Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:21:
Noongar: “‘God will do good to you people hungry now. Your stomachs will be full! God will do good things to you people weeping now. You will laugh!” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “You are fortunate who are hungry at this time, because you will be made-satisfied/full. You are fortunate who weep at this time, because you will be glad.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “‘How fortunate you are/good it is for you who are hungry now, for you will be satisfied in the future. ‘How fortunate you are/good it is for you who are weeping now for you will laugh in the future.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Far better off are you who are hungry now, because God will satisfy your hunger in the future! Far better off are you who are sorrowful now, because you will rejoice in the future!” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “‘Fortunate are you who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied. ‘Fortunate are you who are crying now, because you will smile/laugh.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “You can be happy who really want to do the will of God always, because he really will give you the ability to do it. You can be happy who cry, who sorrow because of sin done, for happiness will follow-in-succession.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:3:
Uma: “God the Father and Yesus Kristus his Child bless us from his white insides [i.e., grace], show us his love, and give us goodness of life [i.e., peace, well-being]. All this is our portion with a heart that is upright and loving.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “May we (incl.) be cared for and be given mercy/pity by our (incl.) Father God and by Isa Almasi, his Son and may they cause peace in our (incl.) livers. All this is for us (incl.) who follow/obey the truth and love each other.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for our Father God and Jesus Christ His Son, may They show kindness to us (incl.), may They show us mercy, and give us a peaceful situation. This can be because we (incl.) have held tight to the true doctrine, and we (incl.) love our companions.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “If we continue to follow the true teaching and to love-one-another, we will gain/enjoy the help, mercy/grace/kindness and peace that come-from God our Father and Jesu Cristo his Child.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “And the truth is, the grace/mercy, pitying help and peace/protection of mind/inner-being which God the Father and his Son (lit.Child) Jesu-Cristo give can always be ours. As for these things, God will really give them to those who have now recognized/acknowledged the truth and who value one another.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “May God our Father and also his Son Jesus Christ give us a blessing and have mercy on us, and give us peace of heart. They will cause that we will follow the true word and that we will love our fellow-believers.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Yatzachi Zapotec: “I ask before our father God and his son our Lord Jesus Christ that they will help you and pity you and cause you to be well off in your head-hearts (be at peace) because you are acquainted with what is true and you love your fellows each of you the other.”
Eastern Highland Otomi: “My siblings, we all believe the same true Word, and also we love one another. And will remain in our hearts God’s blessing, and God’s favor, and continually will rest our hearts God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ.”
Isthmus Zapotec: “God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to us and will have pity on us and quiet ourhearts. And truly they love us.”
Garifuna: “From within the true belief and love, God the one who is (our) Father will give kindness to you, pity/compassion, and tranquility (peace). Also (our) owner (our Lord) Jesus Christ the one who is (our) Father’s offspring will give it.” (Source for this and three above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 28:25:
Uma: “They separated/left from that gathering, because they no longer had any agreement. But before they separated, Paulus spoke to them like this: ‘The words of the Holy Spirit are very true that the prophet Yesaya uttered to our (incl.) ancestors long ago.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “They did not agree. Then when they were about to go home, Paul still had something to say. He said to them, ‘The word/message of the Holy Spirit is really correct which Nabi Isaya announced/made-known to your ancestors. For he said hep to Nabi Isaya,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since they could not agree, they went home. But while they were still there, Paul said again to them, ‘It is very true what the Holy Spirit said long ago to our ancestors by means of his inspiring Isaiah.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “So upon their leaving, their minds were divided and they were-arguing-together. But before their leaving, Pablo said in conclusion, ‘True indeed is what the Holy Spirit caused-the prophet Isaias -to-write concerning our ancestors, because he said to Isaias,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “They couldn’t agree together, that’s why they then split-up-and-went-home. But before they left to go home, Pablo said to them, ‘What the Espiritu Santo said to your ancestors is really true, which was written by that prophet of the past, Isaias, saying,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:5:
Noongar: “He loves our people and he built our synagogue.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “because he loves us Yahudi people, and he has given us (excl.) money to build our (excl.) house of prayer.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “for he is a real friend to our (incl.) Yahudi tribe and he paid the expense hep for erecting our (incl.) prayer-house in this town.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because as for us (inc.) Jews, we are precious in his breath. He built one of the churches.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “because he (appreciation particle) loves us Jews and he moreover caused-a synagogue of ours -to-be-constructed.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Because he values this nation of ours(incl.) and he even caused a worship-place to be built for us.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Jude 1:7:
Uma: “Remember also the towns of Sodom and Gomora long ago with the towns around them. Those townspeople did evil deeds like what was done by the angels [we talked about] earlier. They behaved wrong [implies sexual behavior], and they did deeds that were so evil, to the point that their towns were wiped-out with fire. God’s punishing of the people of Sodom and Gomora is/became an example to all people, and can be compared to the fire of hell that never dies-down, that punishes all God’s enemies.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Remember also the people in Sodom and Gomora and in the surrounding towns. They were like those angels because their doings were not right/fitting. It wasn’t just women who were their companions in ‘doing-things’ (immoral things understood) but even with their fellow males did they do dirty things. They were sent unextinguishable fire to punish them, so that all mankind would have an example.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Consider also the inhabitants in the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns nearby them. They became like those angels, for their doings were excessively evil. As for the men there, it was not only women that they meddled with, but rather, they lusted for each other being completely male, and because of that they were punished with fire. And that became a warning of God to all in the future whom he will punish with fire which cannot be extinguished.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Remember also those who resided in Sodoma and Gomorra and the neighboring (lit. mutually-across-the-way) towns. Their sins, they were similar to the sinning of those-aforementioned angels who slept-with those whom they had no right to sleep-with, because they were-sleeping-with those who were not their spouses, and the men among them, they were craving to sleep-with their fellow men. Therefore God burned them and their towns, and that is what serves-as-a-warning to us that those who don’t believe, God will punish them in/with fire that is never extinguished.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Consider also what happened to the people of Sodoma and Gomorra and their neighboring towns, for they sinned like those angels. Because they really got themselves used to immoral-behavior with ones who were not their spouse, and far more disgusting, being unnatural. Those towns and all the people from there were all burned up, because that was their punishment. Well as for that, it’s like a dissuasion for us, for it’s an illustration of the fire that never dies down, which is the certain punishment which will be arrived at by the sinful.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “And remember what God did to the inhabitants of the city of Sodom and the city of Gomorrah along with other cities round about them. People lived in them who committed adultery like the people who are among you commit adultery. There were some of them who committed sexual acts with other men as though they were women. But the cities burned in order that all who commit sin would know that there is a punishment with fire forever.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 1:26:
Uma: “So, because they refused to worship him, that’s why he just allowed them to follow the shameful desires of their heart. Even women no longer behaved like the behavior of ordinary mankind. The women wived [i.e., married or had intercourse with, normally used of men to women] other fellow women.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Therefore God abandoned them to do shameful things indulging/giving-into the desire of their bodies. Even the women do not like/want a man. That is what they want their fellow female and/so-that they do evil/bad. But this is not right/proper.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since people pay no attention to God, He also pays no attention to them so that they might carry out their very ugly desires. Even the women, it’s no longer men that they sleep with, but they become sexually aroused by other women.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “That’s the reason God has let-them-alone so that they do the shameful-things their bodies desire. Even the women, they have changed what their bodies properly desire so that it’s their fellow women whom they sleep-with, not men.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Therefore God gives the road to the people to do the shameful things they walk by. The women do not want to marry and live with husbands, rather with their fellow women they do shameful things.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “Therefore God abandoned them that they should do ugly things like their hearts wanted them to do. The women left off talking with the men [polite term for intercourse] and they talked among themselves in a very dirty way.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:37:
Noongar: “In that town, a badly behaved woman lived. She heard of Jesus eating and drinking inside the house of the Pharisee. So she got a jar, full of perfume,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “In that town, there was a woman sinner, her actions were immoral/not appropriate. When she heard that Yesus was there eating in the house of that Parisi person, she came carrying a bottle containing fragrant oil.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Na, there was a woman in that town known as a sinner. When that woman knew that Isa was there in the house of that Pariseo to eat, she went there carrying valuable fragrant oil. It’s container was made of alabaster stone.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And in that town there was a woman whose reputation was bad, and when this woman learned that Jesus was eating there in the house of the Pharisee, she went there carrying a white allibaster stone bottle which was filled with fragrant perfume which was very expensive.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “In that town, there was a woman who was a prostitute (lit. the storying-about-whom was bad). When she heard that Jesus was there joining-in-eating in the house of the Pharisee, she went there taking-along a bottle made of alabastro (Ilo. loan) filled-with perfume.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Well, there in that town there was a woman who was known by everyone to be sinful. She heard news that Jesus was there in the house of that Pariseo, gone to eat there. When she knew that Jesus was there, she went there, taking a far-from-ordinary container full of perfume.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Amele: There a woman sat in the taun. She [was] a sinful woman. And then she heard that Jisas was eating food in the house of the Farisi man. Therefore she took a small gourd full of very good smelling coconut oil and went.” (Source: John Roberts in this article )
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 1:14:
Uma: “His head with his hair were gleaming white like cotton, his eyes shone like blazing fire.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “His hair was white like cotton and his eyes like flames of fire.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “His head and His hair were very white for they were like white cloth. His eyes seemed to be on fire.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “His hair, it was very-white like cotton or frost, and his eyes, they were like flaming fire.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “The whiteness of his hair was like a broken wave, and as for his eyes, they were like the burning of fire.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “His hair was all white. It was the whiteness of wool or of snow. His eyes shone like they were lit with flames of fire.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
