Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 21:30:
- Noongar: “When you see its leaves beginning growing, you know summer is coming.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “When you see its leaves bud, you know that it will not be much longer before the dry time [which is also hot].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When you see the leaves sprouting you know that it is soon the warm season.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because here in our (incl.) place, when its limbs begin to put out leaves and tender shoots, we know that the dry season is soon to happen.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When their leaves are replaced, you expect that it is almost rainy-season.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When they now sprout leaves, of course you know that hot season is close now.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 11:12:
- Uma: “For as the first woman was made from man, man also is born from woman. Everything is from God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because even though in the beginning the woman was created from the body of man, nevertheless today man is born by woman. And all together are from God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “So even though the first woman came from the body of the first man, today the man is given birth by the woman; however, everything comes from God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because even though the first woman came-from the man, yet starting-from then, there has also been no man to whom a woman hasn’t given-birth. Then again (lit. thus also) absolutely-everything that exists, including women and man, they came-from God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Yes indeed, the first woman did come from the man but, from that time, there is no man who has not been given birth to by a woman. But God really is the origin of all things.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because truly the woman first came into existence by being taken from the body of man. But also it is true that man now lives because of being born of women. This all is what God determined to be.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 22:24:
- Noongar: “All the disciples began arguing, which one of them was greatest among all of them.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “From there, the disciples of Yesus argued with one another, which of them had highest rank.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, the disciples of Isa discussed as to who of them should be the greatest.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then those disciples argued as to which one of them would be the greatest in the future.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “A little-later, the disciples of Jesus were quarrelling as to which of them was/would-be-considered the greatest.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Something else which those disciples did was, they were arguing as to which of them would be acknowledged as the most important.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 1:19:
- Uma: “Yusuf was a person who submitted to the Law of Musa. That is why he said in his heart: ‘I will just end my engagement with Maria.’ But he did not want to embarrass/shame Maria. So, his intention was just to end it quietly, people did not need to know.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Her fiancé Yusup, his deeds were straight/righteous. Therefore when he knew that Mariyam was pregnant, he did not want that Mariyam would be ashamed. Therefore he thought they would just separate but it shouldn’t be made widely-known.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now Joseph obeyed the system of laws left by Moses. And because of this he was not going to go ahead and marry Mary, however he didn’t want her to be shamed so he thought that it would be settled secretly.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jose consistently-obeyed the law of Moses, but he also didn’t want to (publicly-)shame Maria, so he decided to divorce her without the many-people coming-to-know.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, as for Jose who was the bridegroom, he was-wanting-habitually-to-do what was straight/righteous, which is why he would just back-out (of the agreement). But because he was a good/nice person, and he didn’t want to shame Maria, he was thinking not to do-it-publicly.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now Joseph was about to be her husband. Upon learning that she was now carrying a child, Joseph wanted to do what the law said and divorce his woman. But he did not want that many people know what had happened.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 12:10:
- Uma: “To one person is given power to do miracles, to one person is given ability to speak God’s words. To one person also is given knowledge to distinguish what is from the Holy Spirit and what is not from the Holy Spirit. To a different person is given ability to speak with languages from the Holy Spirit. And to one person is also given the knowledge to interpret [lit., move the meaning of] that language so that others can understand it.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There are some whom he has given power to do powerful deeds/miracles. Others also he gave the expertise to teach God’s word; there are still others to whom it is made known if people’s expertise is from God’s Spirit or from some other (source). And there are also (others) who have been given by God’s Spirit the expertise to speak languages that are not understood by the people. There are also (others) who have been given expertise to explain as to what was said there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And to another the Holy Spirit gives the power so he can do miracles. And to another yet is given the skill to explain what God has caused him to understand. And to still another is given the skill to identify a supernatural guide, whether it comes from God or whether it is a demon. There are also people whom God gives the skill to speak in languages which they do not know; and there are also people to whom is given the skill to interpret what these people say.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He moreover gives to another the ability to do miracles, to another the ability to tell what God has made-known, and to still another the ability to be-able-to-distinguish whether or not what was said was from God. To still another, he gives the ability to speak various languages that he doesn’t know, and to still another, he gives the ability to interpret those languages.