Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:17:
- Uma: “But Yesus knew what he disciples were saying, so he said to them: ‘Why do you keep talking about the fact that you don’t have any bread? Do you still not understand? Are your hearts still not clear, [even though] you have often heard my teaching, often have seen my power? You have-eyes and have-ears, yet do you still not understand what you see and hear? Don’t you remember,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa knew what they were talking about. Therefore he said to them, ‘Why do you speak about your not having bread? Do you still not know or understand? Are you unteachable?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus knew what was in their minds, and he said, ‘Why are you troubled that you did not bring bread? Don’t you really understand? It’s as if you have no mind.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus knew what they were talking-about, so he said to them, ‘Why are you worried about your not having bread? Do you still not understand? Is your thinking difficult?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But what those disciples of Jesus were-discussing-among-themselves wasn’t hidden from him. That’s why he questioned them, saying, ‘Why are you discussing-among-yourselves that you didn’t bring any bread along? Can’t you comprehend or understand it yet? Can’t your minds/thinking reach that far?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 3:3:
- Uma: “Consider Yesus, for it is fitting that he get more honor than Musa, like a person who builds a house is more honored than the house he builds.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But like a person building a house is more famous than the house he built, likewise Isa is really more worthy to be honored than Musa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, Jesus, — God regards Him as being much higher than Moses, just like the one who built the house is greater than the house.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Jesus, he is considered to be greater than Moses just as the superior-greatness of one who erects a house than the house that he erects.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But as for this Jesus, his praiseworthiness is superior to the praiseworthiness of Moises. Because of course superior to the praiseworthiness of a house is the praiseworthiness of the builder of that house.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But this Jesus, it is much more right that he be respected than was Moses. It is like when a person makes a house in order to rule in it. Concerning this person who makes the house, he is more greatly respected than all the other people who live in it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:15:
- Uma: “The one who was speaking said again to Petrus: ‘What God says is good, don’t you (sing.) [emphatic] say is dirty.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He heard the voice again saying to him, ‘Do not call forbidden what God has made lawful.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he said to him again, ‘What which God says is good, don’t you say that it is unclean.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The one-who-was-speaking said again, ‘What God has said is good food, don’t consider-it-taboo.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That one speaking spoke again, ‘Pedro, no longer taboo what God regards as acceptable to him now.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:11:
- Uma: “They asked Yesus, they said: ‘Why do the religion teachers say that the prophet Elia first must come, and only then will the Redeemer King come? ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, they asked Isa, they said, ‘Why do the teachers of the religious law say that Nabi Eliyas should come here ko’ first and then Almasi?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they asked Jesus, they said, ‘Why do the teachers of the law say that the ancient prophet long ago, Elijah, will first appear and then the king chosen by God?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They asked him, ‘Why do the teachers of the law teach that Elias must come before (lit. precede to come) the Messiah?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then they questioned Jesus. They said, ‘Why is it said by the explainers of law that it’s necessary they-say that Elias first will return who was that prophet of the past, that he will go ahead of the promised Cristo?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 4:16:
- Uma: “So then, relatives, let’s not be afraid any longer. We are brave/bold to come before God because Yesus is our Big Priest. Let’s approach God on his Seat in heaven, for he is loving. Let us approach him, so that we may feel/experience his love, and he will help us because of the whiteness of his insides [his grace], when we need it.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because we (incl.) have now a High Priest therefore we (incl.) ought not to be afraid to come close to God praying to him because he loves and is merciful. He has mercy on us (incl.) and helps us (dual) in time of difficulties.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And because of Him there’s no reluctance in our thinking to get near, by means of praying, before the powerful God, because God is very gracious. He pities us and He will help us at the time of difficulties.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore we should be brave to approach God who is consistently-merciful/gracious, because if we ask-him -for-mercy, he will have-mercy-on us and will help us at the hour that we need help.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore now/today, (it’s) good if we don’t hang back indecisively, (but rather) let us come immediately into God’s presence, because even though he is high/important who is controlling everything, he is very gracious/merciful. And we can be sure that at the time we need his help, he will give us this grace/mercy that we are asking for in prayer. 4:3 Psalm 95:11. 4:4 Genesis 2:2. 4:5 Psalm 95:11. 4:7 Psalm 95:7-8. The point of this that David said is that, if they don’t harden their heads, they can be included in being able to rest under the jurisdiction of God. This-very-thing is what the writer of this Hebreo is referring to in-that even now, it’s just like that.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “So now let us be strengthened to call to God. We will ask his favor to help us. Because God has pity and when we ask him to help us, he helps us.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:47:
