Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:25:
- Uma: “His disciples went to wake him up, they said to him: ‘Lord! Help! We (incl.) are dying!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The disciples went and woke Isa up, they said, ‘Save us (incl.), Sir, we (incl.) are dying.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “His companions went to him because they will wake him up. ‘Help us, chief’ they said, ‘This boat is being swamped, and we are about to perish.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore they woke him saying, ‘Lord, save-us (excl.)! Here we (incl.) are drowning!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well since Jesus was asleep, he was awakened by his disciples. They said, ‘Lord, help us! We’re going to sink!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The learners then woke him from his sleep and said: ‘Listen Lord, save us. The boat is about to sink in the water and we will die.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 3:9:
- Uma: “The Yahudi people long ago became guilty/wrong in God’s sight because they broke his Law. But even so, no kidding was God’s power that the Yahudi people saw at that time. So, how much more is the power of God’s new Promise, for that Promise makes-us-straight in his sight.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If the law was great and it is the underlying-reason that mankind is judged to be put in hell, the new covenant is much greater because it is the underlying-reason that mankind is considered straight.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If the power of the Law, which is the reason mankind is to be punished, is great, how much greater is the power of the way by which mankind can be made righteous.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because if the dazzling-gleam of God was seen in his giving the law that condemns people, his godhood is seen even-more on account of his plan to make-people -righteous.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Yes indeed, if God’s glory/praiseworthiness was seen in that system (lit. trail) which reveals (lit. makes-shallow) the punishment upon sin, is it not so that God’s glory/praiseworthiness can be all the more observed in this system (lit. trail) which can give righteousness/straightness in his sight?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now if this word which says that the people will be punished is beautiful in its appearance, then how much greater in beauty is the word in which God tells us that now our sins are cleared.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 3:8:
- Lalana Chinantec: “‘The wind blows just wherever it wants to. We hear the sound but we do not know where it comes from. We do not know where it is going. And that is what the person whom the great Spirit of God has caused to be alive is like. It is evident that he is alive, even though we do not know how it is that that has happened.’ That’s what Jesus said to Nicodemus.” (Source: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
- Uma: “For example wind, it blows wherever it goes. We just hear its rustling, we do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So also with a person who is born from/by the power of the Spirit of God.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘An example/a figure is the wind. The wind blows wherever it wants to. It is not known where the wind comes from or where it goes to but you hear it’s sound. Like that is also a person when he is born from the Spirit of God, it is not known as to how (it happens) but (that it is) true.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for the wind, it goes just any old where, and we can tell because we can hear its noise. But we cannot tell where it comes from or where it’s going. It is the same way also with the power of the Holy Spirit in a person who is born by means of his power because this cannot be understood by a mere person.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because even though the way it happens can not be understood, it happens nonetheless. It’s like the wind. We don’t know where-it-comes-from and where-it-goes, because what it does is up-to-it, but we feel-it nevertheless. It’s the same with all who are born by the Holy Spirit.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Consider this. The wind blows wherever it wishes. We can hear the rustle and see the movement of things it is blowing, like a sign of its strength. But we can’t see this wind. We don’t know where it is going and where it came from. Well, it’s like that indeed when someone is given birth to by the Espiritu Santo. For the work/activity of the Espiritu Santo, it’s just like the activity of the wind. We can’t control him and we can’t see him. We can only see natures/ways he has made new in people who have been given birth to again.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “You know that the wind goes anywhere it wants to go. You hear it blowing but you don’t know where it comes from or where it goes. In like manner the Holy Spirit who gives new life to people, you do not see.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 9:23:
- Uma: “After that, Yesus continued walking to the home of that leader of the Yahudi religion earlier. When he arrived there, he saw many people who were playing-flutes and who were wailing.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Isa arrived there at the house of the leader, he saw people playing flutes and many people wailing.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They continued, and Jesus went into the house of the official. And when he saw the flute players and he heard the noise because of the people milling around,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When plural Jesus arrived then at the ruler’s house, he saw the nose-fluters and the gathered many-people who were making-a-racket,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jesus and company arrived at the house of that leader, Jesus saw the players of stringed-instruments and many people making a lot of noise crying.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Having arrived at the man’s house, Jesus saw that there were musicians there. People were going about crying.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 5:5:
