Following are a number of back-translations of Philemon 1:19:
- Uma: “That is why I write here with my own hand: I Paulus will pay all. (I do not need to remind you that I am the one who taught you to believe in the Lord. So, you are in behavior debt to me.) [i.e., you should do something good for me because of what I did for you]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I am the one writing this: I, Paul, am the one to pay. I do no longer mention that you have a great debt to me, for it is because of me that you have everlasting life.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Look at my writing this: I Paul will pay. However, you know that your debt to me is also big, for by means of me you came to own life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I myself am the writer (lit. owner of the writing) and signer (lit. owner of the signature) of this in order that you (sing.) will thereby-know that I will fulfill what I have said: ‘I am Pablo. I will pay Onesimus’ debt to you (sing.).’ Perhaps I don’t need to remind you (sing.) that your (sing.) life that is forever is your (sing.) debt to me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As proof, I will now write this with my own hand, I Pablo will take responsibility to pay you. But good if you remember also that your debt-of-gratitude to me is your being able to know/recognize Cristo, that being what can enable you to be saved.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I put here on this paper these words here: ‘I Paul will pay you.’ But I do not want to remind you that you also are in debt to me. Because it was I who told you the word about how to save your life.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 9:16:
- Uma: “I myself will say to him the suffering he must undergo because of his following of me.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And I will show to him all that he must suffer/endure because of his following me,’ said the Lord.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I will cause him to understand that he will have many difficulties because he is my servant.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I will also make-known to him the number (lit. manyness) of the hardships he will endure in order that my name will-be-made-known.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And it’s true, I will cause him to comprehend that he next will experience very many hardships/sufferings because of his serving me.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:7:
- Uma: “They also had several small fish. He also prayed for that and ordered his disciples to distribute it to the crowd.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There were also a few (lit. if how many pieces) fishes. After Isa had given-thanks to God, he also told/commanded the fishes to be given to the people.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were also there a few small fish. And when he had given thanks for this, he commanded that they give these to the people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There were also a few small dried-fish. Jesus thanked again, and had-(them) -distributed also.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There were also a few units of little-fish which they had. Jesus again gave thanks to God, and then he had his disciples hand them out also.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 2:12:
- Uma: “Yesus said to God like this: ‘I make-big your name to my relatives. In the meeting of your followers I sing praising you.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He said to God, ‘I tell my siblings about what you have done and I praise you there in their gathering.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There is a written word of His which says, ‘As for You, God, I will tell my brothers about You. I will sing praises to You in the midst of all who worship You.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because he said to God, ‘I am telling about you (sing.) to my brothers. I am singing to praise you (sing.) in our (excl.) gathering.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For what he caused-to-be-written in the past says, ‘I will really relate your (sing.) goodness to my siblings. In the presence of all the people worshipping you I will sing my praise of you (sing.).'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus spoke to his Father the words which are written in the Holy Book which say: ‘There where the people are who are my siblings, there I will tell who you are. There where very many people gather together, there I will sing to you hymns,’ he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:5:
- Uma: “So now, order people to go to Yope to search for a person named Simon Petrus, and call him here.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Now send some men to Joppa to fetch a man named Simon, named also Petros.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now send someone to the town of Joppa to bring Simon Peter here.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Send therefore someone to go to Joppa to go call Simon who is nicknamed Pedro.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore now, this is what he says to you. Send some people to go to Jope. Have Simon fetched whose other name is Pedro.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:1:
- Uma: “Yesus also said: ‘Indeed I tell you: From among you here, some of you will not die before you see God rule with his power.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said yet, ‘Truly I say to you, some of you who are here will not die if you have not first seen the ruling of God and his ruling is really powerful.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Jesus spoke, he said, ‘Remember this. There are some of our companions here who will not die until the time when God reveals his chosen king whose power to rule mankind is very great.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he continued saying, ‘This that I say is true that there are those of you here whose death will not yet have occurred and they will see the power of God in his ruling.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What Jesus further said to them was, ‘This which I will say to you really is true, that there are a few here today who won’t die until they have seen the arrival of the kingdom of God through his supernatural-power which can’t be equalled.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tzotzil: “…. ‘Truly I tell you, those of you who are gathered here, there will be some of you who will not die until you understand how God puts people under his orders with power.'”
- Korku: “… ‘The kingdom of God will come with power. Truly I say to you,there are some standing here who will see this before they die.'” (Source: for this and above: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 4:7:
- Uma: “That’s why God determined/made-certain another day also, so that mankind [would] get rest with him. The day that he made-certain is today, relatives, on the day when we hear the voice of God. Because several hundred years after the prophet Musa, King Daud wrote the Word of God that we heard earlier that say: ‘Today, if you hear the voice of God, don’t any longer harden your hearts.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “We (dual) know this, because there is another day which God prearranged for people to enter. That day is called ‘This Day.’ Many years went by during the time of the people of old who did not believe, (when) Da’ud was caused by God to speak those words, he said, ‘When/if you hear God’s voice this day, don’t cause your livers to be hard.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason we know this is because there is still a time set by God when people will be able to enter in to the rest that He has prepared. For a long time after the time of those first people who didn’t believe, God inspired His word in King David and David said, ‘Today if you will listen to the word of God to you, it’s necessary that your breaths not become hard.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “there is another time that God has given to people so they will have-opportunity to enter, and now/today is that time. We know that, because when those people long ago didn’t enter, many years passed-by, then God caused-David -to-write what I told a-little-earlier which says, ‘Today, if you hear God’s words, don’t harden your minds.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore, in the time of king David, even though a long time had gone by since the time of those people who couldn’t be included, God made known that there was still time during that time of David in which people could be included in his rest. The proof of that is, David mentioned the word ‘now/today’ in the words that God caused him to write which say, ‘Now/today, if you have heard what God is saying, hopefully don’t harden your heads.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Until these days in which we live there hasn’t passed away the word God spoke to the people when he said: ‘Concerning this day,’ he said. In the past days God called the people there in the desert. Many many days later again God put in David’s mind the words which he wrote in the Holy Book which say: ‘Concerning this day, listen to the word God speaks to you. Do not reject the word God speaks now,’ he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:37:
- Uma: “Certainly you yourselves know the happenings that happen all over the land of the Yahudi people. Its beginning was in Galilea after Yohanes baptized people who repented from their sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Perhaps you have already heard about the good news which God sent to the Yahudi nation/tribe, that there is now peace because of what Isa Almasi did; he hep rules over everything. You know as to what happened throughout the land of Yahudiya beginning there in Jalil after Yahiya preached concerning the baptism (bathing) of repentance.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now you know that which happened in all the province Judea, although it began there in the province of Galilee after John preached his baptism.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You also know the valuable/important things that were-happening beginning in Galilea and in/to the whole of Israel at-the-finish of Juan’s teaching concerning baptism.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Probably, you have already heard news of what happened in the land of us (excl.) Jews, which began in Galilea, after the work of Juan finished which was teaching and baptizing.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
