Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 3:23:
- Uma: “This is his command(s): we believe in Yesus Kristus his Child, and we love one another, according to what he has commanded us.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This he commanded to us (incl.), that we (dual) should trust in his Son, Isa Almasi, and we (incl.) should also love each other as Almasi commanded us (incl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “What He commands us (incl.) is: it’s necessary that we believe in His Son Jesus Christ and that each one of us loves our companions just as Jesus also commanded long ago.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And this is what he commanded us: we must believe in his Child who is Jesu Cristo and love-one-another, because this just the same is what Cristo commanded us.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This is what he has commanded, that we will believe-in/obey and trust-in/rely-on his Son Jesu-Cristo, and that we value one another like this Jesu-Cristo commanded us.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “This word which God commands is that we believe Jesus Christ his Son and we do what he commands, in that each one of us loves all our fellow believers.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “And this is what he commands us to do: We should trust in his son Jesus Christ and love our fellows each of us the other like he commands us to do.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “And here is his command that we believe God’s Son, Jesus Christ, and we love one another, as he told us.”
- Tzotzil: “Thus is God’s command that we believe the word of his Son, that is Jesus Christ. Thus is his command also that we love one anther.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: “This is what God ordered us, that we should lean our hearts on His Son Jesus Christ, and also that we should love one another. That is what He ordered us.”
- Yanesha’: “These are the words which he told (commanded) us, that we believe on him his Son who is Jesus Christ. He also told us that we have the characteristic of loving one another, thus he told us.”
- Aguaruna: “That word to be obeyed it is this, ‘Believe in my Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another.’ That is what he wants.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 27:23:
- Uma: “Because last night, God whom I worship, God who is my Lord, sent his angel to meet me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because last night,’ Paul said, ‘there appeared to me an angel from the God whom I worship and I belong to him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “A while ago during the night, the God which I worship, his messenger appeared to me, and he said,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because last night, the God that I worship who is my owner, he sent an angel who went and stood where-I-was” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I have come to know this for, last night, an angel came here to me. He was sent by God, he who rules over me and whom I always am serving.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Morelos Nahuatl: “As you know, I am God’s son and I serve him. Last night an angel of God appeared to me.”
- Xicotepec De Juárez Totonac: “Last night there appeared to me an angel whom God sent. This God is the one who commands me and the one for whom I work.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:7:
- Noongar: “The Law Men and the Pharisees, they wanted to find a way to accuse Jesus of wrong doing so they looked for a way. So they stood watching him, to see if Jesus would heal this man on the Sabbath Day.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Several Parisi people and teachers of religion who were there kept their eye on Yesus, perhaps he would heal him on the Sabat Day. Their intention, to find fault so that they could accuse him of working on the Sabat Day.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There were also teachers of the religious law and Pariseo there. They were looking for a reason so that they could accuse Isa therefore they watched him closely if he would heal on the day of-no-work.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there were there some Pharisee people and teachers of the Law. They were watching Jesus because they wanted to see if he would cure that man, there on that day, because it was the day of rest. The reason they carefully watched Jesus was so that they might find a way to accuse him, that he had transgressed the day of rest.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There were also some of the teachers of the law and Pharisees who were carefully-watching Jesus (to see) if he healed that man on the day for-resting, because they were looking-for something-to-accuse-him-of so they would have a basis-for-pressing-charges.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, as for the Pariseo and explainers of law, they were looking for what they could find fault with which they could hold against Jesus (implies intention of bringing legal charge at some level). Therefore they were watching very closely, whether he would heal that person on that Day of Rest.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 5:10:
- Uma: “People who believe in God’s Child, they know in their hearts that God’s testimony is true. Whoever doesn’t believe God, they are actually calling-a-liar God, for they haven’t believed God’s testimony that talks about his Child.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Whoever trusts in the Son of God, he knows in his liver that Isa is really God’s Son. But the one who doesn’t believe God, it is as if he says that God is lying because he does not believe the witness of God about his Son.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Anyone who believes that Jesus is the Son of God, he has become convinced by the witness of God. Anyone who will not believe in the witness of God, he thinks of God as a liar, for he has not believed the witness of God about his Son Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whoever then believes in the Child of God, what God confirmed concerning him has been stored-away in his mind, but as for the one who doesn’t believe what God said, he turns-God -into a liar, because of course he doesn’t believe what he said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore whoever believes-in/obeys and trusts the Son of God, he is sure in his mind/inner-being that this testimony of God is really true. But as for the one who doesn’t believe this testimony of God, he is doing none other than saying God is lying, because he isn’t believing what he is testifying concerning his Son.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He who believes the Son of God already knows in his own heart that what he believes is true. He who does not believe what God says, this person calls God a liar because he does not believe the word God has said about who his Son is.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “If we trust in God’s son, God speaks about his son in our head-hearts. If we do not believe God’s words, we treat God like a liar, because we do not believe his words which he speaks about his son.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “He who believes God’s Son, has been given understanding, and knows, himself, in his heart what is true. But he who doesn’t believe God, he looks on God as a liar, because he didn’t believe what God said about his Son.”
