Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 12:20:
- Uma: “So, there were seven siblings, all male. The first-born married, me died with no children.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na so-then, there were seven men who were siblings. The oldest one married, then he died, they had no children.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Long ago there were here seven brothers. The older one got married but he died without any children.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Now then, there were reportedly seven male siblings. The oldest got-married, but he died without their having children.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well we say that because recently there were here with us (excl.) seven siblings who were all male. Well, the oldest married. He died without any children.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 11:2:
- Uma: “From their faith, people long ago God was happy about.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The people of old, God was pleased with them because they trusted in him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for the ancient people, God praised them because they believed in Him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because of the faith of our ancestors long ago, God approved-of them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really, as for the people of the past, there was no other means-of- God being-pleased with them except for this believing/obeying and trust of theirs in him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God looked well upon some of the old-time people, because they believed that it is true what God says.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 15:7:
- Uma: “For a very long time they talked back and forth. From there, Petrus stood and said: ‘Relatives, you know yourselves that several years ago I was chosen by God from our midst, he ordered me to carry the Good News to people who are not us Yahudi people. They did hear the Good News and they believed in Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “After they had conferred a long while, Petros stood up and he said, ‘My brothers, you do know that before, I was chosen by God from among you commanded to proclaim to the other tribes in order that they would hear and believe the good news about Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And after they had been discussing it for a long time, Peter stood up and he said, ‘Brothers, you know that among all of us here, I am the one that was chosen long ago by God so that I might tell the Good News to the people who are not Jews so that they might believe in God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Their discussion/argument lasted-a-long-time, then Pedro stood-up and said, ‘Brothers, you know that I am the one whom God chose among us previously to go preach the good news to the Gentiles in order that they would hear and believe/obey.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When they had been debating for a long time already, Pedro stood up and spoke. He said, ‘Brethren, you know that I was the one chosen by God from among us in the past, that from my mouth, the people who aren’t Jews would hear the Good News so that they could also believe.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 13:8:
- Uma: “At that time, many villages will wage war against each other, one king will fight another king. All over there will be earthquakes and hunger. But all that is just still the beginning, like the suffering of a woman about to give-birth.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For one tribe,’ said Isa, ‘will fight with another tribe. And one kingdom will fight with another kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in the countries/places of the world, and there will be famine in the countries. But these are only the beginnings of the difficulties in the world. All this is figuratively like a woman about to give birth and the pain is starting.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For one city will fight against another city, and one kingdom will fight against another kingdom. Earthquakes will take place in many places and there will be regions struck by famine. These things will take place are like one giving birth when the labor pains have just started.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because the many-countries will wage-war and likewise also the governments. There will also be earthquakes in many-countries. There will also be famines. But all these are like merely the twinging of a woman’s stomach when she is beginning to give-birth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because nations will be at war (with one another), kingdoms against other kingdoms. The earth will quake in every place and severe famines will come. However as for all of this, it’s only the beginning of hardship/suffering.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 11:34:
- Uma: “they did not die in the flaming fire, they fled/escaped from people who were all-set to kill them, they were weak, but they became strong, they were bold/daring in battle, they defeated the soldiers of the enemy.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Others of them put out great fires and some of them were not killed by their enemies. Some of them were weak but became strong. They were very bold in war/fighting and they defeated crowds of soldiers from different/other tribes.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And others yet, because of their faith, they were not burned by the very hot fire, and others yet were not killed by their enemies. And some were very weak, they became very strong by means of their faith. They became very brave in fighting and they destroyed the soldiers of their enemies.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “others, they weren’t burned when they were thrown into the strong fire, and others also, they escaped/avoided people who would have killed them. Others were weak, but God made them strong. Still others, they became-strong to wage-war, and they caused-to-flee the soldiers who came-from other countries to fight-with them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There were (those who) were not harmed by even really-fiercely burning fire, and still others were saved from the edge of bladed-weapons. Even though others were weak, God gave them far-from-ordinary strength so that they would be victorious in warfare, in which they put-to-flight hordes of soldiers of other nations who were waging-war against them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Some were put in fire, yet were not burned. Some were in danger of being killed by sword, yet escaped. People who were considered not to be anything were strengthened to war and conquer their enemies.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 15:39:
- Uma: “From there, Paulus and Barnabas argued, with the result that they separated. Barnabas took Markus to be with him, and they boarded a ship to the land of Siprus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The two really argued, therefore they separated. Barnabas took Markus along and they sailed to the island of Kiprus.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “This caused a dispute between them. Therefore they separated, and as for Barnabas, he took Mark and he got on a boat and went to Cyprus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then their argument was excessive, and they separated. Barnabas took-along Marcos, and they rode in a ship to go to Cyprus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Over that they really didn’t agree. Without anything further, they didn’t go together when they set out. Bernabe caused Marcos to accompany him when he sailed going to Chipre.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Isthmus Mixe: “They discussed but their minds did not meet each other. For that reason they separated. Then Barnabas took Mark with him. They entered a boat at the sea. Then they went to the land of Cyprus.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:3:
- Uma: “When Yesus was in the village of Betania, he went to the house of a person named Simon the leper. While he was there, a woman came carrying a bottle full of fragrant oil that was very expensive, that was made from fragrant tree roots. While Yesus was eating, the woman broke the bottle and poured it on Yesus’s head in order to honor him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, Isa was there in Betani. He was eating there in the house of Simon, the man who had been a leper. So-then while they were eating, a woman arrived bringing fragrant oil. It’s container was made of the stone alabaster. That fragrant oil was called narda, it had nothing mixed with it and was very expensive. So-then the woman broke the container of the fragrant oil and she poured the oil out over Isa’s head.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There was a time then when Jesus was in the town of Bethany in the house of Simon, the leper who was cured. While they were eating, a woman came carrying a bottle made of alabaster stone filled with fragrant perfume which was very expensive for it was pure nard. The woman came near to Jesus, and she broke the lip of the bottle and poured the perfume on the head of Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “While plural Jesus were in Betania, they went to join-in-eating at the house of Simon whose fearful skin disease Jesus had removed. When they were eating, a woman approached Jesus carrying a bottle made of alabastro (Ilo. loan) filled-with pure nardo, a most-expensive perfume. She poured it on Jesus’ head.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “While Jesus and company were still there in Betania, they went to the house of that Simon whose leprosy had been cured. When they were now eating, a woman came who was bringing a far-from-ordinary container full of most-expensive perfume for it was first-class, called nardo. On the arrival of that woman, she opened/took-the-top-off that perfume and poured it on the head of Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- MamaindĂ©: “… a woman came up and poured out on his head-area the fluid, the good-smelling fluid, the fluid called nardo, in order to anoint him. Her good fluid was very expensive; she poured it on his head-area. Bring the box, the stone box, the alabastor-stone, its box, and breaking its nose, she poured in on his head-area.” (In MamaindĂ© a stylistic format is used, in which the whole story is told in resume in each of a number of different cycles. Each cycle will focus on different aspects of the story, but will maintain certain fixed points so that the listener knows where to hang the information in the time or causal sequence. All cycles close obligatorily with an identical verbal form. — Source: Peter K. E. Kingston in Notes on Translation 1973, p. 13ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 12:26:
- Uma: “When God spoke to the Yahudi people on Sinai Mountain, his voice shook the world. But at this time, there is a promise of his that says: ‘One more time I will shake the world until it is destroyed. And it is not just the world I will shake, but with the sky also.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “At that time the earth shook from God’s voice. But now he tells/speaks, he says, ‘There is a time when I will shake again not only the world/earth but including the sky.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Long time ago the earth shook because of the very loud voice of God. But He said that there’d be a time in the future when He would again shake not only the earth, but also Heaven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because when God was speaking back then at Sinai, it earthquaked. But there was that which he promised which has not yet been fulfilled which says, ‘Once more I will shake the earth, and not the earth only but rather everything that is in the sky as well.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When God spoke there on the Mountain of Sinai, the ground shook with the strength of his voice. But now/today he is testifying that the day will come when he will also cause-to-quake not just the earth/ground, but including also the sky/heaven, just like he said in the past.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “In the past times when God spoke, calling to the people here on earth, it even made the earth shake. And now he says: ‘When I again speak, I will cause that the earth will shake and also cause that which is above to shake,’ he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
