Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 3:5:
- Uma: “Yesus turned around looking at them. He was angry and upset because their hearts were very hard. That is why he said saying to the man whose one hand was dead: ‘Put out your (sing.) hand.’ He put out his hand, he was healed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa looked around at them. His liver was very grieved and he was angry because they had no pity for the people. So-then he said to the man with the withered hand, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ Na, he stretched it out, then his hand was already healed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As Jesus was looking around at the many people, he became very angry with them, and his breath became very painful because those people had no pity. Then he said to the man whose hand was destroyed, ‘Friend, straighten out your hand.’ And the man straightened out his hand and was immediately healed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus was angry as he looked-fixedly at them. He also felt sad (lit. his thoughts hurt) because of their stubborn/unresponsive minds (lit. hard minds). Then he said to the one with the atrophied arm/hand, ‘Stretch-out your (sing.) arm/hand.’ He stretched it out and it was totally made-well.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus stared at that crowd of people around him. Part of his mind/inner-being was angry. The other part was sad because of their stubbornness (lit. the hardness of their heads). He transferred his look to that person-with-something-limp and said, ‘Raise-and-stretch-out your hand/arm.’ He truly did raise-and-stretch-it -out, that limpness of his at once becoming completely better.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Timothy 5:11:
- Uma: “As for young widows, don’t right away write their names in the book of widows. For if they still have a desire to get married, they will get married again. In the end they will be guilty for they will have transgressed their promise to Kristus that said they would do only the Lord’s work.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But if the widows are still young, don’t (sing.) include them in your (sing.) list because their thinking easily changes. If their desire/want to have a husband arrives, they turn their backs on their working for Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Do not list the young widow women, for there will be a time when by means of the desires of their bodies they will want to get married again.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “As for the widows who are not overly old, don’t you (pl.) add them to the list, because if what their bodies wants becomes-stronger than their intention to serve Cristo, they will again want to get-married.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But those widow women who are still young, don’t include them. Because probably the time will come when they want to be married again. They no longer want to face/attend-to this responsibility/job of theirs which they promised to Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But concerning the widows who are younger, do not appoint them to help at the church. Because perhaps they will find someone to marry again. Then they will separate from the work of Christ they are doing.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 4:28:
- Uma: “This planning of theirs, was to kill Yesus. But in fact what they did fulfilled what you (sing.) had already decided [made certain] from-the-first! As a result everything happened according to your (sing.) power and your (sing.) own desire, Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They do this because formerly yet you planned from/by your will and your power that this should happen.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they have agreed on what they will do to him according to what you foreordained that they would do.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And they did all that you (sing.) previously because of your (sing.) power had already-decided should be fulfilled.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But well, all which they have decided to do is all in harmony with what you indeed determined would happen.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- San Mateo del Mar Huave: “Thus they did because you have stated from before that thus it would be.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “They carried out all that you decreed would have to come to pass.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “Because this is what you ordained in the beginning that would happen.”
- Chuj: “But they just did like you had said long ago how that those things must be done.” (Source of this and three above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 4:2:
- Uma: “He taught them many things with parables. He said to them like this:” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He taught/preached-to the people and much of it he taught in parables. When he taught he said to them,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus taught them many things by means of parables.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He taught them much using-parables. In his teaching, he said,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus taught many things, using illustrations only. He said,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Timothy 6:18:
- Uma: “Advise them to always do good deeds, help others, give happily, and have good hearts [i.e., be kind].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Teach them also that they ought to always do good to their companions, so-then their good doings are already their riches. Tell them that they ought not to be stingy/miserly but they ought to be generous when/if they give to the ones who are in need.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Tell the rich believers that they should hold tight to doing good for this is true wealth. They should be generous and helpful.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Command them also to do good so that they will also be rich in good deeds. Also they should not hold-back/be-selfish-with their wealth (RL equivalent of generous) but rather they should share-with their companions.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Instruct them to keep on doing good works, for it’s all of these good works which they are doing which is true wealth, not that amount of money which can be accumulated. Therefore what is good is, don’t keep-for-oneself but rather they are to be generous and helpful to their fellowman.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Tell those people who have much money to do good. Because it is more valuable that they have done good than that they gather money. Tell them not to hold back from giving to people from what they find.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 5:23:
- Uma: “‘We(excl.) saw the door of the jail still locked tight. And the police guards were still guarding the door. We(excl.) opened the door, there was not one person we (excl.) found inside!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘When we (excl.) arrived there at the prison, the prison doors were locked very well. And the guards were standing there watching/guarding the doors. But when we (excl.) opened the doors, we (excl.) did not find them inside.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘When we arrived at the prison we saw that the door was thoroughly shut, and the guards, they were there near the door. However when we opened it, there was nothing that we saw inside,’ they said.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They said, ‘When we (excl.) arrived at the prison, it was still locked. The guards were also there standing by the door. But when we (excl.) opened it, there were emphatically no people inside.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They said, ‘All of you please excuse(us), they aren’t there. On our (excl.) arrival that jail was closed really well. The guards were indeed standing there. But when we (excl.) opened it, there wasn’t even one there of the people you sent us (excl.) for.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 4:34:
- Uma: “He didn’t teach them anything without parables. But if it were just he and his disciples, he explained everything to them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He did not speak to the people other than in parables, but if he and his disciples were by themselves, he explained all that he had said to them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Only parables is what Jesus caused the people to hear, however when he and his disciples were alone, he taught them the meaning of these parables.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He was teaching them nothing without relating parables, but when he and his disciples were alone, he was making-everything -clear to them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There was nothing he taught without using illustrations. But when he was alone with his disciples, he told them the meaning too.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Timothy 2:11:
- Uma: “Shoulder suffering, for very true are the words that say: If we have indeed died with him, we will also live with him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “These words are true: ‘If we (dual) have followed Isa Almasi dying/died together with, we (dual) will also follow him alive/living again/we will also live again together with him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “How true the teaching is which says, ‘If by means of His being made a substitute for us, we have died with Jesus, we also have life with Him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What is-being-said is indeed true, ‘If it’s as we have joined in dying at Cristo’s dying, we will also be joined to him in living in heaven.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For this which is being said is the truth. Provided we hold fast to Jesu-Cristo, even though it will causes our life/breath to be severed, it’s certain we will indeed be together with him in the life which is without ending.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The word is true which says: ‘When we have died for Christ, then we will live with Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
