Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:4:
- Uma: “In that trip, he had to pass-through Samaria land.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They had to go through the place/country Samariya.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And while Jesus and company were returning, it was necessary that they go through the province of Samaria.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It was necessary that they walk through the region-encompassed by Samaria,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But on that journey of theirs, it was necessary to go by way of Samaria.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Leaving, it was necessary that they pass through the land of Samaria.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:16:
- Uma: “Be careful, because I command you to go in the midst/between evil people. You will be like sheep among serigalas [jackals]. You must be scheming/crafty like a tarsier, but your hearts must be gentle/smooth with no evil intentions.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Be careful because I send you to bad people. You are figuratively like offspring of sheep going among masses of fierce dogs. Therefore your thinking/reasoning must be deep (being wise) and you must be only good in your livers.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Listen, you all. I am sending you to harmful people. But as for you, you, by contrast, are not harmful. You are like sheep, and they are like lions. It is necessary that you be on your guard, but don’t you do anything harmful to anyone.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus continued saying, ‘Think-about this. I send you to cruel people, as-if you are sheep who go to the location of vicious dogs. It is thus necessary that you be wise/intelligent and prudent/careful with nothing also that can be blamed on you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus said further, ‘Well now/today, I am sending you out like you are sheep among a large-gathering of wild-dogs. Therefore you must use-your-heads(fig.) like snakes and be tame like doves.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now I am sending you to where evil people live, it will be fearful like when sheep arrive where dangerous animals live. But be wise, being careful like snakes are. Yet do not fight anyone, be like doves who do not want to fight.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 6:15:
- Uma: “Are Kristus and the King of Evil-ones united/at-peace? What is the connection between people who believe and people who don’t believe?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Almasi and the leader of demons cannot be of one mind/planning therefore a person trusting in Isa Almasi cannot be of one liver with a person who does not trust in him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Christ and Satan cannot be in agreement, and so it’s not allowable that a believer and an unbeliever marry each other.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Cristo and Satanas have absolutely no oneness of their minds, so neither is there any being-in-rhythm of believers and non believers.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Is it possible for Cristo Belial to be in harmony, or those who believe in Cristo with those who reject him?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because Christ does not do the same as the devil does. The same for the believer then, he also does not do the same as a person who is not a believer.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:36:
- Uma: “The people who harvest certainly receive their salary, with the result that the harvesters and the planters will be glad together. The fruit that they harvest, its meaning [is] people who receive good life until forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The people who gather them to bring to me get a good reward. And the people they gather are given life forever. Therefore the ones planting and the ones gathering are equally happy/joyful.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he who harvests, which is to say, he who caused them to understand so that they might believe in me, God has a reward for him. And those people whom he harvests, they will be given eternal life. Therefore the one who plants the word of God and the one who harvests the fruit of the word of God, they will all rejoice.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Those who harvest, they will be salaried, and the people whom they harvest, they will gain life that has no end. Therefore those who planted (used of rice seedlings) the word of God, they will rejoice-with the harvesters.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore it would be good if you start now to harvest. It’s really assured that God will give a reward for what you will have done, which is to cause people to believe-in/obey me so that life without ending can be theirs. Really far-from-ordinary is the happiness of that harvester, likewise the field-cultivator.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He who harvests gets a wage. In like manner he who encourages the people so they believe in me will get a wage. And those people who believe in me will have the new life forever. Therefore he who first gives the word and he who encourages the people so they believe in me together will rejoice.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 11:6:
- Uma: “Blessed are the people who are not uncertain about Me.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And glad/happy is whoever does not doubt me (lit. does not magduwe-duwe (has two thoughts) towards me).'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered, ‘Go back to John and tell him what you’ve seen that I have done and what you’ve heard that I have spoken. What you should tell him is that because of me the blind can already see, the lame can already walk, lepers are cured, and deaf people are now able to hear. I have raised the dead, and I have caused the Good News to be understood by poor people. Far better off is the person who does not doubt that I am the one God sent.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Tell him also that fortunate is the person who has no doubts concerning me.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The person really can be very happy who isn’t of two minds about me.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The good fortune will be met by the person whose heart doesn’t turn back from believing in me.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 8:13:
- Uma: “It is not my purpose to cause you to carry a heavy burden with the result that you will be in-lack and other people will be fortunate. My purpose is that your lives will be the same.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I don’t want that you should be hard up because of your helping your companions.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It’s not in my mind that you should be in difficulty so that others who are in difficulty might be helped, but rather, it’s my desire that since you are now rich, you should help those believers who are in difficulty now. And then, later on in the future if you’re the ones to be in difficulty and they are the ones who are rich, they can help you also. By means of this you will all be the same and there will be no believers in difficulty.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I don’t mean to say that others should become-rich on account of what you are giving while you for-your-part have-a-hard-time.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s not that I am wanting some to have an easy time (lit. be-lightened) and you yourselves oppressed (lit. be-heavied).” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I am not telling you to give all that you possess until you don’t have anything left.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 5:14:
- Uma: “Not long from there, Yesus met that person in the House of God, and he said to him: ‘You (sing.) have become well/healed, do not any longer do sin, so that you (sing.) will not be struck with anything worse.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “After this, Isa found the person who had been sick in the temple. Isa said to him, ‘Look, you are now well. Therefore leave now your sin, lest something worse comes to you.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And a little while later after that, Jesus saw him in the church which is called the House of God, and Jesus said to him, ‘It is good because you are now cured. You stop doing those bad things that you do so that you might not have to experience an even worse sickness.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “A little-later then, Jesus came-upon him in the Temple and said to him, ‘Look, here you (sing.) have been made-well. Don’t sin again lest something happen to you (sing.) and it be worse than at first.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Before long, Jesus saw that one he’d healed there in the Templo which was the place-of-worship. Having seen him, he said, ‘Well, now you are well. Now drop/give-up sin. For if you still prefer it, much greater than that-there is the hardship/suffering you’ll be subjected to.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Afterwards Jesus met the man he had healed at the church. He said, ‘Now you are healed. No longer commit sin in order that you will not suffer greater.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:8:
- Uma: “For I am the Child of Mankind who was sent by God. I have power/authority to say what may/can be done on the day of worship. ‘In the Holy Book, God says like this: ‘I do not request livestock that you offer to me. What I request, [is that] you love others.’ So, if you had known the meaning of those words, you would not have criticized those who are not wrong.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I, the Son of Man, have authority to say as to what is right/fitting to do on the day-of-no-work.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For I, the Older Sibling of Mankind, I am the one who has authority to say what is the proper thing to do on the Day of Rest.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because I who am Child of a Person am the one who has authority over what can be done on the day for-resting.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because this Day of Rest is under my control who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The Man who came from heaven has the authority that what he determines, that is what happens on the day of rest.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
