Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 8:13:
- Uma: “So, relatives, in these Words of the Lord earlier, God spoke of a new Promise, and with those words of his he said that the previous Promise must be replaced because it was old. So, that old Promise is no longer used, it is certainly discarded and replaced with a new one.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because God speaks about a new covenant, that means that the first covenant is already old. So-then, even whatever if it is old it has no future anymore/is useless.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since God said that there is now a new way, we (incl.) understand that that old way no longer has any value. And if there is anything that’s old, it’s no longer used; it is thrown away because it is replaced by something new.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “On account of God’s saying this that there is a new agreement, he made-known that the first-one was already old. And we know even anything whose usefulness has ceased-to-exist because it is already old, it won’t be long and it will cease-to-exist.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, since God has now set up this new initiated-agreement, does it not mean that he is now regarding that first initiated-agreement as not having any more usefulness? Well isn’t it so that whatever thing has no more usefulness because it’s getting old now, before long it will be removed now? 8:5 Exodus 25:40. 8:8 After the king Solomon died the Israelita were divided, for they fought/quarrelled. Juda is what they named one division/part, they being the descendants of those two children of Jacob who were Juda and Benjamin. Those descendants of those other ten children of Jacob they named Israel (1 Kings 12:1 24). Therefore, this here in chapter 8:8 says that, because of this new initiated-agreement of God with them, it’s now possible for them all to be reconciled to him. 8:8-12 Jeremiah 31:31-34.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And now, God says that there is a new agreement. Concerning the old agreement which was before, it is apparent that it has passed away since there is a new one now. This old agreement has come to an end.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 13:18:
- Uma: “After that, for forty years long, he endured seeing their rejection/rebellion while they were in the empty land.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For forty years God endured the not obeying/following his teachings by the tribe of Isra’il there in that lonely place.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For forty years while they were still there in the land where no people lived, God put up with their rebellion against him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When they were then walking through the place with no inhabitants for forty years, he bore-with their sins against him while-simultaneously he took-care of them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He put up with their opposing him for the space of forty years, which was the length of their journeying in the wilderness place.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 11:16:
- Uma: “He didn’t permit people to carry stuff through the yard of the House of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He did not allow anybody to pass through the prayer-house carrying their things.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He did not permit anyone to carry their equipment through the yard of the church.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He also forbid those carrying loads from walking through the Temple area.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He also forbade those carrying merchandise there in that like-a-yard of the Templo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Highland Oaxaca Chontal: “Then he would not give anyone permission to carry their loads through the patio of the big church.” (Source: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 10:4:
- Uma: “For the blood of cows and the blood of goats certainly cannot wipe-away sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For the blood of cows and of goats cannot hep remove man’s sin.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because it’s not possible in any way that the blood of cows and goats could take away our sins.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because the blood of male cows and goats, it is absolutely unable to remove sins.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because, this blood of bulls and blood of the goats, this cannot remove sins.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the blood of cows or of goats when they have been killed, it can never be able to take away the sins of the people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 13:50:
- Uma: “But the Yahudi people incited the elders of the town and the rich women who submitted to God, with the result that Paulus and Barnabas were persecuted and expelled from Antiokhia.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But the Yahudi stirred up the leaders of that place and the prominent women who were not Yahudi but worshiped God, in order that they would oppose Paul and Barnabas. Therefore they sent/drove the two away from that place.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the leaders there in the city of Antioch and the important women who worship God, (I have given ‘important women’ as the equivalent of one word in Manobo which means ‘the wife of a dat`u’. A dat`u could be any of the leading or important men of the town), the Jews caused them to be angry at Paul and Barnabas, and they drove those two out of the town.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the Jews who didn’t believe, they incited-to-wrongdoing the rich women who worshipped God and the respected/acknowledged leaders of the town to begin to cause-hardship to Pablo and Barnabas. And they drove-them -out of that town.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But, what those Jews at Antioquia did was, they incited the women of high/important blood, who were devout-worshippers of God although they weren’t Jews. They also incited the men who were the most important in that city to oppose Pablo and Bernabe. What else but they expelled them from their place.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 12:15:
- Uma: “Yesus knew the hidden purpose of their heart. That’s why he said to them: ‘Why do you search for a slip-up in my words? Bring here the money you usually use to pay the tax, I want to see it.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Isa knew their deceit. He said to them, ‘Why are you testing me? Bring a coin (lit. hard money) here so that I can look at it.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus knew that they were intending to trap him and so he said, ‘Why are you testing me? Show me what the money looks like with which you pay the tax to the king of Rome.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Jesus knew they were tricking him, so then he said to them, ‘Why are you testing me? Please bring-me a money so I will look-at-it.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But Jesus knew the motive in their mind. That’s why he said to them, ‘Why are you putting a noose around my neck(fig.)? Bring me that money to look at.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 10:36:
- Uma: “You must remain believing no matter what happens, continually follow the will/desire of God, until you get what he has promised to you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You should really persevere so that you can do God’s will and finally receive what God has promised to you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You must be long suffering so that you might carry out what God wants, and then you will finally receive what He promises you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You must persevere in being patient so you will fulfill what God wants and gain what he has promised.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s necessary that you hold fast so that you will really obey the will of God. And then if it’s like that you will receive what he promised.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “What you must do now, endure all the suffering you go through. Earnestly endeavor to do the will of God in order that the word he promised to happen will apply to you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 15:2:
- Uma: “No kidding the opposition of Paulus and Barnabas contradicting that teaching of theirs. Finally the Kristen people in Antiokhia said: ‘We should send several of our companions to Yerusalem to present [lit., bring to the top] this matter to the apostles of the Lord Yesus and other elders.’ The ones they sent, were Paulus, Barnabas and several others.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Paul and Barnabas argued strongly with those people and they debated much about that teaching of theirs. Therefore the disciples of Isa in Antiyok planned-agreed that Paul and Barnabas and others of the brothers should go to Awrusalam to question the commissioned ones and the elders about that matter/problem.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now Paul and Barnabas, they didn’t receive the teaching of these people, and their arguing with them was very strong; therefore the believers there, they sent Paul, Barnabas, and some others of them to go to Jerusalem so that they might ask about this to the apostles and to the elders of the believers there.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Pablo and Barnabas, extreme was the way they were arguing with them. Therefore they all agreed-together that Pablo and Barnabas and some other believers would go to Jerusalem to go speak-with the apostles and leaders of the believers concerning that-aforementioned that they taught.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Pablo and Bernabe heard, they really argued-with/challenged that teaching. Their answering-back-and-forth was intense. Therefore, when it was now like that, the believers at Antoquia decided to send Pablo and Bernabe, together with some other believers from there, to go to Jerusalem, for they would get the solution to that thing from the apostles and overseers there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
