Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Peter 3:12:
- Uma: “For we here are waiting for God’s Deciding Day. We had better make good our following of the Lord to the best of our ability, in order that that Day will soon arrive. On that day, the sky will be burned up by fire, and everything that there is will dissolve/melt from the heat.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “while you wait for his coming. Really strive to do God’s will so that the day of his coming will soon arrive, the day when the sky will burn and be destroyed and the different-things in the sky will melt through/by fire.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For we are waiting for the day when God will punish the earth. Let us do as much as we can so that it may soon come to pass. On that day the sky will be completely burned up and everything will be melted by the great heat.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “as you are waiting for the day on which God will judge the collective-people. You should also put-forth your efforts (lit. ability) in order that its arrival will be-quicker/sooner. It is true that on that day, the sky will be burned-up and all that is there will be melted with fire.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “You must really persevere in these things, while you await this day which he has-set-as-the-end. Persevere so that the coming of that day will be quicker. Admittedly on that day, the sky/heaven will be burned up and all its created contents will be melted away.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now you are waiting for the day God will come. Earnestly endeavor to get God’s work done in order that soon he will come. On that day the heavens will burn with fire. All that is above will melt from the fire.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 25:14:
- Uma: “When they had been in Kaisarea for several nights, Festus spoke of Paulus’ case to King Agripa, he said: ‘There is here a man who was jailed during the rule of Feliks.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “After some days, Pestus told the king about the case of Paul. He said, ‘There is a man here detained by Pilik.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “A few days after that Festus told King Agrippa of the case concerning Paul. He said, ‘There is a prisoner here that Felix did not set free.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When they had been a slightly-long-while there, Festus related to King Agrippa concerning Pablo’s case. He said, ‘There is a prisoner here that Governor Felix left.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well since it was now quite a while that Agripa-and-co were there, Festo then related to them concerning Pablo. He said, ‘There is a prisoner who was left by Felix whom I replaced.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 4:23:
- Noongar: “He said to them, ‘I know you will say this proverb to me, ‘Doctor, heal yourself!’ You will also tell me, ‘Here in your home town, do the same things we hear, things you have done in Capernaum’.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “From there, he said saying to them: ‘There will definitely be some of you who say this figure-of-speech to me: ‘Ee, doktor, heal your (sing.) own body. If you (sing.) are really a prophet, do also here in your (sing.) own town the miracles that we (excl.) heard you (sing.) did in Kapernaum.’ ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘You will certainly say this proverb to me: ‘Doctor heal yourself’, and you will also say, ‘Do also here in your place (the things) that we have heard you did in the place Kapernaum.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said, ‘Surely, some of you will say to me the proverb which says, ‘You healer, you should first heal your own body, which is to say, if you really are a prophet of God show your power here in your own village. Because we have heard about the miracles which you have done in the town of Capernaum, so do them also here in your own town.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon he said to them, ‘I know indeed that you will tell me this parable/comparison: ‘Doctor, medicine also yourself (sing.).’ What you mean to say is, ‘Do also in this town of yours (sing.) what we (excl.) have heard that you (sing.) have been doing in Capernaum.’ ‘” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That’s why Jesus spoke saying, ‘Probably you will quote/mention that saying/proverb which says, ‘Mediciner, go ahead, medicine your own body.’ For you will say to me to do here in my own town those things you have heard news about my doing in Capernaum.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 2:16:
- Uma: “For all that is in this world–like the evil desires of our hearts, what we see and we desire, whatever makes-high [i.e.,, haughty] our hearts–all that sort of thing is not from our Father, it is from the world [emphatic].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because all that belongs to this world, that means the bad things that ones (dual) body/person craves, and (the things) that one (dual) sees and craves and (the things) that mankind boasts-about, all these (things) are only of this world and are not from our (dual) Father God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For as for any kind of evil behaviour here on the earth, like evil desires or the evil things which are seen and desired by people, or their causing themselves to be praised because of the possessions they have acquired, these things do not come from our Father God, rather they just come from here on the earth.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because all that are like these: the bad-things that sinful people love/want, their coveting (lit. grabbing-after) what they see, and their boasting about their possessions and their status, it is not God our Father who is their source but rather they are from this earth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because as for all the evil here under the heavens, it really is opposed to God. Like the habit of indulging our own desire which is evil, the habit of wanting to get everything one sees, and the habit of being conceited about the things in our lives. These ways/habits didn’t come from God the Father, but rather they come from here under the heavens.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because all the evil here in the world is not the decision of God, rather it is the decision of people themselves. People do their own pleasures. What all they see, they want to own it all. And they pride themselves about how they live.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “All these things people do who are in this world: they do evil which their evil head-hearts desire intensely, and they do evil which they want to do by reason of what they see, and they are proud of their possessions. The people who do like that think only of what happens on this earth. They do not do what our father God wants.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “Because all the deeds of the world, God didn’t cause (prescribe, ordain) them like doing one’s own will, and the sins which one’s heart likes, and when one is proud because of what he possesses. But doings like these originated here in the world.”
