Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 11:12:
- Uma: “Most of the Jews were rebellious/rejecting and they are not God’s portion. And from there many non-Jews over the whole world got big blessings from God. So how much more will be the blessedness of the contents of the world if/when the Jews repent and return to God!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If the Yahudi nation is sinning and God is rejecting them turns out (mole’) to the good of the nations not Yahudi, really much more good will come to the not Yahudi when the Yahudi return to God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “So by means of the disobedience of the Jews, which is their not believing, God has blessed with good all mankind. And by means also of the fact that God’s blessing to the Jews had been removed from them, how greatly God has shown to the people who aren’t Jews, His kindness. And if that’s the case, how much greater will be the good which the people who aren’t Jews will receive at the time in the future when the Jews return to their believing.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Let us consider this then: if the collective-people on this earth were exceedingly blessed on account of the sin of the Jews and their loss (i.e. what they lost), surely they will be even-more blessed when/if the proper number of Jews will be saved.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “In that the Jews separated from God, there came about that all the people are not Jews all over the world encountered God’s blessing. But when there comes the day when also the Jews will believe in Christ, God overflowingly will bless all the people all over the world.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:38:
- Noongar: “They will be very happy, if he finds them ready, if he even comes in the dark of night or nearly sunrise.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Fortunate indeed are the slaves who are found by their nobleman ready waiting for him, even though it is midnight or sometimes even past midnight.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Even if it is in the middle of the night or early morning that he arrives if he sees them still watching, certainly those servants will be happy.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “How happy they will be if their master arrives and they are still waiting for him, even though it is in the middle of the night, or even if it is already at dawn when he comes.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They are fortunate servants if their master comes-upon them waiting and ready, even if it’s the middle of the night or still later when-he-comes-home. I tell you that their master will change (clothes) and seat those servants of his in order to feed them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Yes indeed, the slaves can be happy who, even if it’s at midnight or pre-dawn when their master arrives, are still waiting for him in readiness.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 16:20:
- Uma: “At that time, all the islands in the sea suddenly disappeared/were-lost, and there were no longer any mountains.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then all the islands disappeared and also including all the mountains disappeared.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “All islands in the sea disappeared, and all mountains also disappeared.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “All the small countries surrounded by ocean, they sank, and all mountains also, they ceased-to-exist.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “All the islands disappeared. All the mountains collapsed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “All of the small lands in the midst of the sea and the mountains, they were not to be seen.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 12:8:
- Uma: “The person who has the ladle to strengthen the hearts of others, that is [or: that should be] his work. Whoever of us has the ladle to give others something, give to others with generosity. He who has the ladle to be a leader must lead with his whole heart. And the person who has the ladle to care-for others who are in need, do it with a glad heart.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If the skill given us (dual) is to encourage our (dual) companions, we (dual) ought to encourage them. If the skill given us (dual) is to help the need of our (dual) companions, we (dual) ought to be generous. If we (dual) are given the work of being a leader, we (dual) ought to persevere in our (dual) work. If our (dual) work is to help the people in difficulties, we (dual) ought to be glad/joyful to help them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if what is given to us is the ability to draw tight the faith of our companions, this is what we should do. And if we are given generosity to help the poor people, we must then generously help them. And if we are given the job of leading the believers, then we must carefully lead them. And if what is given to us is helping people who are in trouble, we must do this but not by means of complaining.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If moreover God has given you (sing.) the ability to advise/admonish your (sing.) companions and to strengthen their faith, that’s what you (sing.) are to do. If also he has given the ability to share what you (sing.) have to help those-in-need, do it generously (lit. being-selfish-with nothing). If also the ability to lead is what was given to you (sing.), you (sing.) should be industrious to lead. And if your (sing.) ability is your (sing.) helping the unfortunate, you (sing.) should be eager to do it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “There are people who have been given the work to strengthen their fellow believers. And they must earnestly do this work. There are people who have been given the work to help their fellowman with what they possess. And they must not hold back from helping their fellowman. There are people who have been given the work to lead there where the believers gather. And it is necessary that they earnestly do well the work they work at. There are people who have been given the work to help those who are in need. And concerning the aid they give to their fellowman, they must do it with a will.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:11:
