Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:20:
- Noongar: “Another person told Jesus, ‘Your mother and brothers are standing outside. They want to see you.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “There was one-person who said to Yesus: ‘Teacher, your (sing.) mother and your (sing.) relatives, there they are outside, they want to meet you (sing.).'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Somebody told Isa, he said, ‘Sir, your mother and siblings are there outside and would like to see you.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there was a person there who told Jesus, he said, ‘Your mother and your younger siblings are outside, and they are looking for you.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So someone told Jesus, ‘Your (sing.) mother and siblings, they are outside and they reportedly have something they want to tell you (sing.).'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Someone told Jesus, saying, ‘Excuse me, outside is your mother together with your younger-siblings. They want to see you.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:27:
- Uma: “‘Whoever wins and does my will until the end, I will give them authority/power the same as that which I received from my Father. I give them authority/power to rule, ruling men all over the world with strength like the strength of a iron walking stick, and to wipe out their enemies like one who breaks a clay pot.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Whoever is not carried-along by temptation/the tempters and perseveres following my commandments until their death, I will give them the same authority as my Father gave me. I will give them authority to rule over all the tribes. Their ruling will be strong as, figuratively, iron that does not break, and their enemies will break like a claypot. (or: will be like broken clay pots.) I will also give them the morning star.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Your carrying them will be very strong. You will overcome the towns and no one will be able to resist you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “like the authority my Father gave me. So no one will be able-to-defeat them but rather they will thoroughly defeat those who don’t acknowledge their authority as if they are smashing a clay-jar with iron.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘He will exercize far-from-ordinary control like he has a rod (lit. thing to hit with) of iron. It’s like he will smash them like what is done by a worker of clay.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “My Father gave me my position, I now will give you your positions. But very strong is the power I will give you. If the people do not do what you tell them to do, you will do the people like as though you shatter a pot with an iron rod.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:30:
- Uma: “For God is just one, and he’s the one who makes-straight the Jews because of their faith, and he also is the one who makes-straight people who are not Jews, just because of their faith as well.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Since/because there is only one God, Yahudi and not Yahudi, they alike are forgiven and considered straight by God if they trust in Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For there is only one God and He will consider the Jews righteous if they believe in Jesus. And as for the people who aren’t Jews, He will consider them also righteous if they believe in Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because there-is-only-one God, and whether Jews or Gentiles, there is no other reason for his counting them as righteous but (lit. if not) their faith alone.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because God is one, alone. And it is he who clears all the people who believe in Jesus Christ, Jews and non-Jews alike he clears.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:52:
- Noongar: “All the people were weeping and grieving for the child. Jesus said, ‘Don’t weep! The child is not dead, she is only sleeping.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “All the people gathered in the house of Yairus cried and wailed, wailing-for that dead child. Yesus said: ‘Do not cry any longer. She is not dead, she is just sleeping.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “All the people there were weeping and wailing because of the child. But Isa said to them, ‘Don’t weep. The child is not dead but just asleep.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And at that time all the people who were gathered there, they were milling around and crying because they were in grief. And Jesus said to them, ‘Don’t cry for her, because that child is not dead, but rather, she is only sleeping!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “All the people who were there, they were crying-for-her mourning. But Jesus told them, ‘That’s enough, don’t be crying, because this young-lady, she isn’t dead, she is only sleeping.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “All the people there were crying. They were crying about that one who had died. Jesus spoke, saying to those people, ‘Don’t cry. That child really isn’t dead. She’s just asleep.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 4:8:
- Uma: “Those four living things each had six wings, and there were eyes all over their bodies. Even under their wings they had eyes. There was no end to those living things uttering their praise. Day and night they continually said: ‘Holy! Holy! Holy! [is] The Lord God whose authority/power surpasses all! He was from the beginning, He is now, And he is until forever!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Each one of them had six wings and they were covered with eyes from inside and out. They did not rest singing day and night. This was their song, they said, ‘He is holy. He is holy. Really, God the Most Powerful is holy. He is God who does not change since the beginning of time until now and forever.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now these four creatures, each one of them had six wings. Their bodies were covered with eyes and also the underside of their wings. Day and night their only work without end is, they sing, and they say, ‘Holy, holy, holy is God. He is Lord who can do everything. He is the God who was long ago, is now, and shall be in the future forever.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They were all winged with six-each (i.e. each had six wings), and their bodies were totally covered-with-eyes, including beneath their wings. Daily and nightly, they don’t stop singing saying, ‘The Lord God who is all powerful is thoroughly holy. Absolutely no one/nothing can-equal his holiness. He existed previously, he exists now, and he also will-exist forever.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Those four created living beings each had six wings, and well, as was said, their bodies had eyes all over, even under their wings. There really was no end-to-the-sound from their mouths night and day of their praising saying, ‘Very-far-from-ordinary and really far from all sin is God who has surpassing supernatural-power. From long ago he already existed. And now/today and until forever there will still be him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “All four of them had six wings each. There on their wings, inside and outside were all covered with eyes. Day and night they did not rest from saying: ‘God is supremely to be revered. God is supremely to be revered. He is to be supremely revered. God is the Lord who has all power, he is the one who lives now, was living in the past days and he continues to live for all the days to come’ they said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 5:6:
- Uma: “The love of God for us is like this: at the time that God set, when we had no strength to help ourselves, at that time Kristus died in our place. Yet at that time, we were far from God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God really loves us (incl.) very much. Formerly we (incl.) really couldn’t do anything in order to be freed from our (incl.) sin. But when the day arrived which God had appointed/arranged, Isa Almasi died because of us (incl.) sinful people.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Just think about God’s favor to us. For at the time decided by God, when there was nothing we could do to free ourselves of punishment, Christ died in the place of us (incl.) transgressors.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “At the proper time that God chose, while we still had no power to do what God wanted, Cristo died for us sinners.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “As for us, never could we find on our own how to save our souls. But there came the day God had determined in which Christ die for our sins.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:28:
- Noongar: “A week after Jesus had spoken these things, Jesus took Peter, John and James with him and went up a mountain to speak with God.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “About a week after that his speaking, Yesus invited Petrus, Yohanes, and Yakobus to climb/ascend going to the top of a mountain, to go to pray.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When eight days had gone by after Isa had said this, he took Petros and Yahiya and Yakub with him onto a mountain to pray there to God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “About a week later Jesus had said these things, he took Peter, James and John and they went up a mountain to pray to God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “A week went-by after Jesus’ saying that, then he called Pedro and Juan and Santiago and they climbed a mountain to go pray.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Maybe some eight days passed from Jesus having said those things, then Jesus went up a mountain to pray there. He took Pedro, Juan and Santiago with him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 6:15:
- Uma: “At that time, the kings of the earth, noblemen, war leaders, rich people, people who have authority and all other people also, even slaves or ordinary people, they all hid in holes/hollows of the rocks or in wide cracks in the ground,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “All the people in the world were in confusion and the kings in the world, the people with authority to rule and the leaders of the soldiers, and the rich people and the influential and all other people, whether they were slaves or not, they all hid in the caves and among the stones on the mountains.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then every person, the kings on the earth, the famous people, the bosses of the soldiers, the rich people and those who have great power, and even also those who are slaves and who are not slaves, they hid in holes and under great stones on the mountains.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “All people on the earth became-frightened. The kings and other rulers, the leaders of soldiers, the rich and others who had influence (lit. ability), and all other people who were slaves or not slaves, they all went and hid in the caves and where the rocks were in the mountains.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The kings here in the world, the people of high/important blood, the officers of the soldiers, the rich, the people who were really-far-from-ordinary, really all the people, none left out, went and hid in caves and in spaces between rocks in the mountains. Even the insignificant, slaves and not slaves, they all went and hid.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The rulers who live on earth, all the bosses, all the rich people, all the generals, all the rest of the people who have authority, also those who have bosses and those who do not have bosses, all fled, they hid in caves. They went into holes in the ground.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
