Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:29:
- Uma: “He asked them further, he said: ‘Yet as for you, you say I am who?’ Petrus answered: ‘You are the Redeemer King!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘But as to you,’ said Isa, ‘what do you say? Who am I?’ Petros answered, he said, ‘You are Almasi, the one chosen by God to rule.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then he asked them, he said, ‘Now you also, who am I according to what you are thinking?’ And then Peter answered, he said, ‘You are the chosen one of God whom he will cause to rule mankind.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘But as-for you,’ said Jesus, ‘what is your spoken-opinion about me?’ Simon Pedro said, ‘You (sing.) are the Messias (Messiah).'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Well as for you,’ said Jesus, ‘what do you say about me as to who I am?’ Pedro replied, saying, ‘You really are the promised Cristo.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 3:15:
- Uma: “Strengthen each others’ heart every day, like what is written in the verse that we read earlier that said: ‘Today, if you hear the voice of God, don’t any longer harden your hearts, like your grandparents long ago who rejected [him].'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This is what the holy-book says, ‘When/if you hear God’s voice this day, don’t cause your livers to be hard as your ancestors of old who really did not want to follow/obey God.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For it’s like the word of God which I have already written which says, ‘Today if you will hear the words of God to you, it’s necessary that your breath not become hard like your breath was long time ago when you resisted God.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Let us think again of what God caused-to-be-written which says, ‘Today, if you hear God’s words, do not harden your minds like your ancestors did when they opposed God.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I will again remind you of that which is contained in the writing of the past which says, ‘Now/today, if you have heard what God is saying, hopefully don’t harden your heads like what those (people) did in that they opposed him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It is written in the Holy Book the word which says: ‘Concerning this day, listen to the word God speaks to you. Do not reject the word God speaks now. Do not do like the old-time people did in the desert when they rejected what God said,’ it says.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:27:
- Uma: “While Petrus was talking to him, they entered into the house. What should Petrus see but that many people were already assembled.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The two of them were conversing while they were going-inside. There inside, Petros saw the many people who were gathered.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Peter talked to him then as they were going inside, and there Peter saw many people gathered in the house.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then they entered conversing. Upon Pedro’s seeing the many people who had gathered there,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, they went in, continuing to talk as they went. When they had entered the house, what met Pedro’s eyes was that many people were there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:23:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘Why do you (sing.) say ‘if possible?’ All can [same word as possible] happen to the person who believes.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Are you asking if I can do it?’ said Isa. ‘If a person trusts in God,’ he said, ‘he can do all.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered, he said, ‘Why do you ask me if there is anything I can do? God will give whatever a person asks for if he has faith in God.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘What do you (sing.) say, if I am able?’ said Jesus. ‘The one who has faith in God, there is nothing that he can not do.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘What is this which you (sing.) are saying, ‘If there is indeed anything I can do’?’ said Jesus. ‘Really anything can be done, provided there is believing/obeying and trust in God.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 5:12:
- Uma: “You have followed the Lord Yesus a long time. Actually it is time for you be leaders/carriers of the Lord’s Word. But apparently you still need to request-teaching of someone else, for you still do not yet really know the teachings of the Kristen religion from the beginning. Even the easy teachings you are not yet following well, how much more so the difficult teachings! You are still like babies: you are not yet able to eat hard/solid food, it is still nursing that you are capable of.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You ought to be able to preach/teach now because for a long time you have been following Isa Almasi. But until now/today you still have to be taught/preached-to again about the message/word of God that you learned in the beginning. You are figuratively like small children, you still have to suck; you still don’t eat solid food.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You have believed in Jesus for a long time, and it would be proper for you to be teachers. However, it cannot be because you still need to have someone else to teach you again so that you might understand the easy doctrines which come from the word of God. It’s as if you are still nursing because you are not yet able to eat strong food, which is to say, the deep things which come from the written word of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Even though you have believed for-a-long-time and you should be the ones who are teaching your companions, you still need someone to teach you again the easiest-things about God. It’s as if you have become a baby who still needs to nurse, because he can’t chew food.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because hopefully by now, since you have been believing/obeying for a long time now, you (would be) teachers now of the teaching from God. But well, until now you still need to be taught the first/beginning-part of his words which are being taught. Hopefully what would be appropriate for you now is, hard/solid food, but well until now milk is still all you have the ability to eat.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now for a long time you have believed in Jesus Christ. If you had been strengthened, then you would be teaching the word to other people. But until even now you do not understand about the word you believe in. You still want that when you are taught God’s word, it be in words which are not hard. You again want to be like babies who are nursing, and yet it is necessary that you eat food.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 11:11:
- Uma: “At that time also, three men arrived at my dwelling house. Those there were not Yahudi people, who had been ordered from the town of Kaisarea to go to Yope to look for me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “While that (was going on), there arrived at the house where I was staying three men who were sent to me from the place Kesarea.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then there were three people which arrived at the house where I was staying. They were not Jews, and they had been sent to me from the village of Caesarea.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘And that being so, three men suddenly-arrived at the house where-I-was-staying. They had-been-sent from Cesarea to go call me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Just when that was disappearing, there were three people from Cesarea who arrived at that house where I was staying, who had come to fetch me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 10:5:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘Musa wrote and delivered that command to you, because of your stubbornness [lit., your hard wisdom teeth], you are not teachable.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘That is true,’ said Isa. ‘But the reason that he wrote that command to you is, because you are not willing to follow/obey teaching/are so stubborn.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to them, ‘The reason Moses permitted you to divorce your wives is because you reject the teaching,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus said in return, ‘Moses allowed you to divorce your wives because of your stubbornness/unresponsiveness (lit. hardness of your mind/thoughts).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But Jesus replied, saying, ‘Because of the hardness of your heads, that’s why he wrote a law like that.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 7:10:
- Uma: “For Lewi was a great grandchild [lit., second-layer grandchild] of Abraham. When Melkisedek met Abraham, Lewi was not yet born, he was still in the body of Abraham. So, if Abraham paid to Melkisedek, certainly Lewi and the priests descendants of Lewi are downhill in life [status] from Melkisedek.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “It is true, Libi was not yet born at the time when Ibrahim and Malkisadik met but even so he was already there in the body of Ibrahim because finally he would become the descendant of Ibrahim.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because when Abraham and Melchizedek met each other, Levi was not yet born, but rather he was still in the body of Abraham, his ancestor.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because even though Levi had not yet been born when Melkizedek met Abraham, he is still counted as already-being in Abraham’s body, because Abraham was his ancestor.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because even though Levi had not yet been born when Melquisedec met with Abraham, however Abraham was his great-grandparent.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because when Abraham took the tenth to deliver it to the priest Melchizedek, it was as though all the descendants who would live afterwards also were giving that tenth.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
