Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 11:6:
- Uma: “For though I don’t know how to speak very well, but neither am I a stupid person-e’ [The enclitic -e’ is like an exclamation point, and perhaps could be translated as ‘listen up!’ or ‘Watch out, I mean business’]. I know true teaching. You heard and saw this yourselves in all our (excl.) actions/behavior with you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Perhaps I am not an expert in speaking, but I really know all the true teaching. And I have always made this clear to you because of all my teaching.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because even though I do not know how to talk, I know what the true doctrine is. And this is what we taught you long ago at all times and in every way.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I am admittedly not skilled in speaking, but I am definitely not lacking in what I know about God. You know that is true, because I have continually been showing it to you in all that I have taught.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Admittedly it could be said that I am not skilled in speaking, but I really thoroughly understand what I am teaching. Did I not cause you to comprehend this on more than just one occasion?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Even though people say that I do not know how to make my words sound beautiful when I speak, yet I know very well about the matters which I teach. Concerning this, you have heard very well about all the words I have spoken in my teaching.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:17:
- Uma: “They waited until dark, he still had not come. So they boated to Kapernaum town.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “It was already dark and Isa had not yet come to them, then they got into the boat and crossed over to the other side of the lake towards Kapernaum.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and they got into their boat because they would cross over to the village of Capernaum. It was already night when they got into the boat and Jesus had not yet returned to them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and they rode in a boat to cross-over to Capernaum. It was already night and Jesus had not yet joined them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “On their arrival, they embarked in a boat to cross over to Capernaum. Till night fell, Jesus still didn’t arrive.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But Jesus did not arrive and now it was dark. The learners then got into a boat and went in order to cross the water to arrive at the city of Capernaum.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:8:
- Uma: “There were also seeds which fell in fertile [fat] ground. That sowed-thing/seed fruited, some a hundred times more than the sowed-thing, some sixty times, some thirty times.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, other seeds fell on good soil and bore fruit. Some yielded very much, some much and some also enough/just right.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there were also that to be planted which fell on good soil, and these, by contrast, bore fruit. There were some of these plants that gave fruit thirty for each plant, and there were also some plants that gave fruit sixty for each plant, and there were also plants that gave fruit one hundred for each plant.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But as for still others, they fell on the good soil, afterwards they grew and-then they bore-fruit. Some bore-fruit one hundred each, some sixty each, and some also thirty each.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But what got scattered on good soil/ground fruited well with full-heads-of-grain. Some had one hundred grains on a single stalk. Some had sixty and some thirty.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Others of the seeds landed on good earth and very much did they produce. Some had a hundred for each seed. Some others had sixty for each seed. Some others had thirty for each.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 12:5:
- Uma: “Actually, it is quite fitting I praise a person who has seen vision like that. But I don’t want to praise myself. The only thing I will praise myself for is all my weaknesses.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “It is right/fitting for me to boast about this person but I don’t want to boast about myself, only about my weaknesses.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now I am that person who has taken to Heaven, and it could be that I might boast about these things which happened to me, but I will not boast about my wisdom, rather, the things I will boast about are the things that show my lack of wisdom.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If I wanted (but I don’t) to boast-about a person like that because of what was shown to him, it would be my right, but as concerns my life on this earth, I will boast-of nothing except what shows my weakness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “A person who has experienced that, I really would cause to be praised. But I will not cause my own ability to be praised, but rather those things that cause to be comprehended that, as for me, I have no ability of my own.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning this word, clearly I could brag about it. But concerning myself, when I speak about myself I clearly state that I am not strong.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:49:
- Uma: “‘The food called manna eaten by your ancestors long ago in the wilderness did not give life, because they all died.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Your forefathers were able to eat manna there in the lonely place, but they certainly died.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The food called manna, this was eaten by your ancestors long ago, but they died just the same.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Your ancestors, they ate manna in their walking through the place with no inhabitants, and there-now they died anyway.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Your ancestors got to eat manna when they were there in the wilderness, but they died anyway.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “There in the wilds our ancestors ate a tortilla/food which came from heaven. But they didn’t live forever, rather they died later.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Kaiwá: “Even though your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, they still eventually died.” (This construction assures that they didn’t die because of the manna — source: John Taylor in Notes on Translation 63/1977), p. 14ff.
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:40:
- Uma: “Like grass is gathered and burned, so also will [happen to] evil people at the time of the Kiama Day.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, as for weeds they are just gathered and burned. Like that it will also happen when the end (of the world) has come.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Just like they pulled up the bad plants and burned them, that’s just the way it will be also in the future at the last time.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The servants’ gathering of the weeds to be-burned, like that also is what will happen at the end of the world,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For as these weeds will be piled up to be burned, like that indeed is what will happen at the end of the world.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the weeds appearing like wheat which were gathered to burn, that means the painful situation which will happen when the earth is ended.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 1:3:
- Uma: “Many greetings: I cry out to God the Father and to our Lord Yesus Kristus, that he bless you with his white insides [grace] and give you goodness of life [well-being, peace].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “May our (incl.) Father God and Isa Almasi our (incl.) Leader always take care of you. May it be also that they give you peace in your livers.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “May our Father God and our Lord Jesus Christ show kindness to you and may they give you a peaceful situation.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “May you have grace/mercy/kindness and peace that come from God our Father and the Lord Jesu Cristo” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I am praying that hopefully with you always is the grace/mercy and peacefulness of mind/inner-being which is given by God our Father and the Lord/Chief Jesu-Cristo,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I want that God our Father and also our Lord Jesus Christ will bless you and cause you to have peace of heart.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 7:10:
- Uma: “The relatives of Yesus did go to Yerusalem to attend the Feast of Huts there. In fact, Yesus also followed silently [i.e., without telling], but by himself so that the people did not know.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When his brothers had left for that festival, not long after that, Isa also followed them going there. But he did not go with the crowds that’s why nobody knew about his going there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “After his siblings had left going up to the feast, Jesus followed although he did not join himself to many people because he did not wish that it be known.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When his siblings/cousins had left to go attend-the-fiesta, Jesus then followed by-himself so that it would not become-known.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “After his siblings had left, before long Jesus then set out to go to the fiesta. But it’s like what he was doing was keeping-out-of-sight/avoiding-confrontation.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “After his brothers had gone to the celebration, also Jesus went to celebrate. He acted so that the people wouldn’t know he was there, going about unnoticed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
