Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 28:20:
- Uma: “That is why here I am in Roma, and here you are, relatives I called you here, for I wanted to talk to you. Because the reason that I am detained is because of my belief in the Redeemer King promised by God, the same as all Israel people.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “That’s why I asked to see and talk with you (pl.). Here I am now chained because I am following the one we (incl.) the tribe of Isra’il are hoping-for/expecting.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore that’s the reason I called you together so that I might talk to you because I am chained because of my belief in the king which will come which we (incl.) Jews expect.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And that is the reason I have had-you -called, so that we will see-each-other and talk-together, because I want to make-known to you the correct basis/reason for my-being-bound with this chain. It-stems-from my faith/belief in what we descendants of Israel expect/hope-for.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That’s why today, I called for you to come for I want us (incl.) to meet-one-another. I want to talk to you, so that I can cause you to comprehend that I am tethered with this chain only because of my believing in the Savior King who was promised, he whom all of us (incl.) descendants of Israel have been expecting.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:49:
- Noongar: “But a person who hears my words but doesn’t do what I say, he is like a man building his house, but the house did not stand on rock. The river overflowed and struck that house and the house fell suddenly. The house fell very badly!” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But the people who hear my words and do not follow, they are like a person who built a house on just land/the ground without a foundation-stone. A flood came and struck that house, it fell down, and its destruction was great.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Now if a person listens to my words but does not obey them he is like a person building a house, but does not make a hole for the posts and does not stand them on rock. When the strong flood comes immediately the house falls and breaks to pieces.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now the person who just listens to my advice but he does not act upon it, he is like the person who built a house on the sand, and when that house was finished, it also was hit by a typhoon, and the house was struck by the force of strong water, and the house fell and was completely broken up.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the person who has been listening to what I say and he doesn’t believe/obey it, he is compared to a person who built his house on the soil and he didn’t carve out from the rock a place-upon-which-to-set its foundation. So when the water struck-against that house of his, it fell-down and was totally destroyed.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But as for that person who, although he hears my teaching, doesn’t obey it, he is like a person who only did a shoddy job when building his house, for he didn’t make it sturdy by putting the posts down deep in the ground. Well when the flood came, it also was engulfed. What else but for the reason that it wasn’t sturdy, it fell at once and was totally broken up.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Jude 1:2:
- Uma: “I hope/trust that God gives you more-and-more blessing, goodness of life and his love.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I ask God that his mercy and his love to you may increase and that he may cause it to be more peaceful in your livers.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “May God show you mercy, make you peaceful, and show you kindness.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “May you increasingly experience the grace/mercy/favor, peace, and love that comes-from God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I pray that hopefully very plentiful there with you is the pitying help and valuing by God, and peace/protection of mind/inner-being which he gives.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I want that God will be more merciful to you and that he will give you more peace of heart, and that he will love you more.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 1:21:
- Uma: “They did know that there was a God, but they did not honor him as is proper for God, and they did not say thank you to him. Many were their thoughts that were of no use/value, with the result that their hearts became dark, they no longer knew the true teaching.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They know hep about God but even though they know that he is really worthy to be honored/made great because he is God, they do not honor (lit. make-great) him. They do not even thank him because of his deeds/for what he did. But that is what they only think of the things which are useless. Their minds are blank (lanab) therefore they do not understand the truth.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For even when they already knew that there is a God and they knew that He is worthy to be honored, they didn’t honor Him, they didn’t give Him thanks for His favor to them, but rather it turned out that what is in their mind could not do them any good. And because of this their minds are as if they are overcome by darkness because they can no longer understand the truth which God wants them to know.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because even though they know that God exists, they don’t acknowledge him as God and neither do they thank him, but rather their thinking has become useless and at the-same-time their evil minds have become dark.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Even though people know that God lives, yet they do not praise him and say that he is God. And neither do they thank him. All the things they think are all of no value. Their minds are closed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:32:
- German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999): “Perhaps with children on the playground who accuse each other of being spoilsports. Some say: ‘We wanted to play wedding with you and played music, but you didn’t want to dance to it.’ The others say: ‘We wanted to play funeral, but you didn’t want to cry along.’”
