Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 12:16:
- Uma: “If the ear says: ‘I, I’m not an eye, so I’m not part of the body,’ the ear is still part of the body.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And if for example the ear says, ‘I don’t belong to this body because I am not the eye,’ it still belongs to that body.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if the ear speaks, he would say, ‘As for me, I’m not a part of this body because I’m not an eye.’ Now in spite of the fact that this is what he says, he is a part just the same, of the body.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And if moreover an ear says, ‘I’m not (empathy particle) an eye, so I’m not part of the body,’ yet it is nonetheless part-of/joined to the body.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Just like that too, if supposing the ear says, ‘Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,’ of course that also isn’t true for this ear is indeed included in the parts of the body.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “or our ears might say: ‘How come I’m not the eye of the person? Then I’m not a part of the person’s body,’ it says. But it also is a part of the person’s body.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 22:62:
- Noongar: “Peter went away, weeping sorrowfully.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Petrus went out going outside, and he cried because he was sad.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Petros left and he really wept.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Peter got away from those people and he wailed in crying.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “After that he left and he exceedingly cried-bitterly.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He then went outside. He cried with unrestrained crying.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 3:9:
- Uma: “And don’t you rely-on / boast-over being descendants of Abraham, don’t say in your hearts: ‘God won’t punish us.’ That isn’t true! For your information: even from those rocks over there, God can make people who are the descendants of Abraham.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Do not trust that you will not be punished by God just because you are descendants of Grandfather Ibrahim. I tell you God can make even these stones to be/into descendants of Grandfather Ibrahim.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And don’t you trust the fact that you are descendants of Abraham because that has no use to God. For I tell you that God can make these stones into descendants of Abraham if he needs to.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Don’t be saying moreover that you will escape because Abraham is your ancestor, because even these stones, it is indeed possible that God will make them into descendants of Abraham!” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Don’t rely on the fact that you are descendants of Abraham, that being why God will be pleased with you. For I tell you that God really is able, out of these rocks here, to produce descendants of Abraham.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do not say that nothing can happen to you since you are the descendants of Abraham. Because I tell you that concerning these stones here, God could make them become descendants of Abraham.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 14:4:
- Uma: “The person who speaks with languages from the Holy Spirit strengthens his own heart. The person who speaks God’s words strengthens the hearts of others who gather together [with him].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The person who speaks in language that is not understood by the people, his liver only is encouraged, but a person who speaks the word of God the liver of all his companions who trust in Isa Almasi is encouraged by him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But that person who speaks in a language that he does not understand, it’s only his own breath that he helps. But that person who can explain what God has caused him to understand, he, by contrast, helps his fellow believers.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore the one who speaks a language that he has not learned, it is only his own faith that he strengthens, but the one who tells what God has made known, he strengthens the faith of his companions who congregate-with (him).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The one who can speak these different languages, it’s his own believing/obeying he is strengthening, but the one who is having-put-into-his-mind what God is making known to everyone, he is strengthening all his fellow believers.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The persons who speak different words which no one can understand only know themselves about the words which they speak. But concerning the people whom God put into their hearts the words they are to tell the people, they cause that the people who are gathered will understand the word they speak.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 23:23:
- Noongar: “But the crowd did not stop shouting that they should hammer Jesus to a tree to die. At last, after a long time, Pilate heard their angry shouting and gave them what they asked.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But they just all-the-harder asked that Yesus be crucified. Finally they really won.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But they really insisted and continued to shout that Isa should be nailed to the post. Finally their wish was followed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then they shouted all the more that Jesus be nailed to a cross, and after a long while, Pilate could no longer resist,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But they continued shouting insisting that Jesus be nailed to the cross until Pilato was defeated,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But those people were noisy-and-excited. They were insistent that it really was necessary to nail Jesus to a cross. Well, since it was now like that, they won.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 4:24:
- Uma: “That work of Yesus became newsed/known to all the villages in the province of Siria, with the result that many people came wanting to meet him. They carried all their friends who were suffering many kinds of diseases and difficulties, whether those who were possessed by demons, or those who were limpuangaa [fainting spells, epilepsy], or those who were lame. He healed them all.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then Isa became well-known in all the places of Siriya. Therefore all the sick people were also brought to Isa, those with severe pain, the demon possessed people, the epileptics and the paralyzed. They were all made well by Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus became famous in the neighboring villages even in all the nation of Syria, that’s why they brought to him all who were afflicted with various kinds of sickness, like those tormented by a demon, epileptics, and people who half of their body is dead, and Jesus healed all of these.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore what Jesus was doing was being-newsed-from-one-to-another as-far-as the entire region of Syria, and they brought to him all those-who-were-sick and those-who-suffered such as the ones-who-were-possessed by evil-spirits, the ones with epilepsy and the cripples (paralitiko). And he healed them all.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The news about those amazing doings of Jesus travelled far, covering the whole land of Siria. That’s why many now were coming, bringing those ill with many kinds of diseases, including those possessed by evil spirits, the mentally-ill who have seizures, and others who were paralized (lit. had a dead part of their body). He was healing them all.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “All over the land of Syria walked the word about what Jesus was doing. Therefore there where Jesus was, there were brought to him all who were sick with all kinds of sickness. People who were walking with evil spirits were brought to him to be cured. People were brought to him who were epileptic. Also people who were paralyzed were brought to Jesus for him to cure them.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 14:36:
- Uma: “Why is it that some of you don’t want to follow these previously mentioned laws? Do you think that you are the first to deliver the Word of God? Or was the Word of God delivered only to you?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Perhaps you don’t believe-obey what I said there. Is it that you people of Korinto think-mistakenly that from you the message of God started/came out? Or do you think-mistakenly that you are the only people the message of God was preached to?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You are thinking mistakenly that the word of God has only come from you; and if not that, then perhaps you are thinking mistakenly that you’re the only ones who have been taught the word of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Oh you (expression of rebuke)! Could the word of God possibly have come-from you? Or if that’s not what is in your thoughts, do you perhaps think that only you received his word?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Don’t do-your-own-thing. What’s this, are you the source of this word of God? Or if not, are you the only ones this word of his has come to?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do not think that you can decide on your own about what you do. Because the word of God did not first come from you, rather only afterwards the word arrived to where you live.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- English translation by Helen Barrett Montgomery (1924) (verses 34-36): “‘In your congregation’ [you write], ‘as in all the churches of the saints, let the women keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. On the contrary let them be subordinate, as also says the law. And if they want to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.’ What, was it from you that the word of God went forth, or to you only did it come?”
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 23:55:
- Noongar: “The women following Jesus from Galilee went with Joseph and they saw Joseph put Jesus’ body in the grave.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “That is why the women who accompanied Yesus from Galilea followed Yusuf going to that grave. They saw how the body of Yesus was put in the grave.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The women who had followed Isa from Jalil, followed Yusup and they saw the grave and how he laid Isa into the grave.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And those women who had come from Galilee with Jesus, they went with Joseph to bury the body of Jesus. And they saw where Jesus was placed in the burial place.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The women who had gone-with Jesus from Galilea, they followed Jose and saw the place where Jesus was buried and the way Jose had placed-inside (i.e. buried) his corpse.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Those women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilea followed Jose who went burying. They saw that burial-place and how Jesus was laid there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
