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)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 10:16:
- Noongar: “Jesus said to his disciples, ‘The person who listens to you, he also listens to me; and the person who rejects you, he also rejects me. The person who rejects me, he rejects God, who sent me.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “After that, Yesus again spoke to his followers, he said: ‘People who receive your words, its meaning, it is my [emphatic] words that they receive. People who reject you, its meaning, I am the one they reject. And people who reject me, they also reject the Lord God who sent me.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said yet to his disciples, ‘Whoever listens to your teaching, it is as if they listen to me. Whoever doesn’t pay attention to you, it is as if it is me whom they are not paying attention to. And whoever doesn’t pay attention to me, that means that he also is not paying attention to God the one who sent me to the world.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then he spoke to his disciples, he said, ‘Any person who obeys your teaching, it’s as if I were the one he’s obeying. And that person who does not pay any attention to you, it’s just as if I were the one he’s not paying any attention to. And the person who doesn’t pay any attention to me is really not paying any attention to God who sent me.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘The one who heeds what you say, I am the very one he is heeding, and the one who rejects you, I am the very one he rejects, and the one who rejects me, it is God who sent me that he is rejecting.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus added on more saying to his disciples, ‘The ones listening to you, I am the one they are listening to. Those who reject you, they are also rejecting me. And those who reject me, they are also rejecting my Father who sent me.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 9:18:
- Uma: “One third of mankind died killed by those three kinds of plagues/tormentings: fire, smoke and sulfur rock that appeared from the mouths of those horses.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One part of the people on earth died. Two parts didn’t. The people died through/by the fire, the smoke and the flaming sulphur, the three things that came out of the horses mouths.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And by means of this fire, smoke, and sulphur which comes out of the mouths of horses, they killed the third part of all mankind.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “A third of the people died because of those death-producing-things which were the fire, smoke and sulfur that were-coming-out of their mouths.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well the third part of the people truly did die because of these three epidemics, that fire, smoke and asupri which were coming out of the mouths of those horses.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “People were killed by these three deaths of fire, smoke and sulphur which came out of the horses mouths. But it didn’t come up to half of the people who were killed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 8:19:
- Uma: “At this time all that God has created is waiting-waiting with longing hearts, waiting for the time that God will reveal the bigness of life [i.e., glory] of his children.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Not only we (incl.) human-beings but all that God has created, they are waiting for this day in the future when God honors his children.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the expectancy of all created things is drawn very tight concerning the time in the future when God will reveal His children who’ve been made immortal.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Even all that God created, they intensively-desire that the time will arrive when God will show the status of us who are his children.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning all the things which God created here in the world, it is as though they were waiting for the day to come when God will give the good to his children.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:6:
- Noongar: “My other friend is travelling, now he comes to my house but I have no bread to give him!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Because there is my friend who has just arrived, but I do not have anything to give to him.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “for my friend has recently arrived from his journey, and I don’t have anything to feed him with.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For I’ve a visitor who’s come from a long way away, and I have nothing to feed him.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because there is a friend of mine who is traveling who has-just-arrived at my house, and I have nothing to feed him.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For a friend of mine who is traveling has arrived. Well, I haven’t got anything to serve him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 11:18:
- Uma: “All the people who do not follow you (sing.), they are riled-up/all-out wanting to oppose you (sing.). But the time has come you (sing.) make appear your (sing.) anger to them. The time has come when you (sing.) judge the cases of people who have died. The time has come for you (sing.) to give gifts to you (sing.) slaves: to the prophets who carry your (sing.) Word, to people who submit to you (sing.), and to all the people who honor you (sing.), the important or the unimportant ones [lit., the ones with big or little lives]. The time has come for you (sing.) to punish people who wreck /make-evil the world.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The people who don’t believe-obey you are very angry, because the time has come now for your wrath to come to them, and the time for you to judge the dead. The time has come when you will reward your servants, the prophets, and all people belonging to you, all who respect you, great and small equally. This is the time for destroying all those who destroyed in the world.