Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:13:
- Noongar: “Now you are bad people but you know how to give good things to your children. So God your Father will give much more; he will give the Holy Spirit to all people who ask him.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “No matter how evil you are, you know to give good [things] to your children. Even more so your Father who is in heaven. He definitely gives the Holy Spirit to people who request to Him.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You, even though you are sinful, you know (how) to give to your children all kinds of good things. More so really God, your Father in heaven will give you the Holy Spirit if you ask him to.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now as for you humans who are not righteous, if good is what you give children, how much more will our Father God in heaven give you the Holy Spirit if you ask this from Him.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You then who are bad, if you know to give your children good-things, surely even-more-so our Father in heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, if as for you who are sinful, you know indeed to give good things to your children, isn’t it so that your Father in heaven does much more? He really will give his Espiritu Santo to him who truly requests from him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 12:6:
- Uma: “After that, that woman went out/ran away going to an empty land, and she lived there in the dwelling-place that had been prepared ahead of time for her by God. In that place she was taken care of for one thousand two hundred sixty days.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, the woman after she had given birth fled to the desert (lit. lonely place) which God had prepared for her. There she was caused to dwell and cared for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for the woman, she escaped to the land where no people live to a refuge prepared before by God. There God will take care of the woman for a thousand two hundred and sixty days which is the same as three and one-half years.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “As for the woman, she fled to go to a place where no one resided which God had prepared as her staying-place so that she would be taken-care-of there for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, as for that woman, what she did was run away there to the wilderness place (lit.place where one could starve), to a place which had already been set aside for her by God, so that he could look after her there for the space of one thousand two hundred and sixty days.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The woman fled and went to a wilderness, a place which God had determined for her to live in. There she was given what she ate during one thousand two hundred and sixty days.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 9:19:
- Uma: “So, certainly there will some person who will say like this: ‘If it is like that, then why does God criticize our bad behavior, because our that behavior of ours is just following his decision [he made] beforehand.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Perhaps one of you (pl.) says to me, ‘If it is like that, why does God find-fault/accuse people. Nobody can oppose his will/wish.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Certainly there will be someone who says, ‘If that’s the case with God, then why does He get angry with people because of their sins, because it is not possible for them not to obey what God wants.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Now there may be those of you who will say, ‘If that is indeed the case, why does God still accuse-people -of-sin? Is there even one person who is able-to-change what God wants?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I suppose that there is someone who wants to say to me: ‘How come then God says that the people have sin? Because no one can go against what God has determined’ they will say to me. Now we, being just people, who are we to say that we do not look well upon what God has determined? Take a pot, for instance, can it say to the maker of pots: ‘I do not look well upon the form in which you have made me’ it will say.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:45:
- Noongar: “One Law Man said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, if you say this, you insult us also!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “A Yahudi religion teacher said to Yesus: ‘Teacher, with those words of yours(s), you (sing.) are also finding-fault with us (excl.)!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then one of the teachers of the religious law answered Isa he said, ‘Sir, if you speak like that you also shame us (excl.).'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were there some teachers of the Law, and they said to Jesus, they said, ‘Chief, as for those words of yours, we were struck also by them.’ (this means that those words were a rebuke to them)” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon one of the teachers of the law said, ‘Sir teacher, in your (sing.) saying that, you (sing.) are including us (excl.) in being shamed.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “An explainer of law spoke. He said, ‘Teacher, in what you said there, you are insulting/belittling even us (excl.) now.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 14:2:
- Uma: “And I heard a big sound from heaven, like the roaring of big water and like the bigness of the sound of thunder. The sound that I heard was like the sound of a stringed-instrument [kasapi, from Indonesian: kecapi, ‘lute’] being played/beaten by people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of the cataract of a great river/water and loud like thunder. The voice I heard was also melodious/musical/nice to hear (lu’uy) like the sound when a person plays the harp.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then I heard a voice coming from heaven, and its speaking was like the sound of very many waters and like the sound of a very loud thunder clap. This voice which I heard was also like the sound of many people playing harps.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I also heard a voice from heaven like the roar of a high waterfall or rumbling (different word) thunder. It was also like the sound of many harps (loan arpa) being strummed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Then I heard speech which came from heaven, just like the gushing of a big waterfall and like loud claps of thunder. That speech which I heard, you could say it was the plucking of players on their stringed-instruments which are alpa.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And I heard a word from heaven. Very loudly the word was heard. It sounded like the roar of water or like the thundering of thunder. And the stringed instruments, harps, very many I heard.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 10:18:
- Uma: “But let’s not say/think like this: ‘The Israel people, they haven’t yet heard the Good News.’ They have heard it! In the Holy Book it is written like this: ‘The News spread to the whole world, Those words were announced to all mankind.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But there is something I ask: Didn’t the people of Isra’il hear the story/news about Isa Almasi that’s why they do not believe? They indeed really heard. For the holy-book says, ‘The people commanded by God are telling all people and their words are well-known in the whole world/earth.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And certainly someone will say, ‘No wonder the Jews didn’t believe, because they haven’t heard this preaching.’ However, it’s not possible that they haven’t heard, for there is a written word of God which says, ‘As for this word, the telling of it has spread to all mankind, and there is no end to where it has been spread,’ he said.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “All right, let me ask this. Is it perhaps possible that the Jews didn’t hear concerning Cristo? They indeed heard, because what God caused-to-be-written says, ‘Their words/voices/speech have been heard in even any place; what they have said has been made-known in all towns/countries on the earth.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But concerning the Jews, in that they did not believe the word, is that they didn’t hear about the word? Truly they heard about the word. Because it says in the Holy Book the word which says: ‘This word, everywhere is heard this word spoken by the preachers. Because the word is taken all over the world.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 19:4.
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:23:
- Noongar: “Life is greater than eating and drinking and the body is greater than clothes.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Because your lives are more than food and clothes.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For the life is more valuable than food and the body is more valuable than clothes.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because God has given you breath and your body, which is very precious and it cannot be that he will not give you also food and clothing.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because your lives are far-away more-valuable than food, and your bodies are also emphatically more-valuable than clothes.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For isn’t it so that life is greater/more-important than food and the body also is greater/more-important than clothing? Well since life and body are indeed the gift of God to you, of course he will also give these which you need which are food and clothing.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 16:6:
- Uma: “For those people in the world there killed your (sing.) followers, they spilled/poured-out the blood of your (sing.) many prophets. That is why now you (sing.) change the water to become blood,you (sing.) give-it-to-them-to-drink. How appropriate that is!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because your people and the people who carried your message were killed by the people in the world and their blood was spilled by them, therefore now you give them blood to drink. That is matching/right as a reward/repayment for them.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For they killed those who believe in You and the prophets long ago. So now You are making them drink blood for it is a proper revenge on them!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because the ones you (sing.) are punishing, they killed your (sing.) people as well as the prophets you (sing.) repeatedly-sent and-so their blood flowed-out, and now, blood is what you are-causing-them -to-drink. They indeed deserve it (lit. It is indeed their recompense)!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “To the people who caused to be shed the blood of your people and the blood also of your prophets, to them you have given blood for them to drink. That really is fitting for them.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because concerning these you are now punishing, they are the ones who killed the people who are in your hand and they have killed the spokesmen who spoke for you. Therefore you give them their payment now, causing them to drink the water turned to blood.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
