Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 1:1:
- Uma: “This letter is from me, Paulus, the slave of Yesus Kristus. He chose me and sent/apostled me to take the Good News that is from God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This letter is from Paul being-sent there to you (pl.) in the place/country Roma. I am a servant of Isa Almasi. I was chosen by God (Tuhan) and commissioned by him to proclaim his good news from him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I am Paul, the one writing this. I’m a slave of Jesus Christ and he has made me also to be an apostle. God promised long ago by means of what he caused the prophets to write, that there would be a time when there would be Good News which would be made known to us (incl.) The reason he chose me to be an apostle was so that I might tell repeatedly this Good News.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I am Pablo who wrote this. I am one who is serving Cristo Jesus. God chose me to be-an-apostle and he also appointed me to go preach the good news that is from him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I am Paul, the worker for Jesus Christ. God appointed me to be Jesus Christ’s representative. He chose me to speak God’s good news.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Highland Totonac: “I write to you. I who am Paul, Jesus Christ’s worker. I have been chosen to be his messenger and I have been appointed (placed) to preach (act as chief speaker) God’s good announcement.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:12:
- Noongar: “Now he came to the gate of the town. Many people were coming out. They were weeping and carrying a dead man, the only son of a woman. She was a widow. Many people of the town walked with her.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “They were close to the gate at the end of the town, they saw many people appear from inside the town, carrying a dead person. That dead person was a young man, an only child, his mother was a widow. Many townspeople accompanied his mother going to the graves.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When they arrived at the gate for entering that town, there were people carrying a dead person bringing him outside to the graveyard. The dead man/male was an only child and his mother was a widow already. Many people from the town went along with the widow to bury her son.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when they arrived there to the gate going to the town, they met some people coming from the town who were carrying a dead person in order to bury him. That dead person was a man who was the only child of an old widow-woman. There were very many people there in that town who were coming with the woman to go out and bury him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When they approached the boundary of the town, they met many inhabitants going-as-a-group to go bury a dead man/boy. That dead-one was the only child of a widow.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When they were near to the gate of that town, they happened-to-meet those going to bury a man/male who had died, the only-child of a widow woman. Many were the people who were accompanying those going burying.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Jude 1:14:
- Uma: “There are words of the prophet Henokh long ago which foretell God’s punishing of the false teachers who live at this time. Henokh was a descendant of Adam, the seventh generation [lit., layer]. He said like this: "Truly-truly the Lord will come with his holy followers who number in the thousands.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The prophet Idris deceased (ley), a descendant of Grandfather Adam in the seventh generation, foretold in old times about people like these also. He said, ‘Listen! Our (incl.) Lord will come together with thousands of his angels” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for Enoch, the seventh generation from Adam, he prophesied about those people long ago, for he said, ‘In the future the Lord will come accompanied by thousands of his angels,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Enok who was the sixth descending-grandchild of Adan (i.e. 7th descendant, counting both Adan and himself), there is that which he prophesied concerning them. He said, ‘Look, the Lord will come accompanying multiple-thousands of his holy angels” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What was said by Enoc, the seventh generation coming from Adan, also applies to (lit. hit) them. He said at that time, ‘Listen to this. Certainly the Lord will come, with him being many thousands of his very-far-from-ordinary angels.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Adam had descendants until there lived the sixth father and then Enoch was born, being the seventh then. This man spoke of what was to come, saying, ‘God will come and thousands of his holy angels will accompany him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 2:1:
- Uma: “We know relatives, if God punishes people who behave evilly like that, his decision is certainly true. But we have no seat [i.e., right] to criticize our companion, because if we criticize others, it is the same as criticizing ourselves, since our behavior is just like that too. So there is no way for us to make-nothing-of [lit., put downhill] our guilt.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Whoever you are (pl.) my friends, you cannot say that you have no sin and that the ones having sin and who should be punished are your (pl.) companions, because the bad deeds that you accuse them of you do also. When you accuse them it is as if you were accusing yourselves.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “We (incl.) know that God’s punishment to people who behave wickedly like this is very just. However, you who say that this behavior of people like this is very bad, you cannot escape either, because you criticize the evil behavior of another person but your behavior is also evil. Because of this when you criticize him you are criticizing also your own behavior.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Perhaps, you think that those wicked people should be punished. But watch-out, you who criticize your companions, because what you are doing is the same as what they do. Thus if you accuse-them -of-sin, it’s your own self just the same that you are accusing, so you have nothing with-which-to-answer God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Whoever makes a judgment about how his fellowman walks, saying that he will go to the punishment because of the sin he does, this person who makes the judgment is thus causing himself to go to the punishment too because he also has sin.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:44:
