Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:8:
- Noongar: “I also am a man with a boss. He stands over me but many soldiers sit beneath me. I tell this man, ‘Go!’ and he goes; I say to that man, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and I tell my servant, ‘Do this!’ and he does.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Because me, I am also just a commanded-one, and there are also those whom I command. If for example there is my command to a soldier saying to him: ‘Go!,’ he definitely goes. If I call another soldier, ‘Come here!’ he definitely comes. If I say to my slaves, ‘Do that!’ they definitely do it. So also You (sing.) Father, what you (sing.) say there [where the listener is, but not the speaker], will definitely happen here.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I know for even I am ruled over by the great ones/the ones higher up and I rule over the soldiers. If I say to one, ‘Go,’ he goes. If I say to another one, ‘Come here,’ he comes. And if I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ he does it.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I know, because it’s just like there’s someone who is in charge of me, and there are also soldiers that I’m in charge of and I command the one that he should come to me and he comes. I also send my servant, if I have anything for him to do, and he does it. It’s just the same with you, because what you say will come to pass.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because it’s reportedly the same with him that there are higher-ups who give-orders to him and there are also his soldiers to whom he gives-orders. If he tells one, ‘Go,’ he goes, and if he also says to one, ‘Come,’ he comes, and if he also tells his slave, ‘Do this,’ he does it.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For I am used to verbal orders, because I also have a boss/leader who gives me orders, and there are soldiers to whom I give orders. If I say to one person, ‘Go,’ he really will go. Well if I say to the next, ‘Come here,’ he truly comes to me. It’s like that too with my servant, if I order him, ‘Do this,’ he truly will do it.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Italian (La Sua Parola è Vita): “I too am subject to the authority of my superiors and I myself have authority over my men; I know that if I give an order to any of them or to my servant, they obey me.” (Cotrozzi 2019 explains: “La Sua Parola è Vita quite boldly recasts the verse as indirect speech and generalizes its content to adapt it to Italian ears.”)
Following are a number of back-translations of Jude 1:10:
- Uma: “Yet those false teachers [emphatic], they disparage powerful things/beings that they do not know. What they know, [is] any-old-kind-of behavior, like animals that do not think. And because of that behavior of theirs they will end up being punished.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But these people I talked about, they talk-bad-about/insult what they don’t understand. They are like animals, (who/they) cannot think but do whatever they/their bodies wish and this is what will destroy them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, as for those people by contrast who teach lies, they speak in rejection against what they do not understand. They are like wild animals who cannot think. For the behaviour which their bodies desire is what they do, and that is what destroys them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But these people, they speak-evil-of whatever they don’t understand. They are like animals who aren’t thinking/reflective, because what they understand, it is the feelings/urges of their bodies and that very thing (lit. such also) is what will destroy/ruin them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But as for these people, they insult/belittle whatever they don’t understand. And those things they do know, the inborn/instinctive desires which are indulged in like what is done by animals which have no mind/inner-being, that’s what will lead to their destruction.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But these men I am speaking about now speak evil of those who have authority and do not understand about them. Like the animals who do not have understanding, who do what comes to mind, so do these about whom I am speaking, these things causing them to perish.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 1:29:
- Uma: “Many kinds of sin and thoughts that are not straight are in their hearts. They are greedy, evil their behavior, jealous, want to murder, quarrel, deceive, hateful,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Their livers are filled with different-kinds of sin and whatever is evil/bad. They are covetous and they do bad to their companions. They are always jealous of their companions. They kill. They always fight/quarrel and they deceive their companions. They wish that bad things happen to their companions. They are always gossiping.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The only thing they think about is wickedness and evil behavior. They are selfish and their behavior is filthy. They are full of envy; they murder; they quarrel with each other; they tell lies; they harm their companions, they gossip.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They continually are doing all kinds of evil. They are greedy (lit. grab-after what is not theirs) and envious. They are murderers, quarrelers, tricksters, and they are continually-thinking/planning to treat-their companions -maliciously. They are gossipers,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning these people, their hearts have been grabbed by the evil they walk by. They are adulterers, evil people. They want to increasingly multiply what they own. They are envious. They are murderers, they are wanters of fights, they are deceivers, they are unrestrained.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:40:
- Noongar: “Jesus said to him, ‘Simon, I will tell you one thing.’ ‘Yes, Lord,’ he said. ‘Tell me!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “From there, Yesus said saying to that Parisi person: ‘Simon, there is something I want to say to you (sing.).’ Simon said: ‘Say it, Teacher.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Isa spoke to him, he said, ‘Simon, I would like to say something to you.’ ‘What is it, Sir?’ said Simon.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Jesus spoke these words to the Pharisee, he said, ‘Oh Simon, I have something to say to you.’ And Simon said, ‘What?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon Jesus said to him, ‘Ay (vocative) Simon, I have something to say to you (sing.).’ ‘OK, Sir teacher, say it indeed,’ he said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus knew what was in the mind/inner-being of that Pariseo. Therefore he spoke saying, ‘Simon, I have something to say, you listen.’ ‘Yes,’ said Simon, ‘what is it that you have to say, Teacher?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 1:17:
- Uma: “When I saw him thus, down I fell prone in front of him, I was like a dead person. From there, he placed his right hand on my body and he said to me, ‘Do not be afraid. I am the beginning and the end.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When I saw him, immediately I fell at his feet. I was like a dead person. But he placed his right hand on me and said, ‘Don’t be afraid. I am the beginning and the end of all things.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when I saw Him I fell on my face in front of Him, and it was as if I were dead. He placed His right hand on me and He said, ‘Don’t be afraid because I am the origin and the ending of everything.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When I saw him, I fell-over before him as if I were dead. But he laid his right hand on me and said, ‘Don’t (sing.) be afraid, because I am the first and last.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet. I couldn’t respond because it was like I was lifeless. But he touched me with his right hand and said, ‘Don’t be afraid. I am the one who is first before all and also I am the one who is right at the end. Everything is really in my control.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Seeing him standing there, I fell, arriving at his feet like a dead person. He put out his hand, his right one, and touched me. He said to me: ‘ Do not be afraid. I am the one who was living when all things began to exist, and I will be continuing to live when there is the end.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 2:29:
- Uma: “Jews who are really God’s people, are people who are/become Jews in their hearts, and who are circumcised in their hearts. That means the work of the Holy Spirit in their hearts makes them God’s people, they did not become God’s people from their following written laws. People like that are the ones God praises. Even though men do not praise them, God will still praise them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But the real Yahudi, is a person whose liver has been made new by God’s Spirit. His following/obeying the law is not what makes his liver new. This person even if his fellow human beings do not praise him yet God praises him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “In the same way also the true Jew is the person whose breath has been marked by God by means of the Holy Spirit and not by means of obeying the Law. And a person like this, it may be that he is not praised by his fellow men. However, he by contrast will be praised by God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because the true Jew, I mean to say, the true person of God, it is not the person who is like a Jew in appearance and in custom only but rather it is the person whose thoughts are right. The circumcision moreover that is valuable in God’s estimation, it is not the circumcision of part of the body but rather it is the removal of evil from a person’s mind which is the work of the Spirit of God, not the work of the written law. The person who is like this, even though his companions don’t praise him, God praises him nonetheless.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He who truly is God’s people, is the one who sets his heart on separating from evil. This is the person whom God looks well upon, even though people don’t look well upon that person.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Mezquital Otomi: “But the true Jew is he who obeys God in his heart, and that true sign in that which is inside a clean heart. This true sign is that which God does in one’s life principle, it is not that made in the body as written in the law. People will elevate the honor of the Jews just in appearance, but God is the one who will elevate the honor of those who are truly Jews in their hearts.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:22:
- Noongar: “One day, Jesus and his disciples got into a boat. Jesus said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side of the lake.’ So they started going.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “One day, Yesus with his disciples was riding a boat. Yesus said saying to them: ‘Let’s go to the other side of the lake.’ They left.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One day Isa went together with his disciples in a boat and he said to them, ‘Let us go, crossing over to the other side of the lake.’ Therefore they started out.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “One day at that time, Jesus and his disciples got into a boat, and he said, ‘Come on, let’s cross over to the other side.’ And then they left, riding in the boat.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “On one-occasion, Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Let’s cross-over (body of water).’ And they rode in a boat to depart.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “One day, Jesus sailed in a boat together with his disciples. He said to those disciples of his, ‘Let’s go to the other side of this lake.’ Well, they sailed to go to the other side.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:29:
- Uma: “‘Whoever has-ears, listen well to what the Holy Spirit says to my followers in every village.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘All you who have ears, you should listen to what the Spirit of God says to the churches.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Everyone of you must listen/obey to what the Holy Spirit says to you believers.’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You who are listening, think-about what God’s Spirit is saying to the congregations.’ ‘” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore since what ears are for is for listening with, you must listen well to this which is being said which the Espiritu Santo is causing to be comprehended by the ones who believe and trust in me.”” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
