Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 6:3:
- Uma: “So, when we (incl.) give, we (incl.) should offer our (incl.) gift quietly, don’t tell it around.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But you, when you give to the poor people do not tell it even to your best friend” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for you, if you have anything to help the poor, it must be that not even your companions know about it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If therefore you give something to the poor, don’t even make it known to your most-esteemed friend” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What is good when you (sing.) give your aid is that you don’t even inform your best friend,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But you, when you help the poor people, do not then tell even your best friends what you have done.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 15:48:
- Uma: “All people on the earth live like Adam, for we are all his descendants. But all who are connected with Kristus get life from heaven, like the life of Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The descendants of Grandfather Adam, are also made of earth/soil as he (was). But the ones who follow the person from heaven, that is Isa Almasi, are also like him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for us, the descendants of Adam, we also were made of earth because earth is what His body was made of. However, we also who are subjects of the person who came from Heaven, our body will be like His body in the future.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore we also who are earthly, we now take-after the one who was from the earth, but in the future, all of us who have been joined to the one who was from heaven who is Cristo, we will also take-after him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, because we are all the descendants of this Adan who came from earth/soil, we are fitted-for-earth/world people. But as many as will be able to reach heaven in the future, what they will become is fitted-for-heaven people, just like Cristo who came from heaven.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “All the people who live on earth have a body like the body of the first person who lived first, made from the earth. But the people who will go to heaven will have bodies like the body of the one who came from heaven.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 24:51:
- Noongar: “As Jesus was blessing them, he went away from them and he was taken up into Heaven.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “While he was blessing them, he was lifted up separated from them and he went to heaven.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “While he was still asking from God he left from them and was lifted up to heaven.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And while he was still pronouncing a blessing, he was lifted up, going toward Heaven, and he disappeared out of their seeing.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “While he was still blessing them, simultaneously he was leaving them and he was raised to heaven.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “While he was blessing them, he went-up-and-up for this was now his leaving.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 7:1:
- Uma: “‘Don’t criticize others, so that God also will not criticize us.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Do not put-down/criticize your companion so that God will not judge you,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t criticize your companion so that God won’t criticize you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus continued to teach saying, ‘Don’t turn-yourselves-into (lit. cause-your bodies -to-become) those who judge your companions so that God also will not judge and condemn you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus continued his teaching, saying, ‘Put far away the habit of always criticizing your (pl.) companion, so that you won’t be being criticized too.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do not want to make judgments on what other people do, so that God will not judge you in what you do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Martu Wangka: “You should not rubbish another person (to make a decision that what they are doing is wrong and talk against them). You should think carefully so that later, the Father does not scold you and send you off. If you think carefully about another person without rubbishing them, the Father later, will think carefully about you without scolding you and sending you off.” (Source: Carl Gross)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 16:22:
- Uma: “People who do not love the Lord Yesus, God must curse them. Maranata! Come, Lord!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If there are any there who don’t love Isa Almasi our (incl.) Leader, God will punish them. Marana tha, that means ‘O, our (incl.) Leader, come now.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if there’s anyone who does not have Jesus in his breath, may God punish him. ‘Maranatha’, which is to say, ‘Jesus, come back soon.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If there is a person who has no love for the Lord Jesu Cristo, may God punish him. Come Lord!” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Anyone who doesn’t have true holding-dear for the Lord will be punished by God with unlimited punishment. Oh that you would come now, our (excl.) Lord!” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now if there is any person who does not love our Lord Jesus Christ, that is a person who is going to punishment. May the Lord come.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 1:32:
- Uma: “There is also this testimony of Yohanes. He said: ‘At first I did not know that Yesus was the Redeemer King. But God ordered me to baptize people with water, and he said to me like this: ‘If you (sing.) should see the Holy Spirit come-down and land on a person, He will be the one who will baptize people with the Holy Spirit.’ So, I did see the Holy Spirit come-down from heaven in-the-shape-of a dove, land and come-to-rest on Yesus. That is why these are my words: Yesus, He is the Child of God.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I did not yet know him, but God who told me to bathe the people with water told me, he said, ‘When you see the Holy Spirit come down going to a certain person and remaining there with him, he is the one who will bathe mankind in a different way, he will send to them the Holy Spirit.’ ‘ Then Yahiya testified about Isa, he said, ‘I really saw the Holy Spirit come down from the sky like the shape of a dove alighting and remaining with Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And John said again, ‘I saw the Holy Spirit coming from heaven and coming down on Jesus like a dove. And he did not leave Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Previously, I-say, I didn’t know him. But then the one who sent me to go baptize-with water, he said, ‘The one whom you (sing.) see on-whom-my-Spirit -alights and remains, it is he who will baptize-with the Holy Spirit.’ And so it was that I saw the Holy Spirit like a pigeon/dove who came-down from heaven and stayed with/in him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then Juan testified, saying, ‘I saw the Espiritu Santo. He was descending coming from heaven/sky, his physical-appearance being like a pigeon/dove, and he entered-to-indwell Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Again John spoke, ‘I saw the Holy Spirit come from heaven like a dove which came to where Jesus stood in order to accompany him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:5:
- Uma: “As Yesus entered the village of Kapernaum, a Roman army commander came to meet him and requested-help,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Isa entered the town Kapernaum a certain captain of the Roman army met him to ask for help, he said,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Jesus went to the town of Capernaum. And when he was going into the town, there was a person who wasn’t a Jew who was the captain of a hundred soldiers. And he went near to Jesus saying, ‘Chief, in my house my servant is sick. He is paralyzed, and very painful is what he is feeling.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Upon Jesus’ arrival in Capernaum, there was a captain of soldiers from-Roma who went to meet him. He pleaded, saying,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jesus went to Capernaum, when he had arrived in that town there came to him a captain of Romano soldiers. He begged- him -for-help/mercy, saying,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Then Jesus arrived at the city of Capernaum. There went to him a captain in order to ask a favor.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 2:6:
- Uma: “Most of you in Korintus, you punished him. So, I say to you, that punishing [him] of yours is sufficient/enough.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Most of you have punished him and that punishment of yours for him is enough.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Your punishment to him, brother, is already enough.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The (past) punishing him of the majority of you is sufficient.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But enough now is the punishment with which everyone there punished him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But now almost all of you joined in reprimanding the man who did this. It is enough now.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
