Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 11:17:
- Uma: “If the firstfruits [lit., first-born] of our crops we offer to God, it means that all our crops belong to God. If the roots are God’s, the branches are also God’s. The Jews can be compared to an olive [Indonesian: zaitun] tree that is tended. Its roots mean/stand-for the ancestors of the Jews that God had as his portion. Its branches mean/stand-for their descendants. Some of its branches were broken off by God. And in the breaking-off place he stuck on branches of an olive tree that was not tended, in order that those branches live and get richness from the root of the tended tree. Those branches that he stuck on are you, who are not Jews.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The nation of Isra’il is like a certain kind of tree planted and cared for in order to bear fruit. And you, the ones not Yahudi, you are also like a tree, but a tree that grows by itself in the forest. So-then some of the branches of the cared-for tree are cut-off by God, and you, the branches from the forest-tree are joined in the place were the-cut-off-ones had been. So-then now you share in the good (things) that belongs to the Yahudi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for the descendants of Israel, they are like an olive tree that God takes care of. And there are some branches on this tree that God has broken off; and as for you who are not Jews, you are like the branches of an olive tree which was not planted, that God took instead and caused it to grow there where He had broken off branches. And in the same way now, God’s blessing of you is good just like His blessing of the Jews long ago was good.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Let me continue this illustration. The Jews, they can-be-compared to an olive (loan olivo) tree that God planted and has-looked-after. But he chopped-off some of its branches. You now who are Gentiles, you can-be-compared to the branches of an olive that merely grew (i.e. not planted). What God did, he got you and grafted (Ilo. solbong) you into the tree which he had planted so that you would join the original branches that were left. So now, you share-in the growth-causing sap which comes from its root.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “This is a tree which is a good tree. But some of the branches of the tree were broken off. These are the Jews who separated from God. You who are not Jews are like as though you were branches of a tree that is wild. There where the branches were broken off of the good tree, there you were grafted in. So now you walk with God’s people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:43:
- Noongar: “This servant will be very happy if his master sees him doing good things when he comes home!” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “No kidding his good-fortune/blessedness if his nobleman returns home from his journey and finds him while he is working his work.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When his master returns, that servant will be happy when his master sees that he obeyed all that was commanded to him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When his master returns, this servant will be very happy if his master finds that he has obeyed everything he was told to do.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Fortunate is that slave if his master comes-home and comes-upon him doing the work that was entrusted to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That slave can be really happy if on the arrival of his master, like that truly is what he is doing.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 17:5:
- Uma: “On her forehead was written a name that is a figure-of-speech for her behavior: BIG BABEL: MOTHER OF ALL LOOSE PEOPLE AND THE APPEARING-PLACE OF EVERY KIND OF DEED THAT IS NOT FITTING ON THE EARTH” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “On her forehead there was a name written, its meaning was hidden. This is what was written on her forehead, ‘The famous city of Babilon. The source of bad women and the beginning of all that is unclean in the world.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “On her forehead was written a name whose meaning was hidden. It said, ‘The famous city of Babylon which is the mother, which is to say, the source of all prostitutes and every kind of vulgar, filthy deeds all over the earth.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Her name whose meaning was deep (i.e. difficult to understand), it was written on what was used-as-a-headband on her forehead. It said, ‘Babilonia the famous (lit. newsed), mother of women whose womanhood is repeatedly-bought, and source of all the filthy-things that are being-done on the earth.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Written on her forehead was a name with a secret meaning, which said, ‘Famous Babilonia, who is the mother of immorality and all disgusting deeds here under the heavens.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Written on her head was a name which was not known as to its meaning. But the meaning of the word is: ‘This city of Babylon is the mother of all prostitutes all over the world, and of all the evils there are.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 12:13:
- Uma: “Help our one-faith companions that are in need. Be friendly/outgoing in receiving guests.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Help the need of your fellow trusters in Isa Almasi and be hospitable to everyone who goes there to your house.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Let us give help to our fellow siblings who are poor, and let us bring up into our house the person who is travelling.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If there are people of God who need help, share with them, and see that you are hospitable.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning your fellow believers who are in need, give them help. Concerning the believers who have come from afar, give them a resting place.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:16:
