Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Timothy 3:1:
Uma: “Very true are the words that say like this: a person who wants to be a religion leader desires good work.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “This saying is true that if a person wants to be named/titled the leader of the ones trusting in Isa Almasi this ambition of his is good.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “How true the saying is which says, ‘The man who wants to be the one to lead the believers, that work which he wants is very good.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “What they say is indeed true that the one who wants to become a leader of the believers, it’s a valuable work that he wants.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “This talk/saying is true, that whoever wants to be in charge of believers, he’s going-after/calling-for a really good and important/high responsibility/job.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “This word that I am going to speak is true. The person who wants the position of leading in speaking the word at the church wants to do a work that is very good.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 3:12:
Uma: “When Petrus saw those many people, he said to them: ‘My Israel relatives! Why are you surprised seeing what has happened here? What do you keep looking at us (excl.) for? Do you think/say that the reason this person is walking is because we (excl.) have power, or from the holiness of our (excl.) hearts? Indeed not!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “When Petros saw the people, he spoke to them. He said, ‘O people of Isra’il. Why do you wonder about us (excl.)? And why do you stare at us (excl.)? Do you think-mistakenly it is our (excl.) power that has caused this man to walk, or that’s the reason he is able to walk, because our (excl.) livers are holy/clean? It’s not.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when Peter saw this, he said to the people, ‘My companions, descendants of Israel, why are you so surprised? Why are you looking at us? Perhaps you suppose that it was through our own power or because of the fact that we don’t have any sin that we cured this person so that he could walk.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “When Pedro saw them, he said, ‘My companions who are Israel’s descendants, why are you amazed at that? Why are you staring-at-us? Is-it-indeed-the-case (incredulous RQ) that our power or goodness was what-made-this man-walk?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “When Pedro observed, he said to them, ‘My fellow-countrymen descendants of Israel, why are you amazed at what has happened to this person? And why are you staring like that at us (excl.), as if he had been made able to walk through the strength of our (excl.) own knowledge/aquired-skill or (our) obeying of the will of God?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Chichimeca-Jonaz: “When Peter saw many gathering together, he addressed the people, he told them: ‘You Israelites who are relatives of mine, why are you thinking it over inside because of what you saw happen and why are you looking so hard at us as if it were that we alone by our strength had caused that this person went to walking? Maybe you all think he got well because we are so holy.'” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 2:23:
Uma: “One time on the worship day, Yesus and his disciples went through a grain-field. While they were going through that grain-field, his disciples picked wheat [gandum] fruit and ate it. [special verb for eating uncooked grain]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “So-then one Saturday, the day of-no-work of the Yahudi, Isa and his disciples passed-through a field. As his disciples were passing by, they picked-out-the-grains of the fruit of the field.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “That time on a certain Saturday, Jesus and company passed through the fields. That was the day on which God commanded the Jews long ago that no one was allowed to work on that day because it is the day of rest. The disciples were picking the ears of grain.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “There was one Saturday which was the rest-day of the Jews, plural Jesus were walking-through the terraced-fields which were planted with wheat. And his disciples were picking-off the grains and husking-them-with-their-teeth (i.e. to eat).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “One Day of Rest, the walk of Jesus and his disciples went through a wheat-field. Well as those disciples were walking, they picked heads of wheat and crunched-with-teeth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
English translation by Michael Pakaluk (2019): “One time he was traveling on the Sabbath through a field of grain. So his disciples started plucking off heads of grain as they made their way through.”
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Timothy 5:1:
Uma: “If/When you teach people whose age is more than yours, don’t [do it] very harshly. Rather make your words gentle [lit., smooth, fine] firing-up their hearts, you treat them like your own father. Young-men you treat like your relatives.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Don’t scold a man older than you but speak to him well like (to) your father when you have something to teach/instruct him. The men who are young, consider/regard (them) as your brothers/siblings.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Do not speak sharply to an elder, rather advise him as if he were your father. Also advise the young men as if they were your brothers.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “If someone sins who is older (male) than you (sing.), don’t speak-harshly/roughly-to (him), but instead gently is the way you (sing.) are to advise him as if he were your (sing.) father. The men also who are younger than you (sing.), count them as if they are your (sing.) brothers/cousins.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Supposing there’s something you find fault with among those you are overseeing there, teach him with respect. If it’s a man who is already old/mature, don’t scold him, but rather talk to him aside/quietly like you’re conversing with your father. Those who are still young, regard them as your siblings.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the old man who does not do what is right, do not speak strongly to him when you reprimand him for what he has done. Beautifully speak to him, treating him as though he were your father. Concerning the young men, treat them as though they were your brothers.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 4:18:
Uma: “So, after that, they called Petrus and Yohanes back in again, and they said to them: ‘We(excl.) really forbid you, don’t you any longer to teach or mention the name of Yesus.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “So they called Petros and Yahiya again and instructed/warned them telling them really not to speak or teach about Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then they had Peter and company come back, and they threatened them saying, ‘Don’t you teach faith in the name of Jesus anymore.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Then they called Pedro and Juan and emphatically commanded them saying, ‘Absolutely do not repeat to tell the name of Jesus. Neither are you to teach concerning him to even any person.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Without anything further, they again called for Pedro-and-companion and told them plainly that they were not to relate or teach again concerning Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 3:27:
Uma: “‘ Demons can be compared to a strong person. If we enter into the house of a strong person wanting to take the contents of his house, we must first bind him, and than we can carry off his stuff. So also if I expel demons, it means my power is greater than demons.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “The demon is figuratively a strong man. Nobody can go and rob the house of a strong man, if he doesn’t first tie-up that strong man, and then he can rob.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I have defeated Satan; that’s why I can drive away his followers. For nobody can enter into the house of a strong man to steal his goods if he doesn’t first tie up the strong man. He must first tie him up and then he can plunder the goods of that strong man.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Satan can be compared to a strong person, because no one can enter his house to steal his possessions if he will not first tie-him -up. Then he will be able to run-off-with his possessions.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “But I have defeated Satanas already, that’s why I can drive out evil spirits. For no-one can enter the house of a person who is strong to plunder his possessions if he doesn’t first tie up that person. Well, of course if he is now tied up, his house can now be plundered.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