- Uma: “‘Look. Those people there, they have received the Holy Spirit just like happened to us. So, who of you dares to forbid them? They also certainly must be baptized as/becoming followers of Yesus!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘These people have received the Holy Spirit like we (incl.) also. There is no one/nothing that can oppose if they are baptized.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Peter said, ‘These people who are not Jews, they have been given also the Holy Spirit just like we who are Jews. Therefore it is not possible that they cannot be baptized.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘These people, they have received the Holy Spirit just like us. It is not therefore possible that we prohibit their being-baptized.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘It isn’t possible/acceptable to forbid these people to be baptized, for look at this, they have now been indwelt by the Espiritu Santo the same as we (excl.) have.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:43:
- Uma: “‘If for instance one of our hands makes [lit., carries] us sin, just cut it off. It’s better we have just one hand, as long as we get good life with God. That would be far better than for us to have two hands yet in the end we enter hell in the fire that blazes continually.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If your hand carries/influences you to sin, leave your sin. It’s parable is, as if you cut off your hand. It is better for you to enter heaven even if you are maimed (putuk), than that you have two hands but go to hell, into the fire that cannot be put out.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If your hand is the means by which you are successfully tempted, cut it off and throw it away because it is better if you are maimed and given eternal life rather than having two hands you are thrown into hell where the fire is never put out.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore if your (sing.) hand/arm is what-makes-you-(sing.)-sin, cut-it-off. Because it would be better if you (sing.) go to share the life in heaven with one hand/arm cut-off than your (sing.) having two hands/arms and you (sing.) are thrown into the place of fire that never goes-out.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For supposing your (sing.) hand is where the sin you do originates, just cut it off. For it doesn’t matter even if one hand is cut off, as long as life which is without ending will be yours. Rather than having both hands which will be thrown there in the fire which never dies down.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 6:18:
- Uma: “God, he does not lie saying his promise, nor does he lie uttering his swearing/oath. And those two words/talks of his do not change. So, from God’s promise and swearing, our hearts are strengthened, relatives. Because we, we are people who have requested-to-be-made-alive to God [word used of someone in trouble who takes refuge in the house of a powerful person and pleads for protection], we hope/trust that he will give us goodness [salvation]. From God’s promise and swearing, our hearts are strengthened so that we not stop hoping in God and waiting for what he has promised us in the future.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God’s promise and his oath are sure. These two really do not change because God really cannot lie. Therefore we (incl.), the saved ones, our (incl.) livers are really encouraged and our (incl.) expectation/hope in him is really strong.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there are two things which God does which cannot be changed by anybody. One of these is His promise, and the other is His making His promise strong. Now we (incl.) can understand by these two things, that it’s not possible for Him not to fulfill His promise, and because of this, as for us (incl.) who have come to Him for refuge, our faith in Him is very strong and because of this, we hold tightly to our expectancy of all the good things that He had promised to us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He did that so there would be two unchanging means-of-people’s -knowing that what he promised would come-true, because it is not possible for God to lie. Because God wants that we who went-for-protection to him, there-will-be these two means-of-strengthening our minds so that we will persevere in hoping-for what he promised.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As long as God has promised (something) and furthermore made a vow, the fulfillment is really certain for it’s not possible that he will lie. Therefore our minds/inner-being have now been made happy, we who have gone for shelter to him, so that we will hope/expect with firmly grounded hope/expectation the good-things/situation that he has promised.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning all these words God speaks to us about what will be, they are firm because God does not lie. And now, we have asked God to save us. From the word God has spoken, we are assured that it will come to pass.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