- Noongar: “Now this woman is a descendant of Abraham. Satan has tied her up for 18 years. Why can’t she be freed on the Sabbath Day?'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But here, there is a woman, a descendant of Abraham, she has been tied for eighteen years by the King of Evil-ones. May we not free her from her bonds [lit., tyings] on Sabat Day?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This woman is a descendant of Ibrahim just like you. She has been tied by the leader of demons for eighteen years. Is she not entitled to be loosened on a day of-no-work?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And here today is a woman who is very precious to God, and Satan has tied her up, or bound her, for eighteen years, and you will not allow her to be turned loose on the day of rest!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And here we have with us this descendant of Abraham whom Satanas has as if tied for eighteen years. Is it indeed (RQ implying of course not) bad if she was set-free from her sickness on the day for-resting?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well now, this woman, who is indeed a descendant of Abraham, for eighteen years she has been as-it-were bound by Satanas. Isn’t it so that she needs to be as-it-were untied now, even though it is the Day of Rest?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 18:19:
- Uma: “They sprinkle ashes on their heads as a sign of their sorrow. They cry and shout, they say: ‘How sad! How sad for that big village over there! [It’s] from the wealth of the Babel people that all we workers on boats become rich. But see, in just one hour it is wiped out!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And they put dust on their heads as a sign that they were very grieved. They wept and wailed. They said, ‘Allo. It is all over (lit. no longer becoming). It is really a pity for that famous city. All the owners of ships became rich because of the wealth of that city. And now in just one hour everything in it has disappeared.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Since their breaths are very painful they will sprinkle dust on their heads and they will weep and wail saying, ‘How greatly the great city will be missed! For her wealth made owners of all the ships on the sea rich, and now within just one hour all the houses there have been completely destroyed,’ they said.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They will scatter dust on their heads while weeping and mourning saying, ‘Oh how-awful (expression of sympathy)! Extremely to-be-pitied is that famous (lit. newsed) city! Her wealth is what all who have ships also used-to-become-wealthy. And there (exp. of sympathy) she was destroyed within only-one hour!’ they will-say.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Without anything further, they will put dust on their heads as a sign of the big-size of their grief. And crying, they will speak saying, ‘Alas, this really is extremely hard! Really extremely hard is what has happened to this famous city. All the owners of ships which deliver merchandise to this city have become rich. But within just one hour, her wealth and splendor have disappeared.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “They will throw dust on their heads and cry. Mournfully they will say, ‘Pity the city. All those who go on ships over the sea have become rich from selling things in the city, for those people of the city are very rich. But now in just a short time is ended all that it had gathered.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 14:10:
- Uma: “So, let’s not criticize our one-faith relative. And also let us not disparage our one-faith relative. For the time will certainly come when God will sit on his judgment [deciding] seat, and all of us will stand in front of him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Why do you the ones who do not eat meat talk against your brother who trusts in Isa? And you also the ones who eat anything, why do you despise your brother who trusts in Isa? We (incl.) all will stand in front of God on the last day and he will judge us (incl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since this is true, it’s not good if we rebuke our companions in the faith about their behavior and consider them to be not as good as we are because in the future, all of us (incl.) we will stand before God and he will be the one to check up on us (incl.) all.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So let us not accuse-one-another and look-down-on-one-another, because we will all face God so that he will judge us.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore one who is just a person is not able to make a judgment on the conduct of his brother. He cannot say that his brother is walking bad. Because there will come the day when all of us will come before Christ. He it is who will make the judgment concerning us then.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:13:
- Noongar: “When you prepare your feast day, invite other people, poor people and disabled and lame and blind,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “So if we make a feast, call the poor people, the crippled, the lame and the blind.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But if you make a feast invite the poor ones, the deformed ones, the lame ones and the blind ones.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, when you give a feast, the ones you should invite are the poor and the crippled and the lame and the blind.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The way you (sing.) should do it is, invite also the poor, the cripples, the lame, and the blind,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore when you prepare a big feast, who you are to invite are the poor, those with defects in their body, the lame and the blind.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
