Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 12:22:
- Uma: “The crowd cheered/shouted praising Herodes, they said: ‘These are no-longer the words of mankind. It is like the words of a powerful person from the sky!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The people were shouting, they said, ‘That one speaking is no longer a human-being but a god already.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The people were very happy. They shouted, saying, ‘It’s not just a person who is talking, but rather he is already a god.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When his speech/address was done, they said shouting, ‘Those were the words of a god, not just the words of a person.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When he finished speaking, the crowd of people were excited-and-noisy. They said, ‘This is evidently a god who is speaking, not a man/human!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 10:47:
- Uma: “When Bartimeus heard that Yesus the Nazaret person was going by, he called out, he said: ‘Yesus descendant of King Daud! Show-pity/love-to me!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When he heard that Isa, the man of Nasaret was the one passing by – surprise -, he called out loud, he said, ‘O Isa, descendant of King Da’ud, have pity on me.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth and company passing by, he called out loudly, and he said, ‘Hey, Jesus, descendant of long ago King David, pity me!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When he heard that Jesus from-Nazaret was there, he shouted-right-out saying, ‘Hey Jesus! Descendant of David! Please have-mercy!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When he knew that Jesus the taga Nazaret was there, he called out saying, ‘Jesus, descendant of king David, do pity me!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 9:10:
- Uma: “For all those customs are customs that concern [lit., strike] our physical bodies only, like for instance customs and taboos about food and drink, and many kinds of religious bathing customs. God gave those customs to his followers so that they could follow them while they waited for the time he made a new promise, but the usefulness of those customs ends there.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For this is only what they do, they follow commands about eating and drinking and different ways for cleansing the body. But these commands are about the body only and there is only use in them as-long-as God has not yet exchanged them with new commands.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For this way of worshipping God was only by means of commands about customs of eating, drinking, washing and wetting the body in a way commanded by God. They are commands that people carry out only by means of the body and only because they are commanded and not because that’s what’s in their breath. And the value of this way lasted only until the time now when God replaced it with a new way.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because they are based on rules concerning the body only such as what can-be-eaten and can-be-drunk and the proper washing of whatever. It was necessary that these be fulfilled until the new agreement finalized (lit. tied-in-a-knot) by Cristo replaced (them).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because that work of theirs which was like that, all it applied to(lit. hit) was, things concerning people’s bodies, like food, drink, and cleansing. As for these laws, they were in force(lit.going) as long as God had not yet set up his new initiated-agreement which is much better.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the words written before, they are about selecting the things which are to be eaten, they tell the people in what way they are to wash in order to be able to worship God. But all these words only had power over what the people did while God had not yet made the new agreement with the people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 13:29:
- Uma: “When they finished doing all that was written long ago foretelling him, they lowered his body from the cross tree and they buried him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And after they had fulfilled all that was written in the holy-book about Isa, they took him down from up the post where they nailed him, and they buried him in a stone cave.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when the people in Jerusalem fulfilled (involuntary mode) all of the prophecies long ago of the things that they were to do to him, they removed his body from the cross where they had nailed him, and they buried him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When they did that and all that had been written concerning him had been fulfilled, there were those who took-his body -down from the cross, and they went to bury-it in a cave.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When they had now fulfilled all that had been written by the prophets concerning him, his body was then removed from the cross where he had been nailed and taken to the burial-place.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 11:27:
- Uma: “Yesus and his disciples again arrived in Yerusalem. When they were walking around in the yard of the House of God, the leading priests, religion teachers and other Yahudi leaders came.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then they arrived in Awrusalam. While Isa was walking in the big prayer-house, the leaders of the priests and the teachers of the religious law and the elders went up to him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they arrive again in Jerusalem and Jesus walked around inside the House of God. The chief priests, the teachers of the law, and the elders of the Jewish people came to him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They arrived again in Jerusalem. As Jesus was walking outside the Temple, the leaders of the priests, the teachers of the law and the elders (lit. fathers) went to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus and company again returned to Jerusalem. When Jesus was walking there in the like-a-yard of the Templo, the chiefs of the priests approached him together with the explainers of law and the important tribal leaders.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 10:14:
- Uma: “So, because-of/from his death that was just one time, he made us holy from our sins and made-us-straight in God’s sight, we no longer have any lack, forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Almasi surrendered his body only once to God and because of this his people are cleansed/holy and they are really straight/righteous forever.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of this single offering that He made to God, as for us who are cleansed from sin, He made us righteous forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because through/due-to his one offering, he has made-all God’s holy people -into people who have no faults/lacks forever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What Jesus did really is complete for, through the strength of that one-time sacrificing of his own body, he made righteous for ever in God’s sight all whom he is cleansing from sin” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Thus it is seen here that just only one time he died, becoming a sacrifice forever forgiving the sins of the people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 14:9:
- Uma: “That lame one sat and heard Paulus speak. From there, Paulus stared-at/took-notice-of him and saw that he had faith so that he could be healed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He listened intently to the words of Paul. Paul looked straight at him and Paul knew in his liver that that crippled man trusted that he could be healed by Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now he listened to the words of Paul, and then Paul understood that this person had faith to be healed. And Paul stared at him” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “While he was listening to what Pablo was saying, Pablo looked-intently-at him, and he sensed that he had trust that he could become-well.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Pablo was teaching there, that person was listening. When Pablo saw, he observed that that lame person had belief that he could be made well. Therefore he looked straight at him,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 12:26:
- Uma: “Haven’t you ever before read the words in the Holy Book that make-clear that the dead will live again? In the book of the Law of Musa we read the account of how God spoke to the prophet Musa from the flaming bush. At that time, Abraham, Ishak and Yakub had long been dead. But even so, God said to Musa like this: ‘I am the God worshipped by, the God worshipped by Ishak, the God worshipped by Yakub.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, concerning the dead people that they are made alive again, have you never read in the holy-book Tawrat about the puhung tree that burned/flamed? It is written there that God spoke to Musa. God said, ‘I am God who is acknowledged-as-God by Ibrahim and Isahak and Yakub.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And about dead people who are raised, haven’t you ever read in the book Moses wrote long ago about the flaming weed where God appeared to him? For even though Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob worship,'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And concerning moreover the living again of the dead, it’s as if you haven’t read what God caused-Moses -to-write concerning the flaming tree which says, ‘I am God who is still the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.’ He said that even though plural Abraham had already-been-dead a-long-time.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, also about this coming alive again of those who have died, haven’t you yet read in the writing of Moises concerning the bush which was flaming? What is written there says that God said to Moises, ‘I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
