Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 2:25:
- Noongar: “In those days, Simeon lived in Jerusalem. He was a good man. He listened to God and waited for the day when God would save Israel.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “In Yerusalem at that time, there was a person named Simeon. That Simeon was a straight person who submitted to God. The Holy Spirit was with him, and he hoped/trusted that the time had almost arrived for God to help the descendants of Israel.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, there was a person there in Awrusalam called Simiyun. This person was righteous and he always worshiped God. He was waiting for the time when the savior of the tribe of Isra’il would come. And the Holy Spirit was with him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There was there a man who lived in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon. He was a righteous person who was always worshipping God. Always there in his breath was the expectancy of the fulfillment of the prophesy which said that the time would come when God would set free His chosen people, the descendants of Israel. Simeon was always controlled by the Holy Spirit.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Now there was an old-man in Jerusalem named Simeon who was waiting for the salvation of his fellow descendants of Israel. He was a righteous and religious person, and the Holy Spirit was also with/in him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “At that time, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. He was straight/righteous in the sight of God and worshipful too. He was really longing very much for the promised Cristo who would save/free their nation of Israel. And he was being indwelled by the Espiritu Santo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Peter 5:14:
- Uma: “Greet one another with love like those who are relatives in the Lord. I cry out to God that he give you all goodness of life because you are connected with Kristus. Finish here.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Greet-each-other-respectfully (magsalam) to show your love. May God cause peace in your livers, all of you who belong to Isa Almasi. Wassalam” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Show affection to each other. May the breath of each one of you who has been made one with Christ be peaceful.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Greet-one-another to show that you love-one-another. May it be that all of you who are united-with Cristo have peaceful minds.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Greet one another, like you are one brotherhood in believing who value one another. I pray for you who are united/tied-together with Cristo, that hopefully all of you will have peace/protection of mind/inner-being.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Greet each other with a kiss like you respect those who are brethren to you. I want that your hearts be at peace, all of you who walk with Jesus Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 23:20:
- Uma: “That child said: ‘There are Yahudi people that have made-plans to request to [you] Head, that tomorrow my uncle be taken to a meeting of the judges, pretending, they say, to examine his case further.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He answered, he said, ‘The Yahudi have planned/agreed that tomorrow they will ask you ko’ to bring Paul to the council members, pretending to investigate him again.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the young man said, ‘As for the Jews, they have agreed that tomorrow they will beg you to bring Paul there to the gathering place of the elders because they will thoroughly, they say, check up on what he did.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The young-man answered and said, ‘The leaders of the Jews have-agreed-together to ask you (sing.) to take Pablo to their meeting-place tomorrow, in order that they will reportedly try/interrogate-him properly concerning his case.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The child said, ‘There are some Jews who have agreed together that tomorrow they will ask for Pablo to be taken there again by you and stood in the presence of the members of the Sanedrin for, they will say, they will interrogate him well.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 3:5:
- Noongar: “You must fill every valley. You must make low all hills and mountains. You must make straight all rooked paths. You must make smooth all rough paths.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “The holes must be filled, The high parts and the bumpy places [lit, hilly] must be madelevel/the same. The curvy places [lit, elbow-y] be made straight, and the hollow places made flat.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “All valleys should be filled and all mountains and hills should be leveled, the crooked should be straightened, the bumpy way (lit. the hill-valley way) should be smoothed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Fill in the low places, and if the way is hilly, make it flat. If the way is winding, straighten it out. And if there are bumps, you must level them off.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What you will do is, level-out the mountains and hills. If there are also very-winding-places, make-them-straight. The potholes as well, fill them in” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s necessary that you (pl.) fill in the hollows and level each hill and mountain. Make-direct the path which is crooked and flatten the uneven.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Isaiah 40:3 – Isaiah 40:5.
