Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 8:5:
- Uma: “Whoever follow the evil desires of their heart, that-that always is what they think about. People like that get death that separates them from God. But whoever follow the desire of the Holy Spirit, the desire of the Holy Spirit is what they think about, and they get good life and peace/unity/agreement with God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The people ruled by their greedy-desires, what they are always thinking of is obeying/following the wishes of their greedy-desire. But the people ruled by the Holy Spirit, what they always think about is following/obeying the will/wish of the Holy Spirit.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For anyone whose evil desires are the thing that control him, the only thing he can think about is what is wanted by the evil desires of his body. But by contrast, anybody who the Holy Spirit is the one who controls him, the thing that is big in his breath is what the Holy Spirit wants.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The person who obeys his evil desires, those alone are what his mind is concentrated on, and the result is that he will be separated from God forever. But the one who obeys the Holy Spirit, his mind is concentrated on what the Holy Spirit desires, and the result is that his mind will become peaceful while at-the-same-time he enjoys life that has no end.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The person who by his own thoughts takes the road he walks (lives) is one who earnestly does according to the evil in which people live. But the person who is given the good thoughts on how to walk by the Holy Spirit, is one who earnestly does according to the will of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 10:34:
- Noongar: “He went to him, he rubbed oil and wine on his wounds, and covered them. He put him on his donkey and took him to a hotel, and helped him.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “He went close to him, he cleaned his wounds with oil and wine and bandaged/wrapped them. After that he caused-him-to-ride on his keledai and he took him to a visitor house, and he took-care of him there.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He went close there and treated his wounds with oil and grape water and then bound them up. Then he lifted him and put him on his animal and brought him to the rest-house and cared for him there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He went over to him, and medicined his wounds with oil and wine and he wrapped them up with cloth. And then he picked him up and put him on his horse, and took him to a house where people overnight, and there he carefully took care of him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and he went to where he was and medicined his wounds with coconut-oil and alcoholic-beverage while-also wrapping-them-up. Then he put him (lit. had him ride) on his horse and took him to the place-where-people -overnighted to take-care of him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He approached and medicined the wounds of that person with drink/alcoholic-drink and oil and then bandaged them. After bandaging, he caused that person to ride on the animal he was/had-been riding. He took him to a house-where-one-can-stay where one pays to sleep, and looked after him there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 11:3:
- Uma: “At that time, I will send my two witnesses to carry my Word. Those two witnesses of mine will be dressed in black, like that used by people who are sad and they will carry my Word for one thousand two hundred sixty days.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I will send my two witnesses there. They will dress in sacks and they will spread/make-known God’s message in those one thousand and two hundred and sixty days.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I will send there the two whom I will cause to preach. They will be clothed in sackcloth, and they will tell what I cause them to say for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But there are also two witnesses of mine whom I will send to go confirm concerning me. They will be wearing sacks, and they will say what I will make-known to them within those-aforementioned one thousand two hundred and sixty days.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “which is one thousand and two hundred and sixty days. But I will cause my two testifiers to go there, dressed in rough-cloth which is a sign of grief. Well, during these days, they will keep on teaching concerning God and his word that people must repent/be-sorry.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I will send two messenger of mine to speak for me during one thousand, two hundred and sixty days. These will wear the clothing of mourning,’ he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 8:37:
- Uma: “But no matter what hits us, we nonetheless win / are-victorious, and no kidding the greatness of that winning of ours because of [the power of] Yesus who loves us!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But even though like this is our (incl.) suffering/difficulty we (incl.) are not overcome/defeated because Isa Almasi loves us (incl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Even though we are in great difficulty, we do not allow it to frighten us because we really rejoice in suffering these things, and by means of the power of Christ, we are the ones to win because of His very great kindness toward us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But even if we experience all these-kinds of difficulty, they have no ability to defeat us but rather we will thoroughly win-the-victory because of Cristo who showed us his love.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Even though we suffer, going through these things, yet let us be strengthened because of Christ loving us.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:24:
