Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Luke 19:30)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 19:30:

  • Noongar: “He told them, ‘Go to the village ahead of you. When you enter, you will see a young donkey tied up which no-one has mounted. Untie the donkey and bring it to me.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “He said to them: ‘Go to the town that we are in front of there. When you enter into the town, you will see a young [lit., child] donkey that is tied. That donkey has not yet one time been ridden. Open/Untie its rope and bring it here.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “He said to them, ‘Go to the village in front of you, and when you arrive there you will see the child of donkey tied, which nobody has yet ridden on. Untie it and bring it here.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He said, ‘You go into the village ahead of us, and when you arrive there you will see a young donkey tied up, that has never been ridden on since it was born. Untie it and bring it here.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘Go to that town across-the-way. Right when you arrive there, you will come-upon a child of a donkey that has not been ridden that is tethered. Untie it to bring it here.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “He said to them, ‘Go to that bario of Betfage. When you get there, you will see a young-one of a (type of) horse which is an asno tethered, which hasn’t yet been broken-for-riding. Untie it and bring it here to me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “and said, ‘The two of you go to the village in front of us(incl) here, and then when you go arrive, you’re going to see a newly grown donki on which no one got up on yet and they’ve tied it with a rope. Untie its rope and then bring it to come.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Kupsabiny: “’Go to the village over there. When you arrive there, you will find a young donkey (colt) tied which has not gone with a person before. Untie it and and bring it to me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Mairasi: “’Go over there to that village in front of you!’ says Yesus to them. ‘Go until you get there [then] enter it, and you guys will soon find a small keledai [donkey] tied up. This keledai is one upon which people have not climbed up [and] walked around. Untie this keledai and bring it. ” (Source: Enggavoter 2004)
  • Hiligaynon: “He said to them, ‘You (pl.) go-ahead there to the next barrio. As you (pl.) enter, you (pl.) will-see a young ass that is-tied. It has never/[intensifier] been ridden. You (pl.) untie and bring (it) here.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Corinthians 7:30)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 7:30:

  • Uma: “People who weep, don’t keep thinking about their sorrow. People who are happy, don’t keep thinking about their happiness. People who buy anything, don’t keep thinking about their stuff.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Likewise also the ones grieving, they should not continually think of their grief. The glad ones, they should not continually think about their happiness. The ones buying also they should not consider what they have bought as if it was theirs.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And in the same way also, that person is sorrowful, he should act as if he had nothing to be sorry about. And the same way also, that person who has a reason for happiness, he should act as if he had no reason for happiness. And also, those people who are engaged in buying, they must not set their hearts on what they buy, but rather they must think of those things as not theirs.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The ones who are sad and happy, they should not be-distracted by their sadness and happiness. The one also who buys, he should consider what he buys to not belong to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Like that also, don’t make grief, happiness, or livelihood a hindrance to your serving the Lord.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “The people who are living in sadness do not now have time to cry. The people who live happily, do not now have time to laugh. The people who have things they want to buy, now do not have time to buy what they need.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 20:14)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:14:

  • Noongar: “But when the people saw the son, they said, ‘This one’s the boss’s son! We will kill him, and his land will become our land!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “‘But actually, when those people who took-care-of the field/garden saw the child of the field/garden owner, he made-a-plan, they said: ‘There comes his child! He is the one who will become the owner of this field/garden. Let’s kill him so that we become the owners of this garden.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But when the caretakers of the vineyard saw the son, they discussed/planned, they said, ‘This one is hep the heir. Come on, let’s kill him so that this vineyard will be ours.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, when these people taking care of the field saw the son of the owner, they talked together, saying, ‘Now, this is his son. Come on and let’s kill him and we will be the ones to inherit the field!’ And they grabbed him and took him outside the field and they killed him.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘But when those joint-farmers saw him, they said, ‘This is the inheritance owner of this farm. Let’s kill him to take-over his inheritance!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Whereas when those ones he’d left in charge saw that his son was who had arrived, they said, ‘Expl., there now is that heir! We’d better kill him, so that this ubas plantation which he would inherit can then be ours.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Corinthians 9:9)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 9:9:

