Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 4:22:
Uma: “There it is written: Abraham had two children. One of his children was born from Hagar, who was [lit., lived] a slave. And the other child was born from Sara, she was not [emphatic] a slave.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “The holy-book says hep that Ibrahim had two sons. One of his children was from his slave wife (his wife who was a slave) and one was from his not-a-slave wife.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because there is told in the Law that there were two sons of Abraham; the one was born by Hagar, his slave-wife, and the other was born by Sarah, his wife who was not a slave.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Because it’s written in God’s word that there were two males that Abraham sired. One was a child of Hagar the slave of his wife and the other was the child of Sara his wife who was not a slave.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “For it says there, as for Abraham, his children were two males. One was his child from Agar the slave he quasi-married. That other one, that was his child from the woman who was not a slave, Sara, who was his original wife.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “You know that it is written that Abraham had two sons. One son was the son of a woman who was just a servant. The other son was the son of the woman of the house.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 8:50:
Uma: “I am not asking-to-be-praised. It is God who honors me, and He is the one who judges whether I am true/right or not.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “I am not aspiring to being honored. Somebody else is thinking of honoring me and he is the judge.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I am not looking for fame from anyone, however God wishes that I might be honored by people. He will show that my defense is true.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “I don’t moreover try-to-get-myself-praised, but there is nonetheless someone who is in-charge-of my-being-praised, and he is the very one who will judge the ones who downgrade/mock-me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “I am not looking for my own praise/glory. My Father is the one to deal with that. He is the one who stands up for me and who judges you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “I am not looking for how I will be respected. And he judges those who do not respect me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 17:4:
Uma: “From there Petrus said to Yesus: ‘Lord, it is very good for us to stay here. If you (sing.) want, Lord, I will make three huts here: one-house as-your (sing.)-portion Lord, one-house for Musa and one-house also for Elia.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “While they were talking Petros said to Isa, ‘Sir, it is very good that we (excl.) are here. If you want to I will make here three huts/shelters. One for you, one for Musa and one for Eliyas.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Peter said to Jesus, ‘It is very good that we (excl.) are here. If you like, I will build here three shelters; one is yours, one is Moses’, and one is Elijah’s.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Pedro said to him, ‘Lord, our presence here is good. If that’s what-you (sing.) -will-be-happy-with, I will indeed make here three shelters, so that one will be yours (sing.), one Moses’ and one Elias’.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Pedro spoke, saying to Jesus, ‘It’s really good that we (incl.) are here now. If you want, I will make three shelters. One is for you, one for Moises and one for Elias.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Peter said to Jesus: ‘Listen, Lord, it is good that we are here. Now do you want that we (excl.) build some little houses, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah?’ he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Burmese Catholic Scripture extracts translation by Fr. Guiseppe d’Amato (before 1809): “At this time, Peter supplicated [this word is always used when common people address monks] the Lord Jesus, ‘Divine Lord [typical vocative used when addressing monks], if this place is good for the divine dwelling, if it is your golden will [archaic term but understandable in context as referring to the will of a royal or divine person], three monasteries [domesticizing element, Buddhist monasteries are an ancient institution in Burma], one for the Divine Lord to recline in [verb used for the Buddha or a monk to sit or stay somewhere], one for Moses to recline in, one for Elijah to recline in, we will build.’” (Source: John Hans de Jong in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 75/4, 2024, p. 747ff. )
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 5:23:
Uma: “we are humble [lit., our hearts are low], and we control ourselves. There is no law at all that forbids behavior like that.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “His liver is low/humble and he does not give-into/indulge his greedy-desires. Truly there is no law that is against these deeds.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “We are not overbearing and we can control the desires of our bodies. And if this is what we (incl.) do we will not disobey God’s commands to us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “he is humble (lit. lowers his thoughts) and he controls himself. The one who follows these behaviors, there is nothing he will do that the law prohibits.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “meek/patient and able to control himself. Well, if these things are now in our lives, what is there still for the law to oppose? Isn’t it so that there’s no longer anything?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “He doesn’t make himself big, he accomplishes the control of his heart. Now there isn’t any law which can say that a person who does what I have told you here will go to punishment.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:23:
Uma: “That is why his parents said: ‘He is big now, ask him yourself.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Therefore his parents said hep, ‘Ask him. He is no longer a child.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore his parents said, ‘He is already an adult; you ask him.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “That’s what they said, because they were afraid of the rulers of the Jews. Because they had already made-an-agreement that if anyone said that Jesus was the Messiah, he wouldn’t be counted among his fellow Jews.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “That’s why the reply of his parents was like that, saying, ‘After all he’s no longer a child. He’s the one for you to ask.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Therefore these old people said, ‘Ask him yourselves. Now he is a big man, he will tell you how come.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 18:9:
Uma: “And if for example one of our (incl.) eyes carries us (incl.) to sin, gouge/pry it out and throw it away. It is better to have just one eye and receive goodness of life with God that to have two eyes but in the end we (incl.) are thrown into the fire of hell.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “And if your eye also influences you to sin, leave/give up your sin. Figuratively as if you dig out your eye and throw it away. It is better for you to enter heaven even if you have only one eye than if you have two eyes but are thrown into the fire of hell.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if the thing by which you are successfully tempted is your eye, dig it out and throw it away, because it is better if you only have one eye and you are given life forever rathen than your having two eyes and you are thrown in the fire of hell.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Your (sing.) eye also, it that’s your (sing.) means-of-sinning, extract-it to throw it away. Because it is better if you (sing.) go join-in-experiencing the life in heaven one-eyed than that you (sing.) have two eyes and you (sing.) are thrown into the fire in hell.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Well if supposing your eye is where what causes you to sin originates, just pluck it out and throw it away. For it doesn’t matter even if one eye plucked out, as long as life which is without ending will be yours. Certainly (better) than still having both eyes and be thrown into the fire which never dies down.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “If you say that it is the sin of your eye that you committed sin, pluck out your eye and throw it far away. It is better that you only have one eye when you enter where you will live with God, than that you have two eyes and thus go to hell where the fire burns.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 1:11:
Uma: “God made all [kinds of] things according to his desire and his own decision. From the beginning of the creating of the world he chose us and he had already made certain beforehand that we were the ones who become his portion from our connection with Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “All that God has done he did because that was what he wished and that is what he planned. So then, because that was his plan, we (excl.) were chosen by him to become his people because we (excl.) have become-one with Almasi. This was his plan since the beginning of time already.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Everything that God is doing, it is the fulfillment of His purpose and His desire. And because it was His purpose, He chose us (excl.) the Jewish believers, so that we might become His subjects who would become one with Christ. This was His purpose that He decided on long ago before anything was created. And as for us, the Jews who were the first to believe in Christ, the reason He chose us is because it was His desire that by means of us, He who is very powerful, would be praised.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “All that happens, it is according to the original plan of God, and so also was his choosing us (excl.) so that we (excl.) would become his people because of our (excl.) being joined-to/belonging-to Cristo. That’s what he decided since the first” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “This being united/tied-together of ours to Cristo is from where it comes that we also be graced with salvation/freedom in the future. From the distant past he had already chosen us that he would give us this good. This is indeed according to his determined-plan, he who determines everything in harmony with the good counsel which is his will.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “All that which was determined to be done by God is what is done by him. And very long ago God determined that all those who walk with Christ, all of us will see the good which God gives.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 10:14:
Uma: “‘I am the good shepherd. Like my Father knows me, and I know my Father, so also I know my sheep, and my sheep know me. I give my life so that my sheep live.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “I,’ said Isa, ‘am figuratively the shepherd who takes good care of his sheep. I and my Father really know each other. Likewise I also know the people who belong to me and they also know me. I submit to dying for the people who belong to me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “But I however am the good care-taker. Because the mutual-knowing of my sheep and me, it is the same as the mutual-knowing of my Father and me. I moreover am the one who will die so that my sheep have a way to live.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “I am the good shepherd. In the way in which I am known by my Father and he also is known to me, like that indeed I know my own sheep and they also know me. And I really will give my life/breath just because of them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “I am like a good shepherd. My Father knows me and I also know my Father. Like this now, I know all of my sheep. They also know me. And I give up my life to save my sheep.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
