Language-specific Insights

complete verse (1 Timothy 6:14)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Timothy 6:14:

  • Uma: “I advise you to follow all these orders with no reservations/imperfections [lit., scales] and above reproach, until the return of our Lord Yesus Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “really follow/obey all God’s commands to you so that no evil/bad will be mixed (with it) and so that the teaching of God will not be looked down upon/not be criticized. Really follow/obey as-long-as the time when our (incl.) Leader Isa Almasi comes back to earth is not reached.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “God and Jesus Chirst can witness that I am charging you to carefully carry out without mistake what I have commanded you until our Lord Jesus Christ returns. God is the one who will act supernaturally to resurrect all of his creatures. And as for Jesus, he is the one who has witnessed about the true doctrine before Pontius Pilate.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “What I command, be-sure-to obey all of God’s commands and be-careful/guard-(them) so that they will not be added-to by what isn’t true and so that no one says they have a fault/lack. Do these-things until the day arrives when-Jesu Cristo our Lord -will-appear.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Follow/obey well all that has been commanded you. Do it really well so that nothing whatever can be found fault with. And keep on with it until our Lord Jesu-Cristo returns here.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “All these words which I order you to do, do them. Let nothing lack so that no word will be found against you that you didn’t do correctly until the day when again the Lord Jesus Christ comes.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 5:18)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 5:18:

  • Uma: “They arrested/caught those apostles of Lord Yesus and detained them in the village jail.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So they commanded them to be seized and imprisoned.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they just moved and arrested the apostles and put them in prison.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Therefore, they went and arrested them and imprisoned them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Therefore they went to the apostles and arrested and imprisoned them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Mark 4:29)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 4:29:

  • Uma: “When the rice is ripe, the owner goes carrying a sickle to cut it with, since harvest time has come.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When it’s fruit is ripe the owner of the field commands it immediately to be harvested for the harvest has come.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when it ripens, the owner of the land harvests it because it is harvest time.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When it is ripe, then he goes to harvest-it.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, when it’s ripe, of course it will be harvested for then it’s harvest time.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

For the Old Testament quote, see Joel 3:13.

complete verse (2 Timothy 2:7)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Timothy 2:7:

  • Uma: “Consider this advice of mine, the Lord will make clear your heart so that you understand it all.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Keep thinking of these comparisons/parables of mine because God will help you so that you will really understand all.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Think about this which I have taught you, and the Lord will help you so that you might thoroughly understand it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Think carefully about these-things that I have told you (sing.), and the Lord Jesus will help you (sing.) so that you (sing.) are-able-to-understand all.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Be always thinking about these things I’m saying, for the Lord will cause it to be understood by you all.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Know why I tell you this word. God will do that your hearts finds well all the word I tell you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 6:8)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 6:8:

  • Uma: “As for Stefanus, God really blessed him, he gave him authority to do many surprising signs that showed the power of God to the people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “That Estepan was a man who was helped very much by God, and was given by God supernatural power by God that’s why he did powerful works and wonder-causing works among the people in Awrusalam.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now as for Stephen, God blessed him and he had great power. There were many miracles and signs which he showed to the people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Esteban, the miracles and signs he was doing that the people were seeing were extremely amazing, because God’s help to him was great and he was also full of his power.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, as for that Esteban, it was obvious that with him was much grace/help and far-from-ordinary means/ability which comes from God. Proof was, many were the signs which were amazing things which he was able to do before the eyes of everyone.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Mark 5:20)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 5:20:

  • Uma: “He went to the land of Dekapolis (meaning: Ten Villages), spreading the news of what Yesus had done to him [lit., his body]. All the people who heard were surprised.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then the person/man went and he covered the whole country/place called Ten Towns and he told about the great deed that Isa had done to him. All people who heard this were very astonished.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then that person left, and he went to all the villages in the province named Ten Cities, and he told all the good things that Jesus had done to him. And all the people there were amazed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then that man left, and went-around-and-around all the region of the Ten Cities telling what Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Therefore that person set out. He went telling there in the ten towns in the place called Decapolis that which Jesus had done to/for him. All to whom he told the story were amazed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (2 Timothy 3:13)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Timothy 3:13:

  • Uma: “But evil people and deceivers, the evil of their character will just get worse. They deceive others with their lying teaching, but in fact it is they also who are deceived.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “And the people who are bad/evil and the ones who are foolish, their bad/evil deeds will increase. They fool/deceive their companions but they are fooled/deceived also.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, the evil people and the false believers, their behavior will continue to get worse. They lead the minds of people astray, but their minds are also led astray.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “While as-for the people who are evil and those who deceive their companions, the evil they are doing will grow-worse-and-worse/more-and-more, because they will continue to deceive their companions while at-the-same-time they are also being-deceived.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “For those whose nature/ways are evil who are deceitful, they will become much more evil, keeping on with their leading astray of their fellowman, and well, what else but they themselves are being led astray too.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “The people who are evil people and are lying teachers will more and more turn out evil in how they walk. As they deceive they will also be deceived.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 7:25)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 7:25:

  • Uma: “Musa thought [emphatic] that his relatives would know that he was the one God would use-as-hands to free them from their slavery. But they did not know.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “He thought-mistakenly that his tribe/nation would understand that he was the one God would use to set them free, but they did not understand.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Moses thought mistakenly that his companion Jews already understood that he was the one God had chosen to set them free from the Egyptians. However they didn’t understand it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Moses thought his companions would understand that he was the one God had chosen to set-them -free, but surprisingly they did not understand.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Moises mistakenly-thought that his own people would understand that he was the one God would use to release them from their slavery. But well, they didn’t understand.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Lalana Chinantec: “‘My companions realize,’ Moses thought, ‘they realize that God has sent me. They realize that I will save the people of Israel’. ‘That’s what Moses thought. But that was not what his companions thought.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)