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Your enemies were very angry with You, but the day for Your punishing them has arrived, and also the day for Your investigating the deeds of those already dead. It is now the time for Your rewarding Your servants the prophets and Your rewarding also all people who belong to You, whether their status is big or whether their status is small, everyone who respects You. This is also the time for You to destroy all people who have destroyed the earth.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Those who oppose you (sing.), extreme is their anger, but now, the time has arrived when-you (sing.) -will-punish them, because now is the time when-you (sing.) -will-judge all the dead. Now also is the time when-you (sing.) -will-recompense the prophets who serve you (sing.) and all your (sing.) people who esteem you (sing.), those who are low (i.e. poor, lacking influence) and also those who are high, while at-the-same-time you (sing.) destroy those who have destroyed people on the earth.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The anger/hatred of those nations who don’t acknowledge you is really terrible. But well, the time has now been reached when you will now cause your anger to be comprehended. The time has been reached to judge/sentence the ones who have died, and to give rewards to the prophets who are your servants, and all your people, as many as have fear and respect for you, high/important blood and low-class/ordinary. Now really is the time when you will cause to suffer greatly those under the heavens who are causing suffering.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The people who live in the world who reject your word were angry. But now has come the day when you also are angry. Concerning those who have died, now has come the time for you to judge them. Concerning your workers who have spoken for you, you will give them their wages. All of the people who are in your hand, little and big, all who reverence you, to all will you give their wages. Now has come the time that you finish the people who do damage here on earth with whatever evil they do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Chichewa (interconfessional translation, 1999): “Pagan people became angry, but the time has come to show your wrath, that is the time for judging the dead. The time has come for you to give a reward to your servants, the prophets, and to your people, that is all of them, the small ones and the great ones, who reverence your name. The time has come for you to destroy those who destroy this world.” (Source: Wendland 1998, p. 166)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 9:12:
- Uma: “When Ribka was about to give birth, God said to her: ‘Your (sing.) firstborn will submit to his younger-sibling.’ At the time of those words, those two children were not yet born, and they had not yet done anything good or evil. But it was at that time God made-certain ahead of time which one he chose to get his blessing. God’s purpose in doing like that was so we would clearly see: if God chooses people to receive his blessing, he does not choose them because of their behavior. He chooses them because of his own decision.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Before those twin children of hers were born, God said to Rebeka, ‘The younger will rule over the older.’ When God said that, the twins had not yet done good or bad because they were not yet born. But God chose one beforehand so that it is known that it is from his will/wish when he chooses someone. The reason God chooses a person is not because of his deeds which are good but by the will/wish of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for Rebecca, when she was about to give birth God said to her, he said, ‘The older one will be a servant of his younger sibling.’ He said this before those twins were born and before they had done either good or evil. And the reason this took place was because God was teaching that when He chooses people, it’s not because of their good works but rather because He just wants to.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because before those two were born and they had as yet done nothing good or bad, God said to Rebecca, ‘The one who precedes will serve the one who comes-last.’ God said that so it would be known that his choice of the one was not based on what the two of them had done but rather on whom he had originally decided to call.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi (verses 11-13): “But before these children were born God told Rebecca that Esau would be born first. Then Jacob, the younger one would rule his brother. This is what is written in the Holy Book about what God said. He said: ‘I love Jacob, but concerning Esau, I do not love him.’ This is the word God spoke before the children were born. He didn’t wait until the children were born in order that it be seen which one lived good and which one lived bad. Therefore it is apparent here that God from the beginning has determined what will come to pass. It isn’t that he first saw how the children turned out, rather that what he determined to choose, that is what came to be.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Genesis 25:23.
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:38:
- Noongar: “The Pharisee was surprised when he saw Jesus did not wash before eating.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “That Parisi person was surprised to see Yesus eat, because he did not wash-his-hands first according to the customs of their religion.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The Pariseo wondered for Isa did not wash his hands before eating.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When Jesus finished teaching, there was one of the Pharisee people who invited him to eat in his house. And Jesus went there and ate, and the Pharisee noticed that Jesus ate and he did not wash his hands; he was very surprised because Jesus had broken the custom of the Pharisees.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But that Fariseo was amazed upon seeing that Jesus didn’t wash-his-hands first according to their custom.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But that Pariseo was amazed for Jesus ate without having washed according to their handed-down teaching.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
