Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:25:
- Uma: “Yesus saw that more and more people were running up to gather. So he ordered the evil-spirit, he said: ‘Ee you (sing.) evil-spirit who makes-deaf and makes-dumb [lit., makes-stupid]! Get out of that child, and don’t enter him again.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Isa saw the crowds coming gathering to him, he scolded the demon. ‘You demon,’ he said, ‘demon that causes dumbness and deafness, I command you to come out from this child and really do not enter him again.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus saw that more people were coming there, for there were many running up there, and he spoke to the demon, he said, ‘You demon, who cause people to become deaf and dumb, get away from the child you are afflicting, and don’t you return to him again!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When Jesus saw that the many-people were quickly gathering, he commanded the evil-spirit saying, ‘You (sing.) evil-spirit that has-deafened and made-dumb that (near addressee) child, leave him and do not possess him again.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jesus saw that the mass of people arriving was again unending, he rebuked that evil spirit who was possessing. He said, ‘You evil spirit who makes a person dumb and deaf, I order you now to leave that child and don’t you ever again possess/cause-madness-in him!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 6:1:
- Uma: “So, relatives, it is better that we cease for now talking about the first teaching of the Kristen religion, like teachings for people who have just become Kristen people, and let us speak about continuing-on teaching. People who have just become Kristen must be taught to repent from their useless deeds and believe in God. They are taught to request-to-be-baptized in the name of the Lord Yesus and a religion leader puts-hands-on their head. They are taught what will happen in the future: God will make dead people live again and he will punish forever people whose behavior is evil. But let us not repeat those first teachings. Let us speak-about continuing-on/further teaching, if God still gives us opportunity.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore we (incl.) ought to increase our (incl.) studying about Isa Almasi. We (incl.) ought to study now the deep teachings. Na, don’t let us (incl.) always just study what was first taught to us (incl.) about Almasi. Don’t let us (incl.) always repeat studying the teachings we (incl.) were taught in the beginning like for example the teaching about turning-the-back-on/rejecting the works that have no value and about trusting in God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of that, brothers, we have already been studying long enough the former easy doctrines which were taught to us about Christ. It’s necessary that we continue on with the study of deep teaching. Let’s not keep on repeatedly studying the former things taught to us, like abandoning our trust in activities that have no value and like believing in God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore let’s not (lit. even if we don’t) repeat the easiest teachings concerning Cristo but let us also learn the deeper teachings so that our faith will become-mature. Let’s not learn again what is compared to the foundation of our faith which is like these teachings: our turning-our-backs-on deeds that are useless to turn to God,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore it’s not those first teachings concerning Cristo that we are to keep on studying but rather those which will give big understanding/wisdom. Your understanding/wisdom will not be added to if only those first teachings are continually-being-repeated. For hopefully the teaching is now clear to you that salvation will/can not be ours by our trusting in our good works, but rather only by our trusting and believing/obeying God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “So now, let us study the words which befit the study of grown people. Concerning the words which are easy and you studied them when you first came to know Christ, don’t want that now only those words are what you listen to. It now isn’t any longer necessary for me to tell you that you not do the evil which brings punishment or to tell you to believe in God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 11:13:
- Uma: “Kornelius recounted to us (excl.) that he had seen an angel appear in his house who said to him: ‘Send people going to Yope to search for a man named Simon Petrus, so that he comes here.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Korneliyus told us (excl.) that he reportedly had seen an angel standing there in his house and speaking to him. The angel reportedly said, ‘Send to the place Joppa to fetch a man named Simon, also named Petros.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and Cornelius told us that there was an angel of God that appeared to him in his house. And this angel said to him, ‘Send there to the village of Joppa someone to get a person named Simon Peter.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And then he related the appearing of the angel to him in his house and what the angel told saying, ‘Send-someone to go to Joppa to go call/invite Simon nicknamed Pedro,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When we (excl.) had entered, he related to us (excl.) how he had seen an angel there in his house. The angel said, ‘Send a few people to go to Jope. Have Simon fetched whose other name is Pedro.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 10:7:
- Uma: “That’s why ‘a man must leave his mother and father, and must live in harmony with his wife,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Therefore a man will leave from his mother and father and he becomes one with his wife,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason a man leaves his mother and father is because he becomes one with his wife.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘That’s the reason that a man leaves his father and his mother to live-with his wife,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That’s why a man will leave his father and mother for they will now live together as-a-married-couple.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Genesis 2:24.
