Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 17:37:
- Noongar: “Jesus’ disciples asked him, ‘Where, Lord?’ Jesus said, ‘Where dead people lie, the vultures will come together.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “When Yesus’ words were finished, his disciples asked him, they said: ‘Where will that happen, Lord?’ Yesus answered them with this figure-of-speech: ‘If there is something dead, it is known/obvious because many birds gather to eat. So also when I come again: I will not come hidden, it will be known/obvious.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then his disciples asked him, they said, ‘Sir, where will this happen?’ Isa answered them with a proverb he said, ‘Wherever there is a corpse, there the crows gather.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Jesus’ disciples asked him, they said, ‘Where is this going to happen?’ And Jesus answered, ‘Wherever there is a corpse, there also will be the birds who eat dead things, which is to say, when the wickedness of mankind becomes very excessive then will occur the judgment (punishment) of God.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then his disciples inquired of him, ‘Lord, where will this happen?’ Jesus answered parabling, ‘Wherever there are dead-people, that is where the birds that eat the dead will gather.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When the disciples heard, they questioned, saying, ‘Well where will it be, Lord?’ Jesus replied, ‘The saying/proverb says, ‘Where the one is who died, there is where the vultures gather.”” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 4:11:
- Uma: “Until this present time, we (excl.) don’t have enough food, not enough drink, not enough clothes. We(excl.) are continually being beaten. We(excl.) have no certain dwelling-place.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Even until now we (excl.) always endure/suffer hunger and thirst. Our (excl.) clothes are old. Often we (excl.) are beaten and there is no place for us (excl.) to stay.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for us, even now we lack food and we lack drink; we are beaten and even proper clothing, we don’t have it; and even a place to live, we don’t have that either.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Up until today/now, we (excl.) have been hungry and thirsty and we (excl.) lack clothes. There are also those who strike-us (excl.) -with-the-fist and we (excl.) have no proper residence.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really right up to this time, we (excl.) are going hungry and thirsty. It’s like we (excl.) are without clothing, we are experiencing physically-hurt, and we have no certain place to stay.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “In past days we suffered from having nothing to eat. Until now we suffer from hunger. There are times when we are thirsty or when we have nothing to wear. There are times when we suffer from people beating us. And neither are there houses in which to live.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 18:32:
- Noongar: “People will put him into the hands of foreigners. They will mock him and they will insult him and spit on him.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “I will be offered/turned over to people who are not Yahudi people. They will make fun of me, disparage [me], spit on [me],” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I will be handed over to the holding/ruling of people who are not Yahudi, and they will make fun of me and they will shame me and spit at me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for me, the older sibling of mankind, I will be turned over to people who are not Jews, and as for those people, they will speak in rejection against me; they will treat me shamefully; they will spit on me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I will be handed over to the Gentiles who will mock-me, shame-me and spit-on-me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For I will be handed over to the people who aren’t Judio. They really will mock/scorn me, belittle/insult, spit on, whip and even kill me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 6:9:
- Uma: “Don’t you know, relatives, people with bad character, they will not be God’s people in his Kingdom. Don’t be deceived. People who behave wrongly [euphemism for immorality], who worship idols, adulterers, men [males] who marry [lit., use-as-woman] fellow men, women to sleep with fellow women,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Don’t you know that the people who do bad are not included in God’s ruling? Therefore really think about this, so that you don’t make a mistake. Every one who commits adultery-fornication or worships idols or desires the wife of his companion or does bad with his fellow male or female, they will not be included in God’s ruling.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Certainly you realize that those people whose activities are evil, they cannot be ruled over in the future by God! And because of this, you must carefully think about it so that you won’t make a mistake. Because as for the people whose activities are filthy, who worship false gods, a person who desires someone who is not his wife, a man who lusts after a man and a woman who lusts after a woman.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Don’t you know that those who are doing evil will not join/be-included in God’s ruling? Don’t deceive yourselves, because the adulterer (lit. one-who-womens-with), the one who sleeps-with someone who is not his spouse, the man who sleeps-with his fellow man, and the one who worships idols, they will not be-included in God’s ruling.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Do you not yet know that those who are not dropping/giving-up their sins, (they) really won’t have any inclusion whatsoever in the kingdom of God? Don’t lie to yourselves. For those who behave-immorally with one not their spouse, who serve pretend gods, who take someone else’s spouse (lit. wound the liver of a married person, fig.), those who imitate women when they are in fact men, and those who have sexual relations with their fellow males, they will definitely have no part in the kingdom of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do not be deceived. You know that people who do evil cannot enter where God rules. Adulterers will not enter there. Men who do like women with their fellow men will not enter. Nor will enter those who worship idols.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 19:21:
- Noongar: “I am scared of you. You are a hard man. You take what you do not own and you harvest what you do not plant’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “I was afraid of the King, because I knew you (sing.) were harsh. You (sing.) harvest what is not your (sing.) planted-thing, you (sing.) take what you (sing.) did not work-hard-for.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I was afraid of you for you don’t have pity/mercy on people. You take what is not yours and you reap what you have not worked for.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because I was afraid of you, because what you say, you see that it really happens. And you expect an increase from what you give your companions to keep, and it’s the same way with what you cause to be planted, because you always expect a harvest.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because I am afraid of you (sing.), because you (sing.) are emphatically an easily-angered person. You (sing.) get what you (sing.) didn’t work-for (lit. tire-for) and you (sing.) also harvest what you (sing.) didn’t plant.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For I am afraid of you because you are strict. You collect-money/take-payment when it wasn’t you who deposited it and you harvest what it wasn’t you who labored over.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 7:21:
- Uma: “If for instance we are a slave [lit., live a slave], and God calls us to believe in the Lord Yesus, don’t let it upset us [lit., don’t let it make-hurt our heart]. Just be a slave. But if we have an opportunity to be free from our slavery, let’s make-ourselves-free.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If you (sing.) are a slave and you (sing.) now trust in Isa Almasi, never mind even if you (sing.) are a slave. But if you (sing.) can become free, that is also good. You (sing.) should become free.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If you were a slave when you believed, never mind; but if it is possible for you to be set free, that’s better– have yourself set free.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Were you (sing.) a slave when you (sing.) believed? Never-mind. But if you (sing.) have opportunity to be-set-free, go ahead!” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “If for instance you(sing.) were a slave when God put it in your mind, don’t let your mind/thinking be bothered (about it). But if you(sing.) are given opportunity to be freed from your slavery, of course don’t pass it up.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “If he was a worker when God called him, he must not be sad that he is a worker. But if he can leave from being under a boss, he is to search how to do it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 7:32:
- Uma: “My desire, relatives, is that you not be busy thinking about your life. The person who is not married [wived], he just thinks about the Lord, wanting to make the Lord happy.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I want that there is nothing that would hinder you from working for God. A man if he doesn’t have a wife, that is what he thinks about, his work for the Lord Isa Almasi, what he should do so that Almasi will be pleased with his work.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I wish it could be that there were not very many worldly problems to trouble you. Far better off is the man who has no spouse, because there is nothing to hinder him in carrying out things the Lord wants him to do. Because the only things he’s always thinking about is what the Lord wants.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I want you to have nothing to worry-about. The man who has no wife, he can concentrate his thoughts on his serving the Lord Jesus and on what makes-the Lord -happy.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For what I really want is that everything in life that agitates the mind/thinking be far from you. An unmarried man, because he has no wife, can well attend-to/face the Lord’s will, so that his life will please the Lord.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I want that no word goes to worry your hearts. The man who is not married is the man who earnestly endeavors to do Christ’s work in order for Christ to look well upon what he does.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:16:
- Noongar: “He will come and kill these people and he will give the orchard to other tenants to use.’ When people heard this story, they said, ‘Surely, this cannot happen!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Definitely he will come kill them, and give his field/garden to other people.’ When the people heard this parable, they said: ‘Let it notreally happen like that!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He will go there and kill the caretakers and will give his vineyard to others to take care of.’ When the people heard this they said, ‘God forbid.’ (lit. may God send it far away)” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “What he’s going to do is, he will come to those people whom he had take care of the field and he will kill them, and he will allow the field to be in the charge of some other people.’ And when the people who were listening to Jesus heard this, they became very sad and they said, ‘God would not do that!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Indeed he will go then and kill them so that he will then also cause-what was planted -to-be-taken-care-of by other people.’ When the many-people heard that, they said, ‘Oh come on! (lit. Please forbid) May nothing like that happen!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He himself will now go there, for he will wipe out those he’d left in charge. And he will cause his ubas plantation to be tended by other field-workers.’ Well since the people understood what was alluded to in that illustration Jesus gave, they said, ‘Hopefully that indeed won’t happen!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
