Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 11:7:
- Uma: “When I brought the Good News to you the other day [lit., yesterday], I didn’t request-of-you my salary even a little. I made-low my life [i.e., was humble], I worked with my hands so that you, relatives, could be lifted from your sins. Did I do wrong in not requesting a salary from you?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “As long as I taught the good news there to you, I never asked for wages from you, not even a single centavo but I worked-for-a-living. I humbled myself for your good. Is it bad what I did?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When I taught to you the Good News, I did not ask for payment from you, not even a single cent. And because of this, perhaps you are thinking mistakenly that my teaching to you is not worthy anything. But the truth is, I made my rank to be very low so that your situation might be made good. Perhaps you’re thinking mistakenly that what I did was wrong.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I humbled (lit. caused-to-be-lowered) myself to work-for my living so that you could be made-high because of what I was teaching. I never requested-a-salary from you when I was preaching to you the good news from God. Was my doing that a sin by-some-chance?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, because I didn’t solicit-a-salary when I was teaching the Good News to you there, maybe some are saying that I did like that because what I was teaching had no value. But no. I made myself ordinary/insignificant so that you could be regarded as high/important being God’s people now. Well, what’s this, could this be said to be my sin?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do you think that I did bad in not extracting money from you while I was telling you the good news of God? In order to do you good I worked hard, earning what I needed to eat while I was teaching you the word.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:18:
- Uma: “While they were on-boat, a big wind came and struck them, with the result that the waves were big on the lake.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Not long after (they left) the wind was strong and the waves were big.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The wind began to blow then and the waves in the water were very big.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When that was so, a swift wind arrived (immediacy/vividness particle) and the waves also became-strong (i/v particle).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Suddenly/unexpectedly the wind grew strong, what else but the lake became very rough.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “A strong wind began to blow and the waves got big.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:9:
- Uma: “Whoever of you have ears, listen well!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Amey-amey listen when something is said to you.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said again, ‘This you have heard, understand it.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus concluded saying, ‘You who are listening, think-about what you have heard.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus added on, saying, ‘Well since what ears are for is listening, it’s necessary that you listen well to this which I am saying.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And now have your ears listen to what I say,’ he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 12:6:
- Uma: “Actually, if I did want to praise myself, I wouldn’t be lying, for there really are some things that are fitting I praise myself for. But I will hold-myself-back, I won’t recount my visions any longer, lest someone praise me when they hear this story of mine. If anyone wants to praise me, they should look at my actions and listen to my words.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If I really wanted to boast, my boasting would not be like the boasting of stupid/bad people because all I say is true. But I do not boast, lest/perhaps people would unduly honor me. I want that they consider me only because of my doings that they see and my words/speech that they hear.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For example, if I want to boast you cannot say that my boasting is of no value, because what I boast about is true. However I will not boast because I do not want people to think I am very high in rank. It is better if what they think about me is the result of those things they have seen, and my teaching that they have heard.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There is much that I could boast-about if I wanted (but I don’t), and I am not a fool if I do that, because what I say is true. But I keep-quiet-about-it in order that people will not go-too-far in making-me -high. Because I want their opinion of me to be based on what I have done and said which they have seen and heard for themselves.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But supposing I wanted to seek-praise, it would not mean that I am stupid, because what I say would indeed be true. But no. I am restraining myself, because I don’t want people’s estimation of me to be too high. What I want is, if their estimation of me is good, it’s just because of my good works that they have seen or good teaching of mine that they have heard.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “If I wanted to speak of myself, as to how good I live, then I could. No one could say that it is not true what I said. But I do not want to boast in my speaking. Rather, only according to what you have seen in how I walk and according to what you have heard me say, I want you to judge for yourselves.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:50:
- Uma: “But the food that descends from heaven is not like that. Whoever eats that food, they do not die.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But this food from heaven, if a person is able to eat it, he will not die.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However this food which comes from heaven, if anyone eats this, he will have life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The food by-contrast that I am speaking-of to you today, that is the true/proper food that came-from heaven, and the one who eats this food, he will-never-die.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But there is again food which comes from heaven and whoever will eat this food, he will not die.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But that tortilla/food I speak of came from heaven and he who eats the tortilla/food will not die.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:41:
- Uma: “I the Child of Mankind will order my angels to go gather all who are evil and all who cause-[other]-to-fall from among my people/subjects.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I, the Son of Man, I will send my angels here to the world to gather all people who cause their companions to sin and all people who do bad.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For I, the Older Sibling of Mankind, I will send my messengers, and they will remove from my kingdom those who tempt and those who do bad.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because I who am Child of a Person, I will send my angels to go gather-together from my ruling all the people who were-the-cause-of-sinning of their companions and also all who do bad.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The One From Heaven Born of Man/human will order his angels to gather-up and separate from his people who are under the control of God all which causes to fall (into sin, fig.) and all the doers of evil.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because the Man who came from heaven will send his angels to where his people are who are in his hand. They will take away all the people who caused their fellowmen to commit sin and they will take away all those who live in evil.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 1:4:
- Uma: “The Lord Yesus gave himself to be killed to redeem our sins, and free us from the power of this evil world. He did this following the desire of God our Father.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa Almasi, his life was indeed yielded/surrendered by him so that all our (incl.) sins could be done-away-with and so that we (incl.) no longer follow/obey the people who do bad here in this now/present world. This was done by Isa Almasi because this was really what our (incl.) Father God wanted.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for Christ, He gave up His life (literally He laid His life cross-wise) so that our sins might be cleansed and so that we might be freed from the punishment which will come to people who behave wickedly here at this time here on the earth. The reason Christ did this is because He is carrying out what our Father God wants.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “who gave his life in order that our sins might be forgiven. He did that according to what God our Father wanted in order that we might be saved and set-free from the evil that is in this world.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “he who sacrificed his body for our sins so that he could rescue us from the control of the evil that has-jurisdiction-over the world at this time. This which he did, it was indeed the determined-plan of God our Father.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “This Jesus Christ himself wanted that he be put to death on account of our sins in order to pull us out from the evil that is here on earth. God our Father had determined what he went through.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 7:11:
- Uma: “At that feast, the Yahudi rulers continually searched for him, they said: ‘Where is Yesus?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He was searched for by the leaders of the Yahudi there at the festival. They asked where he was.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there at the feast the leaders of the Jews looked for him, and they said, ‘Where is he perhaps?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That being so, the leaders of the Jews who attended-the-fiesta, they were-searching-and-searching-for Jesus repeatedly-inquiring as to where he was.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There at the fiesta-place, he was being looked for by the Judio. ‘Where is that fellow?’ they said.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The Jews who were leaders hunted for Jesus at the celebration. They said, ‘Where is that man?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
