Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 1:11:
Uma: “And you also, relatives, must hold-us (excl.)-up with your prayers. For if many people pray for us (excl.), God will bless us (excl.), with the result that many people will say thank you to God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “And you can also help us (excl.) if you pray/request to God for us (excl.). If many of you pray/request to God for us (excl.) and when God gives what you ask, then many will give thanks to him because of his help to us (excl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And it’s necessary that you also help us by praying, and then it will be possible that many will give thanks to God because of His favor toward us, because of the praying of many people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “provided you help with your prayers. And if you do that, God will answer your many prayers and will bless us (excl.), and many will give-thanks to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “But we (excl.) are asking that you will also continue your help to us in prayer. For if many are praying, after the answers, of course many will then praise and thank God because of his help to us.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “But it is necessary that you help me now by praying to God for me. If many people pray to God for me, then many people will thank God when they see how God blesses me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Highland Totonac: “Help me with your prayers in order that thus many will give thanks to God because of the mercies which he would show toward us because of many.” (Source: Herman Aschmann in The Bible Translator 1950, p. 171ff. )
Following are a number of back-translations of John 1:45:
Uma: “From there, Filipus also went to meet-with his friend named Natanael, he said to him: ‘We have met [exclamation] the Redeemer King, like was written in the Book of the Law of Moses and the letters of the prophets long ago! His name is Yesus from Nazaret, the son of Yusuf!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Pilip looked for Natanael. When he found him, he told him, he said, ‘We (excl.) have found now the person that Musa told in the holy-book Tawrat about and also the prophets told about him in their writings. He is Isa the son of Yusup from the village Nasaret.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Philip, he went to Nathaniel and said, ‘We have seen the person that the prophets foretold long ago and that Moses foretold when he wrote in the book of the law. He is from Nazareth and he is Jesus the son of Joseph.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Now Felipe, he went and found Nataniel and said to him, ‘We (excl.) have found the person whom Moses wrote-about and the prophets also wrote-about. He is Jesus from-Nazaret the child of Jose.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “That Felipe, he looked for a person named Natanael and told him, saying, ‘We (excl.) have found the one referred to in what Moises mentioned in the things he wrote and foretold also by the prophets in the things they wrote. It’s Jesus the taga Nazaret, the son of Jose-and-spouse.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Philip went to hunt for Nathanael. He told him: ‘We found the man who is spoken about in the Holy Book which Moses and the other prophets wrote. He is Jesus, who is from Nazareth, the son of Joseph.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following is a back-translation of John 1:45 from Lalana Chinantec: “Philip went off. He went to get Nathanael. Philip said to Nathaniel: ‘We have met a person about whom Moses spoke when he wrote on paper the word, the law of God. The people who preached the word of God in the olden times, also spoke about this person. Their words are written down on paper. Jesus a person from Nazareth is the name of the person they were speaking about back then. He is the son of Joseph,’ Philip said.” (Source: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:18:
Uma: “One day, many people surrounded Yesus. When he saw them, he said to his disciples: ‘Let’s go to the other side of the lake.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “When Isa saw the crowds surrounding him, he said to his disciples, ‘Let us go and cross over to the other side of the lake.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And one day then, Jesus saw many people gathered together, and he said to his disciples, ‘Let’s go to the other side.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “On another day, Jesus saw the many people who had-crowded-around him, and he instructed his disciples, saying, ‘Let’s cross-over (body-of-water).'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Another time when it was late afternoon, when Jesus observed that he was encircled by very many people, he said to his disciples, ‘We(incl.) will cross over to the other side of the lake.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Jesus saw that very many people crowded around him. So he told his learners to go, that they would go to the other side of the lake.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 3:2:
Uma: “You yourselves are a praise letter that we (excl.) possess/hold. You are like a letter that is written in our (excl.) hearts, for we (excl.) love you. Wherever our (excl.) journey goes, we (excl.) recount to all people how/that you received the Good News that we (excl.) carried.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But I don’t have to carry letters like that, because you are a letter written in our (excl.) livers. You are seen by the people and immediately they know that your behavior is good, and because of this they know that we (excl.) have authority.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But as for us, we don’t need anything like that; we know that you are our letter, for by means of your good works, everybody knows that our works are also good.