Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 3:15:
Uma: “He says: I know what you do. You are not cold, you also are not hot. It would be better if you were just cold, or if you were just hot.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “I do know your doings that you are between following me and not. You are figuratively like water that is neither hot nor cold. I wish/want that if you follow me, really follow, if not, na, then not at all.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I know everything that you are doing. You are not hot and you are not also cold, which is to say, you are not My enemies and you are also not My followers.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “I know your way-of-life. You can-be-compared to lukewarm water which is not hot or cold. I wish you were hot or cold,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Really nothing is lost on me of all your doings. You don’t oppose me at all but also your believing/obeying me isn’t whole-hearted, but on the contrary, it’s terribly insipid. I wish your believing/obeying me were whole-hearted, for I really can’t accept believing which is not genuine, which is just talk (lit. only on the beak). Admittedly my anger/hatred is really big against those who don’t believe, but my anger is much greater against these who are making pretence.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “I know what all you are doing. I know that you are neither separating from me nor are you strengthening yourselves to follow my word. But it is needed that you decide what you are going to do, whether it be to separate from me or to strengthen yourselves to follow my word.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 4:16:
Uma: “So, God says we are straight in his sight solely because of our faith, in order that what God promised we receive as a free gift, in order that all the descendants of Abraham receive what God promised. That promise of God is not just for the Jews who know the Lord’s Law. That promise of God is the portion of anyone who believe in God like Abraham. For Abraham is/became the father of us all.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “God promised Ibrahim because Ibrahim trusted in him. And the reason why God promised is so that he could-make-certain/prove to all the descendants of Ibrahim that he loved and pitied them/had mercy on them. And that promise of his was not only for the Yahudi, the ones following the law written by Musa, but for everyone who believes God like Ibrahim. Because Ibrahim hep is like the parent of us (incl.) who trust in God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason God has made it so that we can receive what he promised only by faith, is so that this might be possible by means of his kindness, not by means of what we do. And because of this, it is absolutely true that all of us (incl.) who are descendants of Abraham, we will receive what God has promised. And it’s not only the Jews who are under the Law that will receive, but rather anybody who has faith like Abraham had faith, because Abraham has become the ancestor of all who believe, Jew or not Jew.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Therefore what God has promised will be fulfilled only to people who believe so that it will be based on his grace/mercy. Because if God’s grace is what it is based on, it will for-sure be fulfilled to all of us who are counted as Abraham’s descendants, not only the Jews who know the law but rather all who believe like the faith of Abraham. Because he is as-if the ancestor of us all.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “This word which God promises is that he will bless those people who believe. It is seen then that it is only by the grace of God that he blesses those who believe. God did not say that only those who do what is said in the law will be blessed by him. Because concerning the person who has faith like the faith that Abraham had, then Abraham becomes like the father of that believer.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:13:
Noongar: “But Jesus said to them, ‘You, yourselves give them something to eat.’ They said, ‘We only hold five loaves of bread and two fish. You want us to go and buy meat and bread to give to all these people, do you?'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “Yesus said: ‘You feed them.’ His disciples said: ‘How [can] we (excl.) [do that]!? We (excl.) have only just five pieces of bread and two fish. Must we (excl.) go buy food to feed those many people there?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But he said to them, ‘You are the ones to feed them.’ They said, ‘We (excl.) only have five units (a classifier)/pieces of bread and two fishes, – only if we (excl.) will go and buy food for these crowds of people.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But Jesus answered and said, ‘You be the ones to give them something to eat.’ And those disciples of his answered, ‘We only have five pieces of bread and two very small fish. Perhaps you desire that we go and buy food to feed these many people.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “But Jesus said to them, ‘Instead you be the ones (lit. Even-if you are the ones) to feed them.’ Then they said, ‘Five breads and two dried-fish is all there is. Are we to go buy food for all of these?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “But Jesus replied to them, ‘You be the ones to give them something to eat.’ The disciples answered, saying, ‘Lord, well how can that be since there’s really nothing here except five units of little-bread and two units of little-fish? On the contrary, wouldn’t we (excl.) have to go and buy what would be fed to all this crowd of people?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 5:14:
Uma: “Those four living things answered: ‘Thus indeed!’ and those elders lay prostrate worshipping.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “The four angels of-different-kind answered, they said, ‘Amin.’ Then the twenty four elders prostrated and praised.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the four creatures answered, they said, ‘May this come to pass.’ And then the elders fell on their faces again and worshipped.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Then the four living creatures answered and said, ‘Amen.’ At-the-same-time moreover the leaders, they again knelt face-down worshipping/praising the Sheep and the one who was seated on the throne.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Well as for those, the four created living beings, they kept on repeating, ‘True! Really like that (should be done)!’ And as for those twenty four elders, they bowed down and worshipped.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “The four who stood at each corner of the chair said together: ‘It is well that this should be,’ they said. Then the twenty-four who were around where God sat all kneeled to worship God, he who lives forever.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 6:2:
Uma: “Don’t, relatives! It is not appropriate [lit., it does not hit the way] if we keep on sinning, because we can say that we have died together with Kristus in order that our connection with sin be severed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Really no! This is the truth about sinning, when we (incl.) already trust Isa Almasi it is if we (incl.) were dead people no longer able to sin. Therefore we (incl.) no longer want to sin.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now that cannot be because it’s not possible that we continue doing evil, because evil behavior has nothing more to do with us. For we are like a dead person whose former way of life has gone from him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “It absolutely is not possible! Because as concerns sin, we have already died, so we cannot continue to sin.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “As to that, we cannot so continue. Rather we have finished with the sin we did. Who is it that can say that we continue to commit sin then?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “Let’s not sin any more because like as a corpse who has died can’t sin any more, so it is with us. So let’s not keep right on sinning any more.”
