Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 4:27:
Uma: “so that there will be no opportunity for the King of Evil-ones to tempt/test us.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Don’t give room to the demons to tempt you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t you permit by means of your anger that Satan take advantage of you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “so that Satanas will have no opportunity to tempt you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “For if you cause it to be for a long time, you are giving Satanas an opportunity/place and he will drag you into sin.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Don’t give a way for the devil to make you do what pleases him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 11:54:
Uma: “So, that is why he no longer traveled in the land of the Yahudi people, so that he would no longer be seen by the people. He went away from there going to the town that is named Efraim at the edge of the wilderness, and stayed there with his disciples.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Therefore Isa did not show-himself-openly to the people in Yahudiya. But he left with his disciples for a certain village called Epraim. This village is at the edge of the place where there are few people. He stayed there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For that reason Jesus did not again come out openly there in the villages of the Jews, but rather he went to the town called Ephrain near the land where nobody can live, and there he lived with his disciples.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “When that was so, plural Jesus didn’t show-themselves to the many-people in Judea but rather they left there and went to Epraim, a town/place close to the mountain-region. And that’s where Jesus and his disciples stayed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Therefore since that’s how it was, Jesus no longer mixed in with those Judio. What he did was, he went to Efraim, a town near the wilderness. There next was where he and his disciples lived.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Therefore Jesus did not go around where the Jews were, rather he went apart to a place in the land of Judea next to the wilds, to a town named Ephraim. There he stayed along with his learners.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 21:25:
Uma: “Tell me: from where was Yohanes the Baptizer’s power to baptize people? From God, or from mankind?’ Those Yahudi leaders spoke to one another, they said: ‘How should we (incl.) answer him? If we (incl.) say his power/authority is from God, he will say to us (incl.): ‘If so, why do you not believe him?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “When Yahiya bathed the people, where was his authority from? From God or from mankind only?’ They planned/discussed together, they said, ‘If we say for example that the authority of Yahiya to bathe people was from God, he will say, ‘Na, why did you not believe Yahiya?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Who gave John the Baptist the authority to baptize? Was it God. Or was it only a person?’ And then they asked each other, saying, ‘If we say ‘God’, he will ask, ‘Why didn’t you believe John?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “This is my question. Who gave Juan his authority to baptize people? Was it God or a person?’ Then they asked-each-other saying, ‘What shall we answer? If we say that it was God who gave him his authority, Jesus will probably say, ‘If that’s so, then why didn’t you believe/obey him?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Where did the authority come from for Juan to baptize? From God or from people?’ When they heard that, they discussed-among-themselves, ‘If we (incl.) say, ‘From God,’ he will then say to us, ‘Well why don’t you believe/obey him?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Who was it who gave permission to John to baptize the people? Was it God who gave permission or was it only people who gave permission for what he did?’ The people then asked among themselves how to reply. They said: ‘What will we say now? If we say that God gave permission for what John did, then he will say to us: ‘Well, how come you don’t believe what he said about me then?’ he will say to us.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 5:27:
Uma: “in order that we who became his portion became holy and beautiful, with no fault or wrong [lit., thing to be criticized because of], in order that we are fitting for him to come to.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “The reason that he did this to us (incl.) is so that we (incl.) really wouldn’t have any sin and no spot or wrinkle or blemish. So-then we (incl.) are very beautiful and he receives us (dual) for himself.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He also did this so that we might be acceptable as His wife. And there is nothing in us (incl.) for Him to scold because we have been thoroughly cleansed and we are very beautiful to Him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “The reason he did that, it was so that we would be totally holy with abolutely no sin so that when he comes to call us, we will extremely beautiful in his sight, because we will have absolutely no fault/lack.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “And so that, when the set-termination day arrives, it’s possible that he will accept them as like his praiseworthy spouse, a spouse who really is exceptionally beautiful for there is no flaw or stain whatsoever on her body. Like this is our likeness for he really has cleansed us from all sin. There is nothing now that he will criticise in us.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “He wanted that when he came again, all the believers would be praised because now nothing evil would be found against them.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Guhu-Samane: “For (in the manner that) a woman promised to her husband is without stain and untidiness, and, bedecked with ‘flowers’ (and finery), she does not break her husband’s poro seal, but waits until he comes and meets her — so Christ intends to take his hands and feet (church).” (Richert explains: “In this adaptation it was felt wise to avoid the idiom ‘stretches forth his hand’ as tending to focus too strongly on the sexual consummation of the marriage relationship. Therefore the less explicit term ‘meets her’ is used as a euphemism.” (Source: Ernest Richert in The Bible Translator, 1965, p. 81ff. )
Following are a number of back-translations of John 12:29:
Uma: “The people who heard the words from the sky said: ‘That is the sound of thunder!’ But some said: ‘That is not thunder. There is an angel speaking to him.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “The people who stood there heard this voice. Some said, ‘Uy, that is thunder.’ Others also said, ‘That was an angel speaking to him.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there were many people there, and when they heard this, they said, ‘Thunder!’ And some said, ‘An angel of God is talking to Jesus.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “The many-people who were standing there, they also heard the voice. But some said it thundered while yet others said, ‘An angel spoke-to him.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “When those people standing there heard, some said, ‘It thundered.’ But others, they said, ‘That was an angel who spoke to him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “The people standing there heard him speak but they thought that it was only thunder they heard. Other people said, ‘An angel of God spoke to him.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 22:11:
Uma: “‘The king entered to see the guests. He saw in the midst of the guests, there was one who was not dressed in feast clothes.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “‘When the sultan went inside to see the people who were there, he saw there a man whose clothes were not fitting for a wedding.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when the king came in because he will look at the people, he saw there a person who was not dressed in wedding clothes.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “‘A little-later, the king entered to talk-with his guests, and he saw one who had not dressed in something-fitting for the wedding-occasion.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “That king went in there to meet those who had gotten invited. He saw there a person who was not dressed in the clothes he had given out to them, which were suitable for that wedding feast.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “The king then went inside the house to see the people which were called. He saw that there was one person there who did not wear the clothing like the clothing people wear who attend wedding feasts.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Philippians 1:2:
Uma: “Many greetings: we (excl.) call-out to God our Father and to the Lord Yesus Kristus, that he bless you from his white insides [grace] and give you goodness of life [peace].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “May our (incl.) Father God and our (incl.) Leader Isa Almasi always care for you. May they also give you peace in your liver.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “May our Father God and the Lord Jesus Christ show you kindness and give you a peaceful situation.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “May you have mercy/grace and peace that come-from God our Father and the Lord Jesu Cristo.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “I pray that hopefully with you always is the grace/mercy and peace/protection of mind/inner-being which God our Father and the Lord/Chief Jesu-Cristo give.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “We want that God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will bless you and put peace into your hearts.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 13:11:
Huehuetla Tepehua: “Jesus knew who was going to give him up. That’s why he said that they weren’t all washed in their hearts.”
Tenango Otomi: “He said that not all had their hearts washed from evil because he knew who was to betray him.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
Uma: “Yesus spoke like that, because he knew ahead-of-time who it would be who would sell him to his enemies. That is why he said: ‘You are washed, but not all of you.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Isa knew hep beforehand as to who would soon betray him that is why he said, ‘All of you are clean/holy in their livers, only one does not have a clean/holy liver.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “(The reason he said that one of them had not been cleaned is because he knew who was going to betray him so that he might die.)” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “That’s what he said that they had not all become-clean/good, because he already-knew who it was who would betray him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Because Jesus knew who would lead those wanting to kill him, that’s why he spoke like that, that ‘you (pl.) are clean now but not all are clean.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