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Peter 2:11:
- Uma: “Even the angels who are stronger and more powerful than those lying teachers, even they do not dare to criticize or bring-accusation against those powerful beings in front of the Lord God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Even the angels, they are really strong and are greater than these deceiving teachers, they don’t go into the presence of God to insult or accuse their fellow angels.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Even the angels of God whose power is greater than those lying teachers, they would not dare to criticize the supernatural beings when they accuse those beings before God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Even the angels whose power is greater (lit. higher) than theirs, they don’t speak-evil-before the Lord -of their companions who have sinned.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But even the angels whose ability is far bigger and who are stronger than those teachers of lies, they don’t insult and blame others in the presence of the Lord.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “In contrast, the angels, who have more authority than these, when they are in God’s presence do not speak bad about those who have less authority than they do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 24:17:
- Uma: “‘For several years, I have not gone to Yerusalem. But just recently I went to Yerusalem taking helping money to my Yahudi relatives, and taking my offering / sacrifice to the Lord God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘So-then, after several years had passed since I left Awrusalam, I returned there bringing money to give to the people of my tribe and to sacrifice to God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason I went up to Jerusalem because it had been a few years that I had not visited there, I went there so that I could deliver some money which was to help my companion Jews, and so that I also might make an offering to God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘There have been how-many years since-I-left Jerusalem, so I went there to go give money to use-in-helping my fellow Jews who were-in-need and also to go butcher what would be offered to God in the Temple.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, after the passing of a few years from my previous going to Jerusalem, I went there again, taking money to aid my fellow Jews there. Another of my purposes was to give a thank-offering to God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 3:37:
- Uma: “Lamekh the child of Metusalah, Metusalah the child of Henokh, Henokh the child of Yared, Yared the child of Mahalaleel, Mahalaleel the child of Kenan,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Lamek was a son of Metusela, Metusela was a son of Idris, Idris was a son of Jared, Jared was a son of Mahalalel, Mahalalel was a son of Kenan.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Lamech was the son of Methuselah, and Methuselah was the son of Enoch, and Enoch was the son of Jared, and Jared was the son of Mahalaleel, and Mahalaleel was the son of Cainan, and Cainan was” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Lamek also, he was the child of Metusela who was the child of Enok who was the child of Jared who was the child Mahalaleel who was the child of Cainan.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “who was the son of Matusalem, who was in turn the son of Enoc, Enoc being the son of Jared who was the son of Mahalaleel, who was the son of Cainan.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 1:3:
- Uma: “What we (excl.) have already seen and heard, that is what we (excl.) announce to you, so that you can be-in-harmony with us (excl.). And our (incl.) harmony, is harmony with God the Father and Yesus Kristus his Child.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Now we (excl.) have also told you what we (excl.) saw and heard so that you join us (excl.) and we (incl.) can become one with our (incl.) Father God and his Son/Child, Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I am going to tell you that which we saw and which we heard from Him, so that you might have an intimate relationship with us, for we (excl.) also have an intimate relationship with our Father God and His Son Jesus Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Those-things that we (excl.) saw and we (excl.) heard, that is what we (excl.) confirm to you in this letter so that you will join/be-added-to our (excl.) companionship with God our (incl.) Father and Jesu Cristo his Child” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “We (excl.) are testifying to you this which we (excl.) have seen and heard, so that you may-be-able-to-have-fellowship/friendship with us. And not only that, but rather we can all of us together have fellowship with God the Father and his Son (lit. Child) Jesu-Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “We tell you that we saw him and what we ourselves heard him say, in order that you also together with us will be friends with God our Father and also with Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “The person whom we saw and heard his words, we proclaim to you (pl.) what he is like, in order that our (inclusive) head-hearts may become one. Truly our (inclusive) head-hearts are one with the head-heart of our (inclusive) father God and with the head-heart of his son Jesus Christ.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “We really heard and saw what we are saying, and that is what we are telling you now, so that you will know as well as we. And we (inclusive) will be of the same mind with our Father and his Son Jesus Christ.”
- Tzotzil: “Because we saw him, because we heard his words, therefore we tell you (pl.) also in order that thus one will become before God. Because one we have become already really and truly alone with our Father God and His Son, (he is) Jesus Christ.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: “That which we ourselves saw is what I am also saying to you. Also that which we heard then I am saying to you. We fellowship with the Father, we fellowship also with His Child Jesus Christ. I am telling you these things in order that by that fellowship we might fellowship together.”
- Yanesha’: “I am going to say to you again; What we used to see, it too, what we used to hear, that is what we relate to you. Then you, too, thus completely you will be one with us. We, we are one with Father, him too, his Son who is Jesus Christ.”
- Aguaruna: “Whom we saw, whom we heard, I tell to you in order that we (reciprocally) stay contentedly with one another. We are those able to stay (reciprocally) contented towards Our Father God, and also towards his Son Jesus Christ.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
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