Following are a number of back-translations of 3 John 1:15:
- Uma: “Goodness to you. Many greetings from all your friends here. Deliver for me my greetings to all my friends who are there, every one of them. Finish here.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “May your liver be peaceful. All your friends send word that they love/remember you. Tell for me our (incl.) friends one by one that I remember/love them. Wassalam” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “May your (sing.) life be peaceful. All your (sing.) friends here send-greetings. Please greet our friends there one-by-one. This is all I am able to say.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “May God give you peace of heart. Your friends here greet you. Please greet our friends there where you are.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “May you have peace in your heart. Your friends who are here greet you. Greet our (ex) friends there each one.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “May God rest your hearts. Your friends who are (live) here send you greetings. Greet our friends, each one who is (lives) there. This is what I tell you now.”
- Isthmus Zapotec: “May your heart be quiet. Your friends send you greetings. Give greetings to each one of our friends.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 1:19:
- Uma: “For it is clear to all mankind what God is like, for God himself made it clear to them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God will punish them because it is certainly clear to them as to whatever can be known about God, and-what’s-more it is really God who makes (it) clear to them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They could easily understand correctly about God because God has made this to be very clear.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because that which can be known concerning God, it is clear to them, because God is the very one who made-it-clear.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “There is that which would enable it to be known that God lives. Because God shows how it is that he lives.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 69:22 and Psalm 69:23.
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:30:
- Noongar: “But the Pharisees and the Law Men, they turned away. They did not want the things of God, the things that God wanted them doing, and they did not go to John for baptism.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But as for the Parisi people and the religion teachers, they refused to receive God’s purpose for their lives, for they had refused to request-to-be-baptized of Yohanes.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But the Pariseo and the teachers of the religious law, did not ask to be bathed by Yahiya because they did not want to follow God’s wish for them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But the Pharisees and the teachers of the Jewish Law, they did not go along with what God wanted them to do, and they were not baptized by John.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the Pharisees however and the teachers of the law, they didn’t-want to do what God had planned for them, because they of course didn’t-want to-get-baptized by Juan.)” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But the majority of the Pariseo and explainers of law, they said-no-to what God had planned for them, not having themselves baptized by Juan.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 1:7:
- Uma: “Look! There he comes in the clouds! All people will see him, even the people who stabbed him long ago. And all people in the world will mourn seeing him. Thus indeed! Amin!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Listen. Isa Almasi will come here with/on bright-clouds. All people will see him including the people who killed him. All people from all tribes in the world will grieve because of the judgment that will soon come. Yes, this is certainly true. Amin.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus Christ will arrive being seen in the clouds and all mankind will see Him including the people who speared Him long ago. As for all kinds of people here on the earth, they will weep because of Him because they will be afraid of punishment. May all this come to pass.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Remember/Consider this. Jesus will come accompanying the clouds, and all people will see him. Even those who nailed him to the cross, they will see him. And extreme will be the sorrow (lit. pain of mind) of all people on the earth because of him. This is utterly true.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Consider this, he will come like he will pass between the clouds. This really will be seen by all people, including those who killed him. Well because of him, all nations of people here under the heavens will cry, for they will then comprehend about punishment. It really will truly be like this.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “So now, this Christ will be seen that he will come from heaven, accompanied with a cloud. All the people will see it. Those people who attached him to the cross will see him when he comes. When the people who live on earth will see him, all will talk-sadness. Amen, it will be thus.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 2:19:
- Uma: “We say/think that we are the ones who are smart to lead-by-the-hand people who don’t know God, we are the ones who can enlighten [lit., make clear] those who are still in the darkness and who do not yet know the true teaching. For it is with us Jews that there is the main knowledge and true teaching that is written in the Lord’s Law.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You say that you are figuratively the ones who lead the blind. That means you know how to teach about God. You say/think also that it is as if you were a light illuminating the people in darkness, its meaning you know how to carry/influence people towards God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You think mistakenly that you are the ones who will be able to lead by the hand people whose thinking is blinded. And you suppose also mistakenly that you are the light to illuminate their way going to God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You have no doubts moreover that you are the right-ones to teach people who are blind concerning God so that their dark minds will be illuminated.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “They say that they are very wise so that they can teach people who might be said to be blind, walking in darkness.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:12:
- Noongar: “Seeds falling on the path resemble people: they hear the Word, but after the Devil comes and takes away the truth from their hearts. The Devil stops them believing and he stops them being saved.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “The seed that falls in the middle of the road stands for people who hear the Word of God, but the King of Evil-ones confuses their hearts, with the result that they do not believe, and they are not free from the punishment of their sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “What was broadcasted on the way is a figure for the people who hear the word of God, then the leader of demons goes there and grabs the word from their minds so that they don’t believe and will not be saved.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And that which was planted which fell on the path, that’s like the people who hear the Word of God and then Satan arrives, and he makes it so that they forget the word they heard, so that they cannot believe and cannot be freed from punishment.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That which fell on the path, they are compared to people who hear the word of God, whereupon the Diablo goes and removes from their minds the word that they have heard in order that they will not believe and be saved.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What is aluded to by the pathway which got scattered on is the people who listen to this teaching but forget it again, for Satanas gets it quickly so that they won’t be able to believe/obey and be saved.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:19:
- Uma: “He says: I know what you do. I know your love and your faith in me. You handle my work well [lit., your handling of my work is good], you endure in difficulties. I know that your work for me at this time is more than your work when you first believed in me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I do know your doings/works. I know that your love is great and that your trust is also strong. You persevere helping your companions and you persevere enduring difficulties. I know that your doings are much better now than in the beginning.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I know what you are doing. Your breath is big for Me. Your belief in Me is strong. You faithfully obey My commands, and you endure hardship. I know that your good works now are more than the good works you did when you first believed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I know your way-of-life, so I know your love and faith, your service to your companions and patience/endurance in your hardship. I also know that what you are doing now is much-better than at first.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I really know what you are doing, and I also know your holding-dear of and trust in me. I can indeed see your service and steadfastness. I am also aware that as for all of this, much more is being done by you now than what you did before, when you had newly believed in me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I know what all you are doing. I know that you love me and I know that you love each other. And I know that you believe in me. I know that you are doing the work of God. I know concerning all the suffering you pass through, all you endure. I know that concerning the good you do, even more good you do now than at the first.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:22:
- Uma: “God makes us straight in his sight if we believe in Yesus Kristus. He does this to all people who believe, he doesn’t discriminate what kind of people they are.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Now God forgives our (dual) sins and considers us (dual) straight if we (dual) trust Isa Almasi. All who trust Isa Almasi are considered straight by God no matter what his tribe/nation. They are not treated differently by God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “God will consider us righteous if we believe in Jesus Christ. Anybody can be considered righteous by God if he believes in Jesus Christ, because God has no favorites among any people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God counts any person as righteous because of his faith in Jesu Cristo. There is no one whom he treats-differently.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God clears our sins when we believe that Jesus Christ has saved us. Whatever person it is who believes he is cleared. Because it is necessary that all people be cleared of sin by God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
