Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Peter 5:2:
- Uma: “I request that you take good care of the believers of God that are your flock [lit., your tended-ones]. For they are like the sheep that you tend that God has ordered to you to tend. Care for them with light hearts [i.e., willingly, not reluctantly] according to / following the desire of God, don’t do it just because you are forced. Help them from your own free will / sincerity [lit., from the whiteness of your hearts], don’t just think about salary.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This is what I want to say to you: care very well for the trusters in Isa Almasi that God has entrusted to you. They are figuratively-speaking sheep and you are figuratively-speaking people who care for the sheep. Therefore you should be happy to care-for/look-after them, because this is God’s wish/will, and don’t have to be forced. Care for them not because you aim-for/aspire to wages but because you really want to work for them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “What I am asking you is: carefully care for the believers whom God has entrusted to you. They are like His sheep. You are the one who leads them not as if you are being forced to, but rather it must come from your shiny breath for that is what God wants. It is necessary that the reason that you care for them is not just because they pay you, rather because you want to help them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “These are what I will instruct you. Carefully take-care-of the believers in your location, because they are like God’s sheep whom he has entrusted to you. You should be happy to take-care-of them without being forced, because that is what God wants. Neither are you to do your work because of your being-greedy-for mere money, but rather because of your love/desire to serve God and your companions.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This is what I want to say to you, I urge you, take good care of those who have submitted to God whom he has committed to you. They are like his sheep, you being the shepherd. Give oversight with your mind/inner-being happy, not just being forced. Because that really pleases God. Attend-to/face your job/responsibility really well, with no motive of wanting-to-get-money, but rather with happy service.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Listen, men, take care of the people whom God has gathered there where you live. Don’t care for them because you are forced to, but because it is a pleasure to care for them. And don’t do the work of God because you want money, rather care for the people because it is what you want to do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 23:8:
- Uma: “Because according to the Saduki people, people who die do not live again, and there is no soul of mankind that lives on-and-on, and there are no angels. But the Parisi people [emphatic], they believe all that.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “(Because the Sadduseo, they say that the dead will not ko’ be made alive again and that there is no angel ko’ nor soul/spirit but the Pariseo they believe all of this.)” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason they were disputing is because as for the Sadducees, they teach that the dead will not be raised. They say that there are no spirits that come from God and there are also no messengers which come from heaven. But as for the Pharisees, they believe that there will be a resurrection and that there are spirits and that there are messengers of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “(Because the Saducees, they say that the dead will not live again. They also say that there are no angels or human-spirits. But the Pharisees, they believe all those-things.)” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because according to the perception of the Saduceo, there is no coming alive again, also none of what are referred to as angels, and neither is there a spirit in man. But as for the Pariseo, they believe there are all of these.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 2:45:
- Noongar: “They did not see Jesus, so they returned to Jerusalem looking for him.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But they did not find him. That is why they returned to Yerusalem to look for him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because they couldn’t find him, they went back to Awrusalam to search for him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When they could not find him, they returned to Jerusalem and looked for him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “but he wasn’t there (lit. but none). So they returned to Jerusalem to go look for him there.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well since they couldn’t find him, without anything further, they returned to Jerusalem searching.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Peter 1:20:
- Uma: “But more important that all else, you must remember this: what those prophets wrote, we may/can not explain-the-meaning-of according to our own desire.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But remember what I am saying here because it is very important, that there is no person who can simply by himself explain what was caused by God to be written in the holy-book.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And it’s very necessary that you understand that no one can explain properly the teaching written by the prophets of God long ago if the Holy Spirit has not caused him to understand it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Remember/Think-about this, because it’s extremely important: nothing has been prophesied which God caused-to-be-written which the prophet said of-his-own-accord.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Above all, you must really comprehend that there is really nothing at all of what was written by those prophets which has its origin in human perception/understanding.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It is necessary that you know that the word written by the prophets of God in the Holy Book are not the prophets’ own thoughts which were written down.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 24:5:
- Uma: “‘We say that that Paulus over there is a man who bothers towns. Everywhere he incites the Yahudi people to oppose the government. And he is a leader of those who follow the teachings of Yesus of Nazaret.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “We (excl.) have observed that this person is very troublesome. He is the one who troubles the Yahudi tribe throughout the world. And he is the leader of the people who follow the teaching of the man of Nasaret.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “This is it. We know that as for this man, he is very troublesome because what he does has caused the Jews to riot everywhere, and he is also one of the leaders of the people that are called Nazarenes.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Our (excl.) experience concerning this person, he is a trouble-maker, because he has thrown-into-turmoil the Jews in all the towns/countries on the face (lit. surface) of the earth. He moreover is one of the leaders of a group/party that follows one who is from-Nazaret.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, as for this person, we (excl.) have observed that he is really troublesome. What he does is, he goes all over all the lands inciting the Jews to cause trouble. He is also one of the leaders of those people called Nazaretanen.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 3:25:
- Uma: “Yusuf the child of Matica, Matica the child of Amos, Amos the child of Nahum, Nahum the child of Hesli, Hesli the child of Nagai,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This Yusup was a son of Mattati, Mattati was a son of Amos, Amos was a son of Nahum, Nahum was a son of Esli, Esli was a son of Naggay.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Joseph was the son of Mattathias, and Mattathias was the son of Amos and Amos was the son of Nahum and Nahum was the son of Esli and Esli was the son of Naggai,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jose, he was the child of Mattatias who was in-turn the child of Amos. Amos was the child of Nahum who was the child of Esli who was in-turn the child of Naggai.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jose was the son of Matatias who was the son of Amos. Amos was given birth to (term applies to both parents) by Nahum who was the son of Esli. As for Esli, he was the son of Nage,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Peter 3:9:
- Uma: “But you, my relatives whom I love, don’t forget this one thing. There are some people who say it has been so long, the Lord still hasn’t arrived. But in God’s sight a thousand years are the same as just a day, and one day is the same as a thousand years. The Lord is not slow/sluggish about fulfilling his promise. He has not yet come because he is patient towards you, he does not want even one person to be punished. His desire is that all people have opportunity to repent of their sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Some people think that God is slow and that he does not fulfill his promise. But the reason that he has not yet fulfilled it is because he really waits perhaps you will regret your sins. Because he does not want that even one is punished but/instead he wants that all regret and leave/give up their sins.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Some people suppose that the Lord is taking a long time, for why doesn’t He fulfill His promise to return. He is not taking a long time, but rather He is very patient with you, for it is not His desire that there be even one who is not freed from punishment. He wants everybody to abandon their evil behaviour.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “According to the viewpoint of some, the Lord is late in fulfilling what he promised, but that’s not true. The truth of it is, he is extremely patient with you, because he wants no one koma to be punished but rather that all people repent koma of their sins.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore since his opinion of time is different, we can’t say like others suspect, that this promise of his about Jesu-Cristo returning here was just an empty-promise (idiom) for he hasn’t yet fulfilled it. But the truth is, it’s only because of the big-size of his pity for us all that he isn’t yet fulfilling it. For he’s giving people an opportunity still, that they can repent/be-sorry and drop/give-up their sin. For he really wants all to be saved, that no-one at all will have to go to endless hardship.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Our Lord Jesus Christ said that he would come. But now people say that the day is past for his coming. But the day isn’t past, rather he first is being patient with the people, he doesn’t want them to be punished, he wants that all peole change their lives by leaving the evil in which they live.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 25:10:
- Uma: “Paulus said: ‘Father Governor! As of now, I am standing in the office of Governor, for Governor is the deputy of Kaisar, our king in Roma. And it is surely appropriate that the rulers of Roma should decide my case. You (sing.) know yourself that there is no wrong of mine against the Yahudi people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Paul said, ‘I am now standing here in the judgment place of the Leader King (emperor). It should be here where I am judged. You know very well, Sir, that I have done nothing bad to the Yahudi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Paul said, ‘Here I am today in the court according to the law of our king there in Rome, and this is the proper place to investigate me. And you know that I have not done anything bad to the Jews.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Pablo said in reply, ‘I emphatically refuse, because here I am here before you (sing.), and it should be here that I am tried, because you (sing.) after-all are emphatically the one whom the Emperor appointed to judge me. As for the Jews however, you (sing.) certainly know I have no crime against them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But Pablo replied, ‘No. I really can’t accept that. Now that I am here now in the presence of the judge set up by the Impiradur, it’s necessary that here is where I be investigated. You have really comprehended already that there is nothing wrong at all which I have done against my fellow Jews.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