- Noongar: “Then Jesus turned to the
woman and said to Simon, ‘You see this woman? I entered your house and you did not give me water for my feet, but she has washed my feet with her tears, and wiped my feet with her hair.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “After that, and he turned to that woman and said to Simon: ‘Do you (sing.) see this woman? When I came to your (sing.) house earlier, you (sing.) did not prepare water for washing my feet, according to our custom for visitors. But this woman, he washed my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Isa turned to the woman and said to Simon, ‘Do you see this woman? I came to your house earlier, you didn’t even prepare water for me to wash my feet. But this woman washed my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Jesus turned to the woman and he said again to Simon, ‘That parable of mine is like this woman, because I came up in your house, but even though it is our custom to give water to wash the feet of our visitors, you did not give me any. But this woman, she washed my feet with her tears and she dried them with her hair.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he turned-to-face the woman and said to Simon, ‘Look then at this woman. You (sing.) admittedly showed-me-hospitality in your (sing.) home, but you (sing.) sent no one to go wash my feet, but this one (appreciative particle), she has washed my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then Jesus turned his head to that woman and said next to Simon, ‘Probably you saw what this woman did. When I arrived here at your house, you didn’t give me water to wash my feet. But as for her, her tears are what she washed my feet with and her hair is what she wiped them with.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:1:
- Uma: “Yesus said to me: ‘Write like this to the angel who takes care of my followers in the village of Efesus: ‘These are the words of the Lord Yesus, who holds the seven stars in his right hand and who walks in the midst of the seven gold lampstands.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He also said, ‘Write to the one in charge of the gathering of people belonging to me (my church) in the place Epesus. And write this: ‘This message is from me, the one who has the seven stars in his right hand and who walks in the middle of the seven golden lampstands.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And He said again, ‘Write to the angels of God who watches over the believers in the town of Ephesus, and you write My words to them; you say, ‘I am Jesus, the one who holds the seven stars in My right hand and I am also the one who walks in the midst of the seven lamps.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘What you (sing.) are to write to the angel who watches-over the congregation at Efeso, it is this. ‘I am the one who holds the seven stars in my right hand and who walks in the middle of the seven gold places-on-which-lights -are-put. This is what I say to you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Then he spoke to me, saying, ‘This is what you are to put in the letter you will send to the overseer of the believers in me in Efeso. Say, ‘This is what he wants to say who has seven stars which he holds in his right hand, this he who walks in the middle of seven lampstands made of pure gold.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Write a letter to send to God’s worker who leads where the believers are in the city of Ehesus. Here are the words you will write: ‘Thus is the word of the one who has seven stars in his right hand, he who is in the midst of the seven candle holders of gold. He says:” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:4:
- Uma: “Even though all men lie, God’s words are still true. Like King Daud long ago said: ‘O Lord, your (sing.) words are indeed true. No matter who criticizes you (sing.), they must admit that you (sing.) are upright.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Even if all human beings are liars yet God does not lie. Whatever he says he will really fulfill (it). It is written in the holy-book about this, it says, ‘Whatever you speak, God, is really true, that’s why it is known that you are straight. And when/if one faults you/accuses you of fault finally it is known that you have no sin/fault.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For even though all mankind are liars, by contrast everything that God says is true. For there is a written word of King David long ago in which he testified about the righteousness of God. He says, ‘It’s not possible that your arguments are not true, for if you are accused your arguments will always win the case,’ said David.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “No indeed! Because even if all people tell-lies, it is absolutely not possible that God would tell-a-lie. Consider the written word of God which says, ‘When you (sing.) speak, God, it becomes-known that what you (sing.) are saying is exactly correct. If moreover there is someone who accuses you (sing.), it is not possible that you (sing.) will be defeated.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “No, not that. Although if all the people are liars, yet God never lies. The word written in the Holy Book says: ‘You my God, it is apparent that concerning the word you speak, it all is good. No person will come forth who can say that the word you speak is not right’, it says.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 51:4
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:26:
- Noongar: “Jesus and his disciples went in the boat to the country of Gerasa, across Lake Galilee.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “They continued being-in-the-boat, until they came to the land of Gerasa that is on the other side of the lake from the land of Galilea.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then they went on crossing over and arrived at the place Gerasa which is opposite to the place Jalil.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then they continued in the boat until they arrived at the land which was the place where the Gergesene people lived, across the lake from the province of Galilee.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Plural Jesus continued crossing the lake until they arrived at the region of Gerasa which was across from Galilea.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They came to shore on the other side of the lake. The Geraseno (pl.) were the people of that place which was opposite Galilea.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
