complete verse (1 Thessalonians 3:11)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Thessalonians 3:11:

  • Uma: “We pray to God our (incl.) Father and to our (incl.) Lord Yesus, we request that he open for us a road to meet with you, relatives.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “May our (incl.) Father God and our (incl.) Leader Isa Almasi help us (excl.) so that we (excl.) will be able to come to you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “May our Father God and our Lord Jesus see to it that we soon can come to you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “May God our Father and Jesus our Lord remove what is blocking us (excl.) so that we (excl.) will be able to go there (near addressee).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Hopefully it is indeed the will of God our Father and our Lord Jesus to cause our (excl.) journey to be accomplished so that we (excl.) can go there indeed to you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “May God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ cause that we go to where you are and see you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 20:10)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 20:10:

  • Uma: “After that, those two disciples went back going to their house.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then they went home.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the two disciples went home.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “After that those two disciples went-home.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Those two disciples then went home.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Then the learners returned to the house.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 27:23)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 27:23:

  • Uma: “Pilatus asked still again: ‘But what is his wrong?’ They just shouted/jeered louder: ‘Crucify him!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But Pilatus said, ‘Why? What bad has he done?’ But they shouted the more, they said, ‘Nail him on the cross.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Pilate said, ‘Why? Is there some bad thing he’s done?’ But the noise of the people increased. They were shouting, ‘Nail him to a cross!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘How come? What perhaps is his sin/crime?’ said Pilato. Then they all-right-away-simultaneously-shouted saying, ‘Nail-him to the cross!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “‘Why?’ said Pilato. ‘What has he done which is evil?’But they shouted all the more loudly, ‘Nail him to a cross!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Pilate said to the people: ‘But what evil has he done?’ The people shouted all the more and said: ‘Put him on the cross.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Thessalonians 5:12)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Thessalonians 5:12:

  • Uma: “Relatives, we request that you respect those who hold the work of the Lord in your midst, because they are the ones who are your elders in the Lord and who admonish you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Na, my brothers who trust in Isa Almasi, there is still something we (excl.) want to ask/beg you (for): respect your leaders of the prayer-house. They work among you because they were chosen by our (incl.) Leader to teach you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “So, brothers, those who work hard to lead you, your bosses whom God has chosen, and those who teach you, we beg you to respect them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “We (excl.) have something else to request of you brothers. It would be good if you properly respect/acknowledge those who are leading you who put-themselves-to-hardship to care-for and advise you in your following the Lord Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “The final thing we (excl.) can teach you, siblings in believing, is that you will please recognize/acknowledge well those who have been given authority who persevere in the work of the Lord there. For as for these, of course the Lord is the one who chose them and set them up to oversee and teach you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Listen, brothers, we want that you have respect for the workers of God who work where you live. Because they are the chosen of God to lead there where you are in order to teach you the word of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 21:11)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 21:11:

  • Uma: “Simon Petrus climbed into the boat and he pulled the net here to the shore. That net was full/stuffed with big fish: one hundred fifty-three fish. But even though thus their manyness, that net did not tear.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Therefore Simon Petros went into the boat and pulled the net onto the shore. The net was full of big fish, 153 was the number. But the net did not tear even though there were very many in it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Peter went to the boat and he pulled up the net full of fish. The number of fish was one hundred fifty-three, and even though there were so many fish, the net was not torn.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Simon Pedro returned to where the boat was to go pull-in the net onto the bank. It was full of large fish, their number being one hundred and fifty three, but even though that was their quantity (lit. manyness), the net was not ripped.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Simon Pedro then got up into the boat and dragged to the shore that fishnet which was full of big fish which had entered. The number of those fish which had entered was one hundred and fifty three. Even though the number of fish was like that, that fishnet didn’t get torn at all.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Peter got in the boat in order to pull in the net to where the water wasn’t deep. But the net was full of big fish. It contained a hundred and fifty-three fish. It was filled with many but the net did not tear.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 27:55)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 27:55:

  • Uma: “There, there were also many women to were watching from far off. They were the women who had followed and helped Yesus, beginning from his work in the land of Galilea.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Many women were also watching there from afar. They had followed Isa from Jalil and always helped him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were also there many women who were far off watching. They were Galileans who had come with Jesus to Jerusalem because they will help him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “There were also many women there who were looking-from-a-distance. They were the ones who went-with Jesus from Galilea and had been helping him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “At a distance, many were the women who were viewing. Coming from Galilea, these women had gone along with Jesus serving him in his needs.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Many women were standing far off to look upon all that happened. These women had come from Galilee to follow Jesus as he went to Jerusalem. These also had helped him, giving what he had needed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (2 Thessalonians 2:4)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Thessalonians 2:4:

  • Uma: “No matter how the words of others are, don’t allow yourselves to be deceived. For before that day comes, these two things have to happen first: many people will retreat from their faith, and an evil person will appear who will oppose God. That evil person, he will be proud [lit., his heart will be high], he will put himself [lit., his life] ahead of all that is worshipped on earth. And he will dare [emphatic] to sit in the House of God, saying that he is God. So, it is certain ahead of time that he will be thrown into hell.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “This person will be an enemy of everything that-is-considered-God and everything worshiped by mankind. He will make himself greater than all of them and even/including in the prayer-house of God he will go and sit down and say that he is God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He will resist and try to make himself higher than anything people consider to be God and anything they worship. He will even sit in the worship place, the House of God, for he will say that he is God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “He will oppose God and all idols/false gods and whatever else people worship/honor and he will make-himself -higher (in rank, importance) than all of them. And he will go and sit-down in God’s temple saying that he himself is God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “What this one who will-appear-on-the-scene will do is, he will oppose all who are worshipped by people which they regard as their god. He will elevate himself that he now is the most important, far more than all of these. And furthermore, he will even enter the Templo of God, and then say that he is the one meant by God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “This person will be against all that people worship, even God he will be against. He will want that only he himself will be worshipped. He will sit in the church of God as though he himself were God. He will say, ‘I myself am God,’ he will say.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 1:18)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 1:18:

  • Uma: “(That Yudas bought land with the money which he received from his evil actions. On that land that he bought, he died falling, his stomach burst with the result that all the contents of his insides came out.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “(By the way, Sir Teopilus, Judas bought land hep with the money paid to him for his evil deed betraying Isa. When he had bought that land, he fell down there and he died. His abdomen burst and his intestines came out.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “(Now as for Judas, that which was paid him for his wickedness, he bought some land with it, and he fell forward and his stomach burst open and his intestines burst out.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “This is what happened to Judas. The money that was paid-as-wage to him for the bad-thing that he did, he used-it-to-buy some land, and that’s where he went to kill himself. He fell-from-a-height and then his body burst and his innards came-out.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “(Well as for this Judas, that reward/bribe which he received for that evil which he did which is like he traded Jesus, it was used to buy a piece of land. And what happened to Judas was, he fell and his abdomen split open. What else but all the contents of his abdomen came out.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Isthmus Mixe: “That fellow obtained money because of his wickedness. Then he went to hang himself. Then his belly split open. All of his intestines come out. Then people bought land with the money.”
  • Morelos Nahuatl: “He bought a piece of land. He paid for it with that money which they gave him for his sin. He fell on his face. His belly burst open and all his insides poured out.”
  • Eastern Highland Otomi: “A field was bought with the money Jesus was sold with. When Judas fell to the ground face downward, his stomach burst open and his intestines came out.
  • Rincón Zapotec: “They (indefinite) bought a field with the pay of the evil that he did…” (Source for this and three above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)