Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Peter 1:11:
- Uma: “and in the future God will open the door of heaven for you, he will receive you into the Kingdom of our Lord Yesus Kristus, the King who lifts us from the punishment of our sins. His Kingdom has no end.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If you do what I said you will be given authority to enter in the ruling/kingdom of Isa Almasi our (incl.) Lord and the one who saves us (incl.). And he will rule forever.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and our joy will be great in the future, and God will gladly welcome us when He welcomes us into the never ending kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ who is our Saviour.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “but-rather God will be happy to cause-you -to-enter the unchanging ruling-place of Jesu Cristo who is our Lord and the one who saves us.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “On the contrary, you will really be received happily by our Lord who is the Savior Jesu-Cristo, for he will cause you to live in his kingdom which has no end.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Thus you are sure that there will be given to you permission to go where our Lord Jesus Christ rules forever, he who has become our Savior.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 23:31:
- Uma: “From there, after he wrote that letter, he ordered his soldiers to take Paulus to the Governor. That night they took him to the town of Antipatris.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then the soldiers took Paul as they had been commanded. That night they brought him to the place Antipatir.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then after the captain had finished his letter, the soldiers obeyed his command to them and they got Paul and left. On that night they arrived there in the town of Antipatris.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When it was night, the soldiers obeyed what their leader had commanded, and they escorted Pablo as-far-as Antipatris.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Without anything further, the soldiers at once obeyed what they had been ordered to do. When night came, they fetched Pablo and then set out. When day came they were in Antipatris.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 3:16:
- Noongar: “So John told all of them, ‘I wash you in water but another person is coming. He is much greater than me. I am not good enough for untying his shoe. He will wash you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “That is why Yohanes said to them all: ‘As for me, I just baptize you with water, a sign of your repenting from your sins. But one whose power/authority is greater than mine will come. Just to become his servant to unties the strings/ropes of his shoes, I am not fitting/worthy. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Yahiya said to them all, ‘I bathe you with water, but there is a man soon coming who is really more powerful than I am, I am not even fitted to open the string in his shoes. That one will bathe you with something different. To some of you he will send the Holy Spirit and some he will bathe with fire.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of this, John said, ‘There is one who will replace me who is much greater than I, because I’m not worthy as his servant, even to pull off his shoe. Water is what I baptize you with,’ said John, ‘but that one I’m talking about, He also will baptize you. Those who believe, he will baptize with the Holy Spirit. Those who won’t believe, fire is what he will baptize them with.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Juan said to them, ‘There is one who is higher than I who will follow. And on account of this highness of his, I am not worthy to even untie the laces of his shoes. Only water is what I am baptizing-you -with, but as for him, he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Juan observed that, he said to those people, ‘I am baptizing you here in water/river. But it’s true, the one who will come following me, what he will baptize you with is the Espiritu Santo and fire. He really surpasses me. The proof of that is, even to untie the tie of his footwear, it’s not possible/acceptable for me to do it, for his greatness/importance is really exceedingly much.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Peter 2:22:
- Uma: “There is a parable that says like this: ‘The dog eats its vomit again, the pig that is bathed goes and wallows again in the mud.’ That parable is so very appropriate for those people earlier, for they have returned [emphatic] to the evil that they had left behind the other day [lit., yesterday].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Their doing is like this saying says, ‘The dog eats what he has vomited,’ and ‘The pig that has been bathed goes back to wallow/immerse in the mud.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “By means of them is fulfilled the saying which says, ‘The dog ate what he vomited, and the washed pig wallowed again.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What has happened to him, it confirms the truth of two proverbs (proverbio) which say, ‘A dog eats again what he vomited’ and ‘Even though you (sing.) bathe a sow, it goes again to roll-in-the-mud.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “So surely if it’s like that, they are the ones to whom the saying applies (lit.hits) which says, ‘The dog is eating after all what he vomited already.’ And another, ‘A pig, even though it has just been bathed, will indeed go and wallow again.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Thus have done these peole according to the proverb which says, ‘The dog again eats the vomit he has vomited. The pig which was washed again gets into the smelly mud.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 25:1:
- Uma: “Festus had only been ruling three days in that province, [when] he departed from the town of Kaisarea and went to Yerusalem.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “After three days from the time Pestus arrived in that place where he was governor, he went from Kesarea up to Awrusalam.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Three days after Festus came to the province of Judea, he left the town of Caesarea and he went to Jerusalem.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Three days went-by starting from when-Festus -began to-be-governor in Cesarea, then he went to Jerusalem.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “From when Festo arrived in Cesarea, three days is how long he was there, and then he went to Jerusalem.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 4:10:
- Noongar: “because the Bible says, ‘God will send his angels and they will save you’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Nothing will happen to you (sing.), because it is written in the Holy Book: ‘The Lord God orders his angels to protect you (sing.), so that you (sing.) do not come-to-harm/disaster.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “for it is written in the holy-book it says, ‘He has commanded his angels to watch over/care for you so that nothing bad will happen to you.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because there is a written word of God which says, ‘God will cause His angels to help you,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because the written word of God says, ‘God will command his angels to take-care-of you (sing.).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For isn’t is so that it is written as-you-know, saying, ‘God will order his angels to take care of you,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Bariai: “For Deo’s book has talk like this, | ‘‘He will talk strongly to his anggelo | in order that they be looking after you (sing.).’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Kupsabiny: “it is written, ‘God will send his angels to support you’ ‘” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Mairasi: “Because in the Holy Book it is written like this: ‘Great Above One will soon command His sent-ones [and] they will come guard you very well’ it said.'” (Source Enggavoter 2004)
- Kinaray-A: “Did not the Scripture say that ‘God will order his angels to watch over you’?” (Source: Balbina Abadiano in Notes on Translation 1988, p. 40ff.)
For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 91:11.
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 2:4:
- Uma: “The person who says: ‘I know [emphatic] God,’ yet he doesn’t follow his commands, he is lying and does not take-to-heart the true teaching.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If there is a person saying that he knows God but he does not follow/obey his commands, that person is a liar and there is no truth in his liver.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, if there is someone who says, ‘I am now the friend of God,’ but that one who speaks does not obey the commands of God, he is a liar. He does not obey the true doctrine.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So if someone says that he knows God while-at-the-same-time he is not following his commands, he is a liar and the true teaching is not in him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “If there is someone who says, ‘I know him all right,’ but he isn’t obeying his commands, he’s only lying. He really has no knowledge at all of the truth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But whoever says, ‘I know God,’ he says, and he does not do what God commands, this is a person who lies, it is not true that he is an acquaintance of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “If we say that we know him, but we do not do what he commands, we are liars and do not walk with (speak) true words.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “One falsely says, ‘I know God,’ and he doesn’t do his Word, then he is lying. And the Word of God hasn’t entered his heart.”
- Tzotzil: “If we say ‘I am a child of God,’ if we do not obey his commands, we are lying. We say it in vain.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: “If someone says, ‘I learned (come to a knowledge of) Jesus,’ but throws away (disregards) His orders, he is a liar. He isn’t doing straight at all.”
- Yanesha’: “Whoever says, I, I know how he is, however, if he doesn’t reserve on him his word as he tells us, he is just deceiving. It hasn’t arrived on his heart the words true.”
- Aguaruna: “but he who ‘God is like that saying I know’ says and nevertheless not being an obeyer of His Word, lying he says it. He does not speak truly.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 26:6:
- Uma: “So at this time, stand here to be examined, because I trust that God will fulfill his promise to our ancestors that says: all the dead people he will make alive again on a future day. We descendants of the twelve tribes [lit., mother-groups] of Israel, we all wait for the fulfillment of this promise, that’s why we worship God continually, both day and night. King whom I respect, because of this belief of mine in God’s promise, that is why I am being accused by the Yahudi people. And you, my Yahudi relatives! Why is it that you do not believe in the power of God to make alive the dead?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na now,’ Paul said, ‘I am here being judged because of my hope that God will fulfill his promise/covenant (made) to our (excl.) ancestors.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And today here I am before you only because of the fact that I believe sometime in the future will be fulfilled the promise that God made long ago to our ancestors that he will raise the dead.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And I am here today to be tried stemming-from my expectation that God will fulfill what he promised our ancestors long ago that he will make-alive again the plural-dead.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Today, I am being investigated because of what I am sure of, which is that God will fulfill what he promised to our forefathers, that he would make alive again those who have died.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
