our faith in Kristus Yesus is the same. I call-out to God the Father and to Kristus Yesus our Lord that he bless you, show you his love and give you goodness of life [i.e., peace, well-being].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “I am sending this letter there to you, Timoteo, because you are already like my true child because I taught you to trust Isa Almasi. May our (incl.) Father God and Isa Almasi our (incl.) Leader/Lord always take-care-of you. May they also pity/have-mercy-on you and cause-peace in your liver.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for you, Timothy, who are like my own son because of your faith in Christ, I am writing to you. I am Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, which is to say, I am his servant. I was made an apostle by means of the command of God who is the One who delivered us from punishment, and by means of the command of Jesus Christ. He is the one whom we can trust. May God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ show you kindness and show you mercy and give you a peaceful situation.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Here is my letter to you (sing.) Timoteo whom I count/consider as my true child in faith. May you (sing.) have mercy/grace/kindness (henceforth mercy/grace) and peace that come from God our Father and Cristo Jesus our Lord.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “I really regard you, Timoteo, as like I myself fathered you, not through blood but through believing. I pray that hopefully with you always is the grace/mercy, kind/pitying help and peace of mind/inner-being which God the Father and our Lord/Chief Jesu-Cristo give.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Listen Timothy, I greet you. When I think of you, it is as though you were really my son. Because it was I who caused you to believe the word you now believe. I want that God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will bless you and be merciful to you and will put peace in your heart.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 2:24:
Uma: “You [emphatic] killed Yesus, but God made him live again. He freed him from the power of death, because he certainly could not stay dead.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But God caused him to be alive again. He was set free from the oppression/hardship of his death, because he could not really be governed by death.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However God set Jesus free (saved, rescued), and he raised him from the dead because it is not possible that death might keep him bound.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “But God, he made-him-alive again, because it was not possible that death could restrain him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “You really were able to cause this Jesus to be killed, but he was made alive again by God, for it isn’t possible/acceptable that he be restrained by death.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Chuj: “But God, he caused Jesus to come back to life again. He was able to come back to life because death had no effectiveness to Jesus.”
Xicotepec De Juárez Totonac: “God raised him from the dead. He took him out of the place of the dead because it was not possible for him to remain dead.”
Teutila Cuicatec: “But God brought him to life again, taking him out of the hand of death, because it was not possible that he should continue where death rules.” (Source for this and two above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 1:33:
Uma: “Many townspeople came and gathered in the yard at Simon’s house.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “And the people of that town, gathered outside that house.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Very many people there in the village were gathered in the yard of the house where Jesus was.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “All the inhabitants also gathered outside the house where he was.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “There in front of the house was full of people for the whole town of people were there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Timothy 2:14:
Uma: “And it wasn’t Adam who was deceived by the King of Evil-ones. It was Hawa [emphatic] who was deceived, with the result that she transgressed God’s command.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “And it was not Apu’ Adam (whom) the leader of demons deceived. But it was the woman who was deceived and she was the one who broke the law of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Adam was not the one Satan was able to deceive, rather it was Eve who was deceived, and because of that she disobeyed what was commanded them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “And it was not Adan who was deceived but rather the woman, so she was the first (lit. went-ahead) to sin against God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “And it wasn’t Adan who was deceived by Satanas, but rather it was Eva. She’s the first one who sinned for she overstepped/went-beyond what was said by God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Adam was not the one deceived by the devil, rather the woman was deceived by the devil. Having been deceived, the woman committed sin.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 2:20:
Uma: “But the time will come, when the bridegroom will be taken from their midst. At that time they will fast.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But in the future, when the bridegroom has been caused-to-leave/been driven-away, then they will fast.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to them, ‘For example,’ he said, ‘if there is a wedding, the companions of the bridegroom, they wouldn’t think about fasting while the bridegroom is still with them. But later, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast. It is just the same way with my disciples, for if I am still with them, they will not fast.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “But a time will come when the man-getting-married is taken away from them, and that is when they will fast.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Well, that’s how it is with these disciples of mine. But the day will come when I will be separated from them. And then is when they will fast.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
English translation by Michael Pakaluk (2019): “Yet the days will come when the bridegroom is snatched away from them. Then they will fast—on that day.'”
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Timothy 4:15:
Uma: “Don’t you stop doing all this work, make it the most important, so that your diligence doing the Lord’s work will be clear to all people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Really do wholeheartedly all I caused you to do in this letter so that all people see that your deeds increasingly become better.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Hold fast to and see carefully to your fulfilling all of this so that all might know that you are always increasing in your fulfilling the desire of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Concentrate your (sing.) thoughts on your (sing.) following these-things that I have instructed so that all people will see that your manner-of-doing is becoming-more-and-more-correct.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “I hope these tasks are what you are always persevering in, they being what is always dominant in your mind/inner-being. Well if it’s like that, it will be clear to all that your ability is increasing-and-increasing in this responsibility/job of yours.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “These words which I tell you, earnestly endeavor to do them. I want that people will see that more and more you know how to apply the word as you do God’s work.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 4:15:
Uma: “That is why they put those apostles of the Lord Yesus out of their meeting, and they made-plans,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Therefore they sent them out of the judgment room and the councilors conferred among themselves.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore there in the room in which they were gathered, they told Peter and company that they should go outside for a while. And then they discussed it saying,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “That being so, they had-plural Pedro -go-out so they the leaders would-be-alone to converse.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Therefore they caused Pedro-and-companion to go out of their gathering-place, so that they could discuss what would be good to do.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Eastern Highland Otomi: “They sent the disciples outside because they wanted to talk among themselves about them.”
Lalana Chinantec: “They told Peter and John to go outside for a while. When Peter and John had gone outside they discussed by themselves, just the people who judged.”
Chuj: “But those rulers said that Peter and John must go out from their faces (presence). After they were taken out, those rulers talked together alone.”
Chichimeca-Jonaz: “Then they commanded them to go outside from where the elders were assembled, and they alone went to talking together.” (Source for this and three above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
