Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Hebrews 5:2)

Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 5:2:

  • Uma: “Big Priests are just mankind too, and they certainly also have many weaknesses. That’s why they know [how] to be gentle [lit., soften their behavior] to take care of people whose hearts are not yet clear [i.e., not yet mature] and who do not yet know the right way.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “And the high priest, because he is also human, he has also weaknesses therefore he knows how to be merciful towards the people who have gone astray from God because they are ignorant (mainly in religious matters).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since he is just a human who always makes mistakes, it’s possible for him to be patient with his fellow men who make mistakes also because they do not understand.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “He is able-to-be-patient-with/put-up-with his companions who go-astray who don’t know that what they are doing is not right, because even he, he also has faults.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, because as for him, (he is) also just a person who is always/often being defeated by the sins he wants-to-do, he can easily feel pity for those who sin and who get-lost/misled because they have no idea what is good and what is not.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “This one pities his fellow men who do not know what to do, who are overcome by sin because they are not strong. He pities them because he also it not strong.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 10:48)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:48:

  • Uma: “That is why Petrus ordered them, Kornelius and the others, to be baptized naming the name of Yesus Kristus. After that, Kornelius and his companions requested Petrus to stay with them for a few nights.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Therefore Petros told them to be baptized/bathed as a sign that they now belonged to Isa. Then Korneliyus and company urged Petros to stay there with them for a few days.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Peter commanded that someone baptize them in order that it might be known that they have fellowship with Jesus Christ. And when that was finished, Cornelius and company begged Peter that he stay with them still for how many days.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then he commanded/instructed that plural Cornelius get-baptized to show that Jesu Cristo was their Lord. After that was finished, plural Cornelius persuaded (lit. hung-onto) Pedro to stay-with them for a few (lit. momentary) days.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And then he instructed that they be baptized in the name of Jesu-Cristo. After they were baptized, they asked Pedro not to hurry to go home, but to stay there with them a while.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Mark 9:44)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:44:

  • Uma: “[[For there, people will be continually eaten by worms and tortured in fire.]]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “(There God will punish people, there will be no resting (from it) and of the suffering/enduring there will be no end.)” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for the maggots there, they have no death, and the fire cannot be put out.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)

complete verse (Hebrews 6:20)

Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 6:20:

  • Uma: “We are brave to meet him, for Yesus has entered there ahead [of us], opening-for-us a door in order that we (may) follow (him). He became our Big Priest forever, who is like Melkisedek long ago.” (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: “Very strong and made firm is this expectancy of ours that God will fulfill His promise because the one we trust in is God. And as for Jesus, He has become our chief, and there He is standing before God and Jesus has been made our (incl.) high priest who has no end, just like the priest Melchizedek, a long time ago.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “That’s where Jesus preceded to speak-with God for us, because he is the one who became a highest priest forever like the priesthood of Melkizedek.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus preceded us there and now is standing up for us in the presence of God. For, as for this Jesus, he was the one set up as Most-important Priest without ending like the high/important priesthood of Melquisedec. 6:2 In the past, the custom of the Jews was, they would place hands on the head of the animal they were making a sacrifice of, for they were causing- their sins -to-transfer there (Leviticus 1:4). Another also, if they were setting a person up in his job/responsibility, they were placing hands on also (Numbers 27:18, Deuteronomy 34:9). And in the time of the apostles (they) were-placing-hands-on a person if they were making-well (his) illness, or if (they) were entrusting (him) to the Lord for his work. 6:14 Genesis 22:16-17. 6:15 When Abraham died he didn’t yet have many descandants but, by God’s supernatural-power, he did now have a child and two grandchildren. Therefore, before he died, what was promised him had begun to take place.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “This Jesus entered there in heaven where he is. He is the one who helps us so that we will be able to live there where he is. He has become a priest of God forever. He has taken over the work which Melchizedek worked at.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 12:2)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 12:2:

  • Uma: “From his order, Yakobus the sibling of Yohanes was slaughtered.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “He commanded Yakub the brother of Yahiya to be beheaded.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “James, the brother of John, Herod had him struck with a sword so that he might die.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “and he had-the head of Santiago Juan’s brother -cut-off.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “One of the apostles, Santiago, who was the brother of Juan, was caused by him to be-killed-with-a-blade.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Mark 10:27)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 10:27:

  • Uma: “Yesus looked at them as said to them: ‘With the ability of mankind, no-one of course. But with God, it can still happen, for to God there isn’t anything that doesn’t happen.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then Isa looked at them and he said, ‘As for mankind it is really not possible, but as for God, nothing is difficult for him. He can do anything/all.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Jesus looked at them and said, ‘It really is impossible to a human, but God can cause humans to have eternal life for he can do everything.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Jesus looked-closely-at them and said, ‘As-for people, they are not able to do this, but as-for God, it can be, because God is able (to do) everything.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus looked-directly at them and said to them, ‘There really isn’t anything which man can do to save/free himself. But as for God, he can do all things. He is the one who can save people.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Mark 10:38)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 10:38:

  • Uma: “Yesus said to them: ‘You don’t know what you are requesting. Will you be able to carry the suffering that I [emphatic] must carry? Are you able to endure what I will endure?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But Isa said to them, ‘You do not know as to what you are requesting there. Are you willing to be persecuted as I will soon be persecuted? Are you willing to be killed as I will soon be killed?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered, ‘You do not understand what you are asking for. Can you endure the torment which I will be caused to endure? And can you stand the difficulties which I will be caused to stand?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Whereupon Jesus said to them, ‘You do not know what you are saying. Can you endure do-you-suppose the suffering that I will-undergo? Are you able-to-brave dying like the way I will die?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “‘It’s like you don’t know what you are asking for,’ said Jesus to them. ‘Are you able to experience the hardship which I will experience? Can you endure the extremely severe hardship which I will be caused to endure?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Hebrews 9:2)

Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 9:2:

  • Uma: “Their worship house was a house called the Worship Tent, inside it were two rooms. The first room was called the Holy Room. In that room there was the lamp putting-place, and there was also the putting-place table for the bread that was offered to God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “This house was a house made of animal skin, it had two rooms. The room (that one) first entered was called the Holy Room. Inside it was placed the lampstand with seven branches. There was also there a table where the bread was placed-on that was given to God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They set up the church which was a house of cloth and it had two rooms. The one room was named the ‘Precious Room’ and there was placed the lamp and the table where the bread which was offered to God was placed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “This Tent, it had two rooms. The first to-be-entered, it was called the Holy Room. That was the location of the light and the table on which was placed the bread that was offered to God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “That worshipping-place, (it was) a house/building that could be folded-up and was divided-up into two rooms. One of the rooms, it was called the Far-from-ordinary Room. There in that room was the lamp, table, and bread which was their thank-offering to God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “The church which was here on earth had two rooms. The first room was called the place which is holy. There in the room there was a candleholder. And there was a table on which bread was displayed for God to see.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)