Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:46:
- Noongar: “The disciples began arguing among themselves, ‘Which one of us is the greater?'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus’ disciples argued, which of them was more important.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One day the disciples of Isa were arguing as to who of them was the greatest.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There was a day, then, when his disciples were arguing about who was the highest in rank of them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The disciples of Jesus, they had an argument about which was the highest among them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Before long the disciples were arguing as to which of them was the greatest/most-important.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 7:16:
- Uma: “They are no longer hungry, they are no longer thirsty, they are no longer shined upon by the intense/blazing sun.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They will no longer be hungry or thirsty. They will not be caused to be hot by the sun or by anything else hot.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They no longer get hungry, they no longer get thirsty, they also no longer get burned by the sun or anything hot.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They will absolutely-never again be-left-hungry and thirsty, and neither will they be sunburned or hardshipped by other hot-things.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They won’t any more be aware of hunger and thirst. It will no longer be necessary for them to expose themselves to the heat of the sun or for them to suffer whatever form of heat.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “No longer will they hunger. No longer will they thirst. No longer will they suffer from the heat of the sun.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 7:12:
- Uma: “So, the Lord’s Law is holy, and the Lord’s command is holy, straight and good.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then, the law given by God has no evil/bad at all. All commands of the law are from God and are straight and good.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The Law comes from God and all of the commandment there are commandments of God, and these are not bad but they are good and they are righteous.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore the law is from God, and all the commands of the law are exactly right and good, because they are likewise from God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore, the law of God is very good. All the words it commands are all very good.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 10:16:
- Noongar: “Jesus said to his disciples, ‘The person who listens to you, he also listens to me; and the person who rejects you, he also rejects me. The person who rejects me, he rejects God, who sent me.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “After that, Yesus again spoke to his followers, he said: ‘People who receive your words, its meaning, it is my [emphatic] words that they receive. People who reject you, its meaning, I am the one they reject. And people who reject me, they also reject the Lord God who sent me.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said yet to his disciples, ‘Whoever listens to your teaching, it is as if they listen to me. Whoever doesn’t pay attention to you, it is as if it is me whom they are not paying attention to. And whoever doesn’t pay attention to me, that means that he also is not paying attention to God the one who sent me to the world.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then he spoke to his disciples, he said, ‘Any person who obeys your teaching, it’s as if I were the one he’s obeying. And that person who does not pay any attention to you, it’s just as if I were the one he’s not paying any attention to. And the person who doesn’t pay any attention to me is really not paying any attention to God who sent me.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘The one who heeds what you say, I am the very one he is heeding, and the one who rejects you, I am the very one he rejects, and the one who rejects me, it is God who sent me that he is rejecting.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus added on more saying to his disciples, ‘The ones listening to you, I am the one they are listening to. Those who reject you, they are also rejecting me. And those who reject me, they are also rejecting my Father who sent me.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 9:18:
- Uma: “One third of mankind died killed by those three kinds of plagues/tormentings: fire, smoke and sulfur rock that appeared from the mouths of those horses.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One part of the people on earth died. Two parts didn’t. The people died through/by the fire, the smoke and the flaming sulphur, the three things that came out of the horses mouths.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And by means of this fire, smoke, and sulphur which comes out of the mouths of horses, they killed the third part of all mankind.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “A third of the people died because of those death-producing-things which were the fire, smoke and sulfur that were-coming-out of their mouths.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well the third part of the people truly did die because of these three epidemics, that fire, smoke and asupri which were coming out of the mouths of those horses.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “People were killed by these three deaths of fire, smoke and sulphur which came out of the horses mouths. But it didn’t come up to half of the people who were killed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 8:19:
- Uma: “At this time all that God has created is waiting-waiting with longing hearts, waiting for the time that God will reveal the bigness of life [i.e., glory] of his children.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Not only we (incl.) human-beings but all that God has created, they are waiting for this day in the future when God honors his children.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the expectancy of all created things is drawn very tight concerning the time in the future when God will reveal His children who’ve been made immortal.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Even all that God created, they intensively-desire that the time will arrive when God will show the status of us who are his children.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning all the things which God created here in the world, it is as though they were waiting for the day to come when God will give the good to his children.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:6:
- Noongar: “My other friend is travelling, now he comes to my house but I have no bread to give him!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Because there is my friend who has just arrived, but I do not have anything to give to him.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “for my friend has recently arrived from his journey, and I don’t have anything to feed him with.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For I’ve a visitor who’s come from a long way away, and I have nothing to feed him.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because there is a friend of mine who is traveling who has-just-arrived at my house, and I have nothing to feed him.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For a friend of mine who is traveling has arrived. Well, I haven’t got anything to serve him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 11:18:
- Uma: “All the people who do not follow you (sing.), they are riled-up/all-out wanting to oppose you (sing.). But the time has come you (sing.) make appear your (sing.) anger to them. The time has come when you (sing.) judge the cases of people who have died. The time has come for you (sing.) to give gifts to you (sing.) slaves: to the prophets who carry your (sing.) Word, to people who submit to you (sing.), and to all the people who honor you (sing.), the important or the unimportant ones [lit., the ones with big or little lives]. The time has come for you (sing.) to punish people who wreck /make-evil the world.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The people who don’t believe-obey you are very angry, because the time has come now for your wrath to come to them, and the time for you to judge the dead. The time has come when you will reward your servants, the prophets, and all people belonging to you, all who respect you, great and small equally. This is the time for destroying all those who destroyed in the world.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Your enemies were very angry with You, but the day for Your punishing them has arrived, and also the day for Your investigating the deeds of those already dead. It is now the time for Your rewarding Your servants the prophets and Your rewarding also all people who belong to You, whether their status is big or whether their status is small, everyone who respects You. This is also the time for You to destroy all people who have destroyed the earth.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Those who oppose you (sing.), extreme is their anger, but now, the time has arrived when-you (sing.) -will-punish them, because now is the time when-you (sing.) -will-judge all the dead. Now also is the time when-you (sing.) -will-recompense the prophets who serve you (sing.) and all your (sing.) people who esteem you (sing.), those who are low (i.e. poor, lacking influence) and also those who are high, while at-the-same-time you (sing.) destroy those who have destroyed people on the earth.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The anger/hatred of those nations who don’t acknowledge you is really terrible. But well, the time has now been reached when you will now cause your anger to be comprehended. The time has been reached to judge/sentence the ones who have died, and to give rewards to the prophets who are your servants, and all your people, as many as have fear and respect for you, high/important blood and low-class/ordinary. Now really is the time when you will cause to suffer greatly those under the heavens who are causing suffering.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The people who live in the world who reject your word were angry. But now has come the day when you also are angry. Concerning those who have died, now has come the time for you to judge them. Concerning your workers who have spoken for you, you will give them their wages. All of the people who are in your hand, little and big, all who reverence you, to all will you give their wages. Now has come the time that you finish the people who do damage here on earth with whatever evil they do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Chichewa (interconfessional translation, 1999): “Pagan people became angry, but the time has come to show your wrath, that is the time for judging the dead. The time has come for you to give a reward to your servants, the prophets, and to your people, that is all of them, the small ones and the great ones, who reverence your name. The time has come for you to destroy those who destroy this world.” (Source: Wendland 1998, p. 166)