- Noongar: “‘When an evil spirit leaves a person, he travels in the desert, looking for a resting place. If he does not find a place, he says, ‘I will go back to my house’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘For example, there is an evil-spirit possessing [lit., riding] a person. That evil-spirit goes out, and he goes-wandering in the wilderness looking for a dwelling-place. Because he does not find one, he says: ‘It is better that I just return to the dwelling-place that I left earlier [lit., yesterday].'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘If there is a demon,’ said Isa, ‘who has come out of a person, he walks in the lonely country searching for a resting place. If he doesn’t find one, he says in his mind, ‘I will go back to where I lived before.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When a demon leaves a person that he has been afflicting, he passes through a dry land because he is looking for some place to live. If he doesn’t find any place, he says, ‘I’d better go back to the place where I lived.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus continued parabling, ‘If an evil-spirit who has possessed a person leaves, he goes and wanders around a rocky-area that has no water looking for a resting-place. And if he doesn’t come-upon any, he says to himself, ‘I-think I’ll (lit. Even-if I) return to the house that I came-from.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Supposing an evil spirit comes out of a person whom he is possessing, what that evil spirit will do is like just wander-around in the wilderness place, looking for whom he can next possess/make-crazy. Well if he doesn’t find any, ‘Oh well,’ he says, ‘I’ll just go back to that one I was possessing.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 12:16:
- Uma: “But the earth helped the woman: the mouth of the earth suddenly opened and swallowed the water that the dragon spit out.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But the woman was helped by the soil/ground. The ground cracked and opened and the water from the dragon’s mouth poured into the ground.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, the earth helped the woman and cracked open, and there was formed a large pit, and the water which came from the mouth of the snake entered there.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon the soil helped that woman, because it cracked-open and it as-if swallowed the water that the dragon had spit out.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “However the woman was helped for the ground opened. You could say, the ground swallowed in a gulp that water/river which the dragon spat out. That’s why no harm came to that woman.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But the earth helped the woman in that it drank the water which had come from the mouth of the terrible animal.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 9:30:
- Uma: “So, my words are like this: People who aren’t Israel people, they did not hunt for way to become straight in God’s sight. But there are some of them who became straight in his sight. God made them straight in his sight because of their faith.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then, what do we (dual) say about this? What we (dual) say is that the people not Yahudi, they did not aspire-to/try-to be forgiven and be considered straight in the sight of God. But they are now the ones forgiven and considered by God as straight because of their trust in Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “What I am trying to say here is: as for the people who are not Jews, even though it never entered their minds that they would be considered righteous by God, there were some of them who by means of their faith, were made righteous just the same;” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This then is the summary (lit. gathering-together) of these-things that I have said. The Gentiles who were not striving to be-made-righteous in God’s sight, they nevertheless gained the righteousness that is based on their faith in Cristo.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Thus the word is that the people who are not Jews are the people who did not seek as how to get right with God. But they were put right with him because they believed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Highland Totonac: “Well, what does this mean? It is this, that the outsider people who were not searching how to toe the line to come out free, they are the ones who found it, that is, this coming out free that has its beginning in faith.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “Well, what shall we say? This lets us know that those who aren’t Israelites found the straight life before God even though they didn’t hunt for it, They found the straight life when they put their confidence in Christ.” (Source for this and above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:2:
- Noongar: “All things covered will be seen, and everything secret will be known.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But all their behavior that is hidden will definitely become visible. And all that is in their hearts will definitely be exposed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Nothing is covered up which does not finally come out, nothing is hidden which won’t finally be known.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “but every activity of people which is covered up will be known just the same, and anything which is hidden will be revealed just the same.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because everything that is hidden and not known now, it will be shown and known in the future.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because it’s true, there’s nothing hidden which won’t be discovered, and there’s nothing in the mind/inner-being which won’t be exposed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
