Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 3:13:
- Uma: “God who was worshipped by our ancestors, who was worshipped by Abraham, Ishak and Yakub, he is the God that made-big his Servant, he is Yesus. This Yesus is the one you turned over to the governing officials, and the one that you rejected before Pilatus, when Pilatus would have released him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You know, our (incl.) forefathers, Ibrahim and Isahak and Yakub, we (incl.) and they have one God. So-then this God, he honored his servant Isa, but he was delivered by you to the law. You did not receive/accept him there in the presence of Governor Pilatus. And even though Pilatus wanted to release him, you did not want it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “God, whom our (incl.) ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob worshipped, he made his servant Jesus immortal. But before he made him immortal, you turned him over to the leaders and you spoke in rejection of him before Governor Pilate. And Pilate, he wanted to set Jesus free.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It was emphatically not we (excl.) but rather the God that our ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob worshipped. He is the-one-who-healed this man so that the godhood of Jesus who served him in this world would-be-seen, because he has already caused-Jesus -to-be-high/great in heaven. This Jesus, you turned-him-over to the rulers, and when Governor Pilato tried him, even though Pilato had decided to release him, you rejected-him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s true, this is the supernatural-power of the God of our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For this God of our ancestors, he has now given far-from-ordinary praiseworthiness/glory to his Servant Jesus, he indeed whom you handed over to the governor Pilato. Yes indeed, isn’t it so that even though Pilato had decided to release Jesus, your saying no was emphatic?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 2:24:
- Uma: “The Parisi people who were there said to Yesus: ‘Why [in the world] do your (sing.) disciples break the rules of our (incl.) religion? They are working on the worship day!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then the Pariseo said to Isa, ‘Look. Why is it that your disciples do what is forbidden by the law on a day-of-no-work?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the Pharisees said to Jesus, they said, ‘Your disciples are transgressing the commandment given to us by God. Because why are they harvesting today on the Day of Rest?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “However there were some Pharisees who said to Jesus, ‘Look, why are your (sing.) disciples breaking the law of us Jews which forbids harvesting on the day for-resting?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When the Pariseo saw, they said to Jesus, ‘Look at what is being done by those disciples of yours! Isn’t it so that it is taboo to harvest on the Day of Rest?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- English translation by Michael Pakaluk (2019): “So the Pharisees said to him: ‘Look! Why are they, on the Sabbath, doing a thing which is not allowed on the Sabbath?'”
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Timothy 5:2:
- Uma: “Women whose age is more than yours you treat like your mother. And women who are younger than you, you treat like your younger-sibling, and be careful that your behavior and thinking are holy.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The women older than you, honor/treat-according to custom like your mother. And the young women honor/treat-according-to-custom like your siblings also. Don’t you think differently towards them (desire them).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The women who are old already, advise them also as if they were your mother, and the young women, advise them as if they were your sister. And it’s necessary that your thinking about them is very correct.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “As for the women who are older than you (sing.), count them as if (they were) your (sing.) mother, and those also who are younger than you (sing.), as if they were your (sing.) siblings/cousins, with none of your (sing.) thoughts toward them being wrong/undesirable.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Regard as your mother the women who are old (lit. hard) now. Those who are still young, fellowship/be-friendly with them with really no bad-motives in your mind/inner-being because they’re also like your siblings.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the old women, treat them as though they were your mother. Concerning the young women, treat them as though they were your sisters, but all that is good you do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 4:19:
- Uma: “Petrus and Yohanes answered said: ‘Consider for yourselves, which one does God like: to follow your [emphatic] commands, or follow the commands of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Petros and Yahiya answered them, they said, ‘Give your opinion, which is right/straight in God’s sight, we (excl.) obey/follow you or God?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Peter and John answered saying, ‘Consider which one of these two ways would be what God would want, if we obey your command and we do not teach the name of Jesus or if we obey that which God told us to do.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Pedro and Juan said, ‘Please think if it is right in the sight of God that we (excl.) obey what you are saying, not what he is saying.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But when Pedro-and-companion heard, they replied, saying, ‘You judge which is possible/acceptable with God. Is it that his will is what we (excl.) obey or this of yours which is contrary to what he told us (excl.) to do?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Desano: “Peter and John answered saying, ‘Think this over with the help of God. What do you think? Should one do first your commands, or the commands of God?'”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “Peter and John answered: ‘You say now what is better that we do before the face of God. Do we do what you say or do we do what God says?'”
- Coatlán Mixe: “All of you consider if it is the straight of it with God that we obey you when it is proper that we should obey God.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “…Figure it out for yourselves. Before God, is it proper that we should not obey what he commands in order to obey you?”
- Isthmus Mixe: “…You decide if God approves if we obey your words and not God’s.”
