Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 7:28:
- Uma: “Maybe you (sing.) want to kill me too, like you (sing.) killed the Mesir person yesterday?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Do you want to kill me also like you killed the man/person of Misil yesterday?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Perhaps you are going to kill me like you killed that Egyptian yesterday.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Will you (sing.) perhaps kill-me like the way you (sing.) did the one-from-Egipto yesterday?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Maybe you intend to kill me too, like that which you did yesterday to that taga Egipto!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 6:12:
- Uma: “After Yesus taught his twelve disciples, they left and taught people to repent from their sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then they went and proclaimed that the people should regret their sins and leave now their bad/evil doings.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the disciples of Jesus went out and they preached that people must give up their bad doings.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then his disciples set-out and they went preaching to the many-people that they should repent-of their sins.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, those twelve disciples then set out to go teaching the people. They were teaching that it is necessary to repent-of and drop-/give-up sins.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Titus 1:8:
- Uma: “People whom you raise to become religious leaders must be people who are open [lit., friendly/extrovertish] to having-visitors, remain/faithful in doing good, their hearts must be clear and straight, their actions must be holy and they must be able to hold-in-check the evil desires of their hearts.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If he has visitors he must really honor them/treat them according to custom and he must be pleased with everything good. He must be able to control himself and he must be straight/righteous. He ought to follow God wholeheartedly/(lit. entirely his liver) and he ought not to indulge his desires/greedy-desires.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He must be one who cares for his guests. And it is also necessary that what he really wants to do is to help people. He knows how to think properly. He is a righteous person, and God is pleased with his deeds. He knows how to constrain the desires of his body.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “but rather he must be consistently-hospitable and consistently-love what is good. He must also be a reflective and circumspect person who is able-to-control himself (lit. his body). He must also be righteous (lit. straight) and holy.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “On the contrary, it’s necessary that he welcomes people well who need to stay at his house. He prefers doing good works, knows how to control himself, he is righteous/straight and desirous that he be pleasing to God. And he no longer indulges evil desires.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He must be a person who gives a resting place to others in his house. He must like to do what is good. He must control his heart. He must be a good person. He must reverence God. He must guard himself well.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 7:60:
- Uma: “After that, he knelt and he said out loud: ‘Lord, don’t you (sing.) punish them because of this sin of theirs.’ After he spoke like that, he died.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then he stood on his knees and he called out loudly, he said, ‘O God, do not punish them for this their sin.’ After he said this, immediately he died. And Saul agreed to their killing of Estepan.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then he knelt down and he said again, ‘Oh Lord, do not consider as reason for punishing them this their sin.’ And after he had said this, his breath left him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he knelt and shouted saying, ‘Lord Jesus, please don’t be-counting/considering this sin of theirs,’ and then he died.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When his life/breath was already low, he knelt down and called out loudly. He said, ‘Lord, forgive them this sin which they have done.’ As those words of his ended, he then died.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 6:44:
- Uma: “The number who ate the bread was about five thousand all men.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The number of those who had eaten bread, the men only were five thousand.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The number of the men who ate the bread there were five thousand, and the women and children were not counted.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The number of the old-men and young-men who ate, it was about five thousand.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for the number of those who ate, the men alone were five thousand, apart from the women and children.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Titus 3:9:
- Uma: “But there are also people who continually debate and argue with each other [lit., reciprocally-make-rebuttals and reciprocally-answer-angrily], arguing about rules of the Yahudi religion or stories of ancestry/descendants. Don’t you let them teach any more. Avoid altogether arguments that are made by those stupid people. Because they have no benefit/blessing and they have no purpose.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But avoid the people who argue (about) which has no use and if there are (people) who tell-stories about names of the generations of their ancestors, and don’t you (sing.) join in when/if someone quarrels about the law of Musa. All those things have no use.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, avoid stupid arguments of people. Also avoid the study of the accounts of names of the ancestors of people which is what they study. You must also avoid their quarreling about obeying the law left behind by Moses. None of this is of any value for it is destructive.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But don’t join in the useless arguing of people about lists of names of ancestors. Distance yourself (sing.) also from their quarreling about the law of Moses, for quarrels/arguments like these, they have no good result, for there is no help-that they -give to our faith.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But well as-was-said, put far away getting-into-arguments which achieves nothing. Don’t be bothered/busy with the thousands of listed-names of ancestors and their descendants, that being what others are fascinated with. And avoid/taboo arguments concerning the things Moises commanded in the past. For really nothing is achieved by these arguments for they have no usefulness, but rather are just a bother/hindrance.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But do not want that there be arguments which are not needed. Do not argue about what was done by our ancestors long ago. Don’t argue about the law followed by the Jews. Because arguments do not bring about what is good.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 8:32:
- Uma: “The words that he read in the letter of the prophet Yesaya, like this their sound: ‘He is like a sheep that is dragged going to be killed. Like a lamb that does not baa when his hair is cut, so also he does not speak even one word.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The verses he was reading were these: ‘He was like a sheep who just follows when taken to be slaughtered. He was like a lamb that does not make-a-sound (mabehe) when his fur/hair is shaven. He did not even say anything.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And this what he was reading was that written by Isaiah long ago which says, ‘He was like a gentle sheep whom they get because they will kill. And there was nothing which he said because he is like a young sheep that does not cry out when its hair is cut off.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What he was reading which God had caused-to-be-written, it was this: ‘What he did, it was like what a sheep does that doesn’t resist when they take it to the butchering-place. It was also like what a child of a sheep does which keeps-quiet/still when-they -are-cutting-its-hair, because he emphatically remained-silent.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This is what the taga Etiope was reading when Felipe reached him, this which was written by Isaias, which said, ‘He was meek/patient, like a sheep which is being taken to the slaughter-place to be butchered. He is also like a young sheep which makes no response even when shorn. For as for him, he didn’t open his mouth for even one syllable of rebuke.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quotes, see Isaiah 57:7 (from the Greek Septuagint).
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 7:20:
- Uma: “He said further to them: ‘But our character and actions, that is what makes us bad in God’s sight, for our character and actions appear from our heart.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said also, ‘What comes out of a persons liver that is what defiles him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said again, ‘The thing which can cause God to be displeased with a person is that which comes out from his breath, for out of his breath comes evil thinking, sex relations with someone not his spouse, stealing, murder, jealousy, harmful action, cheating, vulgar deeds, envy, destroying the good name of his companions, making himself higher, and wickedness.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus continued saying, ‘What a person causes-to-go-out of his mind/thoughts, that is what makes-him -dirty.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus then continued his words, saying, ‘That evil which is in the mind/inner-being which comes out of the mouth of a person, that’s what makes him disgusting in the sight of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
