Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:21:
Noongar: “‘God will do good to you people hungry now. Your stomachs will be full! God will do good things to you people weeping now. You will laugh!” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “You are fortunate who are hungry at this time, because you will be made-satisfied/full. You are fortunate who weep at this time, because you will be glad.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “‘How fortunate you are/good it is for you who are hungry now, for you will be satisfied in the future. ‘How fortunate you are/good it is for you who are weeping now for you will laugh in the future.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Far better off are you who are hungry now, because God will satisfy your hunger in the future! Far better off are you who are sorrowful now, because you will rejoice in the future!” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “‘Fortunate are you who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied. ‘Fortunate are you who are crying now, because you will smile/laugh.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “You can be happy who really want to do the will of God always, because he really will give you the ability to do it. You can be happy who cry, who sorrow because of sin done, for happiness will follow-in-succession.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:2:
Uma: “We(excl.) love you because we (incl.) believe in the true teaching, and that true teaching we hold-on-to forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “because the true teaching remains in out (incl.) livers and will remain with us (incl.) forever.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason we (excl.) hold you all dear is because we (incl.) hold tight to the true doctrine, and as for this true doctrine, it will never be removed from us (incl.) forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “We love-one-another because the true teaching which remains in our minds forever has been stored in our minds.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “We(excl.) hold you dear because this truth has now been able to take root in our mind/inner-being, and it won’t separate from us till forever.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Because all of us now have the identical belief. And we know certainly that this is true. This we will believe forever.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Yatzachi Zapotec: “We (ex) love you because we know what is true and we will walk with it forever.”
Eastern Highland Otomi: “We (ex) love you because you plant in your hearts the true Word, which resides in our hearts, and will never be lost.”
Isthmus Zapotec: “We (ex) love you because we are acquainted with that which is true now. And we will never forget it.”
Garifuna: “From within the belief which we are within, we have come to love you (the source of our love for you is our belief). This belief will be with us forever.” (Source for this and three above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 28:25:
Uma: “They separated/left from that gathering, because they no longer had any agreement. But before they separated, Paulus spoke to them like this: ‘The words of the Holy Spirit are very true that the prophet Yesaya uttered to our (incl.) ancestors long ago.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “They did not agree. Then when they were about to go home, Paul still had something to say. He said to them, ‘The word/message of the Holy Spirit is really correct which Nabi Isaya announced/made-known to your ancestors. For he said hep to Nabi Isaya,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since they could not agree, they went home. But while they were still there, Paul said again to them, ‘It is very true what the Holy Spirit said long ago to our ancestors by means of his inspiring Isaiah.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “So upon their leaving, their minds were divided and they were-arguing-together. But before their leaving, Pablo said in conclusion, ‘True indeed is what the Holy Spirit caused-the prophet Isaias -to-write concerning our ancestors, because he said to Isaias,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “They couldn’t agree together, that’s why they then split-up-and-went-home. But before they left to go home, Pablo said to them, ‘What the Espiritu Santo said to your ancestors is really true, which was written by that prophet of the past, Isaias, saying,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:5:
Noongar: “He loves our people and he built our synagogue.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “because he loves us Yahudi people, and he has given us (excl.) money to build our (excl.) house of prayer.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “for he is a real friend to our (incl.) Yahudi tribe and he paid the expense hep for erecting our (incl.) prayer-house in this town.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because as for us (inc.) Jews, we are precious in his breath. He built one of the churches.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “because he (appreciation particle) loves us Jews and he moreover caused-a synagogue of ours -to-be-constructed.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Because he values this nation of ours(incl.) and he even caused a worship-place to be built for us.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Jude 1:6:
Uma: “Remember also the angels long ago in heaven. Some of them went-beyond the bounds of their authority/power, and they left their dwelling-place. The Lord bound those angels with chains that can never be broken, he confined them in a dark dwelling-place. There they are kept confined until the time comes for him to decide their case on the terrifying day of punishment.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “And also remember the angels who left/gave-up the authority that God had given them and who left the place where God had established them. They are chained forever and they are imprisoned by God in utter darkness until the great day comes when God judges them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Consider also his angels long ago in heaven. They abandoned the position he had given them, and they left their true dwelling place. Because of that, he imprisoned them in a very dark place. He has bound them with chains that cannot be destroyed forever, for they are being made to wait until the day in the future when he will punish them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Remember also the angels who were not content with the position that God gave them but rather they left/abandoned their proper dwelling-place in heaven. On-account-of their doing that, God chained them with chains that cannot be removed and he imprisoned them in the place of darkness below until the important/valued day when-he-will-judge them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Consider also the angels who didn’t hold fast to the job/responsibility God determined for them. Isn’t it so that they left their own place where they lived? That’s why they were caused by God to be bound in chains forever. And he imprisoned them in a place-of-darkness till they will be sentenced to judgment, at the coming of the far-from-ordinary day when judging is done.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “And remember what happened to those angels who didn’t respect the work they had, but left their work there in heaven. God has fastened them with chains in the darkness until the day comes when there will be the judgment.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 1:26:
Uma: “So, because they refused to worship him, that’s why he just allowed them to follow the shameful desires of their heart. Even women no longer behaved like the behavior of ordinary mankind. The women wived [i.e., married or had intercourse with, normally used of men to women] other fellow women.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Therefore God abandoned them to do shameful things indulging/giving-into the desire of their bodies. Even the women do not like/want a man. That is what they want their fellow female and/so-that they do evil/bad. But this is not right/proper.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since people pay no attention to God, He also pays no attention to them so that they might carry out their very ugly desires. Even the women, it’s no longer men that they sleep with, but they become sexually aroused by other women.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “That’s the reason God has let-them-alone so that they do the shameful-things their bodies desire. Even the women, they have changed what their bodies properly desire so that it’s their fellow women whom they sleep-with, not men.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Therefore God gives the road to the people to do the shameful things they walk by. The women do not want to marry and live with husbands, rather with their fellow women they do shameful things.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “Therefore God abandoned them that they should do ugly things like their hearts wanted them to do. The women left off talking with the men [polite term for intercourse] and they talked among themselves in a very dirty way.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:37:
Noongar: “In that town, a badly behaved woman lived. She heard of Jesus eating and drinking inside the house of the Pharisee. So she got a jar, full of perfume,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “In that town, there was a woman sinner, her actions were immoral/not appropriate. When she heard that Yesus was there eating in the house of that Parisi person, she came carrying a bottle containing fragrant oil.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Na, there was a woman in that town known as a sinner. When that woman knew that Isa was there in the house of that Pariseo to eat, she went there carrying valuable fragrant oil. It’s container was made of alabaster stone.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And in that town there was a woman whose reputation was bad, and when this woman learned that Jesus was eating there in the house of the Pharisee, she went there carrying a white allibaster stone bottle which was filled with fragrant perfume which was very expensive.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “In that town, there was a woman who was a prostitute (lit. the storying-about-whom was bad). When she heard that Jesus was there joining-in-eating in the house of the Pharisee, she went there taking-along a bottle made of alabastro (Ilo. loan) filled-with perfume.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Well, there in that town there was a woman who was known by everyone to be sinful. She heard news that Jesus was there in the house of that Pariseo, gone to eat there. When she knew that Jesus was there, she went there, taking a far-from-ordinary container full of perfume.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Amele: There a woman sat in the taun. She [was] a sinful woman. And then she heard that Jisas was eating food in the house of the Farisi man. Therefore she took a small gourd full of very good smelling coconut oil and went.” (Source: John Roberts in this article )
