Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:9:
- Uma: “‘ Don’t carry much stuff/baggage on your journeys. Don’t carry money or gold or silver.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Do not take money along, not even change in your belt (change purse).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t take gold or silver or even copper.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Don’t take-along large monies or (lit. and) even coins.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Don’t take along money to buy with, whether gold, siver or brass/bronze/copper.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Don’t take along money of gold, silver or copper.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 6:8:
- Uma: “Whether we (excl.) are disparaged or praised, whether we (excl.) are criticized or honored, it is clear that we (excl.) are indeed God’s workers. Some say that we (excl.) are deceivers, but our (excl.) words are true.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Sometimes also we (excl.) are honored but sometimes also we (excl.) are put down/humbled. Sometimes we (excl.) are praised but sometimes also we (excl.) are spoken-bad-about/to/slandered (bissãhan la’at). They say we (excl.) lie but really all we (excl.) say is true.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There are those who respect us and there are also people who do not respect us. There are those who praise us and there are those who gossip about us. Some say we are liars but what we say is not a lie.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “In our (excl.) serving God, there are those who esteem and those who despise us (excl.), there are those who praise-us and those who speak-evil-of us (excl.). There are those who say we (excl.) are liars, but what we (excl.) say is certainly true.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “We (excl.) really have experienced being highly spoken of and having destructive lies spoken against us (excl.), slandered and praised, we (excl.) have been said to be liars, even though the truth is what we (excl.) are telling.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now, there are people who look respectfully on me and there are also people who do not look respectfully on me. There are people who speak well of me, and there are also people who speak bad of me. There are people who say I deceive, but I always speak what is the true word.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999): “Sometimes I feel honored, other times disregarded; some people mock me, others praise me, still others consider me a false teacher, even though I speak the truth.”
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:29:
- Uma: “‘Let us go see a person who told/uncovered to me [or: on me] all my actions. Maybe he really is the Redeemer King!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “She said, ‘Come along with me. Have a look, there is a person who has told me all that I have done in the past. Is he not perhaps the Almasi?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘Let’s go there so that you might see the man who prophesied to me everything that I have ever done. Perhaps he is the king God has chosen.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Come and see a man who told me everything I have done, if he is indeed the one they call the Messiah.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Come along! Come with me! There’s a person there who was able to tell everything I’ve done. Maybe that’s the one who is that Cristo who was promised.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “‘Let’s go see a person who told me all I have done. Perhaps that one is the Christ.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:41:
- Uma: “Whoever receives a messenger of God because he really is a messenger of God, they will receive a reward/return like they rewarded/returned to the person who was sent [messengered] by God. Whoever receives a person who is straight [upright] because he really is straight, they will receive a reward/return like what they rewarded/returned to the straight person.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If someone treats-according-to-custom a person who spreads the word of God because he hep spreads the word of God, he will be rewarded like the one who spreads the word of God is rewarded. If someone treats-according-to-custom a righteous/straight person because he is a righteous/straight person, he will be rewarded like the righteous person is rewarded.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If there is a person who receives an inspired one of God because God is the one who inspired that one, that person will share in the reward which God gives to the one he inspired. And if there is a person who receives a righteous person because of his righteousness, the one who receives him will share in the reward which God gives to the righteous person.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If someone shows-hospitality-to a spokesman of God because he is God’s spokesman, the reward he will receive is the same as God’s spokesman’s reward. And if someone also shows-hospitality-to a righteous person because that is the kind-of-person he is, the reward he will receive is the same as the righteous person’s reward.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The one who will receive a teacher of the word of God because he acknowledges that the Lord indeed is the one who sent him to teach, he certainly will be rewarded with the same as is given-in-reward to that teacher. And the one also who receives a person with good ways and welcomes/treats him well because he acknowledges that this person is wanting to be obedient to the will of God, it’s certain that he will be rewarded with the same as is given in reward to the person with good ways.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The person who pays respect to a spokesman for God because the person knows that he is a messenger from God will be given wages just like the wages given to the spokesman for God. Also the person who pays respect to a good man because he knows that this man walks good will be given wages just like the wages given to the good man.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 8:6:
- Uma: “So, seeing the goodness of heart of the Makedonia people, that’s why we (excl.) here made plans, we (excl.) sent Titus off to you again, relatives. It was he that originally helped you to gather the money that you want to send to the land of Yudea. So, that’s why it is also he that we (excl.) have ordered to go continue that good work in your midst.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So then, because Titus had started to gather what-you-will-help-with, we (excl.) told him to go there to help you again to gather what-you-will-help-with so that you can give all your help.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since Titus started the work among you to collect your help for the believers in Judea, we advised him that he should continue it so that he might help you to finish this work concerning your kindness.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “All-right, since Tito was the one who previously initiated-it (lit. caused-it-to-start) that you gather what you would give, we (excl.) persuaded him to return there to help you to complete what you started which is the manifestation of your kindness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, since those in/from Macedonia did like that, we (excl.) arranged with Tito that he would return to you, to help you so that you might be able to complete your wanting-to-give grace/aid. For is it not so that he is the one who helped you previously to begin to collect (financial) help that you were reportedly going to give?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When I saw the help these people of Macedonia gave, I told Titus that he should again go to where you live to encourage you to continue gathering the money for the help you began to gather before.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 5:7:
- Uma: “The sick person said: ‘Lord, because there is no-one to carry me into the pool when the water is stirred-up. [The "because" here is normal Uma conversation style; it means the man is giving the reason/excuse why he is lying there and not getting well. See vs. 11; 7:46.] When I just start to go, someone else gets there before me.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The sick person answered, he said, ‘Yes, Sir. But there is nobody who lifts me into the pool when the water has stirred. And while I am still moving there, somebody else gets in ahead of me.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the person answered, ‘Datu, I have no companion to throw me in the water when it is stirred up, and someone else always gets in there before I can get in.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The man answered-him and said, ‘I want-to, Sir, but there is no one to take me to the water when it is moved/rippled. I have repeatedly-tried to go, but before I arrive, there is someone who has already gone-ahead.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Master, oh, if wanting were enough,’ he answered, ‘however there’s no one to cause me to go down (into the water) when this water ripples. I try hard to get down (into the water) but I get preceeded.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The sick man said, ‘Man. There isn’t anyone to put me there in the water when it is disturbed. Every time I think that I will get into the water another gets there first.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 5:18:
- Uma: “From there, the Yahudi rulers exerted effort to find a way to kill him. Because it was not just that he had broken the custom of the Sabat Day, but he had also said that God was his Father; so, he made himself the same as God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because Isa answered like that they really determined to kill him, not only because he broke the law of the day of-no-work, but because he also said that God was his Father, that means he made himself equal with God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the desire of the Jews to kill him increased, and they said, ‘It is not only that you trespass the day of rest, but rather you trespass also against God because you say that God is your Father, which is to say, you are God.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That being so, they increasingly made-persistent their minds to kill him. Because he had not only broken the law concerning the day for-resting but rather he had also made-himself -equal to God by saying that God was his Father.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When those Judio heard, their anger/hatred became extreme. They very much wanted to kill Jesus, because he had not only broken their law concerning the Day of Rest, but on the contrary he was even saying that God was his Father, that being the case he was making himself equal to God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “With this word the Jews wanted to kill him. Because not only did he not respect the rest day, also he offended in what he said, saying that he was equal with God when he said that God was his Father.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:12:
- Uma: “But a person is more important than a sheep. So, if thus, we (incl.) are very allowed to help people on the day of worship.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “A person is hep more valuable than a sheep. Therefore it is right to do good on a day-of-no-work.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And a person is far more precious than a sheep. Therefore we (dual) do not break the law if we help a person even on the Day of Rest.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “People are far-away more valuable than sheep, so of course our law allows us to help our companions on the day for-resting.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “A person really is much greater than a sheep! Therefore it’s not against the law of the Day of Rest if it’s good work, which is help to one in need.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Well, how about a person, it is clear that he is of more value than a sheep. Therefore even though it is the day of rest, it is necessary to do good.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
