Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 7:10:
Uma: “Or give him a snake when he asks for meat/fish? Of course not.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Or if he asks for a fish will you give him a snake?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if he asks you for a fish, it also cannot be that a snake is what you give.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Or if he asks for dried-fish, will you do-you-suppose give-him a snake?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Or if it’s fish he’s asking for, what will you give, a snake?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Or if the child asks for fish, he isn’t given a snake.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 1:6:
Uma: “If we (excl.) get suffering, God uses-it-as-a-road so that we (excl.) can strengthen your hearts, relatives, so that you get goodness [salvation], for you also get sufferings like what we (excl.) get. So, when God strengthens our (excl.) hearts in our (excl.) sufferings, he will also strengthen your hearts, so that you will endure in suffering.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “We (excl.) endure persecution so that we (excl.) can encourage you and so that you will be saved. We (excl.) are/were helped by God so that you will also be included in his help. So then you really persevere enduring trouble like the trouble that we (excl.) are experiencing.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When God allows us (excl.) to suffer hardship, the reason he allows us to suffer is so that you might be better off and that you might be given eternal life. And in the same way also, when we (excl.) are helped by God, this comes to be also His help for you. And by means of this, He strengthens your faith so that you also may be able to endure difficulty just like we are caused to endure.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Therefore the hardship that we (excl.) experience leads to the strengthening of your minds and your salvation, and the comfort moreover that we (excl.) experience leads to our (excl.) knowing-how to comfort you in our (incl.) difficulties so that you will be able to endure them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Well since it’s like that, even though we (excl.) are hardshipped because of this responsibility of ours(excl.) of teaching, this is for your benefit and salvation. And because God comforts us, we can also comfort you so that you also will endure the hardships with a good mind/inner-being that you are experiencing, just like us also.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “I am suffering now in order that I can comfort your hearts and your souls will be saved. When God comforts my heart, then you can find out how also your hearts will be comforted and your souls will be saved. Because when you go through the suffering like I have gone through, I want that you endure well all the suffering you must go through.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Highland Totonac: “But if we should be in trouble, it will turn out for your comfort and good, which will be made to become good for you when patiently you bear that same trouble which we also suffer. However, if we are comforted, it also is just that it might result in your comfort and good.” (Source: Herman Aschmann in The Bible Translator 1950, p. 171ff. )
Following are a number of back-translations of John 1:40:
Uma: “Those disciples of Yohanes followed Yesus, because they had heard the words of Yohanes the Baptizer earlier. One of those two, his name was Andreas, a relative of Simon Petrus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “One of them that had followed Isa was called Andariyas. This Andariyas was a brother of Simon Petros.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Andrew was one of these two who heard what John said and went with Jesus. Andrew and Simon Peter were brothers.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “One of those who heard what Juan said and went-with Jesus, it was Andrew the younger-sibling of Simon Pedro.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “One of those who accompanied Jesus was Andres who was the brother/sibling of Simon Pedro.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “One of the men who heard what John said and followed Jesus was Andrew, the brother of Peter.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:13:
Uma: “After that, Yesus said to that army commander: ‘Go home, because what you believe will definitely happen.’ Right at that time, his servant who was sick in his house really did get well.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Then Isa said to the captain, ‘Go home now. It is done to you as you believed.’ So-then his servant there in the house was healed immediately.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Jesus said to the captain, ‘Go home, According to what you believe, that will also be what I will do.’ And immediately the servant of this captain was healed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said to the captain, ‘You (sing.) go-home, because what you (sing.) believed will happen, it will be fulfilled.’ And the captain’s servant got-well at that exact hour/time.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “When Jesus finished saying that, he said to that captain who had come to him for help, ‘Well, if that’s how it is, I won’t go home with you. Through the big-size of your belief in me, you will receive the help you’ve come to me for.’ The illness of that servant of his truly did get better at that very hour.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Then Jesus said to the captain: ‘Go to your house now. Concerning the matter you believe that I can do, it is done.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 2:14:
Uma: “But I say thank you to God, for because of our connection with Kristus he always leads us along with him and gives us victory. That means that wherever we (excl.) go, we (excl.) proclaim the Good News so that all people hear and come to know God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But we (excl.) really thank God, for we (excl.) are one with Almasi and we (excl.) are always made a sign by God, a sign that Almasi is the victor and we (excl.) are like his prisoners. And we (excl.) are used by him to spread the news about Almasi to all places. This is figuratively like the fragrance of incense spreading.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But in spite of that my thanks to God is very great, for because of our being made one with Jesus Christ, we (incl.) are like the captives of Christ which He shows off to everybody, and by means of us He causes people everywhere to know who He is.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “But large nonetheless is my thanks to God, for due to our (excl.) being-united-with Cristo, he continually leads us (excl.) in the sight of the collective-people as if we (excl.) are prisoners that Cristo has defeated. He is using us (excl.) to make-known to people in the collective-towns that which concerns Cristo which is what is compared to fragrant incense (loan insinso).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “But my thanks to God is very big because the victory of Cristo is now being made-evident to everyone and, as for us (excl.) teachers, it’s like he is including us in this victory of Cristo, because of our being united/tied-together with him. And just as the inside of a house is filled with the fragrance of perfume which has had-the-lid-taken-off, just like that, by means of our (excl.) teaching, God is using us in filling up the whole land/world with the fragrance of true/real knowing him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Thanks to God, He helped me, He caused that I walked with Christ and he helped me in that the word conquered wherever I spoke it. There where the word went, it was like incense which smells good everywhere, for God caused that the word I spoke spread everywhere” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 2:21:
Uma: “In fact, it was himself / his body that Yesus referred-to-in-a-figure-of-speech, speaking of the House of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But the meaning of the temple Isa was speaking of was not that temple, but his body.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However they did not understand that the house he was talking about was his body.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “But the Temple that Jesus spoke-of, it was his body.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “But that which Jesus spoke of as house/building, it was his own body he was referring to.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “But the church about which Jesus spoke was his body.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 9:11:
Uma: “There were some Parisi people who saw that. Those Parisi people said to the disciples of Yesus: ‘Why does your teacher eat together with tax collectors and sinners!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “There were Pariseo there. When they saw this they said to the disciples of Isa, ‘Why does your teacher eat together with (lit. mix in eating with) the tax collectors and the other sinful people?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were some Pharisees who saw these people, and they said to the disciples of Jesus, ‘As for your boss, why does he eat and drink with cheating tax collectors and law breakers?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “When the Pharisees saw them, they said to Jesus’ disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat-with collectors of taxes and other sinful people?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “When the Pariseo saw that, they questioned Jesus’ disciples. They said, ‘Why does your teacher eat together with money-grabbing official-receivers of payment and those others who don’t fully obey our (incl.) laws ?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “The Pharisees saw what Jesus did and questioned his learners, saying: ‘How come your teacher eats together with the tax collectors and with other people who have many sins?’ they said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 4:11:
Uma: “Its meaning: while we (excl.) still live in this world, there are always people who want to kill us (excl.) because [we (excl.)] follow the Lord Yesus. That happens so that it becomes clear to all people that the Lord Yesus lives again, for they see his power in these weak bodies of ours(excl.).” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “As long as we (excl.) live, we (excl.) are always in danger to be killed because of our following Isa, so that because of this our (excl.) body that finally dies, people will see that Isa lives.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “We are at any time free from danger of people who would like to kill us, because we are spreading the name of Jesus. And the reason this happens to us is so that it might be known that Jesus is alive again, because He is always helping us so that we cannot be killed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “No matter where we (excl.) go, we (excl.) continually face death like Jesus (did) because of our (excl.) being-joined to him in order that the life that he gives will be seen in our (excl.) bodies that die.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Yes indeed, even though we (excl.) are barely escaping death because of our (excl.) serving Jesus, he is not allowing that we (excl.) be killed, so that it will be evident in our bodies that we are being looked after through the supernatural-power of this Jesus who was made alive again.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “During the time I live, each day people want to kill me because I speak about Jesus. From this, then the people can see that Jesus is the one who lives to help me, and therefore the people couldn’t do anything to me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