- Tzotzil: “If we believe the word of the Son of God, thus we know that it is true what God has told us about his Son. If we do not believe the word of God’s Son, we think wrongly that God lies because we do not believe what God has told us about his Son.”
- Candoshi-Shapra: “The one who rests-the-whole-weight of his heart on God’s Son has God’s telling in his own heart. The one who doesn’t say, ‘God is telling the truth’ makes God as-if-He-were-a-liar. For he doesn’t keep (believe) God’s telling, For he doesn’t say, ‘It’s true’ about what God says about His Son.”
- Yanesha’: “If any one believes in our Father’s Son, he has thus he knows by himself. The one who does not believe in our Father does toward him as if he were a deceiver, because he does not believe our Father, his causing-to-know with reference to his Son.”
- Aguaruna: “He who says ‘Jesus is truly God’s son,’ that one thinks the truth concerning what God tells, but he who does not believe this is like that one who says ‘God is a liar,’ because he does not believe what God told about his Son.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
- Sayula Popoluca: “He who believes God’s Son, he knows that it is true that which God says. And he who doesn’t believe God, he says that God lies, because he doesn’t believe what God says so we can know his Son.” (Source for this and three above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 28:11:
- Uma: “We having been on the island of Malta for three full months, we left again, going on a ship that was from Aleksandria. That ship had stopped a long time at the island waiting for the cold season to pass. The name of the ship was ‘Twin Spirits [Anitu]’.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “It was three months before we (excl.) could sail from that island. We (excl.) rode on a ship from the city of Iskandal that had stopped on that island during the windy season. The name of the ship was ‘The Twin Gods.’ So-then we (excl.) sailed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “After we had lived there on that island for three months, we continued. We got onto a boat which had stayed there during the rainy season. It was from Alexandria, and the way we could tell it and the thing that was its mark there on its forward end was an image of twin gods.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “We (excl.) stayed in Malta three months, then we rode in a boat from Alexandria that had stayed there during the typhoon-season. Its mark, the Twin Gods.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But it was a long time till we were able to sail for we waited for cold season to pass. We reached three months there on that island and then we could sail again. What we sailed in was a ship which had sheltered there, waiting out that time too. As for that ship, it also came from Alejandro and was called Castor and Polux.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:39:
- Noongar: “Jesus told them this parable: ‘One blind man can’t go in front of another person. If he does this, both people will fall into a hole.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “And Yesus also said this parable: ‘If a blind person leads his fellow blind person, they will definitely stumble/fall into a ditch.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa also told them a parable, he said, ‘Is it possible for a blind person to lead-by-the-hand another blind person? Will they not both fall into a hole?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus told a parable. He said, ‘It’s not possible for a blind person to lead by the hand another blind person, because both of them will fall into a pit.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus also related to them this parable. ‘Is it possible do-you-suppose for a blind-person to lead his fellow blind-person? If he does that, surely the two of them surely fall over a cliff.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus questioned them in an illustration he gave, saying, ‘Is it possible/acceptable that a guide for a blind person be another equally blind person? Won’t what will happen be that if it’s like that, the two of them will fall into a dug-hole?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 3 John 1:8:
- Uma: “So, it is so appropriate we help them, so that it is like we accompany them in their work carrying the true news.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore we (incl.) the disciples of Isa, should help them so that we (incl.) will be included in their work preaching the true teaching.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of that, it is necessary that we (incl.) who are believers give to them so that we might help in their spreading the true doctrine.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So it is necessary that we who believe be the ones to help them so that we will share-in their work of making-known the true teaching.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore it’s necessary that we regard this as our job/responsibility to look after their needs, so that we can also help to spread this truth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore it is necessary that we help those who speak the word which is true in order that all of us help in the spread of the word.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “We then must help all our brethren who travel thus and thus unite with them as they proclaim the truth.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “So we must help them, and take care of them, and same (equally) thus we will help each other in the work of the Word of God.”
- Isthmus Zapotec: “This is the way it is necessary for us to help people like them, in order to do the work of God with them.” (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 1:12:
- Uma: “My intention is that I as well will be strengthened because of your faith, so that we will each strengthen the other’s heart.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The meaning of my saying is that I want to go-there to you so that we (incl.) can encourage one another. Your liver will be encouraged if you see my trust and my liver also will be encouraged when I see your trust.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now what I mean is that we will encourage each other in believing.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What I mean (lit. want) to say is that the faith of us all will be strengthened. I will be helped on account of seeing your faith and you will also be helped by my faith.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I want that his faith which we have will strengthen each of us more.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