- Chichimeca-Jonaz: “…Do you think God will say it’s good if we believe you and obey your saying and leave the saying of God? Do you feel it is right?”
- Ayutla Mixtec: “Then Peter and John answered, they said to them, ‘May you consider, would God see it as better that we obey you? Would God see it as better that we obey him himself?’ they said answering.” (Source for this and six above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 3:28:
- Uma: “‘Indeed I say to you: all of man’s sins and their words of rejecting can be forgiven.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Truly I say to you,’ said Isa, ‘God will forgive all sin of people and whatever bad/evil he speaks of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Remember this,’ says Jesus, ‘that God will forgive people of any sin and anything they say in rejection against him, however,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘This that I tell you is true that any (lit. even what) sin of a person is able to be forgiven and anything he says to speak-evil-of another.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What I will say to you really is true, that people will indeed be forgiven for whatever kind of sin and insult if they repent and drop/give-up it.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Mamaindé: (includes verses 29 and 30) “God will forgive their wickedness, he will forgive people, their wickedness, their slanders – he will forgive all of them. But the one who slanders, the one who slanders the Holy Spirit, that person he will never forgive as he is a person who slanders the Holy Spirit, he will never forgive. God will never forgive as he is a person who slanders the Holy Spirit, he will never forgive his badnesse, not disappearing, he will always be ashamed. He will always be ashamed. He said, Jesus said. Why did Jesus speak a speech like this? Jesus, why did he speak? Beforehand, the scribes as they had spoken a lying speech: – – “A devil must be his master”– as they spoke, Jesus, replying, spoke a speech like this.” (Source: Peter K. E. Kingston in Notes on Translation 1973, p. 13ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Timothy 6:9:
- Uma: “But people who want to be rich, they are easily tempted to commit sin, many desires bind them up. Those desires of theirs don’t have any use, they just bring disaster. In the end, people who want to be rich fall into sin(s), and get disaster.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But the people who want to be rich are easily tempted to sin. They are like trapped by their greedy-desire for all kinds of foolish things and what causes their ruin. Finally they will be destroyed not only in this world but including in the hereafter.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The people who want to become rich, they are easily successfully tempted and trapped. They have many worthless desires, and these can destroy. These can destroy them and can also be the means of their death.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But those who are greedy-to become-rich, they are easily tempted and it’s as if they have been snared/caught by the many foolish-things they crave which ruin them. And those-aforementioned things-they-crave, it’s as if that’s what sweeps-them -along (floodwater) to the punishment that has no end.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For those people for whom, what is big in their minds is, wanting to become rich, of course they can be caused to fall(fig.) into sin and be snared by evil. What they want to indulge in becomes many, things which cause hurt, and accomplish nothing, those being what take them to that great hardship/suffering which is punishment without end.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But concerning the person who only wants to be rich, this is a person who is easily deceived to commit sin in obtaining money. It is like he gets into a trap because just desires which are of no value sit in their hearts and this what causes the person to be lost.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 5:14:
- Uma: “As-time-passed, more-and-more people believed in the Lord Yesus, both men and women.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But nevertheless the people who trusted in Isa, the Lord, were added, men and women.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the adding to the believers was always increasing. And because of that, the men and women were many who believed in the Lord Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Where-the believers -were-meeting-together was what they called Solomon’s Roofed-Shelter which was in the Temple area. As for those who did not believe, they were afraid to join (them), but the many-people nevertheless acknowledged-with-respect the believers and many men and women were joining/being-added who believed. There were many amazing-things that the apostles were doing that the many-people were seeing.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And every day the number of believers grew and grew, women and men. There really were very many.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Lalana Chinantec: “Even though there were people who didn’t have the nerve, there were many people who believed on the Lord, many men and women.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 4:25:
- Uma: “People who receive God’s Word, their hearts will be made clear, so they will know even more. But people who don’t want to receive God’s Word, even what little they know, it will be taken from them.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This means, a person if he listens well, his understanding will increase. But if a person doesn’t listen well, even if he has some/little knowledge/wisdom, it will eventually leave him.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For the person who accepts what God causes him to understand, God will add to his understanding. But the person who does not accept what God causes him to understand, the little which he understands will be taken away from him.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because the person who heeds what he is hearing, his understanding will be added-to, but the one who doesn’t heed, even the little that he understood will cease-to-exist.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because as for the person who tries to understand what he has heard from me, his understanding/wisdom will be increased by God until what he knows is a lot/enough. But as for that one who doesn’t try to understand this which he has heard, even what he has understood will be removed by God so that it won’t come to anything.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- San Mateo Del Mar Huave: “Because if anyone really gives understanding to my words, well, he will be given to understand more. But if there is one who really doesn’t want to hear any more, even if he has already found a little bit, he will forget it.'” (Source: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)