- Noongar: “A woman had an evil spirit and she had been sick 18 years. She was stooped and could not stand up.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “There, there was a woman, she had been sick for eighteen years because she was possessed by a demon. That woman was hunchbacked, she was not able to stand up straight.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There was a woman there who had a sickness caused by a demon for eighteen years. She was bent-over and could not straighten her body.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there was in the church a woman whose back was bent over because she was afflicted with a demon. It was eighteen years that her back had been over, and she could no longer straighten up even a little bit.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There was also there a woman whom a evil-spirit had hunched-over for eighteen years and she was not able-to-straighten-up.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There was a woman there who for eighteen years had been being make ill by an evil spirit. She was now really hunchbacked, no longer able to straighten out.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 18:13:
- Uma: “There was cinnamon and other spices. There were fragrant things called incense, mur and kemenyan. There was grapes/wine oil, flour for bread, and rice. There were cows, sheep, horses, carts [Indonesian: kereta], and people who were made slaves. All the things earlier were their merchandise, even including people also they sold. But when Babel was destroyed, there was no longer anyone to buy.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And nobody will buy their other goods like spices, fragrant ointment, incense, the different perfumes, or grape juice and cooking oil and flour and it’s grain. Nobody will buy cattle and sheep, horses and the conveyances like kalesas, and people to be made slaves.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and sweet smelling things to be eaten and burned, fragrant resins, wines, oil, flour, wheat, palay, cows, sheep, horses, calesas, and slave people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Neither is there anyone to buy their cinnamon (Eng.), perfumed oil/ointment, incense, myrrh (mirra) and frankincense (Eng.). Likewise also their items-for-sale which are alcoholic-beverages, vegetable-oil, finest flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and carriages, and even people whom they sell for slaves.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There’s now no-one who will buy flavorings for foods, and incense and other perfumes, ubas fruit juice drink, oil of olibo, flour and wheat. No-one now can be caused to buy their cows, sheep, horses and vehicles which are drawn by horses. Even their fellowmen which they are trading which they are causing to be slaves, they will no longer be bought.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “No one will buy the loads of cinnamon, or the things which smell beautifully. The incenses which are burned, the myrrh, the perfume, the wine, the oil, the fine wheat flour. No one will buy cattle or sheep or horses. No one will buy wagons. No one will buy people to do their work without giving them wages.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 14:5:
- Uma: “There are also people who say certain days are more appropriate for us to-worship-on. Yet some say that all days are just the same. The main thing is: every one of us must really believe in his heart that God approves of what he does.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There are people they regard/consider that one day is greater than the other days. There are also people they regard/consider the days as alike. You (pl.) ought to each one be sure as to what is your thinking.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “In the same way also, one person considers that there are days which are precious to God, and another also considers that God does not consider any day more precious than another. It’s necessary that each one is convinced that what he thinks and does is the right thing to do.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There are also those who count one day as more-valuable than the other days, while others say there is no day which is to be differentiated as more-valuable. Concerning this, the mind of each one must not doubt that what he is doing is right.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “There are some believers who say that there is one day which is more holy that other days. And also there are others who say that all the days are equal. Therefore each of the believers, concerning the word which they understand to be good, that is the word they should do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:8:
- Noongar: “‘When a person invites you to a wedding to eat and drink, you must not take the best seats. Perhaps, other people greater than you have been invited” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “He said: ‘If you (sing.) are called to go to a wedding feast, so not sit in the seats of honor. Perhaps there will be someone who was invited who is more honored than you (sing.).” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘If you are invited to a wedding, do not sit down in the seat for the important people. Perhaps there is someone more important than you invited.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘When we (dual) are invited to a feast, we must not first sit down in the good seats, because there might be somebody else who arrives whose rank is higher than us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘If someone invites you (sing.) to join-in-eating, you (sing.) ought not to go join-in-sitting in the place-where-all-the-high-up people -sit lest someone has been invited who is higher than you (sing.). [Note: The only word for feast is unacceptable because it implies accompanying pagan practices. Thus the use of ‘join-in-eating,’ which does not specify the size of the gathering.]” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Supposing someone invites you (sing.) to join in a wedding celebration, don’t choose a far from ordinary seat, for maybe there is someone invited who is more important than you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