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There are others also who have been given the ability to do miracles (lit. amazing things). There are also those whom the Espiritu Santo puts-into-the-mind-of words which God is making known to everyone, and there are also those being graced with the ability to recognize if it is really the Espiritu Santo who is putting-into-the-mind words like this, or if it just the deception of the evil-spirits. There are still others also who are being given the gift of being able to speak different languages that they haven’t studied. And then, in the case of others also, they can explain the meaning these languages that they haven’t studied.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Others are given strength to do miracles. Others, the Holy Spirit puts in their minds the word they are to speak. Others he causes to know well whether the Holy Spirit puts in the mind the words spoken by a person or not. Concerning others, the Holy Spirit causes that they speak different words they did not know. There are some whom the Holy Spirit causes to be able to tell the meaning of these different words which are spoken.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 22:56:
- Noongar: “When one serving woman saw him sitting close to the fire, she looked straight at him and said, ‘This man also accompanied Jesus!’ ” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “A female working in the house of the High Priest saw Petrus while he was warming-himself-by-the-fire. She recognized him and she said: ‘That person is a companion of Yesus!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then he was seen by one of the servant girls while he was sitting in the light of the fire. The girl stared at him and she said, ‘This person is also a companion of Isa.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there was there a woman servant and she saw Peter warming himself, and she looked carefully at Peter and she said, ‘Even that man is a companion of the one they have arrested.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “A young-lady servant saw him because he was lit-up by the fire, and she looked-closely at him saying, ‘This man, he was definitely one of his companions.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “One of the servant girls saw Pedro warming-himself-by-the-fire. When she saw him, she scrutinized him well and said, ‘This fellow is a companion of that Jesus.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 3:3:
- Uma: “Yohanes is the one about whom the prophet Yesaya spoke long ago. Yesaya said like this: ‘There is a person calling in the wilderness, he says: ‘The Lord is almost arriving! Prepare ahead of time his way/road, Make flat ahead of time the road he will pass-by-on.’ ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Nabi Isaya had spoken about this Yahiya, he said, ‘There is a person calling in the wilderness. This is what he says, ‘Soon the Leader (Lord after this) will arrive. Make the way he is passing smooth. Make the way he is going straight.’ ‘” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “John was the one prophesied long ago by Isaiah who said, ‘There is a person who lives in an area where there are no people living, and then he will be heard by the people who will come to him. He will say, ‘Soon the Lord will come. Clean the way he will take; straighten out the path he will walk on,’ which is to say, ‘get rady for his coming.’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Juan is the one whom-Isaias the prophet -was-speaking-of saying, ‘There-is in the place of no inhabitants someone-who-is shouting/speaking-loudly saying, ‘Prepare the path-to-be-taken by the Lord who is coming so that the path he will walk-on will be good.’ ‘” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This Juan is the one referred to in what was said by the prophet Isaias, who said, ‘There is one calling-out in the wilderness, saying, ‘You (pl.) make a trail for the Lord. Make-direct and improve/make-properly this which he will walk on.”” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It was concerning this John of whom the spokesman Isaiah spoke when he said: ‘There will be heard that a person is speaking in the wilds and he will say: ‘Prepare because now is coming the Lord,’ ‘ he will tell the people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 13:11:
- Uma: “For example while I was still small, I talked like a small child, my heart was like a small child, my thinking was like a small child. But now I am big, the character of my childhood I have let-go-of. So also, abilities that we get from the Holy Spirit won’t last forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “It’s parable is, formerly when I was still really a child, my thinking and my speaking and my reasoning was like a child’s. But now because I am grown up, I have left/given up all my thoughts and behavior of my childhood.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Long ago when I was still a child, my thinking, my speaking, and my attitudes were not yet right, because these were still the activities of someone who is young. But now that I am old already, I’ve abandoned those former activities of a young person.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “For-example, during my childhood, the way I spoke, thought and planned was like a child, but now that I am a grown-man, I have left-behind the behavior of a child.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This is like the growth of a person. For when we were still children, our words were still the words of children. Like that also was our mind/thinking and our ability-to-reason. But when we were now old/grown, our fitting-for-a-child nature/ways were now removed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When I was a child, I spoke the words which are spoken by children. Concerning my thoughts, they were like the thoughts of children. But now I am an adult and now have come to an end those words I spoke when I was a child.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Chichewa (interconfessional translation, 1999): “When I was a child, | I used to speak in a childish way, and I would understand things in a childish way. | But when I grew up, I stopped those childish things.” (Source: Wendland 1998, p. 161)
