Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 13:23:
- Uma: “But you here, watch out! I tell you all this before it happens.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But you have to watch out,’ said Isa. ‘I have told you beforehand about these (things) while they are not yet happening.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore be on your guard for I have told you about all these things that are going to take place before they happen.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore watch-out, because here I have warned (lit. said-in-advance to) you.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore be very careful. I am telling you already all this so that you won’t be misled.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 12:9:
- Uma: “Even our father in the world, he advise us and we honor him. So, how much more the Father of our souls. If he advises us, we really submit in order that we get good life.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Even our (incl.) fathers here in this world punished us (incl.) and yet we (incl.) honored them. Na, more so should we (dual) humble/put-down ourselves to our (incl.) Father in heaven so that he will give us (dual) life without end.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For even our (incl.) Father here on the earth, when He trains us we have to submit ourselves to Him just the same. How much more should we submit ourselves to our Father who is in Heaven? For by means of this we can come to own life which is forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “As for our fathers on this earth, they admonished us (particle indicates the admonishing was appreciated), and we respected them because of their doing so. So even-more ought we to submit-ourselves to (cause-ourselves-to-be-ruled-by) our Father in heaven so we will intensively-live (both long and good life).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Is it not so that we respect our father here in the world if he doesn’t just leave-alone/ignore our actions which are not good but rather he corrects (us)? Therefore we are all-the-more to submit to the correction by God who has become our Father because of our believing/obeying, for if it’s like that, the outcome is that our life will become far-from-ordinary.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “After all, when we were small, our fathers punished us, whipping us when we did wrong. Yet we still respected them. Therefore now, how much less should we say that our Father who lives in heaven should not be respected by us. For he it is who wants us to have new minds.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 16:13:
- Uma: “On the Sabat Day, we (excl.) went to the banks of a stream outside town, because we (excl.) knew that there was a praying-place of the Yahudi people there. So, we (excl.) sat with several women and spoke to them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When it was Saturday, we (excl.) went out from that city to the riverside because we (excl.) assumed that there was a place there where the Yahudi prayed. We (excl.) sat there and spoke to the women gathered there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then on Saturday which is the Day of Rest, we went out of the village and we went to the shore of the river because we wanted to see if there was there a place where the Jews gathered to pray to God. There were some women who were gathered there, and we sat down and talked to them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “On the day for-resting, we (excl.) left the town, and we (excl.) went to the edge of the river, because that reportedly was the praying-place of the Jews. We (excl.) sat-down and conversed-with the women who had gathered there.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “We(excl.) found out that there was indeed a prayer-place there in Filipos, but it was on the shore of the river outside the city. Therefore, when it was the Day of Rest, we (excl.) went there. On our (excl.) arrival, they were already gathered. They were all women. Well, we (excl.) sat down with them and taught them the Good News.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:18:
- Uma: “While they were sitting eating, he said: ‘Listen! One of you, who is eating with me now, will sell me to my enemies.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “While they were sitting at the table eating, Isa said to his disciples, ‘Truly I tell you, one of you is betraying me, my companion eating together (with me).'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When they were at table for they were still eating, Jesus said, ‘I have something to say to you. It is this. One of you eating with me today will betray me so that I will be killed.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “While they were eating, Jesus said, ‘This that I tell you is true that there is one of you who is joining-in-eating who will betray me.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When they were now eating, Jesus spoke. He said, ‘This which I will tell you is true, that one of you is going to lead the ones wanting to kill me. Yes indeed, one indeed of you who eats together with me now.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 13:12:
- Uma: “Like that livestock was burned outside the village, thus also Yesus was taken through the door of the wall and killed outside the village, in order that his blood make the people holy.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Like that also is what happened to Almasi. He also died outside the town so that he could make the people clean/holy from their sins with his blood.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “That’s just like what happened to Jesus, because He was killed outside the town and His blood became that which cleansed the sins of mankind.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So Jesus also who is the fulfillment of those offerings, he suffered outside the town in order to make the collective-people into God’s holy people by means of his blood.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well like that too, Jesus was killed outside the stone-wall of the city of Jerusalem so that, in that shedding of his own blood, he might cleanse the people from their sins.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It is like this concerning Jesus, for he suffered outside the city. Concerning his blood which flowed when he died, it became the sacrifice which clears our sins.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 17:5:
- Uma: “But the Yahudi people who did not believe were jealous of Paulus and Silas. That is why they incited the wicked people who were being-lazy in the town. When many had gathered, they walked along making a disturbance in the town. In this walk of theirs, they arrived at Yason’s house, because that was the dwelling-place of Paulus and Silas. They entered that house, intending to grab and carry them before the masses.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But the other Yahudi were jealous, so they called some bad (dupang) people from the streets and gathered them and-then they caused an uproar in that city. They attacked the house of Jason for the purpose of searching for Paul and Silas so that they would bring them out to the people.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the Jews were jealous of Paul and company, and they gathered together many lazy people without value, and they ran through all the town causing rioting. They went to the house of Jason because they were going to force their way in to get Paul and Silas so that they might take them to the people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon the Jews who didn’t believe were jealous, and they gathered some trouble-makers who just stood-around-loafing to make-a-racket until all the inhabitants were in-a-state-of-disorder. Then they went and forced the door of Jason’s house where-plural Pablo -were-staying, in order to bring-them -outside koma to take (them) to the meeting-place of the many-people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But as for the other Jews, they emph. got jealous. What they did was, they rounded up some people who were badly-behaved and lazy. When there were now many of them, they then troubled the city. Then they went to the house of Jason for they mistakenly-thought that that’s where Pablo-and-co were. The motive in their mind was to get them and put them in the presence of the crowd.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:50:
- Uma: “After that, all his disciples fled leaving him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then all of the disciples of Isa turned-their-back-on him and fled.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then his disciples left him and ran away.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Upon Jesus saying that, all his disciples abruptly-ran-away and abandoned him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Without anything else, those disciples of his ran away. They now deserted him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of James 1:19:
- Uma: “My relatives whom I love! Consider this well: Every one of us must be ready/quiet to listen, don’t right away speak and don’t be easily angry.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “My beloved brothers, remember this, we (incl.) all ought to listen very well and not to be quick to speak. We (incl.) ought not to be easily angry.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Do not forget, my dear Brothers, that as for any one of us (incl.), it is necessary that we always be ready to listen to the Word of God, and we must not hold as most important our own words, and we must not get angry easily.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Think about this my brothers. We should be-quick/adept at listening while-at-the-same-time we are also careful about the way we speak. We should also not easily get angry,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Consider this, my dear siblings in believing. Accustom yourselves to good listening, and think well before speaking, and don’t all-too-easily get angry.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Listen, my dear brethren, when any person addresses you, pay attention to him. Before you speak, first judge whether what you want to say is good or not. When you get angry, judge whether it is proper that you be angry or not.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
