Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Peter 3:8:
- Uma: “But you, my relatives whom I love, don’t forget this one thing. There are some people who say it has been so long, the Lord still hasn’t arrived. But in God’s sight a thousand years are the same as just a day, and one day is the same as a thousand years. The Lord is not slow/sluggish about fulfilling his promise. He has not yet come because he is patient towards you, he does not want even one person to be punished. His desire is that all people have opportunity to repent of their sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But, my friends, don’t really forget this one thing that for God one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like one day. To him one day and a thousand years are all the same.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “My dear brothers, remember that with God a single day is just the same as a thousand years. For with Him those two are very short.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But don’t forget this my friends. In God’s viewpoint, the length of just-one day, it is like one thousand years, and the length of one thousand years, it is also like just-one day.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But well, my dear ones, don’t forget this, that God’s opinion/treatment of time is different from ours. For in the opinion of God, whether it’s only one day or a thousand years already, it’s like it’s the same being just a short time. It will quickly pass.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “There is just one word, my dear brothers. Do not forget it. In our Lord Jesus Christ’s estimation, one day is just like it were a thousand years. And a thousand years are just like they were one day in his estimation.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 25:9:
- Uma: “Because Festus wanted to please [lit., take the heart of] the Yahudi people, that is why he said to Paulus: ‘Do you (sing.) want to go to Yerusalem so I can just judge your (sing.) case there?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Pestus, his desire was to please the Yahudi. That’s why he asked Paul, he said, ‘Are you willing to go up to Awrusalam and there be judged by me concerning these accusations against you?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Festus, since what he wanted was that the breath of the Jews might become good toward him, he said to Paul, ‘Would you like to go to Jerusalem so that I could investigate you there?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Festus wanted the Jews to like him, so he said to Pablo, ‘Why don’t we (lit. even-if we) go to Jerusalem so that I will try you (sing.) there concerning those charges of theirs, provided of-course you (sing.) want to go.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But since Festo wanted to do something to please the Jews, he said to Pablo, ‘Do you want to be taken to Jerusalem for there is where I will finish up this legal-hearing?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 4:18:
- Noongar: “‘God’s Spirit has come inside me because he has called me to bring Good News to poor people. He has sent me preaching freedom to captive people, and giving sight to blind people, and lifting people up who are held down,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘The Spirit of the Lord God landed on Me, because he dedicated me to carry the Good News to people whose lives are pitiful. He sent me to say to the captives: ‘You are free!’ He sent me to say to the blind: ‘See!’ He commanded me to free those who are made-slaves.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘I am ruled by God’s Spirit, for I am chosen by him to proclaim the good news to the people who are to be pitied. I am commanded/told by God to come to tell the prisoners that they are now free, the blind that they can now see again and I cause the ones in difficulties to be free.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘I am controlled by the Holy Spirit which comes from God, and the Lord has chosen Me so that I might preach the good news to the poor. And He has sent me to the people so that I might tell them that the prisoners of Satan can be released, and the blind can be healed so that they can see, and those who are in difficulty can be helped.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘The Spirit of the Lord God is with/in me, because he has chosen me to go preach the good news to the poor. He sent me to go tell the prisoners that they will be freed and to heal (lit. medicine) the blind so-that they will-be-able-to-see and to help those who are being-hardshipped.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘The Espiritu Santo of God is indwelling me, for he chose and secured/dedicated me so that I would teach the Good News to the poor. He sent me so that I would make clear to those in captivity that they would be freed/saved, and as for those who are like blind for they are subjects/under-the-jurisdiction of darkness, they would also be enlightened. He sent me so that I would really help as many as are having a hard time,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Isaiah 61:1.
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 2:12:
- Uma: “Children, I write to you this letter, because your sins are forgiven because of the Lord Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I write to you my children-grandchildren, because your sins are already forgiven because of Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I write to you, my children, for your sins have been forgiven because of Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “My children, I have written this to you because your sins have already been forgiven on-account-of Cristo.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I am writing to you who are like my children because your sins have now been forgiven, for Jesus took-the- punishment-for them on the cross.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Listen, my children, I write this word to you here in the letter because God has now forgiven your sins because of Jesus Christ who died on your account.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “I am writing to you my little children because God has already forgiven us. He has forgiven us because Jesus Christ paid for our guilt.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “I’m writing to you, my dear children, because you know your sins have been forgiven, by what Christ did.”