- Uma: “God himself is the one who prepared all this for us, and he gave us the Holy spirit like a sign that he will also give us a new body in heaven.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God is the one who prepares us (incl.) so that we (incl.) can receive the new body. And he caused his Spirit to dwell in our (incl.) livers so that we (incl.) are assured that we (incl.) will really receive all that he has prepared for us (incl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for God, He has already prepared this for us so that this might happen to us in the future. He has given us also the Holy Spirit which is a sign that He will fulfill this.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God is the one who has prepared us to gain this by means of his Spirit (Ispirito) whom he has given to us. And his Spirit is our means-of-knowing for-certain that he will fulfill all that he promised.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For really, as for us, God has secured us as his people so that we could receive this good (situation). God is indeed the one who is the origin of this. The proof of this is that he caused-us-to-be-indwelt by the Espiritu Santo, who is his deposit/advance-payment.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “This is what God determined, in that he prepared where we will live. And he sent the Holy Spirit to walk with us. Now that we walk with the Holy Spirit, we are assured then that all the words God has told us will all come to pass.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:5:
- Uma: “It was nearly noon, he arrived in the Samaria town called Sikar, not far from the land that was given by Yakub long ago to Yusuf his son. Outside that town, there was a well called the well of Yakub. Yesus sat on the edge of that well, because he was tired from walking.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When they arrived in Samariya, they went to a certain town called Sikar. This town is close to the land that Yakub gave to his son Yusup in old times.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They arrived in a village of Samaria called Sychar near the land that Jacob gave long ago to his son Joseph.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and they arrived at Sikar one of the towns there. That town, it was close to the land that Jacob had bequeathed to his child Jose long ago.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “On arriving at a town of Samaria called Sicar, they rested outside the town. Sicar was near Jose’s share/division of the land of their father Jacob back in their time.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “They were about to arrive at the town of Sychar in the land of Samaria, near a piece of Jacob’s land which he had given to his son Joseph.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:17:
- Uma: “Be very careful, because you will be arrested/caught and accused to the religious judges [sitters]. You will be beaten in the houses of prayer.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Be watchful/watch out for there will be people who will catch/arrest you. They will hand you over to the judges and they will beat you in their prayer-houses.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Be on your guard, because they will seize you, and they will take you to trial, and they will beat you in their worshipping places.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Be careful, because they will arrest and file-charges-against you and they will whip you in the synagogues.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Be really careful, because there are people who will catch/arrest you and commit you to the judges. And then you will be whipped in their worship-places.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Be careful of the people. Because the people will take you to jail. There in the churches of the people they will beat you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 6:16:
- Uma: “Are God’s House and a worship house for idols just the same? Yet we here are God’s house, for the Living God dwells in our hearts. So, it isn’t fitting if we who worship God follow those who worship demons. This is the meaning of God’s Word long ago that says like this: ‘I will dwell in their midst, and stay with them. I will be their Lord, and they will be my people.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “It is not possible that idols (god-gods) be worshiped in God’s house. We (incl.) the ones trusting in Isa, we (dual) are figuratively like God’s house because the living God dwells in us (incl.). God said hep, ‘I make my place with the people who belong to me and my dwelling place is there with them. I am their God and they are my people.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for the church, the house of God, where He is worshipped, it’s not allowable that false gods also be worshipped there. And it’s the same with us (incl.) believers, because we (incl.) are like a house, where the undying God lives. For God said, ‘I will live with them and be with them, and it will be that I am the God they worship, and they shall be the people that belong to Me.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Is it indeed appropriate if idols (lit. imitation gods) are added to God’s temple? No, and so also with us, for we are the temple that is the dwelling-place of the living God. Because God said, ‘I will live in/with them and will accompany them. I am the one they will acknowledge as their God and they will be my people.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What’s this, is there no difference between a house where God is worshipped and a house where pretend gods are worshipped? There really is a big difference. For we are like the house of God who really is alive forever, for is it not indeed he who has said, ‘I will dwell among them and live as their companion always. I am the God they will serve and, as for them, I will make them my people’.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “There in the church of God, only he who truly is God who lives, is worshipped there. There is not permission to worship idols there. You are compared to the church of God, because God says: ‘I will walk with the people who worship me. And I am their God and they are my people’ says God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
