Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 12:6:
- Uma: “Actually, if I did want to praise myself, I wouldn’t be lying, for there really are some things that are fitting I praise myself for. But I will hold-myself-back, I won’t recount my visions any longer, lest someone praise me when they hear this story of mine. If anyone wants to praise me, they should look at my actions and listen to my words.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If I really wanted to boast, my boasting would not be like the boasting of stupid/bad people because all I say is true. But I do not boast, lest/perhaps people would unduly honor me. I want that they consider me only because of my doings that they see and my words/speech that they hear.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For example, if I want to boast you cannot say that my boasting is of no value, because what I boast about is true. However I will not boast because I do not want people to think I am very high in rank. It is better if what they think about me is the result of those things they have seen, and my teaching that they have heard.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There is much that I could boast-about if I wanted (but I don’t), and I am not a fool if I do that, because what I say is true. But I keep-quiet-about-it in order that people will not go-too-far in making-me -high. Because I want their opinion of me to be based on what I have done and said which they have seen and heard for themselves.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But supposing I wanted to seek-praise, it would not mean that I am stupid, because what I say would indeed be true. But no. I am restraining myself, because I don’t want people’s estimation of me to be too high. What I want is, if their estimation of me is good, it’s just because of my good works that they have seen or good teaching of mine that they have heard.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “If I wanted to speak of myself, as to how good I live, then I could. No one could say that it is not true what I said. But I do not want to boast in my speaking. Rather, only according to what you have seen in how I walk and according to what you have heard me say, I want you to judge for yourselves.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:50:
- Uma: “But the food that descends from heaven is not like that. Whoever eats that food, they do not die.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But this food from heaven, if a person is able to eat it, he will not die.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However this food which comes from heaven, if anyone eats this, he will have life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The food by-contrast that I am speaking-of to you today, that is the true/proper food that came-from heaven, and the one who eats this food, he will-never-die.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But there is again food which comes from heaven and whoever will eat this food, he will not die.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But that tortilla/food I speak of came from heaven and he who eats the tortilla/food will not die.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:41:
- Uma: “I the Child of Mankind will order my angels to go gather all who are evil and all who cause-[other]-to-fall from among my people/subjects.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I, the Son of Man, I will send my angels here to the world to gather all people who cause their companions to sin and all people who do bad.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For I, the Older Sibling of Mankind, I will send my messengers, and they will remove from my kingdom those who tempt and those who do bad.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because I who am Child of a Person, I will send my angels to go gather-together from my ruling all the people who were-the-cause-of-sinning of their companions and also all who do bad.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The One From Heaven Born of Man/human will order his angels to gather-up and separate from his people who are under the control of God all which causes to fall (into sin, fig.) and all the doers of evil.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because the Man who came from heaven will send his angels to where his people are who are in his hand. They will take away all the people who caused their fellowmen to commit sin and they will take away all those who live in evil.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 1:4:
- Uma: “The Lord Yesus gave himself to be killed to redeem our sins, and free us from the power of this evil world. He did this following the desire of God our Father.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa Almasi, his life was indeed yielded/surrendered by him so that all our (incl.) sins could be done-away-with and so that we (incl.) no longer follow/obey the people who do bad here in this now/present world. This was done by Isa Almasi because this was really what our (incl.) Father God wanted.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for Christ, He gave up His life (literally He laid His life cross-wise) so that our sins might be cleansed and so that we might be freed from the punishment which will come to people who behave wickedly here at this time here on the earth. The reason Christ did this is because He is carrying out what our Father God wants.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “who gave his life in order that our sins might be forgiven. He did that according to what God our Father wanted in order that we might be saved and set-free from the evil that is in this world.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “he who sacrificed his body for our sins so that he could rescue us from the control of the evil that has-jurisdiction-over the world at this time. This which he did, it was indeed the determined-plan of God our Father.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “This Jesus Christ himself wanted that he be put to death on account of our sins in order to pull us out from the evil that is here on earth. God our Father had determined what he went through.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 7:11:
- Uma: “At that feast, the Yahudi rulers continually searched for him, they said: ‘Where is Yesus?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He was searched for by the leaders of the Yahudi there at the festival. They asked where he was.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there at the feast the leaders of the Jews looked for him, and they said, ‘Where is he perhaps?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That being so, the leaders of the Jews who attended-the-fiesta, they were-searching-and-searching-for Jesus repeatedly-inquiring as to where he was.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There at the fiesta-place, he was being looked for by the Judio. ‘Where is that fellow?’ they said.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The Jews who were leaders hunted for Jesus at the celebration. They said, ‘Where is that man?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 14:15:
- Uma: “In the late-afternoon, his disciples approached him, they said to him: ‘Teacher, the sun is almost going down, and it is empty/desolate here. We should order [lit., ‘It-is-better we order’–a polite suggestion, not a command] these crowds here to go to the nearby town to buy their food.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When it was already late afternoon his disciples went to him and they said, ‘This is a place where not many people come to hep and it is already late afternoon. Tell these people to go to the villages so that they can buy their food.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when it was afternoon, his disciples came to him and said, ‘It’s late afternoon, and there are no villages here nearby. Send the people home so that they can go to the towns and they can buy food.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When it was getting-night, his disciples went to him and they said, ‘Tell the people to go buy what they will eat in the nearby towns, because here it is already getting-night and it is isolated here.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When it was late-afternoon, Jesus’ disciples approached him. They said, ‘Excuse please, this is a wilderness place and look here, it won’t be long till the sun sets. If possible/acceptable hopefully, send those people on their way now to go to the barios so that they can buy something for them to eat.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When it was now getting to be evening, the learners of Jesus went to him and said: ‘Now it is late and here where we are is just the wilds. Send the people away so that they can go to where there are towns and buy food to eat.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 2:12:
- Uma: “At first he did not discriminate Yahudi and non-Yahudi people, he ate together with the followers of Yesus who are not Yahudi people. But when several companions of Yakobus arrived from Yerusalem, he distanced himself from the followers of Yesus who were not Yahudi people. He was no longer brave to eat with them because he was afraid those Yahudis who had just arrived would be surprised at him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When he first arrived there, he ate with the people not Yahudi who trust Isa Almasi. But after/when some Yahudi trusting in Isa Almasi arrived commanded by Yakub to go there, Petros no longer paid-attention to the not Yahudi and he no longer ate with them. Petros was afraid (that) the Yahudi who defend the law of circumcision might find-fault with him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now somewhat a long time after that, Peter came to us (excl.) in the town of Antioch. When he first arrived his behavior was proper, for he gathered together to eat with believers who weren’t Jews. But when some Jewish believers that James had sent arrived, he began avoiding eating with the people who aren’t Jews. And I rebuked him because it was quite clear that what he was doing was not right. The reason he avoided it was because he was afraid because he might be scolded for that action these Jewish believers who say that it’s necessary for the non-Jewish believers to be circumcised.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because when he had just-come, he always (appreciation particle) ate-with our brothers who are Gentiles. But when Jews arrived who had been sent by Santiago, he gradually stopped-doing-it and didn’t eat-with the Gentiles, because he was afraid of the party/group of Jews who insisted that the law of Moses be followed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For at first he followed the custom of us (excl.) believers there that whether Jews or not, we (excl.) would all eat together. There was no discrimination. But when some Jews arrived from the ones under the oversight of Santiago at Jerusalem, Pedro became afraid that they might scold him, therefore he no longer ate with the believers who weren’t Jews. He was now tabooing them. Because those ones who had arrived, they were among those people who were saying, it is indeed necessary for non Jews to be circumcised, even though they have believed/obeyed Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “At the first Peter had done what was good. He ate along with the believers who did not have the mark which the Jews have. Then there arrived other people who came from where James was, these were people who required that all believers who were not Jews be marked. After they arrived, Peter was afraid that they would be angry with him, therefore he parted from where the believers who were not marked were.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 7:43:
- Uma: “With the result that the people just quarreled among themselves: some believed in Yesus, some did not.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore the people had different thoughts about Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the thinking of the people could not agree about Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Thus it was that the spoken-opinion of the people about Jesus was contradictory.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore because of that, the mind/thinking of the people was divided about him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “So the people weren’t in agreement in saying who Jesus was.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