- Tzotzil: “My children, because your sins are forgiven because of Jesus Christ, therefore I am talking to you by letter.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: “I am writing to you children. For God has cleansed your sins because of Jesus, for his sake.”
- Yanesha’: “My little ones, your sins are forgiven because of Christ, that’s why I am writing to you.”
- Aguaruna: “Children, I am writing to you because Jesus has eradicated, on your behalf, your sin.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 26:14:
- Uma: “Down we (excl.) all fell. And I heard someone speaking to me in the Yahudi language, he said to me: ‘Saulus! Saulus! Why do you (sing.) persecute me? But it is you (sing.) yourself that will hurt, if you keep opposing the call of your (sing.) Lord.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “We (excl.) all fell to the ground. Then I heard a voice speaking to me in the Hibrani language. The voice said, ‘O Saul, Saul. Why do you persecute me? You are just the one-having-difficulty when you oppose me.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And all of us, we fell down and I heard someone talking in the Hebrew language, and he said, ‘Hey Saul, why are you doing bad things to me? You are having a hard time because there is no use in resisting me.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and we (excl.) all fell-over. Then I heard a voice saying in the language Hebreo, ‘Saulo, Saulo, why do you (sing.) hardship-me? It is your (sing.) own self that you (sing.) are-hardshipping in your (sing.) opposing me like a water-buffalo that kicks the poking-instrument of the plower.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “We(excl.) all went-down-on-our-faces on the ground and then I heard a voice which spoke to me, saying in the Hebreo-language, ‘Saulo, Saulo, why are you doing like this which is persecuting me? I tell you that you are only hurting yourself through your fighting-against/disobeying my will.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 5:6:
- Noongar: “So they called their friends in the other boat. They came and helped them. They filled both boats with fish so the two boats nearly sank.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “From there, he threw their nets, there really were very many fish that entered into them, with the result that their nets began to tear.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When they had thrown out the nets, they caught very many fish, therefore their nets almost tore.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then they threw out their nets again, and when they pulled up their net they were really convinced because of the very many fish that were caught, because the nets almost broke they were so full.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That being so, they lowered them and truly many were what they got until the nets were almost ripping.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, they dropped it again. When they pulled it up, it almost broke for it was so full of the fish which had entered.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 3:15:
- Uma: “All people who hate their relatives, they are the same as killers [emphatic]. And you know, relatives, that murders do not get good life forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Whoever hates his fellow-man it is as if he has killed. And you know that a murderer has no everlasting life.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Anyone who acts against his companions, God considers him to be like a murderer; and we (incl.) know that if there is a person who wants to murder, he has not yet come to own life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “For the one who hates his brother/cousin is like the murderer just the same, and we know of course that the murderer, he doesn’t have the life that has no end.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because whoever ignores/spurns his sibling in believing, he is the same as a murderer of his fellowman. Isn’t it indeed so that you know already that, whoever is a murderer of his fellowman, he really doesn’t have life which is without ending?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Everyone who hates his brother is like as though he were a murderer. And you know that not one murderer meets up with the new life.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “Any of us if we hate our fellows, before God we are like murderers. And we know that no one who is like that has eternal life.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “He who hates his sibling is a murderer. And you know that there is no murderer who has (possesses) the new life.”
- Tzotzil: “If we hate the brethren, we have already become killers. You know that whoever kills he has not received life forever.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: “One who hates his brother is a murderer (one who kills more than one). Surely you know that in him, that is in a murderer, eternal life does not dwell.”
- Yanesha’: “All these who despise their countrymen, they are killers. You know that those who are killers, in their hearts does not stay life forever.”
- Aguaruna: “He who hates his brother he is like a murderer, and all murderers, they will not live always, that we know.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 27:15:
- Uma: “Because the ship was no-longer able to face the wind, that is why the workers on the ship said, just let the ship be blown by the wind so.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The ship was hit by the wind and because the ship could not meet/go-against the wind, we (excl.) just allowed the ship to be carried along by the wind.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and it struck the ship and since the ship was no longer able to face the wind, we just never minded where the ship would be carried by the wind.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It was whipped into the ship, and they had no way to face-into the wind. So they conceded-defeat-by-letting us (excl.) be blown (lit. winded) to-where-it-was-directing.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When the ship was now right-in-its-path, there was nothing which could be done. We just let ourselves be taken along by the wind which was driving us along.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
