Following are a number of back-translations of James 4:9:
- Uma: “We must have sorry hearts and weep remembering that we have sinned. If we know that we have sin, it is not good that we be glad about it, we must make-sad-our-heart about it and weep about it.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Pour out the water of your eyes/shed your tears about your bad/evil deeds. Grieve and weep about your sins. You should exchange your having-fun with sadness/sorrow.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Grieve because of your evil behaviour; weep and cry; do not laugh, rather wail; do not rejoice, rather let your breaths be bad,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You should be sad (lit. your minds should hurt), you should mourn and cry on account of your sins. Stop that way of yours of laughing and being happy on account of your sins so that what you will replace it with is mourning and shame.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Yes indeed, really grieve and cry over your sins. Replace your laughter with crying and your happiness with grief.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Be sad, live in sadness because of your sin. If one is laughing from joy, let the laughter become crying. If you are joyful, let your joy become sorrow.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 19:36:
- Uma: “No one denies that. That is why let’s be quiet for now, don’t let’s get carried away by the anger of our hearts.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “No one can deny concerning this. So just stop and do not do anything unless you have thought about it first.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “No one can say that this isn’t true, therefore that’s why it’s necessary that the heat of your breath be taken way and stop rioting.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “No one is able to say that this isn’t true, therefore let us (empathy particle) quiet-down not being-in-a-rush.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really no-one can attribute lies to these things, therefore it’s necessary that you cause this anger of yours to cool off now. Don’t be too hasty.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 1:4:
- Noongar: “I am writing so that you will know the full truth, everything you have heard.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “My purpose is so that you (sing.) will really know the truth of what has already been taught to you (sing.).” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “so that you will know that all that has been taught to you is really true.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason I am writing this is so that you might thoroughly understand the trust of all that has been taught to you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because I want you (sing.) to know that all that has been taught to you (sing.) is absolutely very-true.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I am writing this so that you will really know the truth of these things which have been taught to you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Peter 1:4:
- Uma: “We hope/trust God will give us the blessings that he has prepared for all his children. Those blessing are the kind that do not get-destroyed or rot or change, because he has stores them for us in heaven.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And we (incl.) expect that all the good/blessing will be ours (incl.)/belong to us (incl.) that God has stored-up in heaven for his people. These good-things will not be destroyed or become old or change.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Another thing we (incl.) can expect is that He will bless us with very good things. He has prepared this in heaven where it cannot rot, it cannot be destroyed, and it cannot also go out of existence.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and this (aforementioned) is what we will inherit which will never-be-spoiled/ruined, never-be-stained and whose value will never-be-reduced, which is reserved/set-aside in heaven.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And this good which we are sure of, it really is far-from-ordinary, for it has no destruction, no fault, and no fading. This really is already being held in store for you in heaven/sky.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “What will be given to us are not things which will perish or spoil or wither. But we await the good there in heaven which God has determined to give to us.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:27:
- Uma: “Because I am/was not afraid/uneasy to say to you all of God’s purposes for us.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For I have not hidden anything from you but I have told you all that God has planned.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because I taught you everything that God wanted me to.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because I have carefully/thoroughly taught you all that God wants keeping-nothing -to-myself.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For I haven’t left anything out. I have now told you everything which God has determined which he wants people to know.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 1:36:
- Noongar: “You remember (lit.: “ear-hold”) Elizabeth, your relative? People say this one can’t bear a child, yet now she is pregnant six months — and she is an old woman.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Listen: your (sing.) relative Elisabet who is very old, and whom others call barren is six months pregnant! She will give birth to a male child.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Look also at your relative Elisabet. She is pregnant now even though she is old. The woman they said couldn’t give birth is now in the sixth month of her pregnancy.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And this is not the only news I have for you, because your aunt Elizabeth, even though she is already very old, she has become pregnant. It is already six months now that she is pregnant, she whom the people long ago thought that she could not give birth.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Think-of your (sing.) relative Elizabet. Even though they thought/said she was barren and she was moreover an old-woman, she became-pregnant nonetheless, and her pregnancy (lit. fetus) is six months now.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And isn’t it so that you have a relative who is Elisabet? It’s clear to everyone that as for her, she is a non-child-bearing woman. But now/today, this is the sixth month of her pregnancy, even though she is old already.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Peter 2:11:
- Uma: “Relatives whom I love! Our life in this world is like people who live-as-aliens and like people who are just passing by, for we live in the midst of people who do not believe in the Lord. That is why I advise you: don’t follow the evil desires of your hearts, because those evil desires are at-odds/disagree with the good life of your soul.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “My friends, we (incl.) are just strangers here in the world, this is not our (incl.) true country/place. Therefore I urge/beseech you, really don’t indulge the desires of your bodies. Because your desires hinder/oppose you so that you do not follow the wish/will of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “My dear brothers, this world is not our true home. We are just like travelers here. And because of that, I beg you that you do not go along with your evil desires, for these can hinder your following God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “My friends, since you are strangers/foreigners on this earth and it’s only a short-while that you are temporarily-residing here, please-be-so-kind-as-to (strong request) turn-your -backs-on the evil desires of your human (connotes sinful, limited humanity) minds which are-warring-against you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “My dear ones, remember that you are only like transients here in the world, for heaven is your destination, that now being your land/country. Therefore put far away now the evil desires of the body, for they fight against your believing/obeying the Lord.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Listen, my dear brethren, you are not citizens here on earth because you are citizens of heaven. Here you are merely staying away. I tell you not to be overcome by the evil that comes to mind. You must control your mind.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 21:21:
- Uma: “Yet they also have heard news criticizing you (sing.). They heard that you (sing.) teach the Yahudi people who dwell-as-foreigners with the non-Yahudi people so that they no longer follow the Law of Musa. You (sing.) teach them not to circumcise their children any longer and not to follow any longer the custom of our elders long ago.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They have been told about you, that you teach reportedly (ko’) to all the Yahudi living in the places of other tribes, that they should no longer follow/obey the law of Musa. You say reportedly that they no longer should circumcise their children and they no longer should follow the customs of the Yahudi tribe.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They have heard a report that our companion Jews that are in the towns where the Gentiles live, they heard that you teach them that they should stop keeping the law that was left behind long ago by Moses. You teach them, they say, that they should not circumcize their male children, and that they should no longer follow the customs of us (incl.) Jews.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They have heard that you (sing.) have reportedly been teaching the Jews who live in the many-towns of the Gentiles that they turn-their -backs-on the commands of Moses and that they not circumcise their children and moreover that they not follow the customs of us Jews.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They have heard news that you are always teaching to all the Jews in the lands where you have gone that they now let go of the laws of Moises. You are saying, it’s said, that they are no longer to circumcize their sons and no longer follow/obey all the customs handed down to us by Moises.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
