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)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:21:
- Uma: “I gave her an opportunity to repent from her sin, but she refused to let go of those wrong deeds of hers.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I have warned/instructed her, told her to regret and leave now her sin of fornication/adultery, but she does not want to.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I have put up with her for a long time so that she might stop doing those bad things, however she will not stop.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I have given her the opportunity to repent of her sins, but she refuses to turn-her-back-on her sleeping-with those who are not her spouse.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I have already given her room to repent and let go of these disgusting things which are her way-of-life, but she is really determining that she won’t let go of them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I have waited for this Jezebel, perhaps that she will separate from the fornication she walks in, but she does not want to separate from it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:24:
- Uma: “But God releases us from the punishment of our sins and he says we are straight [just] because of the redeeming of Kristus Yesus. All this is a gift [lit., a giving dry] of God to us because of his grace [white insides].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But because of God’s love and pity/mercy to us (incl.), that is his love-gift to us (incl.), therefore our (incl.) sins are forgiven by him and we (incl.) are considered straight by him because we (incl.) trust Isa Almasi who redeems/frees us (incl.) from our (incl.) sin.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, only because of God’s favor to us (incl.), He will consider us righteous just the same as if we (incl.) had never done any wrong, because Jesus Christ has set us free.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But because of his grace/mercy to us that has no payment, he counts us as righteous by-means-of what Cristo Jesus has done to redeem us.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It was pure grace that God cleared our sins. Because Jesus Christ paid for our sins.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Central Mazahua: “God is a good person. He just gives us that which we didn’t earn. God says we don’t any longer owe sin because Jesus Christ paid.”
- Hopi: “We through Jesus Christ have been set in the clear, and haven’t paid anything but have been made right through his mercy.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “But God did men a favor and he sees as if they were straight all who have put their confidence in Jesus. And men are not asked anything for the price of this favor. They are seen as if they were straight just because of Jesus Christ since he is the one who redeemed them.” (Source for this and two above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:46:
- Noongar: “But Jesus said, ‘One person touched me, because I know when power goes out of me.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘There was definitely someone who touched me! I know, because there was power that went out of my self/body.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Isa said, ‘Someone has really touched me for I could feel that power went out from my body.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But Jesus said, ‘There really was someone who touched me, because I felt that there was a person healed of a disease by means of my power.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Jesus said, ‘There was emphatically someone who touched my clothes, because I sensed that there was power that went-out from me.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘No,’ said Jesus. ‘Really someone touched me, for I was aware of strength of my supernatural-power which went from my body.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 4:2:
- Uma: “At that time also, I was controlled by the Spirit of God and he carried me to heaven. Arriving there, I saw a Seat of a King, and there was One who Sits on that Seat.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Immediately I was ruled by the Spirit of God and I saw there in heaven a throne, that means a distinguished/important sitting-place/seat and someone was sitting on it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the Holy Spirit caused me to go there, and when I was already there in heaven, I saw the seat of the one who rules” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God’s Spirit immediately caused-me-to-dream, and I saw a throne of a king which had someone seated (on it).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Suddenly/unexpectedly it’s like I was taken by the Espiritu Santo going up. When I was now in heaven, I saw a seat of a king, and there was indeed someone sitting there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “At that time the Holy Spirit changed my seeing. I saw a chair there in heaven. There in that chair sat God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 4:25:
- Uma: “Yesus is the one who gave himself to be killed to redeem our wrongs. And after that God brought him back to life so that we become straight in his sight.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This Isa Almasi was killed because of our (incl.) sin and was caused to live again by God so that we (incl.) could be forgiven and considered straight by God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus is the one God sent in order to let himself be killed as punishment because of our (incl.) transgressions. And then God raised Him from the dead so that God might consider us righteous, just as if we had never done anything wrong.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God handed-Jesus -over to die on account of our sins and he made-him -alive again so that we would be made-righteous.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning Jesus, it was allowed that he died in order to pay for our sins. Afterwards he resurrected. And now it is this that clears us with God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:22:
- Noongar: “Jesus also told them, ‘The Son of Man must suffer. The elders and the bosses of the Temple and the Law Men, all of them will reject him. They will kill him, but after three days, he will be raised to life.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “He also said: ‘I the Child of Man must receive much suffering. The elders of the town, the leaders of the priests with the teacher of religion will reject me. They will kill me, but on the third day I will live again.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And Isa also said, ‘I, the Son of Mankind, I have to endure many persecutions and the elders and the chief priest and the teachers of the religious law will not pay attention/believe me. I will be killed and on the third day I will live again.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he said also, ‘As for me, the older sibling of mankind, there are many torments that I will be caused to suffer. The elders of the Jews will reject me, along with the chief priests and the teachers of the Law. They will kill me, and within three days from then, I will rise again.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he continued to say, ‘I who am Child of a Person, it is necessary that I endure much suffering. The elders and the leaders of the priests and the teachers of the law, they will reject me and have-me-killed, but God will again make-me -alive on the third day.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And Jesus further said to his disciples, ‘I who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human will experience very many hardships. I will be belittled/insulted by the important tribal-leaders, the chiefs of the priests and the explainers of law, and I will even be killed. But on the third day, I will indeed be made alive again.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
