Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:7:
- Uma: “For the poor, they are always with you. If you want to help them, you always have opportunity. But I, I won’t always be with you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For the poor,’ Isa said, ‘will not go-away from you, and whenever you want to, you can help them. But I, I will not remain here with you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You can always help the poor people for you can never get away from them, but as for me, I will soon leave you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because there are always poor-people where you are, and whatever hour you want, you can help them, but as for me, I will not always be with you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For all time the poor are your companions and you can aid them at whatever hour you wish. But as for me, I won’t be your companion for much longer.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 13:1:
- Uma: “Keep on loving one another like those who are relatives in the Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Do not stop loving each other for you are all like brothers because you trust in Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It’s necessary that you keep on holding precious in your breath your fellow believers.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Continue loving-one-another like brothers.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s necessary that you continue to value one another like one brotherhood.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Always love one another just like as though you were siblings.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 16:34:
- Uma: “After that, he took them to his house and he fed them. The whole household was exceedingly glad, because they had [come to] believed in God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then the guard took Paul and Silas up to his house and fed them. All the people of the house were very glad because God was now the one they were trusting in.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He brought Paul and Silas up into his house, and he fed them. And as for him and his family, they were very happy because they had now believed in God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “After that he invited Pablo and Silas to their house to feed them. And all of them in the household were made-very-happy on-account-of their having-believed in God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then they had Pablo-and-companion go with them to the house and set-a-meal-before them. They were all really very happy because they had now believed in God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:39:
- Uma: “From there, he went again to pray. That prayer of his was the same as his first prayer.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Isa left again and he prayed, he repeated what he had said to his Father.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Jesus returned and prayed again the same thing he had prayed before.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus again went and prayed like he had at first.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus again went away a bit from them and prayed again, praying like that again.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of James 1:8:
- Uma: “For a person like that has a two-branched heart, there is no stability/certainty in his life. That’s why he can’t hope/expect that he will get anything from the Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For if his thoughts/mind is doubting, whatever he does his thinking is not steady.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “for he is thinking two things; he does not trust God, and none of his acts can be trusted either.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because of course he is doubting, and whatever he does, he keeps-changing his mind.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “because of this nature/ways of his of keep changing his mind/thinking as to whether or not he will trust-in/rely-on God. That kind of person isn’t trustworthy in anything he does.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “This person decides on something, then he wonders about doing it. He never comes to an understanding about what he should do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 17:26:
- Uma: “From one person, he brought forth [lit., caused to be descended] all of mankind, and he commanded us to inhabit the whole world. He established from the start the border of the land of the dwelling of every nation, and the time of their rule.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The first man created by God,’ Paul said, ‘he was the beginning of all the tribes and God made them to dwell here in the whole world. And beforehand already he set a limit as to how long and as to which land/place they should live in.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And out of only one origin he made all kinds of people, and he spread them here all over the earth. And he established beforehand the boundaries of where we human beings live and also the time of our living here.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Only-one person is whom he created at first in order that that would be the origin of the mutually-different people on the surface of the earth. He also designated long ago the time that each nation would rule and the boundaries of their countries.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And it’s true, although the origin of us people is one only, he has made the nations many now, so that this world which he created would be spread all over with people. And he indeed is the one who has determined the times and land of each of these nations, as to when he would set them up or cause them to be wiped out, and where would be the limits of the places where they would live.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Teutila Cuicatec: “God made of one single race the people of all nations and commanded them to live on all the earth. He established the period that they should live and where they should live.”
- Isthmus Mixe: “He made us, he gave us one blood, as many of us as live in all groups of towns, so that we might live in all the land of the earth. He has appointed what time and place we should live in.” (Source for this and above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:71:
- Uma: “Petrus swore and cursed himself, he said: ‘I indeed don’t know the person you’re talking about!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Petros cursed himself and he swore. He said, ‘I really do not know the person you are talking about.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Peter swore a very strong oath, he said, ‘May God punish me if what I said is not true that I don’t know that person that you are talking about.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon Pedro swore-to-his-own-hurt saying, ‘May God punish-me if what I am saying is not true. I swear that I absolutely do not know the man you are talking-about.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Expletive, certainly not! I swear that even if I die (Tagbanwa-style oath),’ said Pedro, ‘I really don’t know that fellow whom you mean.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of James 2:13:
- Uma: “For a person who has no love for his companion, the Lord will punish him with no love. But to the person who loves his companion, the Lord will also show him his love on the punishment day.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For in this judgment, the person who hasn’t had pity/mercy on his fellow human-being, will also not be pitied by God. But the one who has pity/mercy on his fellow-man, does not need to be afraid of being judged.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For as for God, he in the future will not pity the person who has no pity for his companion. But as for the person, by contrast, who is habitually showing pity, he has no need to be afraid for God will not punish him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because the one who is not merciful to his fellow, neither will God show-mercy to him when he judges him. But as for the one who is consistently-merciful, he will have nothing to fear at God’s time-of-judging.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because as for the one who isn’t (lit. doesn’t know how to be) gracious/merciful to his fellowman, he also won’t be shown grace/mercy when he is judged by God. But as for the one who is gracious/merciful, he doesn’t have to be afraid of anything at that time of judging.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now the person who does not have compassion towards his fellowman will not have compassion shown to him when he is judged. But the person who has compassion will have nothing happen to him when he is judged.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
