Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 12:5:
- Uma: “And don’t forget the admonition of the Holy Book that speaks to you like a father speaks to his children. It is written like this: ‘My child, consider well the teaching of the Lord, and don’t be discouraged if he admonishes you (sing.).” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Have you forgotten the words that God spoke to you encouraging you when he called you his children? It is written in the holy-book, it says, ‘My children, pay attention when I teach you. And don’t become tired following me when I punish/discipline you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Perhaps you have already forgotten the advice God gives to you, his children. For there is a written word of God which says, ‘As for you, my child, when I scold you, you must carefully check up on your behavior. And when I train you, it’s necessary that this not be the cause for you to stop holding on to your trust in me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Have you perhaps forgotten what God caused-to-be-written which ought to strengthen the minds of you who are his children? He said, ‘My child, don’t belittle/look-down-on it if the Lord teaches you (sing.). Neither should you (sing.) be discouraged if he admonishes/rebukes/instructs you (sing.).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s like you have now forgotten what God said in the past to you who are his children, which was like a strengthening of your mind/inner-being. This is what he said, ‘Child, regard it as no-joking-matter when God corrects/straightens you (sing.). Don’t weaken when you (sing.) experience (lit. are-reached-by) this correcting of his.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do not forget the word God tells us, we being his children. There in the Holy Book is written the word God speaks: ‘Listen, my children. Consider well how it is that God punishes you. Do not let your hearts turn back when God rebukes you for what you do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Proverbs 3:11 and Proverbs 3:12.
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 16:9:
- Uma: “The night of their sleeping in Troas, Paulus had-a-vision. In that vision, he saw a man from the province of Makedonia standing over there and requesting-help, he said: ‘Come over here to Makedonia to help us (excl.), please!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then, there in Toroas that night, God showed in a vision to Paul a man from Makedoniya asking help from him. That man said, ‘Cross over and come-here to Makedoniya and help us (excl.).'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for Paul, that night God showed him something and he saw that which was like a person of Macedonia who begged him saying, ‘Keep on coming here to Macedonia so that you might help us.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When it was night, there was that which God showed Pablo like a dream, he saw a man from-Macedonia standing pleading with him, ‘Cross-over (body of water) here to Macedonia to help us (excl.),’ he said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When they arrived there at Troas, when it was night, it’s like Pablo dreamed that he was looking at a person who was a taga Macedonia. What that person did was, he was really asking Pablo for grace/help, saying, ‘Please, if it’s possible/acceptable continue on to Macedonia for we (excl.) really need your help.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:14:
- Uma: “If he enters a house, say to the house owner: ‘The Teacher says: ‘Where please is the place I can make the Paskah Feast with my disciples?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And when he enters a house, say to the owner of that house, ‘The teacher commanded to ask you as to where ko’ the room is for him and his disciples to have the feast for the Celebration For-Remembering.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Follow him to the house where he enters in and say to the owner of that house, the boss is asking you in which room he is to eat with his disciples on this Feast of Passing By.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Follow (him) to the house that he enters, and say to the house owner, ‘Our Lord said where is the room where he will go eat-with us (excl.) who are his disciples for the fiesta?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And say to the house-owner, ‘Our(excl.) Teacher sent-us-to-ask where is the room in which it is possible/acceptable to eat this evening meal which is Passed-by, together with his disciples.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 13:8:
- Uma: “Yesus Kristus does not change: long ago, now, and forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa Almasi really does not change. From the beginning until now and forever he changes not.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because as for Jesus Christ, He never changes; He is always the same — long time ago and today, and in the future forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because Jesu Cristo, he doesn’t change but rather he is the same back then and now/today and forever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for this Jesu-Cristo in whom they believed, there is really no changing in him. As he was in the past, (he is) indeed like that now and forever.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning Jesus Christ, it is the same for the days gone by, and it is the same for now, forever he never changes.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 17:1:
- Uma: “Paulus and Silas continued their journey passing through the towns of Amfipolis and Apolonia, arriving at the town of Tesalonika. In Tesalonika, there was Yahudi house of prayer.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Paul and company travelled passing through the city of Ampipolis and the city of Appolon. Then they arrived in the city of Tessalonika. There was a Yahudi prayer-house there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then they went through the villages of Amphipolis and Apollonia, and they arrived in the village of Thessalonica. And there was a church of the Jews there.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Plural Pablo walked-through Amfipolos and Apollonia, and then they arrived in Tessalonica where-was a synagogue of the Jews.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “From Filipos, Pablo-and-co then passed by the cities of Anfipolis and Apolonia, and then they arrived at Tesalonica. There, there was a worship-place of the Jews,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:46:
- Uma: “After that, the many people came and caught/arrested Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then they seized Isa and held him tight/firmly.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then these people seized Jesus and held on to him tightly.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “After-that they arrested Jesus and held him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, those people then set on Jesus and arrested him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Longuda: “They caught Jesus they held-him zub.” (The ideophone [a word that expresses what is perceived by the five senses] zub is used for emphasis — source: Bonnie Newman in Notes on Translation 57/1975, p. 2ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of James 1:15:
- Uma: “If he follows the desires of his heart, in-the-end he will do sin. And if he continues to do sin, finally he will die and be separated from God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “His greedy-desire gives him thoughts to do bad. As he keeps thinking (about it) finally he goes-through-with-it/proceeds-with-it and does that evil. So-then if a person is used-to doing evil the result is he will be put in hell.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if he fulfills his desires, he sins. And the end of that person, if he keeps on doing wrong is death without end.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If then he thinks about doing that-aforementioned-thing that he wants, that is the source of sin, and the outcome of a person’s sins, it is death and separation from God forever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For as long as one’s own desire which is disgusting is indulged, the outcome is sin. And when sin has now been able to flesh-out/fruit, there is no other result of it than death which is unending punishment.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When a person does that evil which came to his mind, then it is sin. This person who is sinful, now must await punishment when he continues on sinning.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Guhu-Samane: “Then it overwhelms the man and the sin becomes reality, and in return the man encounters death.”
- Tzotzil: “If we let the coveting of our hearts grab its strength, thus we will seek our sin; if sin has grabbed its strength, we will be lost because of it.”
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “If we obey our evil hearts, we are doing evil; and if we continue doing evil the day will come when God will desert us.”
- Sayula Popoluca: “When that evil he wants stays in him, it gives room for sin to grow in him, and that sin when it grows big, then it kills him.” (Source for this and three above: Ellis Deibler in Notes on Translation July, 1967, p. 5ff.)
- German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999): “The whole thing is then like twofold begetting and childbearing: A person’s instincts are like a womb that conceives the evil thought and gives birth to the evil deed. The evil deed, for its part, matures and grows, and gives birth to death.” (see also complete verse (James 1:18))
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 17:33:
- Uma: “After that, Paulus departed from their gathering.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Paul left from that gathering-place.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Paul left and went out of the court.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Pablo left.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore, when it was now like that, Pablo left that crowd.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
