Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 6:24:
- Uma: “The young woman went out and asked her mother, she said: ‘Mother, what should I ask for?’ Her mother said: ‘Ask for the head of Yohanes the Baptizer!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The girl went outside and asked her mother, she said, ‘Mother, what on-earth (ente’) shall I ask?’ Her mother answered, ‘Ask the head of Yahiya who bathed the people.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the girl went out and went to her mother, and she asked what would be good to ask for. And her mother answered, ‘You ask for the head of John the Baptist.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then the young-lady went-out and went to inquire of her mother, ‘What shall I request?’ ‘The head of Juan the Baptizer,’ her mother answered.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That girl went out to ask her mother what she should ask for. ‘The head of Juan who baptizes,’ was the reply of her mother.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Titus 2:4:
- Uma: “If the behavior of old women is like that, they can teach women who are still young so that they too know how to love their husbands and children,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then they can teach the young women so that they love their husbands and their children” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “so that they might be able to teach to the younger women love for their husbands and their children,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “to the women who are younger than they (lit. their younger-siblings) in order that they be instructed in the right way for them to love their husbands and children.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For provided it’s like that, they can train/supervise the still young women. They can train them to value their husband and children,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “They are to teach the young women to love their husbands and to love their children.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- German das Buch translation by Roland Werner (publ. 2009-2022) (verses 3-5): “Exactly the same applies to the older women. They should reflect God’s holiness in their entire demeanor, they should not cause unrest, they should not be enslaved to wine, but they should act as teachers of the good and thus lead a prudent life. The younger women should love their husbands and children. They should live prudently and purely before God, manage their household well and yet voluntarily submit to their husbands so that God’s message cannot be maligned in society.” (This reflects what Ulrich Wendel [in: Werner 2018, p. 73ff.] mentions as a possible translation of these verses. Here it’s not the old women teaching the young women but Titus is instructed to teach both of these groups. Wendel is coming to that conclusion on the basis of the parallelism of verses 2-6 [older men – old women – young women – young men] and the fact that sóphronizó (σωφρονίζω) in verse 4 does not necessarily have “young women” as its object.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 8:12:
- Uma: “But when Filipus arrived in their town, he taught them that Yesus was the Redeemer King, and he taught them to believe in Yesus to become God’s people in his Kingdom. So, many townspeople believed Yesus and requested-to-be-baptized as followers of Yesus, both men and women.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But when those people believed the good news proclaimed by Pilip about the rule of God and about Isa Almasi, then they were baptized (bathed) male and female as a sign that they now belonged to Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when Philip caused the good news about the kingdom of God to be understood and the power of the name of Jesus Christ, they believed, and they, women and men, were baptized, and even Simon the Magician, he believed at that time.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But when they believed in the good news that Felipe was preaching concerning the ruling of God and Jesus’ position as Messiah, they got-baptized, there were men and women.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But when they believed/obeyed what Felipe was teaching concerning the kingdom of God and concerning Jesu-Cristo, female and male, they then had themselves baptized.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Lalana Chinantec: “But Philip preached the good word of how God becomes the owner of people’s hearts. He preached the good word of Jesus Christ. They accepted the word which Philip spoke, therefore they were baptized, men and women.” (source for this: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
- Spanish Traducción en lenguaje actual (2002, 2004): “But when they believed what Philip was saying about God’s kingdom and about the name of Jesus Christ, they were all baptized.” (Source: Edesio Sanchez in de Regt 2011, p. 69)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 6:56:
- Uma: “Wherever Yesus went in the big villages or small villages, they brought their sick friends and laid them at the edge of the main-road, and they requested of Yesus that he allow them to touch at least the edge of his clothes. Everyone who touched his clothes were right away healed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Wherever he arrived, in the villages or in the towns or in the places inland, they laid the sick people in the market-places and they begged Isa if it were possible for the sick ones even to touch the edge of his clothes. Na, all who touched him were healed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Wherever they went, whether in the towns or in the homesteads, he would always find sick people who were brought to him. They placed the sick people in the selling place, and they begged Jesus that those sick people might be allowed to take hold of just the hem of his shirt, and anyone who took a hold of the shirt of Jesus was healed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And wherever Jesus went, large towns or barrios or small residential-areas, they were waiting-for him -with the sick ones in the marketplace where he was going. And they entreated that the sick should touch even just the hem of his clothes. And all who touched, they got-well.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really wherever Jesus went to, in the barios, towns or houses in the surrounding area, what those sick people were lying on were being placed in the places where-there-were-many-people where he would pass. And they begged that they just be allowed to touch what was attached to the hem of Jesus’ cloak. Really all who touched got better, for their illnesses stopped.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Philemon 1:6:
- Uma: “I pray that we will be true friends in the Lord Yesus, and that our friendship causes [lit., leads/carries] us to increase our knowledge knowing all the good blessings that we get from our connection with Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I pray to/ask of God that we (incl.) the ones trusting in Isa are one in the liver in order that our (incl.) knowledge/wisdom becomes deeper and we (incl.) understand all the good that is ours (incl.) because of our (incl.) being one with Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I also pray that by means of your close relationship to us (excl.) because of our (incl.) faith, our (incl.) understanding of all the good things which God has blessed us with because of our being made one with Christ might increase.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I am praying that because of our oneness in our faith, your (sing.) understanding of all the blessings God gives us because of his purpose that Cristo be praised/honored will be increasingly-added-to.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I am praying that, resulting from this believing/obeying of yours of Cristo, you will continue to be conducting-yourself-properly/nice to your companions, so that you will all the more recognize all the good (situation) that will be ours through our being united/tied-together with Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the people you have caused to believe like you believe, I ask God that he will open their hearts so that they will really know all the blessings God will give us because of Jesus Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 9:4:
- Uma: “Down he fell, and he heard a speaker that said to him: ‘Saulus! Saulus! Why do you (sing.) persecute me?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Immediately he fell on the ground. Then he heard a voice speaking to him. The voice said, ‘O Saul. Saul. Why do you persecute me?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he fell down to the ground, and he heard someone saying, ‘Oh Saul, why are you ill treating me?’ And Saul said,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and he fell-over. Then he heard a voice saying, ‘Saulo, Saulo, why do you (sing.) persecute-me?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He at once went-down-on-his-face on the ground and then he heard a voice speaking to him, which said, Saulo, Saulo, why are you doing like this, that you are persecuting me?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 7:32:
- Uma: “There, some people brought a person who was deaf and who could not talk. They requested that he lay-hands-on him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “A man who was deaf and had a speech impediment was brought to Isa by people. They begged Isa, asking him to place his hands on him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were people who brought to Jesus a person who was deaf with an impediment when he spoke, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him and heal him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There were those who brought to him a man that was deaf and had-a-speech-impediment. They entreated Jesus to lay-hands-on that man so-that he would get-well.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Taken to Jesus was a man who was deaf and couldn’t-form-words either. Jesus was being asked for help that he would touch that person.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 1:13:
- Uma: “Never has God spoken to any angel like he spoke to his Child, it sounds like this: ‘Sit at my right side, until I make all your enemies submit to you.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God has never spoken to (even) one of his angels as he spoke to his Son, he said, ‘Come sit down here at my right side, here in the greatest/most-important seat and I will place your enemies under the sole of your feet.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There is no angel of God whom He said, ‘Sit here on my right side until the time when I make your enemies kneel before you.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Neither also is there even one angel to whom God said what he told his Child saying, ‘Sit down at my right-side while I cause-you (sing.) -to-step-on all your (sing.) enemies.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But really not even once was there any angel to whom he said, ‘Now/today sit down now on my right side until, as for those enemies of yours, I will cause (them) to surrender in which they are just the stool/putting-place of your feet.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God said to no angel like what he said to his Son when he said: ‘Sit here at my right while I bring about that you rule over all your enemies,’ he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
