Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:43:
- Uma: “‘If for instance one of our hands makes [lit., carries] us sin, just cut it off. It’s better we have just one hand, as long as we get good life with God. That would be far better than for us to have two hands yet in the end we enter hell in the fire that blazes continually.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If your hand carries/influences you to sin, leave your sin. It’s parable is, as if you cut off your hand. It is better for you to enter heaven even if you are maimed (putuk), than that you have two hands but go to hell, into the fire that cannot be put out.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If your hand is the means by which you are successfully tempted, cut it off and throw it away because it is better if you are maimed and given eternal life rather than having two hands you are thrown into hell where the fire is never put out.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore if your (sing.) hand/arm is what-makes-you-(sing.)-sin, cut-it-off. Because it would be better if you (sing.) go to share the life in heaven with one hand/arm cut-off than your (sing.) having two hands/arms and you (sing.) are thrown into the place of fire that never goes-out.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For supposing your (sing.) hand is where the sin you do originates, just cut it off. For it doesn’t matter even if one hand is cut off, as long as life which is without ending will be yours. Rather than having both hands which will be thrown there in the fire which never dies down.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 6:19:
- Uma: “That hoping of ours is like a foundation-stone that makes our hearts stay so that our faith does not shake/rock. In the Worship Tent that the prophet Musa built long ago, a cloth middle-wall blocked the way of mankind so they could not enter the More Holy Room. But we, there is nothing that blocks our way to meet-with God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Our (incl.) expectation/hope in God’s promises is figuratively like an anchor that makes us (dual) firm/fixes us to God. It is very certain that God fulfills his promises because Isa has already gone ahead of us (dual) to heaven into the presence of God mediating for us (incl.). Like the Yahudi priests enter the temple (lit. big prayer-house) (and) go into the innermost room that is shielded by thick cloth, like that Isa has entered into the presence of God because now he is high priest forever like the priest Malkisadik of old.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This hope of ours, that is what makes-firm/stable our faith, because it is certain to be fulfilled. Because of our hope, it’s as if we have already entered the exact place of God like the entering of the highest priest into the Holiest Room in the Temple which a curtain hid-from-view.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This hope/expectation of ours which is firmly-grounded, what it’s like is a firm anchor of our souls/spirits, so that they will not be lost. For there’s no other anchoring-place except in the presence of God, which is like in the Exceedingly Far-from-ordinary Room in the Temple , on the other side of the view-blocking curtain.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “We do not doubt that there will be our part in the good which God will give. Because the one in whom we have confidence and we rest our minds on is Jesus Christ who is in heaven.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 12:1:
- Uma: “At that time also, King Herodes Agripa began to persecute several believers in the Lord Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “During that time, King Herod began to persecute some of those who trusted in Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “At that time King Herod was ill treating some of the believers in Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “At that time, King Herod began to cause-hardship to some of the believers in Jesus,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, at that time, king Herodes caused some people to be arrested who were believers there in Jerusalem for he would cause them hardship/suffering.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 10:26:
- Uma: “Hearing this, his disciples were even more surprised, they said: ‘Ei’, if thus, just who can get good life forever?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When they heard those his words, they were really very amazed/wondered very much and they said to him, ‘Na, who can then get to heaven if it is like that?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when the disciples heard this, they were very much amazed, and they said, ‘If a rich man can’t do it then it is impossible for anybody to have eternal life.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “His disciples were open-mouthed when they heard that and they said, ‘If that indeed is so, who perhaps can-be-saved?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The disciples were really amazed. Therefore they questioned, saying, ‘Well if it’s like that, that it’s hard for a rich person to be saved/freed, who has big means/ability, well whoever can be saved? Isn’t it so that no one can?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 8:3:
- Uma: “Every Big Priest is appointed [lit., lifted] in order to offer livestock and other worship-gifts of the people to God. Thus also with Yesus our Big Priest, there must certainly also be a worship-gift that he offers to God, that is his own self/body.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “All high priests are given the work to give/pass-on to God the gifts of the people and their sacrifices. Na, our (dual) High Priest likewise also has to have that which he sacrifices.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now when there’s a high priest here on the earth, he is commanded to make blood sacrifices and to make offerings to God. In the same way also it’s necessary that our (incl.) high priest has something to sacrifice.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “All highest priests, they are appointed to offer to God animals and other kinds of offerings that the people give, so our highest priest, he also needs to have something to offer to God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really, the responsibility/job of each Most-important Priest is doing/making the thank-offerings and the sacrifices with-which-to-ask for forgiveness for sin. That’s why, as for this Most-important Priest of ours, it’s not possible that there is not also what he would do which is a means of asking for forgiveness.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the work which the high priest has, he is appointed to offer sacrifice to God. Therefore Jesus Christ also must offer sacrifice to God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 13:8:
- Uma: “They traveled all over that island, until they arrived at the town of Pafos. There they met a Yahudi, his name Baryesus. In the Yunani language, his name was Elimas. That Elimas was a magician/sleigh-of-hand-artist with much magic [lit., knowledge], and he also said that he was a prophet of God. He was friends with the governor of that island, Sergius Paulus his name. The governor was a smart person. He called Barnabas and Saulus to meet with him, because he wanted to hear the Word of God. But Elimas, that magician, refuted their words, because he wanted to block-the-way so that the governor wouldn’t believe in Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But the two were opposed by the diviner. (His name in the Girik language was Elimas). Elimas did not want the governor to believe in God’s word/message.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for that magician named also Elymas, he opposed Saul and company and he did everything he could do so that the governor might not believe in Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the spirit-medium Elimas (because that was his name in the language of the Griego), he opposed them when they were talking-with the governor so he would be distracted/turned-aside and not believe the true things-being-taught.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But well, that powerful-spirit-medium, whose other name was Elimas, he really opposed Bernabe-and-companion. He kept on bothering the governor so that he wouldn’t be able to believe.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 11:6:
- Uma: “They answered like Yesus had said to them earlier. Hearing that, they allowed them to take the keledai.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They answered as they had been instructed by Isa, and they let them take it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the two, they told them what Jesus told them to say, and they were permitted by the people there.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They answered what Jesus had instructed them, and then those-aforementioned who had seen them permitted-it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Those two replied as Jesus had said to them. When they heard, they left them alone to go.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 9:22:
- Uma: “We can say like this: according to the Law of Musa, almost everything must be cleaned with blood. If there is no blood-sacrifice [lit., bleeding, a term for an animal killed in a ritual], our sins are not forgiven.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Really, the law says hep that almost anything becomes clean/holy only through blood. And the sins of mankind can be forgiven only when blood flows.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The Law teaches that it’s necessary to annoint with blood almost every thing that they used to worship with. And in the same way also, the only way the sins of the people can be forgiven is if there is a blood sacrifice.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because according to the law, the cleansing of essentially everything, it requires blood. It is also not possible for sins to be forgiven if no blood flows-out.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For according to what the laws said, it’s like there is no other means-of-cleansing anything in God’s sight except blood. Well, like that too, there is no removing of sin in/from his sight if there is no blood shed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It is written in the law that concerning the blood of animals which have been killed, there where the blood is applied, then it becomes all right. But while the people have not yet killed anything to make a sacrifice, then there is not forgiveness for their sins.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
