Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 9:16:

• Uma: “If for instance there is an old-person/parent who wants to divide his stuff to his children, he makes ahead-of-time a last-request letter which makes-clear how his stuff is to be divided [lit., makes-clear the dividing of his stuff]. But that last-request letter is not yet used if he is still alive. If/When the last-requester dies, only then can the last-request letter be used. So, there must be a death in order that the last-request letter can be used.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “For example a person requests (someone) to make a writing where he promises/covenants that he gives his wealth as an inheritance to a certain person, but he has to die before the inheritance can go to the person.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now, for example, there is a person who makes a document and he says on that document that if he dies there are some possessions that he will leave behind to his companions. And when he dies it’s necessary that someone testifies that he is really dead. And then those people spoken of in the document can receive his possessions.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “We know that if there are final instructions that a person writes concerning the distribution of his estate (lit. what-he -will-bequeath) when he dies, it is necessary to confirm that he has truly died.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Well, prior-to-death-instructions concerning inheritance is one place-where- we -can-get-an-illustration of this (fact that) the good which God promised could not be obtained if Cristo had not shed his blood. For if there is a prior-to-death-instruction concerning the inheritance, it is necessary to be-sure-of the truth that this one who gave-the-death-instruction is now dead.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “You see that when a paper is made which tells about what will be done afterwards, then when the one dies who made the paper, the paper then becomes effective. Then the word left by the dead one has power.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 10:20:

• Uma: “We can come before him, for we go-on a new way. That way is the way that Yesus has slashed/blazed for us, [a way] that brings us to good life, In the Worship House of the Yahudi people long ago, a cloth middle-wall blocked the way of the people from entering into the More Holy Room. But [as for] us, there is no longer anything blocking our way to approach God, for Yesus opened for us a way to approach God, for he gave himself to be killed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “When he surrendered his body to be killed, he opened a new way in order for us (incl.) to have life without end. His body is figuratively like the cloth in the temple that shielded/hid the room where God was but now (the thing that) hid that room is figuratively already torn because he surrendered his body.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because as for Jesus, He made a way for us by means of the sacrifice of His body, and this way, it can give life without end.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Because by his death which is compared to the tearing of the curtain which blocked the entrance, Jesus made a new pathway for us which is as if living, because this path, it is he the same-aforementioned who is living.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Because, in his sacrificing of his body, he made-for us a new way/trail which goes-directly to the other side of the curtain, so that we really can arrive in God’s presence. That hiding-from-view curtain has now been removed, which is a picture of his body which was killed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Upon the dying of Jesus Christ, the closure was opened which closed there where God is. He opened up the road so that we can pass there where God is.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 11:13:

• Uma: “All those people kept on believing until they died, they did not yet get what God promised to them. We can say: they saw the fulfillment/happening far-off. They knew the fulfillment was still a long time, but even so their hearts were not uncertain of God’s promise. They were glad to wait for the fulfillment, and they said: their life in this earth was like just a visitor who dwells for a while.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Those people which I mentioned, their faith/trust in God did not move until they died. Even though they did not yet receive God’s promise, they knew that in the future they would receive it. And as long as they lived they showed that they were just strangers/foreigners here in the world.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for these who believed in God, they all died before they received what God had promised to them, that they would come to own that land. But in spite of this, that they had not received yet that which God promised, they did not stop believing because they knew that a long time in the future they would receive what they were expecting that God had promised. And they showed that they were not true residents here in the earth, because their true town was Heaven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “All these people, they were still believing in God when they died. Even though they didn’t receive during their lifetimes what God had promised them, it’s as if they saw-from-a-distance what would be given to them in-the-future, and they were made-happy. So they confessed that they were mere strangers with no proper country on this earth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “These ones who were promised to, until the day they died their believing what God had said really held fast. For even though the things he had promised to them did not arrive in their time it was however as if they could- now -see-it-in-the-distance and they were eagerly-awaiting-it with happy minds/inner-beings. They really comprehended that as for them, they were just temporary-residents and just-mixing-in-with-others (i.e. not really belonging there) here in the world.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “All these people lived and then died. And they did not see the word which God had promised would happen. But since they believed that it is true what God says, very much did they rejoice because they well knew that there would happen that word which God promised would happen. Therefore during the days they lived here on earth, they said that their home wasn’t here, rather they said they were going to heaven.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)