Following are a number of back-translations of Titus 3:11:
- Uma: “For you certainly know, people like that intentionally wander-from/go-away-from true teaching. They punish/condemn their own selves with their intentional sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You know that a person like that is crooked and sinful. And because of his sin it is known that he is at fault/mistake/wrong.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For you will know that that as for a person like this, his mind has departed from correct behaviour. Even though he knows that his behaviour is wrong, he keeps on doing it just the same.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “for you (sing.) know that a person like that, he is a consistent-sinner who has already gone-far-from what is true. Even he, he knows that what he is doing is evil.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For a person like this, it’s certain he’s turned aside from the trail/way of truth. Sin is what he now prefers. He’s determining too that he won’t repent, therefore of course he is asking for a judgment/sentence of punishment.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because whoever does not want to listen to what you say to him has a lost heart. It is then apparent that in his heart he wants to do what is sin.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 8:33:
- Uma: “He is disparaged and punished, yet he had no guilt. There is no-one who tell-the-account that he has descendants, because he was killed.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He was put down/criticized and he was not judged with righteous/straight judgment. Who will be able to tell about his descendants? No one. For his life in this world has ended.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They shamed him and their punishing him was not righteous. He has no descendants which can be related (in a geneology) because very short is his life here on earth.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They shamed him and they didn’t try him fairly/properly. Neither will anyone relate concerning his descendants, because they cut-short (lit. did-intentionally) his life on this earth.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He was caused to experience great shame and sentenced with an unfair-sentence. No-one can tell how big was the evil of his contempories for they severed his life/breath.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Lalana Chinantec; “‘They mistreated him shamefully. The people who judged did not do well. They are not supposed to do as they did. How is it possible that we will say that he has people followers? They killed him. He no longer lives in this earth.’ That is what the word of Isaiah is like which the Ethiopia person was looking at.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
- Huixtán Tzotzil: “… They mistakenly think that he does not have any children because when he was killed here in the world, once and for all he was eradicated they mistakenly think.” (Huixtán Tzotzil frequently uses the verb -cuy to express “to mistakenly think something” from the point of view of the speaker — source: Marion M. Cowan in Notes on Translation 20/1966, pp. 6ff.)
For the Old Testament quotes, see Isaiah 57:8 (from the Greek Septuagint).
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 7:21:
- Uma: “From the heart of mankind appears evil thinking, with the result that there are those who behave wrongly with women or with men, steal, kill,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because from inside a person, from his liver, come out his bad thoughts, for-committing-illicit-sex, for-stealing and for-killing.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said again, ‘The thing which can cause God to be displeased with a person is that which comes out from his breath, for out of his breath comes evil thinking, sex relations with someone not his spouse, stealing, murder, jealousy, harmful action, cheating, vulgar deeds, envy, destroying the good name of his companions, making himself higher, and wickedness.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because the mind/thoughts of a person is the source of all evil intentions. And evil intentions are what direct a person to do evil like these: to sleep-with someone not one’s spouse, to steal, to murder, to commit-adultery,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because all evil thinking comes from the mind/inner-being of a person, which leads a person into doing these. Firstly, doing already when not yet married what only married people are allowed to do. And these also, stealing, killing,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 1:3:
- Uma: “He is the one who shows us the bigness of God’s life [i.e., glory]. His character and power are the same as the character and power of God. He is the one who controls and cares for all that there is by his powerful word/talk. After he had cleaned mankind from their sins, he went and sat at the right side of God, at the Seat of his Kingdom / his Kingdom Seat in heaven.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There in him can be seen the brightness/glory of God and he resembles God exactly/is exactly like God (in looks and character, implicit). He rules/holds this world by his powerful word. And when he had finished his work so that the sins of mankind can be forgiven, so-then he went to heaven and he is sitting at the right-hand-side of God the Ultimate in Power.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “By means of this son of His, the powerful shininess of God is revealed because they are just the same. Whatever God is, that is also what His son is. And by means of the power of this son’s speaking, He controls every created thing. And when He had finished removing our (incl.) sins, He returned to Heaven, and He sat down on the right side of God in order to rule.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “All the goodness and greatness of God can be seen in him, because he is the exact (lit. correct correct) showing of God’s godhood. He also is the one who arranges/harmonizes and controls/is-in-charge-of all that exists, and he uses only his word because it/he is powerful. When what he did to cleanse people’s sins was finished, he returned to heaven and sat-down on the right-side of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There in his Child it’s like the praiseworthiness/glory of God shines because however God is, just like that is this Son of his. By the strength of the word of this Son of his, he (i.e.the Son) now is the one controlling (lit. holding-in-his-hand) and in charge of (lit. leading/taking) all things. After he had done the cleansing of people’s sin he then sat down on the right side of the unsurpassably supernaturally-powerful God in heaven.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Like God is supreme, like that is his Son supreme, for they are the same. And only upon his speaking what will happen, then all the things in earth and also in heaven continue to exist. This person cleared our sins. Afterwards he went to heaven where he rules, sitting at the right of his Father God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 9:25:
- Uma: “So, because all the doors were guarded, Saulus had to find a plan so he could escape from the village. That’s why one night, several of Saulus’s disciples took him to the earth wall that surrounded the town of Damsyik, they sat him in a basket and lowered him in the basket from the top of the earth wall to outside the village, and he immediately fled.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But one night, Saul was taken by his disciples/adherents and they seated him in a basket and let it down from a window there in that stone fence that surrounded that town.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However one night he was taken by his followers, and they lowered him down outside the wall inside of a container that had been woven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore there was one night, those whom he had persuaded to believe, they got a large basket in order that he would ride in it, then they lowered it from the high stone-wall that was the enclosure of their town so that he would have a way to escape.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well since it was like that now, he was caused-to-run-away by those who had believed his teaching. What they did was, they caused him to get into a large-basket and then they lowered it on the other side of the wall.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:16:
- Uma: “But they did not know the meaning of that riddle, so they began talking among themselves, they said: ‘The reason he said that is that we don’t have any bread.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “His disciples spoke-among-themselves about what he had said because they did not understand it. They said, ‘Perhaps that’s why he speaks like that, because we (incl.) didn’t take bread along.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They didn’t understand that it wasn’t really for bread he was talking about. So they were talking together, they said, ‘The reason he says this is because we did not bring our supply of bread.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When he told them that, they talked-together saying, ‘Jesus said that because we have no bread for our pack-lunch.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When those disciples heard, they said-among-themselves, ‘He spoke like that because we don’t have any bread with us.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Usila Chinantec: “They asked each other why he had said this, and finally decided that it was because they had no bread.”
- Michoacán Nahuatl: “Then they began to say to each other, He said this because we didn’t bring bread. They spoke thus because they did not know that Jesus was talking about the teaching of the Pharisees and of Herod.”
- Tzotzil: “There they began to say among themselves, In all probability it is because he knows that we have not brought bread. The disciples said this among themselves because they did not realize what the yeast was that Jesus talked about, that it is like the teachings of the Pharisees and of Herod.” (Source for this and two above: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 3:3:
- Uma: “Consider Yesus, for it is fitting that he get more honor than Musa, like a person who builds a house is more honored than the house he builds.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But like a person building a house is more famous than the house he built, likewise Isa is really more worthy to be honored than Musa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, Jesus, — God regards Him as being much higher than Moses, just like the one who built the house is greater than the house.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Jesus, he is considered to be greater than Moses just as the superior-greatness of one who erects a house than the house that he erects.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But as for this Jesus, his praiseworthiness is superior to the praiseworthiness of Moises. Because of course superior to the praiseworthiness of a house is the praiseworthiness of the builder of that house.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But this Jesus, it is much more right that he be respected than was Moses. It is like when a person makes a house in order to rule in it. Concerning this person who makes the house, he is more greatly respected than all the other people who live in it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:14:
- Uma: “Petrus said: ‘No indeed, Lord! I have never-yet eaten what is taboo/forbidden or called dirty according to the customs of our (excl.) religion.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Petros said, ‘O Sir, I won’t. As long as I live, I have never yet eaten anything defiled or forbidden (by the law).'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Peter answered, ‘Not me, Lord, because I have not yet eaten anything which was unclean like that because it is forbidden by the law.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘I absolutely refuse/don’t-want-to, Lord,’ he said, ‘because I have eaten-absolutely nothing -for-meat-viand that we (excl.) Jews consider-taboo.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But Pedro replied, ‘Oh, I can’t do like that, Lord, for since I came into the world, I haven’t trespassed by eating any food which is forbidden by our (excl.) handed-down laws.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