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 7:13:
- Uma: “What/Who is referred to here is our Lord. For we know that our Lord was born from the descendants of Yehuda, he was not from the descendants of Lewi. There has never yet been one of the family of Yehuda who was appointed [lit., lifted] to be/become a priest, for in the law of priests, Musa never once mentioned the family of Yehuda.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Our (incl.) Lord Isa Almasi hep is the one-taking-the-place in priesting but he is not a descendant of Libi. It is known that he is a descendant of Yuda and there has been no priest from the descendants of Yuda. Musa didn’t mention anything about the descendants of Yuda when he spoke about the priests.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “We know that these have already been replaced, because our Lord of whom this that God caused-to-be-written is speaking was not a descendant of Levi. We all know that Juda was the one who ancestored him, and there are absolutely no descendants of Juda who have served as priests in charge of what was offered to God. Neither is there anything that Moses said about a descendant of Juda who was a priest.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The proof is, our Lord Jesus who is the one to whom I am referring here, he was not of the clan of the descendants of Levi from-which- the priests -were-chosen in the past. We all know that as for Jesus, (he was) of the clan of the descendants of Juda. As for this clan, it was not mentioned by Moises when he explained about whom it was possible to make a priest. There really is not even one who was priest from the clan of the descendants of Juda. The priesthood of Jesus, (it is) suitable/fitting for our needs, just like the priesthood of Melquisedec” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “This new priest which is spoken of in the Holy Book is Jesus Christ. But this Jesus is not of the root of Levi, rather he is of the root of Judah. And of this root of Judah, there never has been one to arise to be a priest.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 12:15:
- Uma: “They said to her: ‘You (sing.)’re crazy!’ But she repeatedly said that it was indeed he. That is why they said to her: ‘That’s not Petrus. That’s his angel.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Perhaps you are out-of-your-mind,’ they said to Roda. But she kept repeating that it was really true Petros was there. Then they said, ‘That is his angel.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And her companions said to her, ‘You’re crazy.’ But Rhoda insisted saying, ‘No, it really is Peter.’ And they said, ‘It’s not Peter, but rather it is the angel of God that watches him.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Why, you (sing.) are foolish indeed,’ they said. When she kept-on-insisting that it was true, they said, ‘It’s probably his angel.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But they didn’t believe. In fact they said to that woman/girl that she was crazy. But she said emphatically, ‘It really is he!’ They were saying, ‘Maybe it’s just his angel.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Mezquital Otomi: “…. it’s not Peter, it’s God’s angel, Peter’s guardian.'”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “They told her: ‘You are crazy, girl’ But the girl said it was really him. Then they said: ‘It is not him. Probably it is the angel that looks after him.'” (Source for this and one above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 10:40:
- Uma: “But as for who will sit on my right and my left, it’s mot I who determines that. It’s God who determines who gets that portion.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But as for seating (anyone) on my right or on my left,’ said Isa, ‘it is not I who decides/rules that. But those seats belong to those whom God has prepared them for.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “however, I am not the one to choose who will be caused to sit on my right side and on my left side. For the only ones who will be able to sit there are those for whom my Father God has prepared it.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the one who will sit at my right and left, I have no authority to say, because God has already chosen the ones to sit there.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But it doesn’t originate with me to determine who will sit at my right and left. As for those seats referred to, there are those they are being reserved for.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 9:4:
- Uma: “In this room there was the incense burning-place table made of gold, and there was also the box called the Promise Box. That box was covered all over with gold, on the outside and the inside. In it, there was the gold bowl containing food called manna, and there was also the Harun’s that budded/had-shoots long ago, and the two flat rocks that had the ten commands from God written on them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “In this innermost room there was a gold table for burning incense. And there was also a chest covered with gold inside and outside. That chest was called Covenant Chest. There inside that chest there was a gold pot (garul) containing food called ‘manna’. There in that chest was also kept the walking stick of Harun which had sprouted and there were also kept the two stone slabs where God’s commandments were written that he had given to Musa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And in the inside of it they placed the golden altar where incense was burned. And there they placed the chest that was covered with gold. This chest was a sign of the promise of God. Inside of this chest could be seen the golden jar where the manna food was placed. And there also inside the chest could be seen the walking stick of Aaron that sprouted and the two flat stones where God wrote the Law.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What was there was the gilded altar (loan altar) on which they burned incense (loan insinso) and the Chest of the Agreement that was overlaid with gold. What was placed-inside there was the golden jar in which was placed manna (Eng. loan), Aaron’s walking-stick which leafed and the two flat stones on which were carved the commands of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There in that room was the burning-place for incense and the Chest of the Initiated-agreement, both of which were covered-around with gold. One of the things contained in that Chest was the container of manna. The container was made of gold. Also contained in that Chest of the Initiated-aggrement was the walking-stick of Aaron which sprouted-new-growth, and those two flat-shaped rocks on which were written the laws of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “In there is an altar of gold where incense is burned. And there is a box which is all gold on the outside. It is the box which contains the old agreement which was before. There inside the box is a jar of gold in which is the bread called manna. And in the box is also the staff of Aaron, the one which sprouted. And in the box are the tablets of stone on which are written God’s law, that old agreement which was before.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)