- Noongar: “They are like children sitting in the market. One side calls to the other, ‘We sang for a wedding but you did not dance! We sang for a funeral and you didn’t weep.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “They are like children to sit at the edge of the main-road, who continually call-back-and-forth with their companions, they said: ‘We encourage you to play-the-flute, You do not want to be glad together-with us (excl.). We encourage you to weep, You also do not want to cry together-with us (excl.).'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They are like children sitting in the market playing wedding and funeral. They call to their companions, they say, ‘We beat the drums/rhythm for you, but you did not dance. We wailed but you did not weep.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because the children sit in the market-place playing, and they call to each other saying, ‘We are beating the drum for you but you will not dance, and we are wailing, but you will not join in.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They are like children playing in the plaza who will absolutely not be satisfied. They say to their companions, ‘We (excl.) were certainly playing-the-gongs, but you refused to dance. So we sang-funeral-songs, but you still refused to join in.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They’re like children sitting at their playing-place and calling to their friends they play with. They’re saying, ‘Whatever we (excl.) do, it doesn’t suit you (pl.). We play stringed-instruments for you but you don’t dance. We sing songs sung at burials but you don’t cry.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 1:9:
- Uma: “I am Yohanes, your relative in Yesus. Our persecution is the same because of our following of Yesus, the same our receiving a portion in the Kingdom of Yesus, and the same also our enduring as we suffer that persecution. They isolated me on an island called Patmos because I announced the Word of God and because I admitted/confessed that Yesus is my Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I am Yahiya, your brother because we (incl.) equally trust in Isa. We (incl.) also equally endure the persecution/suffering that comes to those included in God’s ruling. I was caused-to-leave/driven-away told to go to the island called Patmos, because I had preached God’s message/word and the true teaching made known by Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I am John, one of your brethren because of my faith in Jesus. Just like you, I also have endured persecution because I angered by my preaching the Word of God and my teaching the message of Jesus, I was exiled and made to live on an island called Patmos.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I am Juan who am your sibling/cousin (henceforth brother) who believes. Because of our being-united-with Jesus, I am sharing in your enduring of your hardships and in your ruling-with him (non-past). What happened to me previously was that they sentenced me to be escorted to Patmos, a small country surrounded by the ocean. They did that because of my preaching God’s word and the teaching that Jesus made-known.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I Juan really am your sibling in believing and your companion in being persecuted/caused-to-suffer because of our believing in Jesus. And I too am one of the subjects of his kingdom, and like you in holding fast to obeying this Jesus. I was taken to the island called Patmos , for that was the sentence passed on me because of my teaching the word of God and my testimony about the things concerning Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I, John, who am brother to all of you, and with all of you we are walkers with Jesus Christ. And now there is apportioned to us that we suffer. But we all are in the hand of Christ, he who strengthens us so that we endure all the suffering we go through. Now, I was on Patmos, a little land in the midst of the ocean. I was imprisoned there. They imprisoned me because I was speaking God’s word, telling the people about Jesus Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 2:21:
- Uma: “So, we teach other people. Yet why don’t we teach ourselves! We teach others not to steal. Yet how about it if we ourselves steal!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You know how to teach your companions but you don’t know how to teach yourselves. You command not to steal but you indeed steal.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You can teach other people but why don’t you teach your own breath? For you teach that it is not good to steal; however, you are thieves!” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “All right then, you who teach your fellows, why don’t you teach yourselves? You are commanding them, saying, ‘Don’t steal.’ But is it perhaps true that you have not stolen?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But if they say that the word is true which they teach to other people, how come then they don’t do according to the word they teach? They say it is wrong for people to steal. Whey then do they themselves steal? They say it is wrong for people to commit adultery, yet they themselves commit adultery. They say they do not approve of idols, yet they themselves steal the money collected at the church.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:14:
- Noongar: “The seeds falling among thorn bushes resemble people: they hear, but hard things come or much wealth or things they desire (lit.: “heart see”). These things push away the seeds and so fruit will not grow.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘The seed that falls in the midst of thorns stands for people who hear the Word of God, but they continually think about/consider their lives in the world, they want to be rich and want to receive joy/gladness. All that makes-them-busy, with the result that they do not continue following the Word of God, and there is no purpose to their lives.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And the seeds that fell into the thorns, is a figure for the people who hear God’s word but while they go ahead many (things) trouble them and they are hindered by their wealth and they like to play-about/have-a-good-time, they are figuratively like plants that are choked and they never reach the stage where their fruit matures.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And that which was planted which fell on the soil where the weeds are thorny, the interpretation of that is people who hear the Word of God, but because of their problems and their love for money and the pleasures which are here on the earth, they forget what they have heard and the Word of God doesn’t do any good for them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What fell also in the thorny-area, those are the ones who hear the word of God, but they get-sidetracked by what they are worrying about and their getting-rich and the other things they want to enjoy in this life, so the word which they have heard is choked-out and doesn’t bear-fruit.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, this scattered on place where weeds are sprouting all over, that’s the people who listen to the word of God, but after a while their belief/obeying is overpowered for their mind is bothered by worries and things they give priority to such as riches and happiness. Well that’s why (it) can’t bear fruit in their lives.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