  • Uma: “In the Book of the Lord’s Law that Musa wrote, it is written like this: ‘Cows that are being worked stepping-on gandum, don’t muzzle their snouts, allow them to eat as they go .’ Is it really cows that the Lord is intending/aiming-at?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “It is written in the law given by God to Musa, it says, ‘Don’t muzzle/tie up the mouth of a cow that threshes your rice.’ Do you mistakenly-think that God is just worried about the cow when he says this?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because Moses commanded long ago, he said, ‘The cow that threshes the grain, he must not be muzzled.’ And we must not think that God was only talking here about cows,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because there is something written in that law which says, ‘Don’t (sing.) muzzle a cow who is threshing the unhusked-rice by stepping-on-it so that it will have a way to eat.’ All-right now, is it only cows perhaps that God was thinking-about when he caused-that law -to-be-written?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “For it says in the laws that God caused Moises to write, ‘Don’t muzzle the mouth of the cow that you(sing.) are having-thresh-grain as long as he is trampling on this that he is threshing.’ Did God cause like this to be written because he especially values cows?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “This word written in the law says: ‘Do not tie closed the cow’s mouth who is treading on the wheat to thresh it.,’ it says. Now God did not say this word because it was only cows he is earnestly concerning about their eating.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 20:46)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:46:

  • Noongar: “‘Watch out for the Law Men. They always go about wearing their long clothes and want people in the market saying they are great. They want to take the best place in the Meeting House and the best place at feast days.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)

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  • Uma: “‘Be careful, do not imitate the behavior of the religion teachers. Because they are happy going walking around wearing long clothes, they are happy in people on the side of the road bow-down to greet them. They are happy to be seated in the seats of honor in the prayer houses, they are happy if they are seated in the good seats at a feast.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “‘Stay away from/be careful of the teachers of the religious law, they are happy to walk about in long garments/clothes and they are happy to be greeted in the market. In the prayer-houses they want to sit in the places for the most honored people. Likewise when they are at a feast they want to sit in the seat that is the most honored.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘You must be on your guard so that you do not become like the teachers of the Law, because the only thing they like is to walk around in their long robes with the people showing them respect when they’re in the marketplace. And when they’re in the churches, they like that they are the ones that are allowed to sit in the seats of the high ranking people, and they want also that they be respected very much when they attend the feasts.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘Beware of the teachers of the law, because they like to dress in fine/beautiful robes so that they have a means-of-being-distinguished and they also like those who see them to honor them saying, ‘Where are you (sing.) going, sir?’ when they go visiting in the marketplace. They also choose the best seats in the synagogue, and when they go to join-in-eating-a-meal, it has to be the important people that they go and sit-with.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “‘Now you be careful of the explainers of law, who are fond of walking about in long clothes which are the clothes of the important. And their pleasure is to be greeted-appropriately in places where there are many people. And their favorite seats in the worship-place are the seats where the important are seated. It’s the same at feasts.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

See also complete verse (Mark 12:39).

complete verse (1 Corinthians 10:14)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 10:14:

  • Uma: “So, relatives whom I love, don’t you dare follow the custom of worshipping idols!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Therefore, my friends whom I love, really stay away from worshiping the statues of idols.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of this, brothers, avoid the worship of false gods.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Therefore you whom I love, distance yourselves from joining-in-worshipping idols (lit. imitation gods).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Therefore, ones that I hold dear, put far away now the worship of pretend gods.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Therefore my dear brothers, do not worship idols.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 21:31)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 21:31:

  • Noongar: “In the same way, when you see these things happening, you will know that the Kingdom of God is coming near.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Thus also when you see those happenings [mentioned] earlier, you know that it will not be much longer before God indeed becomes King in the world.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Likewise also when you see happening what I said you know that God’s ruling here in the world is near already.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the same way also, when you see all of these things taking place, you will know that God’s rule over people will soon take place.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Likewise also what I have been telling you, when you see these-things happening, you will know that the ruling of God is near-in-time.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, it is indeed like that, that when you will observe these things happen, you know that the time really is near when God will reign over all people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Corinthians 11:13)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 11:13:

  • Uma: “Think for yourselves: is it fitting for a woman to pray to God in a service if she is not-veiled?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Na, think for yourselves, whether it is fitting/right when a woman prays to God in the gathering and does not have a cover.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Just think about what is good. You know that it’s not good if there’s a woman in the church who prays without a covering for her head.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “You kindly be the ones to decide whether it is right if a woman doesn’t wear-a-headcloth when she prays to God when you congregate-together.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Therefore you now be the ones to judge whether or not it is correct behavior for a woman to pray to God in front of everyone with no veil on her face.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Make a good judgment concerning this word I tell you now. How about a woman when she is praying to God, is it right for her to cover her head or not?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)