Language-specific Insights

complete verse (1 Corinthians 6:5)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 6:5:

  • Uma: “The purpose of my words is that you be ashamed, relatives. Isn’t there even one of you who is wise [lit., clear] who can decide the cases among your fellow Kristen people!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “You should be ashamed! Is it that there is nobody, not even one among you trusters in Isa who knows how to judge you if you have opposing views?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason I say this is so that you might feel ashamed. Surely there must be one of you who could be a judge, who knows how to settle the case for believers.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “It’s utterly shameful! Is there perhaps not even one of you who is skilled to adjudicate the cases of you believers?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Please don’t (do that). Be ashamed of that now. Because look-here, is there nobody there who knows how to fix up whatever his fellow believers are quarrelling about?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “I tell you this word in order that you be ashamed. There where you live, isn’t there even one of your brothers who knows how to settle a matter that is troubling his brothers?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 19:17)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 19:17:

  • Noongar: “The king said, ‘Good! You good servant. You have been faithful in little things, so I will appoint you boss of ten cities.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “‘That king said: ‘Good, you (sing.) are a good servant. Thus, because you (sing.) are straight in a little, I lift you (sing.) to become a commander who commands ten towns.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “‘You did well,’ said his master, the king. ‘You are a good servant. You can be trusted with little, therefore I will give you authority to rule over ten towns.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the king answered, ‘That’s very good; you are really a hard worker, and since you can be trusted with even a little bit of money, now my reward to you is, you will be the one to be over ten cities.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘You (sing.) have done well,’ said the king. ‘You (sing.) are (appreciation particle) a good servant. Because you (sing.) were trustworthy with the little-bit that I entrusted to you (sing.), I will also have-you (sing.)-rule over ten cities.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “‘Good!’ said his master. ‘I am pleased with that which you have done. Today/now since I have observed that you can be trusted with even a little thing, I will put you in charge of ten towns.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Corinthians 7:17)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 7:17:

  • Uma: “To each person the Lord gives a different life: some of us are single, some are married, some live as slaves, some live as nobles. So, if God calls us to become a Kristen person, let us follow him in our life, like our life already is. That is the command that I teach to every Kristen person in every village I go to.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “This I teach to all the gatherings of trusters in Isa Almasi. Whatever God gave to you and whatever your status was in the beginning when you followed Isa Almasi, don’t change it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And whatever the situation of each one of us (incl.) is here on the earth, each one must fulfill or obey what God wants him to do according to the situation, whatever it was, when he believed our Lord. I teach this to the believers in every town.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The summary (lit. gathering-together) of what I’ve been saying is this: each one should continue in the status that the Lord gave him which is the status he had when he heard God calling him. This is what I am commanding in all the congregations.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “This is what’s good, whatever the circumstances God determined for each one of us when he put it in our minds to trust in and believe Cristo, in those circumstances let us fulfill what he determined for us. This is what I teach to all believers.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “God determined how each one of us is to live. That condition we were in when God called to us, that is how we are to continue. In all the cities where the believers gather together this is the word I tell these people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 20:1)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:1:

  • Noongar: “When Jesus went to the Temple, teaching people and tell them the Good News, the Chief Priest and the Law Men and the elders, they came together” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “One day Yesus was teaching and announcing the Good News to many people in the House of God. Suddenly the leading priests with the religion teachers and other Yahudi leaders arrived. They said saying to Yesus:” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “One day Isa was teaching the people in the temple and he was also proclaiming the good news to them. Then the chief priests and the teachers of the religious law and the elders came to him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “On one of those days, Jesus returned to the big church called the house of God, and he taught the people and he caused them to understand the good news. And then the chief priests and the teachers of the Law, and the elders of the Jews went to him,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “One day when Jesus was teaching in the Temple and preaching the good news, the leaders of the priests, the teachers of the law and the elders went to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “One day when Jesus was doing that teaching in the like-a-yard of the Templo, teaching the Good News to the people, he was approached by chiefs of the priests, together with explainers of law and important tribal-leaders.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Corinthians 8:9)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 8:9:

  • Uma: “But be very careful, relatives. Even though we can eat that food because our hearts are clear, yet let’s not invite our friend whose faith is not-yet strong to eat it, with the result that he eats it and it-is-sin-to-him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But even though you can eat any food whatever, be simply/just careful, perhaps because of your eating there are fellow trusters of yours whose trust in God is not yet strong who will sin because of you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But in spite of that, it’s necessary that you carefully think about those which has been permitted to you, because it might be that by means of you, the faith of someone who doesn’t yet understand what’s right, might be hindered.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “But be-careful (lit. see) that your freedom is not the cause-of-sinning of your companions whose faith is still weak.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But be careful, for even though your (sing.) head is not troubled if you join in at these feasts, maybe that will be the source of your causing-those whose understanding is lacking -to-sin.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Even though we may eat meat, but be careful about what you eat. Do not want that what you eat be the cause of the committing of sin by your brothers who do not have strong faith.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Chichewa: “But beware lest this freedom of yours in doing things cause to stumble some whose faith is not really very strong.” (interconfessional translation, publ. 1999) (Source: Wendland 1998, p. 69)

complete verse (Luke 20:33)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:33:

  • Noongar: “So, when people rise from the dead, which brother will be the husband of the woman? All seven brothers had married that woman.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “So, in the future, if all the dead really do live again, who will be the owner/lord of that woman, because seven of them married her.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Na, Sir,’ they said, ‘in the day when the dead will live again, whose wife will she be? And the seven brothers have had her for a wife.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now in the future, when people are raised from the dead, who will be the true spouse of this woman? Because those seven brothers, every one of them married her.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “All-right then, at the future day at the living again of the dead, which of them perhaps will be the right spouse for her? Because they all married her.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well now, which of those seven is her husband if/when those who have died are made alive again, since they all got to marry her?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Corinthians 10:1)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 10:1:

  • Uma: “Relatives, remember what happened to our ancestors whom the prophet Musa brought out of the land of Mesir. All of them were shadowed by the cloud, the sign that God was with them. All of them passed through the sea that dried-up.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “My brothers, I will remind you what happened to our (incl.) forefathers the Yahudi at the time when they followed Musa in those old times. They were all overshadowed by a cloud, a sign that God went with them. They also all crossed on foot in the middle of the sea which they call the Red Sea and nothing happened to them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I want you to know, brothers, what the ancestors of us (excl.) Jews did who went along with Moses. They were sheltered over by the cloud which was the sign that God had come down to them. And they crossed over the sea which was called Red, and they were not drowned.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “I want you to remember brothers what happened to our ancestors who followed Moses. All of them were protected and guided-by the cloud that God caused-to-accompany them. They also all walked-safely -through what is called Reddish Ocean.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “For I want, my siblings in believing, that you understand the meaning of what happened to our fellow people of God in the time of Moises. All of them, (they) were shaded by the cloud that God graciously-gave them. All of them also, by the strength of his supernatural-power (they) were able to cross the sea that is called Red Sea.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Listen my brothers, do not forget this word here, that God caused that the cloud went before where the people who were our ancestors should go and he caused that the people crossed the Red Sea.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 21:18)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 21:18:

  • Noongar: “But not one hair of your heads will be lost.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “But really, nothing will happen to you. Not even one piece of your hair will be lost.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But nothing will be lost not even one of your hairs.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And even though they kill you, they will not be able to harm you because your souls are kept safe by God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “But be-reassured, because God will take-care of you so that even a single one of your hairs will not be lost.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But it’s true, not even one strand of your hair will be permanently-lost if it hasn’t been determined by God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)