Following are a number of back-translations of John 10:29:
- Uma: “My Father’s power surpasses all, and He is the one who gives me my sheep. No-one can snatch-away them from my Father.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “My Father has given them to me. My Father is more powerful than all. Nobody can snatch the people who belong to me from him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “My Father God is greater than all. He gave them to me and there is no one that can snatch them away from him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because my Father who entrusted them to me is the greatest of all. No one is able-to-snatch them from the care of God the Father.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because my Father who gave them here to me, he is superior in being supernaturally-powerful, having no equal. They really won’t be snatched-away from my Father by anyone at all.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “My Father delivered them over to me. There is no other one like him and no one can grab them out of my Father’s hand.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 19:22:
- Uma: “When he heard that, he was upset/sad, and he went away, because his goods were many.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the man heard this he went away sad/grieved, because he had many riches/possessions.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when the young person heard this, he went home and his breath was very painful because he had great wealth.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When he heard that which Jesus had said, he left them, sorrowing/mourning, because he was extremely rich.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When that young man heard that, he went being grieved, because he was really wealthy.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But when the man heard the word he was told, he was very sad, because he was a very rich man. So he went away.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 3:13:
- Uma: “Because of that, relatives, I request that you not be discouraged when you hear that I am in prison, because what I am suffering now carries blessing for you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore I beseech/admonish you, encourage your livers even though I am here enduring persecution because of my preaching to you. All this is for your good.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of all of this, it’s necessary, brothers, that these difficulties that I have to endure because of you, are not a cause for your faith being removed, but rather, you must rejoice because this is for your good.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore please don’t be discouraged/disillusioned because of my being-persecuted for you, because that will be to-your-benefit just the same.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore I am really-asking you that you don’t let the hardships I am suffering for your sakes be a means of destroying your belief, for I am telling you that they are for your praise/glory.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore I tell you not to be sad because of what I suffer for telling you the good news. Rather rejoice that the suffering I pass through for you is working good for you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 11:19:
- Uma: “So, there were many Yahudi people who came to comfort Marta and Maria at the death of their relative.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore many Yahudi went to Marta and Mariyam to comfort them because their brother had died.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were many Jews from Jerusalem who had gone to Martha and Mary to comfort them because of their dead brother.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So many Jews had gone to go comfort Marta and Maria.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “and many were the Judio who went there to Marta and Maria’s place, to comfort them because of their brother who had died.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Many Jews had gone to greet Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother who had died.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Ojitlán Chinantec: “And many Jews came to the house of Martha and Mary to help on the occasion of the death of Lazarus, their brother.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “Many Israelites had come to see Martha and Mary. They wanted to make them forget their sorrow about their dead brother Lazarus.”
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “And many of our fellow Israelites from Jerusalem had arrived where Martha and Mary were to comfort them because their brother had died.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 20:24:
- Uma: “When the ten disciples heard the request of their two companions, they became angry, getting angry at them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the ten disciples of Isa heard about the request of the two brothers, they were angry.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when their ten companion disciples heard this, they did not like what these two brothers did.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When their ten companions heard (it), they got-angry-with those two siblings.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When those ten disciples knew, they got angry with the two brothers.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When the ten learners of Jesus knew what had been asked by the two brothers, they were angry.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 4:24:
- Uma: “And from there do new behavior, because God made you new people, who are really straight and holy, following the behavior of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And your customs must be renewed so that they are like God’s customs. So-then your conduct/behavior will be straight and you will hate to sin.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You must be made into a new person which is the new creation by means of the image of God. This new man can be identified by means of true righteous behavior which God causes you to do.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Receive then the new mind that comes-from God that is the same as his, because if that’s what you obey, it will be shown in your way-of-life which will be truly righteous and holy.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Yes indeed, since you have now taken off the disgusting life of the past, hopefully what you will now clothe yourselves with is, a life that has really now been renewed by God, a life that is like a picture of his righteousness/straightness and his nature/ways which are far from all sin.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Walk in a completely new way. Walk in all the good. Like God truly is very good, you do like that, all the good you should do, not any evil you should do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 11:51:
- Uma: “The intention of Kayafas saying like that: Yesus must be killed. But there was also another meaning, that he did not intend. For since he was the High Priest that year, his words foretold the death of Yesus redeeming the Yahudi people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Kayapas did not say this from his own thoughts. But because he was the leading priest that year, he foretold that Isa should die as a substitute for/instead of the tribe of Isra’il.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “(It was not his thinking alone, that which he said, but because he was the high priest, God inspired him. He prophesied that Jesus must die as substitute for the whole Jewish nation.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This-aforementioned that Caifas said, it didn’t come-from his own mind/thoughts, but since he was the highest priest, God had caused-him -to-prophesy that Jesus would die in order that his countrymen Jews would live.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But what he said wasn’t just of himself, but on the contrary he was caused-to-prophesy by God, because that Caifas, he was the Most-important Priest that year. He told that as for the death of Jesus, he would take the place of the nation of the Judio.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But Caiaphas wasn’t just speaking on his own, rather God directed how he spoke. Because this year he was the boss of the priests. He said that Jesus must die for the Jews.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 21:22:
- Uma: “Whatever you request in your prayers, if you believe you will certainly receive.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If you trust, you will receive whatever you ask from God.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If you trust God when you pray, you’ll receive what you ask for.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whatever you request from God will truly be given to you if you trust that it will be given.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And whatever you ask for when you pray, you will receive it, provided you truly believe/obey.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore in whatever you ask from God, believe that God will give you what you ask. Then God will cause it to happen like you ask him.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
