Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 2:25:
- Uma: “We Jews say that our custom of circumcision according to the Lord’s Law is valuable/useful. And there really is value in our being circumcised, as long as we really follow the Lord’s Law. But if we disobey the Lord’s Law, there is no value at all to our being circumcised.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “We (incl.) Yahudi, we (incl.) are hep commanded to be circumcised making (it) a sign that we (incl.) are a tribe/nation chosen by God and/so-that we (incl.) belong to him. When/if you (pl.) follow the law, circumcision is good. But when/if you (pl.) do not follow the law, circumcision is of no value.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for you Jews, you think mistakenly that there is great value in your being circumcized. And there really is value in being circumcised if we thoroughly obey the Law. However, if we do not thoroughly obey the Law, we are just like those people who aren’t Jews who have never been circumcised.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There is admittedly a use/benefit in us Jews having-gotten-circumcised provided that we obey God’s law, but if we don’t obey it, it is useless, because we are like Gentiles who are not God’s people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the person who is born a Jew, it is good if they do all that is said in the law followed by the Jews. But if they do not do all said in the law, then it is of no value that they were born as Jews.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:18:
- Noongar: “‘Then you must not be careless of the things you hear, because people who have something, they will be given more, but people who have nothing, their little things they think they have, everything will be taken away.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘That is why I say, be careful how you hear the Word of God. Because people who receive the Word of God, their hearts are made-clear so that they know more-and-more. But people who do not want to receive the Word of god, even though there is a little that they know, it will just be taken-from-them.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore listen well. For anybody who can understand he will be given so that he can understand more. But whoever does not understand, even the little bit that he mistakenly-thinks he can understand will be taken away from him.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore, carefully listen to what I teach, because the person who accepts what God causes him to understand, God will add to his understanding. But the person who will not receive what God causes him to understand, that which he thought he already understood will be taken away from him.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Be-diligent then in listening to what I am saying, because the person who heeds what he hears, his understanding will be added to, but the one who does not heed, even the little that he thinks he has understood will cease-to-exist.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore listen carefully. Because as for the person who tries-to-understand what he hears from me, God will increase his understanding/wisdom until his knowledge is plentiful. But as for that one who doesn’t try-to-understand this which he has heard, God will remove even what he thought-mistakenly that he’d understood, so that it won’t amount to anything.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:25:
- Uma: “Only, you just keep on [lit., remain] following what you know, until I come.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “really keep-in-high-regard/cherish whatever was given to you until I come back again.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Only this; grasp tightly what you already know until I come.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I will only tell you to continue to believe/obey the truth until I come.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “On the contrary, only this is what I am commanding you. Hold fast to your belief and trust in me till I come.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Yet, concerning the word which you have grabbed, continue to walk by it until I have come again.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:28:
- Uma: “For this is my main word/talk: we become straight in God’s sight because of our faith, not because of our good behavior following the Lord’s Law.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because I am assured that this only is the reason that we (dual) are forgiven and considered straight by God because of our (dual) trusting in Isa Almasi, not because of our (dual) following the law of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because of this, I have already said that the only reason we are considered righteous by God is not our obeying the Law, but rather it is our faith in Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore it is absolutely impossible for us to boast of our righteousness, because God’s counting us as righteous was not on account of our obeying his law but rather because of our believing in Jesu Cristo.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now we see that why our sins are cleared is not that we do the words said in the law which the Jews follow. That which clears our sins is that we believe in Jesus Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:50:
- Noongar: “But Jesus heard him and said to Jairus, ‘Don’t grieve, only believe, and she will be healed.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “When Yesus heard those words, he said saying to Yairus: ‘Don’t be discouraged [lit, don’t let your (sing.) heart be lessened]. Believe, your (sing.) child will be healed.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa heard this, then he said to Jairus, ‘Don’t be afraid. Just trust. Your child will live.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when Jesus heard that, he said, ‘Don’t you worry, but rather you just trust me and your child will live.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Jesus overheard what they told Jairus and he said to him, ‘Don’t be afraid. As-long-as you (sing.) believe, your (sing.) child will get-well.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jesus heard, he said to Jairo, ‘Don’t grieve. Just believe-in/obey and trust me, for she will indeed get well.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 4:6:
- Uma: “There was also in front of that Seat a floor that was as wide as the sea, see-through-able like glass or crystals [lit., ‘go-through rocks,’ refers to calcite or quarts crystals]. That big Seat was in the very midst of all of them, and around it I saw four living things. They had many eyes, their bodies were covered with eyes, both in front and on their backs.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There also in front of that throne, there was something like a sea clear as glass. And there were four different-kinds of angels surrounding the throne at it’s edge. The bodies of those angels were covered with eyes at the front and back.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I saw also there in front of the seat what seemed to be a broad sea like glass because it was very clear. And in the midst but also around the seat there are four supernatural creatures whose bodies are covered with eyes on the front and on the back.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “In the area-he-faced also, there was something-like an ocean made of glass which glittered like kristal. Near the four edges/sides of the throne, there were four living creatures whose bodies were totally covered-with-eyes (lit. eyed), in front and likewise also at their backs.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There also in front of that seat, I saw what was like an ocean which you could say was first-class mirror/glass, which was extremely sparklingly-clear. There close to that seat, on each side of it, were four living-beings (lit. something having life/breath) which had been created, whose bodies had eyes all over, on the back and on the front eyes were everywhere.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The place where the chair was located was level, looking like a sea. But one’s sight passed into it as though it were glass. At the four corners of where he sat, at each corner stood someone who had life. But alike for the front and the back all was covered with eyes.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:26:
- Noongar: “If a person is ashamed of me and my words, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes back, great and shining, shining like the light of the Father and the holy angels.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘Whoever is shy/ashamed to confess his following Me and is ashamed of my teaching, I will also be ashamed to confess/admit that he is my follower when I arrive from heaven. At that time, I the Child of Man will descend coming with the holy angels, he will shine with my power and with the power of my Father.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Whoever is ashamed to-say-openly to the people that he is my disciple and that he follows/obeys my teaching, I the Son of Mankind I will also be ashamed to recognise him as my disciple when I come back surrounded with my brightness, and the brightness of my Father God and his holy angels.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Anyone who is ashamed of me and who is ashamed of what I teach, I the older sibling of mankind, I will be ashamed also of him in the future, when I return, and big is the power of my shining, and I am clothed with the powerful shining of my father, God, and with the shining of the angels of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whoever rejects me who am Child of a Person and my teachings, I will also reject him at my coming when my honor and the honor of my Father and his angels will be shown.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s true, whoever will be ashamed to submit to me and to acknowledge my words as true, I who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human really will be ashamed of him when I return here again. Yes indeed, I will return here again, my praiseworthiness/glory being evident and the praiseworthiness/glory of my Father being evident as being with me, and my companions will be the far from ordinary angelsl.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 6:13:
- Uma: “The stars also all fell from the sky to earth, like the unripe/miscarried fruits of a tree fall from the top when shaken by a big wind.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The stars dropped down on the earth like fruit dropping when a tree is shaken by a strong wind.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And stars fell down to the earth like unripe fruit of the igira tree when they are struck by the wind and fall.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The stars also fell to earth like the not-yet ripe fruit of trees blown-down by a strong typhoon.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And as for the stars, they all fell down, just like the falling of still immature fruit from a tree when it is in the path of a strong wind.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Above, the stars fell to the earth. These stars fell as though old figs were shaken by the wind, all falling arriving to the earth. It was like that.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