- Tzotzil: “The people (unbelieving) who are here in the world, their hearts are taken up with what their bodies want and what looks nice to their eyes, and what they are proud about (raise themselves up about), our (in) Father God does not want that we (in) still do this also like the people do.”
- Sayula Popoluca: “Because all that is in this world, the evil our heart begs for, and we want that evil we see, and if we boast because of our possessions, these things our father doesn’t give, but this world gives them.” (Source for this and three above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: “All that exists in the world is not really related to the Father. Some things belong to the world. The strong desire of the body, the looking at and wanting things, that by which one glorifies (praises) one’s own life doesn’t issue from God. All of these are part of the world.”
- Yanesha’: “All what there is on earth, like what our flesh (body) wants, like what our eyes cause us to see, it also, like thus we want them to think well of us, completely vainly, all these things are not from the Father, these are earth-originated things.”
- Aguaruna: “The wanting by the body, the wanting for things seen, our thinking forwarding ourselves (selfishness, concern for ourselves), these belong to this world here, not coming from Our Father, they are from this world here.
- Murui Huitoto: “…the bad desires of the heart are things of the earth. The bad desires of the eyes are things of the earth. The pride of things (possessions) are things of the earth.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 26:19:
- Uma: “‘O King Agripa whom I respect, that is why I always strive to follow what the Lord said to me in that vision of mine.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘That’s why, Sir,’ Paul said, ‘I really obeyed/followed that which has been shown-to-me-in-a-vision from heaven.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now, King Agrippa, I carried out that which was shown to me which came from heaven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘And that being so, Sir King Agrippa, I thoroughly obeyed what God showed me from heaven.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Respected King, I didn’t disobey that which I was told to do by the Lord who came from heaven to see/meet me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 5:11:
- Noongar: “They pulled their boats onto the beach and left everything, and followed Jesus.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “After that, they pulled their boats to the shore, they left all, and they followed Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They pulled their boats up on the shore and then they left everything and they followed now Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then they brought their boats into the shore and they left their fishing and they followed Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So then they brought-up the boat (on land), and they left everything to go-with Jesus as his disciples.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore when they had-brought-their boats -close-to-shore, they left everything and went with Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 3:19:
- Uma: “If we love our relatives, that is a sign so that we really know that we are God’s children, with the result that our hearts will be still/quiet to face him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If we (dual) truly love our (incl.) fellow-men that is a sign that we (dual) follow the true teaching therefore it is peaceful in our (dual) livers in the presence of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For if we do this, we (incl.) can know that we really are sons of the true God. And because of that, it is no longer necessary for us to be ashamed in his presence,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If that is how we love-one-another, that’s how we know that it’s true that we have been joined to God. And even if our minds accuse us, we can nonetheless cause-our minds -to-be-peaceful so that we will not be ashamed to pray to him. For we know that God’s thoughts are higher/more-important than our thoughts and he totally knows everything. He knows that we have been joined to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore herein we will know that as for us, we are under the jurisdiction of truth which comes from God. And therein also, our heads will not now be troubled when approaching him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “If we truly love our fellowmen, then we know for sure that we do what is said in what is truly God’s word. Then we have peace of heart because God will not be angry with us.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “We know that we are children of God, if we love our fellows with all our hearts. And if there are times when we think in our head-hearts that we are not worthy for God to say”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “And if we really have love, we will know that we follow the true Word. And our hearts will rest before the face of God.”
- Tzotzil: “Because if we love each other thus we know that we have really and truly believed. Therefore we are one-hearted (at peace) in the presence of God.”
- Candoshi-Shapra: “Therefore by that we can recognize our own hearts, if we live truly (cause-to-be-true as-we-live). We can pacify our hearts by means of Jesus.”
- Yanesha’: “Here, therein we know that we are true. Let us make happy our hearts in his presence.”
- Aguaruna: “If we do like that, ‘I belong to Christ, he who is the truth.’ we are able to say. If our heart telling us it does not condemn us, we stay (live, are) happy (content) in Him,” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
- Garifuna: “If we love each other thus, then we know that we are in (progressive) (united to) the true belief (faith). Also then there is tranquillity with our hearts before God. (we are not worried, upset).” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 27:20:
- Uma: “For several days we did not see the appearance of the sun or stars, and there was just cessation of the storm striking us, with the result that our hearts sank, we said there was not much chance of us living [an Uma idiom].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And for several days we (excl.) did not see the sun nor star. And the strong wind did not decrease/let up. We (excl.) no longer hoped that we (excl.) would yet be saved.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And for many days the sun or stars did not appear to us and the very strong typhoon did not stop blowing. And then we no longer supposed that we could be saved.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When how-many days had gone-by during which we (excl.) had not seen the sun and stars while at-the-same-time the wind-had persisted-without-let-up -to-blow swiftly, our (excl.) hope that we (excl.) would escape ceased-to-exist.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then when a few more days had passed during which we saw neither sun nor stars for the storm kept on going, we were sure that we really would be permanently-lost/killed now.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
