Following are a number of back-translations of Philippians 3:2:
- Uma: “Be careful of people who bring evil teaching, their behavior is like mean dogs. They want to force you to be circumcised following the Law of Musa. Don’t believe / pay-attention-to them! Because it is not from our circumcision that we become straight in God’s sight.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Be careful/watch out because there are people there who do bad. I call them fierce dogs. Their teaching is not true that the people should be circumcised – they say – in order to be accepted by God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Beware of enemies of God whose behavior is evil; these are the Jews that teach that what God desires is that you cut your bodies.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You should watch-out-for people who are doing evil whom I illustrate by vicious and filthy dogs. They insist that if a person is not circumcised, he will not be-saved.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Be careful of those people who are doing evil. What they are like is wild-dogs who want to tear-and-eat. For they are insisting that if you aren’t circumcized, which is what was commanded to them who are Jews, then you won’t be able to be saved.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Watch out for the evil people going about doing what is bad. They teach that it is necessary that believers be marked with circumcision.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 15:3:
- Uma: “You, you are cleaned–meaning, you are holy/smooth made-holy-by the words that I have said to you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You are figuratively already cleansed because of my teaching to you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You are all clean by means of your taking hold what I have taught you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You are the branches that are already cleaned on-account-of what I have been teaching that you have stored-away in your minds.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Now you are cleaned-up, because my word which is my teaching of you is what has cleaned-up.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And you are like the branches which bear fruit because you respect what I teach you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 24:19:
- Uma: “How pitiable for women who are pregnant and who are nursing their children at that time, for it will be difficult for them to flee.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Andý’, (exclamation of concern) the pregnant ones and those with small children are to be pitied in those days.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “On that day, pity very greatly the pregnant women and those with nursing children for they will have a very difficult time running away.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “In those days pitiful (empathy particle) will be the pregnant and those who have nursing-infants.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really pitiful will be those who are pregnant and have nursing children in those days.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But pity the women who are pregnant at that day or those who nurse babies.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Philippians 4:16:
- Uma: “And not only that, when I was still in Tesalonika village, there was my lack/need, several times you sent me something.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And when I was also there in Tessalonika it was not only once that you sent money to me to help my need.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when I was still in Macedonia, in the town of Thessalonica, you always sent help to me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Even during that time-when-I-was in Tessalonica, twice (appreciative particle) you sent what I needed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The truth is, when I was in Tesalonica, your (financial) help to me just kept on arriving.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When I still was living there in the city of Tesalonica, two times, three times you sent money to provide for what I needed for living.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 16:8:
- Uma: “‘If the Holy Spirit comes, he is the one who will make clear to men that they are sinful. He will also make clear that I am upright/straight and God’s punishing/condemning.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the helper is already here with you, he will explain to the people/mankind in the world the meaning of sin and the meaning of rightness/straightness and the meaning of the judgment of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when he is here, he will cause mankind to understand that their actions are bad, and he will cause them also to understand that there is a righteous way. And he will also cause them to understand that God will punish them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Upon his coming, he will confirm/verify to the many-people that they are mistaken concerning sin. He will also confirm/verify that they are mistaken concerning my righteousness and God’s judging of them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When the Espiritu Santo who is this Helper comes, he will make-apparent that the perception is wrong of the people who don’t believe-in/obey me. Their perception is wrong concerning sin, straightness/righteousness and the judging of sin by God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When he comes he will cause the people living in this world to know that they have sin. And they will know about the right way of life. And they will know that the time is coming when God will sentence the people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 24:51:
- Uma: “That slave will be beaten severely and tossed outside, he’ll be treated/regarded as a deceiver. Out there he will weep and suffer/groan.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, then he will be really punished by his master and he will be sent to the place which belongs to the people who pretend to follow God. There the people will wail and gnash their teeth.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for this servant, his master will punish him, and he will do to him what will be done also to those people whose faith is a lie. Then he will yell and gnash his teeth because of his great remorse.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He will thoroughly punish him and throw him in hell where people cry-bitterly and grit-their-teeth so that he will join-in-experiencing the punishment of hypocrites.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What will happen is, he will be punished by his master without restraint. He will be caused to be with people who pretend to believe/obey God, there in the hardship/suffering which is without ending. What will happen to him there is, he will cry-loudly and his teeth will grind.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The boss then will very much whip him, until he is cut all over from it. He will throw him out to be with the people who are not truly good people. There he will cry and gnash his teeth.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 1:25:
- Uma: “God raised me to become his ordered-one, he entrusted this work to me, so that I bring all his Words to you who are not Yahudi people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God made me a servant of the ones who trust Isa Almasi so that I could help you. I was commissioned by him, commanded to proclaim to you his message.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I’ve become a servant so that I might help the believers. The reason God chose me, was so that I might help you Gentiles and so that I also might tell to all mankind the word of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because God appointed me to serve all who believe, and he entrusted to me the work of making-known correctly his words in order that that would be to-the-benefit of you who are Gentil (Gentiles).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for me, I am a servant of all these believers for that is what God entrusted to me, that I would teach his word to the nations who are not Jews without hiding anything.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God gave me the work of helping you, along with all the other believers. Therefore now I tell all the message which is contained in God’s word.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 17:7:
- Lalana Chinantec: “They have learned that you have given me everything which is mine.”
- Xicotepec De Juárez Totonac: “And now they know that it is your power by which I do all things.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “Now they know that everything is yours, all the things that you gave me.”
- Asháninka: “Now they all know that you are the author of all that you have taught me.”
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “And they already know that all these things that I do and all that I say come from yourself.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
- Uma: “Now, they know: all that you (sing.) gave to me, is definitely from you (sing.), Father.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “and they are sure that all you have given to me is truly from you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They now know that all that I am able to do comes only from you,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and now they have come-to-know that you (sing.) are the source of all I have done and said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Now they know that as for everything you entrusted to me, there’s no other place it came from but on the contrary it all came from you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now they know that all I speak is what you told me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
