Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 14:9:
- Uma: “That lame one sat and heard Paulus speak. From there, Paulus stared-at/took-notice-of him and saw that he had faith so that he could be healed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He listened intently to the words of Paul. Paul looked straight at him and Paul knew in his liver that that crippled man trusted that he could be healed by Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now he listened to the words of Paul, and then Paul understood that this person had faith to be healed. And Paul stared at him” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “While he was listening to what Pablo was saying, Pablo looked-intently-at him, and he sensed that he had trust that he could become-well.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Pablo was teaching there, that person was listening. When Pablo saw, he observed that that lame person had belief that he could be made well. Therefore he looked straight at him,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 12:26:
- Uma: “Haven’t you ever before read the words in the Holy Book that make-clear that the dead will live again? In the book of the Law of Musa we read the account of how God spoke to the prophet Musa from the flaming bush. At that time, Abraham, Ishak and Yakub had long been dead. But even so, God said to Musa like this: ‘I am the God worshipped by, the God worshipped by Ishak, the God worshipped by Yakub.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, concerning the dead people that they are made alive again, have you never read in the holy-book Tawrat about the puhung tree that burned/flamed? It is written there that God spoke to Musa. God said, ‘I am God who is acknowledged-as-God by Ibrahim and Isahak and Yakub.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And about dead people who are raised, haven’t you ever read in the book Moses wrote long ago about the flaming weed where God appeared to him? For even though Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob worship,'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And concerning moreover the living again of the dead, it’s as if you haven’t read what God caused-Moses -to-write concerning the flaming tree which says, ‘I am God who is still the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.’ He said that even though plural Abraham had already-been-dead a-long-time.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, also about this coming alive again of those who have died, haven’t you yet read in the writing of Moises concerning the bush which was flaming? What is written there says that God said to Moises, ‘I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 11:8:
- Uma: “From Abraham’s faith, he followed God’s command. God called him and ordered him to go to a village/place that was far-away, he said to him: ‘That village/place over there [out of sight] will become the portion of you and your descendants.’ So, even though he did not know where he was going, he left, following/according-to God’s command.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Ibrahim also because of his trust in God he believed what God said to him that he should leave from his own country and go to a different country, a country that God promised that he would give it to Ibrahim. Therefore Ibrahim left his country even though he didn’t know where he was going to.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for Abraham also, he had faith for he believed the word of God that he should leave his town and go to another land which God promised that he would give to him and to his descendants. And then he left his own town, even though he had no idea at all about the land which was promised to him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Abraham also was one who obeyed God because of his faith. Because when God instructed him to go to a country that he would own in-the-future, he obeyed immediately and started-out, even though he didn’t know where he was going.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, also because of his believing/obeying and trust in God, Abraham obeyed what God said to him that (he should) transfer to a place that would be made-his-own. He really did not refuse even though he did not know anything concerning that place to which he was going.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Abraham believed that it is true what God says. Therefore when God called him, telling him to go away from where he was living and go to the land he would tell him to stay in, he did what he was told. He left the land in which he was living and went. And he didn’t know at all where he was going.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 15:13:
- Uma: “When the speech of Paulus and Barnabas was finished, Yakobus said: ‘Relatives, please listen to my words.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “After they had spoken, Yakub took his turn to speak. He said, ‘My brothers, listen to me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when they had finished speaking, James spoke. He said, ‘Brethren, listen to what I have to say.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That talk of theirs being finished then, after-that Santiago spoke saying, ‘You brothers, please listen to this that I will say.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When that story of theirs was ended, Santiago was next to speak, saying, ‘Brethren, listen to me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 13:14:
- Uma: “‘Long ago the prophet Daniel predicted the coming of one named ‘The evil Destroyer.’ (The one who read these words of prediction, carefully note its meaning!) So, when you see what Daniel predicted standing in a standing-place that is forbidden to him/it, people who dwell in Yudea should flee to the mountains.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Na, in the future, you will see what destroys and what puts-down God there where it is not right for him/it to be. When you see this, the people who are there in Yahudiya should flee to the mountains. (Let the one who reads this understand it.)” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he who is called the repulsive harmful thing, if you see him placed in the temple where he is not permitted, then those who are in the province of Judea should run away to the mountains. The one who reads this long ago prophecy about this should understand it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus continued saying, ‘In-the-future there will be a ‘destroyer who is filthy in God’s sight’ who will stand where he has no authority/right. (The one who reads this should understand it.) When you see that, those who are staying in Judea, they must hurry to escape to the mountainous-area.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “You will see something really disgusting in the sight of God, which is standing where it ought not to stand, there in the Templo. (The one reading this is to try-to-understand.) Well, when this is happening, as for the taga Judea, they must run away to the mountains.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Highland Oaxaca Chontal: “There was a man whose name was Daniel. He told the words of God. Read his word with care so that you’ll understand it. You will see they will put an ugly scary thing in the big church. It has no right to be there. It will cause the big church to be abandoned. … “
- Shuar: “The person who reads this let him understand. Daniel the teller of the things of God, told long ago about an abhorrent destructive thing. When you see that sitting (being) in the not-to-sit-place. … ” (Source for this and above: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 11:40:
- Uma: “They did not yet get it, for God prepared for us something that is better, so that [it will be] at-the-same-time as us that they finally get the goodness that has no lack.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “because God was thinking of something much better for us (incl.). His thought was that we (incl.) should be included with the people of old in receiving what God had promised and when we (dual) were included with them then all that God had promised would come to fruition.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because there is a far better way that God thought about, because He decided that we (incl.) also should be included with those people, and He decided that He would not fulfill His promise to them until we also could be included with those people who will receive His promises.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because God had a better plan that he would not fulfill what he promised them until we were included so he would thus make-us all -into people with no faults/lacks.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For he had planned/determined a much better fulfillment in-which he would not fulfill (it) while this time of ours had not yet arrived. Therefore now/today, both they and we, we can all receive together the far-from-ordinary good that he promised.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “For God determined that it would not clearly appear concerning this word until the days in which we now live. God determined that these old-time people would see along with us all the good which God promised to give to us all.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 16:4:
- Uma: “From there, Paulus and his companions left again, and in every town that they passed, they always announced to the followers of Yesus the decision of the discussion of the apostles of the Lord Yesus and the elders in Yerusalem the other day. And they taught them to follow the commands that had been specified.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Paul and company travelled and went to different places and they told the ones trusting in Isa the commands from the commissioned ones and the elders in Awrusalam. They told them to obey those commands.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They left again, and in all the villages that they passed through they told the Gentile believers the orders of the apostles and the elders in Jerusalem. And they told them that it was necessary that they keep that.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then they went and visited the towns there to go make-known to the Gentiles what the apostles and leaders in Jerusalem had decided that they follow.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, on that journey of theirs, at each place they came to, they told to all the believers there, so that they would follow/obey also, those things which had been agreed upon by the apostles and overseers of the believers in Jerusalem, which was their advice to the believers who weren’t Jews.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:9:
- Uma: “Indeed I tell you: in the whole world, wherever the Good News is spread, what this woman has done will always be told, it/she won’t be forgotten.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And truly I tell you,’ said Isa, ‘wherever in the whole world the good news is proclaimed, it will also be told what this woman has done to me, for the people to remember her.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Remember that she will not be forgotten, for wherever the good news is spread all over the world, this which she has done for me will be told also.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This that I tell you is true that wherever on this earth the good news is preached, what this woman did will also be related as people’s remembrance of her.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This which I will say to you is really true. Wherever this Good News will be taught here under the heavens, this which she did to me will be mentioned, that being a memorial to her.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
