Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 7:26:
- Uma: “So, here is my opinion: at this time we Kristen people are facing many sufferings, that’s why I say we should not change our everyday life in this world.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “In my mind, it is better if people don’t take a husband or a wife. Because now we (incl.) have already many troubles.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It is this: Since we believers are having a very difficult time now at this time, it’s better if you don’t get married.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Due to the extreme difficulty that we are experiencing now and also in the future, I say that it would be good if you didn’t change your status.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For because of this excessive difficulty/hardship, right now I think what would be good is for a man to remain in whatever are his circumstances.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “According to my thinking, it is good if a man does not marry. Because the days in which we live are hard when a man has a wife.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:10:
- Noongar: “Autumn came and the fruit was ripe, so he sent a servant to the tenants using his land, to get his share of the fruit. But the people beat his servant and sent him away with nothing. ” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “The time came to pick the grapes, he commanded one of his slaves to go ask for his portion from the people taking care of his field/garden. But the people taking care of his field/garden beat that messenger and they expelled him without anything [lit., dry].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the time came that the grapes bore fruit, the owner of the vineyard told one of his servants to go to his caretakers to ask for his share of the fruit of the grapes. But they beat the servant and sent him home without anything.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when it was the time of harvest, he sent his servant to those whom he had taking care of the field, so that they might give him his share of the fruit. However, when that servant arrived, those who were taking care of the field beat him and sent him home without giving him anything.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When the time-for-picking grapes then arrived, the farm owner sent one of his slaves to go get his share. But when he arrived, the tenant-farmers (lit. those-who-took-care) whipped him and sent-him-home completely empty-handed (lit. shaved).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When the time came for harvesting ubas, he sent one of his slaves to fetch his share from those field-workers whom he’d left in charge. But when those ones who had been left in charge saw him, they ganged up on that slave who’d been sent to cause him suffering, and they sent him back with nothing at all.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 9:5:
- Uma: “Can’t we (excl.) marry a fellow Kristen [woman] and take our (excl.) wife on our (excl.) trips, as do the other apostles of the Lord Yesus and the relatives of the Lord Yesus and Petrus himself?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Don’t I have authority to marry a woman who trusts in Isa and take her on my travels as the other apostles do? Like that also do the brothers of Isa and does Petros.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And it is bad also if I do like the other apostles, and the younger siblings of Jesus and Peter also, because all of them have believing wives that they take with them on their travels? That’s also not bad.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If I had a believing wife, would I also have no right to take-her-along on my travels like Pedro and the other apostles and Jesus’ brothers?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “If we (excl.) are spreading the Good News, do we not have the right to take along a wife, as long as she is a fellow believer, like Pedro, the other apostles, and the siblings of the Lord (do)?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And there is the permission that I marry and have a wife who is a believer in order that we travel together. Because this is what is done by other representatives, in that they take along their wives. Like this do the brothers of the Lord Jesus, and also Peter does the same.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:42:
- Noongar: “David himself wrote the Psalms, and he said, ‘The Lord said to my Lord: ‘Sit here, near my right hand,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “For it was Daud himself who called him his Lord. In the Book of Songs he said: The Lord God said to my Lord: ‘Sit on my right side until I cause all your (sing.) enemies to submit to You (sing.).’ So, if the Redeemer King is really the descendant of King Daud, why does Daud call him his Lord?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For it is really Da’ud who speaks in the holy-book Jabur he says, ‘God spoke to my Lord. God said, Come, sit here at my right side, here at the most honored/greatest place/seat.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because in the book of Psalms there is that which King David wrote which says, ‘God said to my Lord, You just sit here on my right side” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because even David, he wrote in the book of Salmo, ‘The Lord God said to my Lord: Sit down on my right” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Since it was this David who said in the writing, ‘God said to my Lord the Cristo, ‘Today/now sit down here at my right,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 10:10:
- Uma: “And don’t grumble, like some of them did, with the result that they died, killed by the killer angel.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Let us (incl.) also not complain about whatever God has ordained for us (incl.) as some did in those old times. Therefore they were killed by the angel who brought death.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Let’s not also complain quietly about the masters that God has given us, because this is what some of them did and there was at that time an angel which God sent to kill them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Moreover do not grumble, because that’s what some of them did, and an angel whom God sent killed them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Also do not reprimand/rebuke, like some of their companions also did, which had no other outcome than that they were wiped-out/exterminated by the exterminating angel.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do not speak against God like some of our ancestors did. For them God sent his angel to kill those ancestors of ours.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 21:27:
- Noongar: “Then all people will see the Son of Man, great and shining, coming in the clouds.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “It will be at that time that all people will see me, I the Child of Mankind, descending here in clouds. No kidding will be my shining and my power at that time.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then after this,’ said Isa, ‘they will see me, the Son of Mankind coming in the clouds. The people will see my brightness and my great power.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then as for me, the older sibling of all mankind, I will be seen coming in the clouds and great will be my power and my shineyness.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And then they will see me who am Child of a Person coming being-accompanied-by the clouds. Great will be my power and I will totally be flashing/shining with my godlikeness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then I will be seen who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human, coming between the clouds, my far from ordinary supernatural-power and the big-size of my praiseworthiness/glory being clear.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 11:9:
- Uma: “And also, it was not man who was made to help woman, it was woman [emphatic] who was made to help man.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And the man was not created because of the woman but the woman was created so that she would be a companion for the man.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason that God created man was not so that woman might have a companion, but rather he created the woman so that the man might have a companion.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Furthermore God didn’t create the man for the woman but the woman for the man.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And it was not for the benefit and happiness of the woman that God created the man, but rather for the benefit and happiness of man that he created the woman.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Woman was made in order to be a helper for the man, it wasn’t that the man was made in order to be a helper for the woman.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Martu Wangka: “The Father made the man to look after the woman as a boss and he did not make the man so that the woman would look after him as a boss.” (Source: Carl Gross)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 22:21:
- Noongar: “But see! The one who betrays me sits eating among us!” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘But see, the person who will sell me, he is here now, eating with me!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But look,’ said Isa, ‘the person who is soon going to betray me is our (incl.) companion sitting here with us at the table.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Understand this,’ said Jesus, ‘that the one who turns me over to my enemies is one of our (incl.) companions sitting here with us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘But I also tell you that the one who will betray me is here eating-with (us).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But now, my companion in eating is indeed the one who will lead the ones who want to kill me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