Tabasco Chontal: “When we accepted Christ, we were left as you might say a dead person, where sin is done. Because a dead person is not able to keep on doing sin. We also, there is no reason why we should keep on doing sin.” (Source for this and above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:45:
Noongar: “But the disciples did not know what Jesus said. The truth was hidden from them so they did not see the truth. They were frightened to ask Jesus about saying more.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “But his disciples did not know his purpose, because the meaning was hidden from them, with the result that they did not understand. But they also did not dare ask him what was the meaning of his words.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But they did not understand what he said there for it was hidden from them so that they did not understand. And they did not dare to ask him what the meaning of his words was.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for his disciples, they did not at that time understand what Jesus was telling them. God did not allow them to understand, so that they might not know it, and they did not dare to ask him what the interpretation of it was.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “But they didn’t know what he meant to say, because God didn’t permit them to understand and they were afraid to inquire of Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “But the disciples didn’t understand the meaning of what Jesus said, because it’s like it was still being hidden from them. They also held-back/were-reluctant to ask him what it meant.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Dagbani: “They did not know what this meant, because it had been hidden and on the other hand they were also afraid-of Jesus’s reaction (lit. “heart”). They did not know the meaning of what he said. They were afraid to to ask (and) find-out about the matter.” (Source: André Wilson in The Bible Translator 1972, p. 135ff. )
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 7:15:
Uma: “That is why they stand in front of the God’s Seat worshipping him every day and every night in the House of Worship. And God who sits on his Seat looks after them and shades them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “That is the reason why they stand there in front of the throne of God. They work for/serve God day and night in his presence. They are cared for by the one sitting on the throne because he is there with them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “That’s why they are standing before the seat of God. They are in the temple of God day and night, and they do what He wants them to do. God who sits on His seat of ruling He is the one they look up to.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “That is the reason they are before the throne of God serving him in his temple day and night. The one who is on the throne, he continually companions them and watches-over them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Therefore, because of that, they are in the presence of this seat of God in his kingship. They serve him night and day here in heaven which is as-it-were his Temple. And he who sits here on this king’s seat will completely-care-for/nurture them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Therefore that is why they stand before the chair of God now. They worship God where he sits day and night. And God cares for them that nothing will happen to them.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 7:11:
Uma: “Upon my hearing the Lord’s Law, sin ended up having opportunity to work in my heart. We can say like this: from the Lord’s Law, sin ended up causing my downfall with the result that I am fit to be punished with death and separated from God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “It is as if I were deceived by sin because I cannot follow/obey the law of God. And the result of it is (that) I die and I go to hell.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It’s as if evil activity deceived me, because by means of evil activity which was against the Law, I finally understood that I was sentenced to death without end.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “I was admittedly deceived on account of my hereditary sinfulness, because I indeed thought that it was possible for me to attain life by means of my obeying the law, but the truth of it was that I was breaking it (particle of realization), so I was condemned to be separated from God forever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the sin I had, it caused that I was deceived in my mind, I thought I could do what all the law said. But there in the law I found that it said I would go to punishment because of my sin.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Yatzachi Zapotec: “The evil which was in my head-heart deceived me and caused me not to listen to the law, and for that reason I began to be guilty.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