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Because you yourselves are what are compared to a letter that is the evidence (lit. showing) of our (excl.) work. The contents of that-aforementioned letter are already in our (excl.) minds, and it is also easy for even any person who comes-to-know you to read-it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “But as for us (excl.), we (excl.) don’t need (anything) like that, for you now are as it were a letter which testifies about us (excl.). We (excl.) really are sure about the new-quality of your lives and this also is what testifies to everyone of the good-quality of our (excl.) work among you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “But I do not need a letter to help me. If there is someone who wants to know if the word I spoke there where you live came out good or not, then he can see how you are walking and thus know that the word came out well. As for me, always I am thinking of you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Warlpiri (verses 1-3) “You people talk and reckon that I am just boasting and calling myself big. But me, you people know me as a Church Apostle. I am not like many others who reckon that they themselves are Apostles. They show you papers/letters with their names so that you can look at them and know, so they reckon, that they are Apostles. And as for me, I am not asking you so that you can give me a paper like that so that I can go around showing it. You people are like a paper with story that God wrote in my heart. When other people see you, they think about me as God’s Apostle. And they know you also that you are like a letter that Christ Jesus wrote on paper. He did not write the story on stone with something like charcoal. In your hearts he wrote it with God’s Holy Spirit, God who is really alive. This certainly is the paper I show to people.” (Source: Carl Gross)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 3:1:
Uma: “There was a man named Nikodemus. Nikodemus was a Parisi person and a leader of the Yahudi religion.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “So-then there was a certain leader of the Yahudi called Nikodemus. He was a Pariseo.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There was a person named Nicodemus. He was one of the group called Pharisees. As for this Nicodemus, he was one of the head men of the Jews.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “There was a leader of the Jews named Nicodemus who belonged to the party/group of the Pharisees.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “There was a leader of the Judio whose name was Nicodemo. He was one of those called Pariseo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “There was a man who was a Pharisee named Nicodemus. This man was a boss of the Jews.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 9:16:
Uma: “After that, Yesus said two more parables, he said: ‘There is no-one who patches an old shirt with a new patch/piece of cloth. Because that new patch/piece of cloth will shrink, until that old shirt tears, with the result that the tear will just get bigger.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “So-then Isa told parables/parabled about the former teaching and his teaching. He said, ‘No person puts a patch of new cloth which has not yet been washed onto old clothes. Because if he does that, the old clothes will tear again and the tear will be greater.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Jesus told a parable about how his new teaching and the old doctrine do not go together. He said, ‘New cloth which hasn’t yet been shrunk, it is not good to patch a shirt of cloth which is already weak. Because when it is washed, the new cloth will shrink, and the new will tear away from the old, and far bigger will be its torn place.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Jesus also said parabling, ‘There is no person who uses-new cloth -to-patch an old garment. Because what-is-used-to-patch will shrink and what-it-is-patched-to will be ripped worse.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “And then he taught them that it isn’t possible/acceptable to just add on this teaching of his to the customs of the Judio. He said, ‘No-one sews a patch of new cloth not yet laundered on to old clothes. Because when it shrinks, the tear will be all the bigger.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the new word I am teaching, it cannot be mixed with the old teaching. It is like a new cloth cannot patch old clothing. Because the new cloth will shrink, even more spoiling the old clothing.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 4:16:
Uma: “So, that is why I said earlier, we don’t lose heart [lit., our (excl.) hearts are not lessened]. Even though this body of ours(excl.) its strength is getting less-and-less, but our (excl.) hearts are constantly being renewed every day.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Therefore we (excl.) are diligent, we (excl.) do not stop preaching. Even if our (excl.) body becomes weak and we (excl.) grow old, nevertheless our (excl.) trust continues to become strong every day.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of this, our working hard cannot be removed. Every day our bodies become older and weaker; but in spite of that, every day also God increases His strengthening of our faith.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Therefore we (excl.) don’t get discouraged, because even though our (incl.) bodies are weakening, the life that is in us that doesn’t die is daily becoming-stronger.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “That is why we (excl.) (lit. our bones) are not getting weary/discouraged, for even though every day our (excl.) bodies keep on growing older and deteriorating, every day also we (excl.) keep being given by God that we are becoming-healthy/strong in regard to our believing/obeying and new life which is the gift of the Espiritu Santo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Therefore never does my heart turn back. Even though more and more my strength is lost, yet my thoughts are strengthened day by day.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 3:34:
Uma: “Because he is the one sent by God to utter his words, and God gave him the Holy Spirit without measure.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Almasi was sent here by God, and that is what he speaks, the word/message of God, for the Spirit of God is given to him, (of) the Spirit of God there is really nothing lacking for/in Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for Jesus, the one sent by God, he tells what God causes him to say, because as for God, he has thoroughly inspired Jesus with the Holy Spirit.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “because it is those-very words of God that the one God sent is saying. Because he is the one to whom God gave all the power of his Spirit.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Because that one who was sent by God, of course he says nothing other than that which God causes to be said, because he has the Espiritu Santo now with him with no ending to his help.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “This Jesus was sent by God and he speaks the word of God. And the Holy Spirit empowers Jesus without limit.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
