Following are a number of back-translations of John 7:18:
- Uma: “A person who brings his own words, he is just asking-to-be-praised. But the person who seeks the being-honored [by others] of God who sent him, he is an upright person, he is not deceitful [lit., there is no his deceit].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If a person speaks from his own thinking, that is what he strives for, his own fame. But if that is what he strives for, that the one who commands him will be famous, na that person is straight and he does not deceive.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because if there is a person who teaches his own thinking, he is just trying to become known to people. But the person who teaches the fame of the one who sent him, his word can be trusted because his teaching is not a lie.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The one who is speaking what came-from his mind/thoughts alone, he puts-forth his ability so that he-himself will be praised/spoken-highly-of. But the one by-contrast who puts-forth his ability so-that the one who sent him will be praised/spoken-highly-of, what he is saying is entirely true, he having no trickery.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because that one who teaches from his own perception, there’s nothing else he’s striving for than that he be praised by people. But that one who strives in teaching so that the one who sent him be praised, everything he says is true and there’s no evil motive in his mind/inner-being.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He who just speaks his own ideas is trying to have the people look favorably upon him. But he who earnestly tries to get the one who sent him to look favorably upon him speaks the truth. And there won’t be any falsehood found in him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 14:22:
- Uma: “After that, Yesus ordered his disciples to go ahead by boat going to the other side of the lake, and he ordered the many people to go home.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “After that Isa told his disciples to get into the boat. They were sent by him ahead to go to the other side of the lake while he still sent the people home.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Jesus caused his disciples to get into the boat so that they might cross the lake ahead of him, for he was going to send the people home.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus had-his disciples -ride in the boat to go-ahead to the other-side while-simultaneously he sent-home the people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then Jesus at once caused his disciples to sail, to go ahead to the other side of that lake. He himself stayed behind to cause the people to leave now.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “While Jesus sent the people away, he told his learners to go ahead of him in the boat, going to the other side of the lake.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 2:19:
- Uma: “For my connection with the Law of Musa is severed. It was from the Law of Musa that I became guilty in God’s sight and fit to be punished with death. So my connection with the Law of Musa was severed, so I could follow God’s desire [instead]. We can say like this: when Kristus died on the cross, in God’s sight is was like I [actually] died with him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I understand now that I am not considered straight by God because of my following/obeying the law because I really cannot follow/obey it. Therefore I now turn-my-back-on/reject the law in order to now really follow God. Because of my trust in Isa Almasi, it is as if I have been figuratively nailed on the post together with him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for me, I understand that I cannot be given life without end by means of my obedience to the Law, and because of that I abandoned my trusting in my fulfilling the law so that I might really obey the commands of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because due to the law that I am not able to follow, I came-to-know that I was condemned to die and be separated from God. So I consider that I died concerning the law in order that I might live for God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “In my striving to obey the laws of the religion of us Jews I comprehended that after-all, no matter how much I strove, it would not obtain for me righteousness/straightness in God’s sight. That’s why I have now abandoned my obeying of those laws. And now, I am now striving to live a life which always conforms to the will of God, for it’s like I died along with Cristo on the cross.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But now the law does not have force anymore because now the punishment spoken of in the law has occurred. Concerning me, it is just as though the law caused me to be killed. Now I live in order to follow God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Chichewa: “The laws are what made me recognize that I ought to completely abandon relying upon those Laws, and that my whole life should be [one of] relying upon God himself.” (Interconfessional translation, publ. 1999) (Source: Wendland 1998, p. 69)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 7:50:
- Uma: “From there, a Parisi person named Nikodemus also spoke. That Nikodemus had visited Yesus once. Nikodemus said to his companions:” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One of the Pariseo there was Nikodemus. He was hep the one who had come to talk with Isa that night. He said to his companions,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then one of them, Nicodemus, said, (this Nicodemus was the person who visited Jesus when it was night,)” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There was one of those Pharisees, Nicodemus, who had gone and conversed-with Jesus previously. He said to them,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Nicodemo was there at the time, that one who visited Jesus when Jesus was just beginning to teach, because he too was a Pariseo. He asked those companions of his, saying,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Nicodemus, the one who went one night to talk with Jesus, was one of the group of Pharisees. He said,” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 15:18:
- Uma: “But evil words that appear from in our (incl.) hearts, and that are uttered by our lips, that is what makes-evil people in the sight of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But what comes out of the mouth of a person comes out of his liver, and that is what makes a person ritually-unclean.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But the bad words which come out of the mouth of a person, they come from his breath, and this is the thing that really displeases God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But what he causes-to-come-out of his mouth, it is from his mind/thoughts, and these are the things-that-make-him -dirty.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But that evil in the mind which comes out of the mouth, that’s what causes a person to be disgusting in the sight of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But concerning the word coming from the mouth of a person, it comes from the thoughts of the person. When the word spoken by the person is evil, then this is sin.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 4:1:
- Uma: “Like this, relatives: for instance there is a nobleman’s child. All his fathers stuff, he will own it all. But when he is still small, he is still treated like a slave.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “What I said can also be exampled like this. For example there is a child, an only child and his father dies. He is now the owner of the wealth left-behind by his father. But while he is yet a child it is as if he were just a slave/servant.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For example, there is a child of a chief and his father died while he was still a child. And even though he is the one who will inherit all of the possessions of his dead father, while he is still a child he is only like a servant, because there is still someone who is in charge of him. There is someone who takes care of him who also cares for his possessions until the time comes, set by his father, then he at last will receive the authority to be in charge of his possessions.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Here is yet another illustration about what I’ve been saying. If there is a child who will inherit his father’s possessions, but his years are still lacking, it’s as if he has no distinction-from/advantage-over a slave, even though he is the owner of all his father’s wealth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Here’s something else I will draw an illustration from. Supposing there is a certain rich person who dies prematurely when his only child is still small. This child of his, the day will come when he will own everything in the household. But even though it’s like that, as long as he is not yet old enough, there is no difference in his situation and the situation of the slaves in that household.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “You know that when a boy who is to receive an inheritance is just a child, he is like one of the workers even though he is the owner of all.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 8:29:
- Uma: “He is the one who sent me, and he is always with me. He does not leave me by myself, because I always do what makes-glad his heart.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The one who sent me is continually here with me. He does not abandon me because I always do his will.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for my Father who sent me, he is with me also, He never leaves me because I never stop doing what he wants.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That-aforementioned-one who sent me, he is my companion. He has not abandoned me, because what I am doing continually is what pleases/satisfies him.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The one who sent me is always my companion. He doesn’t separate from me, because what I am always doing is that which pleases him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because he who sent me is he whom I fellowship with. My Father does not leave me by myself because I always do what pleases him.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 16:11:
- Uma: “Why do you still not understand that it is not real bread that I am talking about! Watch out for the yeast of the Parisi and Saduki people.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I wonder why you do not understand that what I said there was not about bread. Stay away from the yeast/for-rising of the Pariseo and Sadduseo.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Why is it that you didn’t understand that it is not bread that I was talking about? Be on your guard so that you might avoid the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So why do you still not understand that it was not bread that I was speaking-about to you a little-while-ago? What I said was to beware of the yeast/baking powder of the Pharisees and Saducees!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Why can’t you understand that it wasn’t about bread that I said to you to be careful of the raising-agent of the Pariseo and Saduceo?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “How come you do not understand that it isn’t bread I am talking about when I tell you to be careful of the leaven which is given by the Pharisees and also the Saducees?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
