Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 3:16:
- Uma: “So, because you are just lukewarm [lit., sun-warm], you are not hot, you also are not cold, that is why I will spit/eject you out of my mouth.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But because your thinking/mind is vaccilating/doubting about me figuratively like water between hot and cold, therefore I will remove you/spit you out from my mouth.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If only you were hot, or if not, then cold. But since you are only lukewarm, I spit you out.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “but since you are lukewarm, I will spit-you -out.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, since you disgust me, I will just vomit you out like water in the mouth which is nauseating/makes-one-throw-up.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But since halfheartedly you believe in me I am going to throw you out.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 4:17:
- Uma: “There is a word of God to Abraham that says like this: ‘I will make you (sing.)the father of many people all over the world.’ In the sight of God, Abraham is/became the father of us all, for he believed in God who raises the dead to life, he believed in God who utters his words mentioning what not-yet is, with the result that it does come to be.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This is true because it was hep written in the holy-book what God said to Ibrahim. He said, ‘You were chosen by me to be made the parent of people of many nations.’ It is certain that this promise will be fulfilled because God is the one who promised to Ibrahim. And Ibrahim believed him because he is the God who causes the dead to live and whatever he says comes into existence.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There is a written word of God to Abraham and he says, ‘I will make you the ancestor of many kinds of people.’ And then he regarded Abraham to be the ancestor of us (incl.). All, whose faith in God is like that of Abraham’s. Now as for God, He’s the one in whom we believe and he is very powerful because he can raise the dead, and anything that has not yet taken place, He already knew about it just like it had already taken place.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because there is a written word of God which says, ‘I will cause-you -to-become the ancestor of people in the many-countries.’ And that was fulfilled, because Abraham is the ancestor of us all in God’s sight. And this God whom he believed, he is the one who has power to make-the dead -alive and to cause-to-exist what doesn’t-exist.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Thus it comes out like the word God told Abraham when he said, ‘Listen Abraham, I will cause that you end up as a father. Because there will multiply many of your children all over the earth’, he said to him. Abraham believed what God said. Because God is able to do so that those who died will resurrect. How much easier can he cause that children will live who have not yet been born.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:14:
- Noongar: “5,000 people were there. Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Tell the people to sit down, 50 people sitting together.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “(Their many-ness was about five thousand just still the men.) Yesus said saying to his disciples: ‘Command them to sit downin-groups, about fifty people in a group.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For there were five thousand men there. Isa said to his disciples, ‘Tell them to sit down, always fifty in a group.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were five thousand men gathered there and there were also women and children. And Jesus said to the disciples, ‘You have the people sit down in groups of fifty in each group.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They said that because the number of the older-men and younger-men was about five thousand. But Jesus then said to them, ‘Have-them -sit-down by-fifties.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For counting only the men, there were about five thousand in number. But Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Have them sit down in groups of about fifty people.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 6:1:
- Uma: “After that I saw the Lamb open the first seal of those seven seals. I heard one of those four living things call loudly like the sound of thunder, he said: ‘Come here!’ [singular command]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then while I was watching, the Sheep removed the first of the seals on the paper roll. And I heard one of the four angels of-different-kind calling. His voice was like rolling-thunder. The angel said, ‘Go now, proceed.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then I looked and the young sheep removed the first of the seven marks on the scroll, and I heard one of the four creatures speaking, he said, ‘Now get going!’ And the sound of his speaking was like a thunderclap.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “As I was watching, the Sheep detached the first of the seven things-that-were-adhering/affixed, and I heard something like thunder which was the voice of one of the four living creatures. ‘Come (sing.) right-now,’ he said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well I saw that the one referred to as Young Sheep then removed the first fastening from that rolled up writing. At the same time, I heard one of those created living beings speak. He spoke just like claps of thunder in volume. He said, ‘Come now!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Then I saw the Lamb break the first of the seven seals. Then one of the four who stood at the corners of the chair spoke with force, it sounded to me like thunder. He said to me: ‘Come here so that you can see well,’ he said to me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 6:3:
- Uma: “Certainly you know relatives, we were baptized in our connection with Kristus Yesus, and our being baptized means that we died together with Him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You (pl.) know that when we (incl.) were bathed (baptized) as a sign that we (incl.) belong to Isa now and we (incl.) now obey/follow him, it was figuratively as if we (incl.) also accompanied him in his death/died with him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “We already know what happened when we were baptized, for we were baptized as a sign that we already have oneness with Christ; by means of this we are also taught that when Jesus allowed Himself to be killed, it’s as if we were the ones who died.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You certainly know that when we were baptized, which is when we were joined to Cristo Jesus, it’s as if we also joined in dying at his death. (Note: In this and other passages, the same RL word is rendered as joined to, included in, or a combination thereof, depending on the context)” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do you not know that all of us who now have been baptized have now joined with Christ? In that He died, we make a reckoning that it is like we also died.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:46:
- Noongar: “The disciples began arguing among themselves, ‘Which one of us is the greater?'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus’ disciples argued, which of them was more important.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One day the disciples of Isa were arguing as to who of them was the greatest.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There was a day, then, when his disciples were arguing about who was the highest in rank of them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The disciples of Jesus, they had an argument about which was the highest among them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Before long the disciples were arguing as to which of them was the greatest/most-important.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 7:16:
- Uma: “They are no longer hungry, they are no longer thirsty, they are no longer shined upon by the intense/blazing sun.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They will no longer be hungry or thirsty. They will not be caused to be hot by the sun or by anything else hot.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They no longer get hungry, they no longer get thirsty, they also no longer get burned by the sun or anything hot.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They will absolutely-never again be-left-hungry and thirsty, and neither will they be sunburned or hardshipped by other hot-things.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They won’t any more be aware of hunger and thirst. It will no longer be necessary for them to expose themselves to the heat of the sun or for them to suffer whatever form of heat.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “No longer will they hunger. No longer will they thirst. No longer will they suffer from the heat of the sun.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 7:12:
- Uma: “So, the Lord’s Law is holy, and the Lord’s command is holy, straight and good.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then, the law given by God has no evil/bad at all. All commands of the law are from God and are straight and good.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The Law comes from God and all of the commandment there are commandments of God, and these are not bad but they are good and they are righteous.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore the law is from God, and all the commands of the law are exactly right and good, because they are likewise from God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore, the law of God is very good. All the words it commands are all very good.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
