complete verse (Revelation 4:1)

Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 4:1:

  • Uma: “After that, there was also something that I saw. I saw a door opened to/in heaven, and I heard a speaker speaking to me, like the one who spoke to me at the beginning earlier, that sounded like a trumpet. He said to me: ‘Come-up here! I will point out to you (sing.) what must happen when what you (sing.) saw earlier is past.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “After that something else appeared to me. I saw a door opened there in heaven. And I heard again the voice like the sound of a tabuli’ that had spoken to me in the beginning. The voice said, ‘Come up here and I will show to you as to what is going to happen in the future’.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the Lord showed me something different again. I saw a door in heaven which was open. And there was someone speaking to me and that one speaking was the same one I heard before, whose voice sounded like the sound of a trumpet. And He said to me, ‘Come here and I will show you what must come to pass in the future.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When that was finished, I saw-at-a-distance an entrance that was opened in/to heaven. I also heard the voice that I had previously heard like the loud-sound of a horn saying to me, ‘Come here so that I will show you (sing.) what will happen in a future day.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “After that, something else was shown to me like it was being dreamed. For suddenly/unexpectedly I saw in heaven/sky an entrance which was open. Again I heard that voice which was like the sound of a horn. He said next to me, ‘Come up here, for I will show you the things which have been determined to happen.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “After those things which I saw, again I looked, looking up to heaven. I saw a door which was open. He who had spoken before to me, when he spoke to me it was like the blowing of a trumpet. He said to me: ‘Come here. I will show you what must happen afterwards,’ he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Romans 4:25)

Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 4:25:

  • Uma: “Yesus is the one who gave himself to be killed to redeem our wrongs. And after that God brought him back to life so that we become straight in his sight.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “This Isa Almasi was killed because of our (incl.) sin and was caused to live again by God so that we (incl.) could be forgiven and considered straight by God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus is the one God sent in order to let himself be killed as punishment because of our (incl.) transgressions. And then God raised Him from the dead so that God might consider us righteous, just as if we had never done anything wrong.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “God handed-Jesus -over to die on account of our sins and he made-him -alive again so that we would be made-righteous.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Concerning Jesus, it was allowed that he died in order to pay for our sins. Afterwards he resurrected. And now it is this that clears us with God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 9:22)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:22:

  • Noongar: “Jesus also told them, ‘The Son of Man must suffer. The elders and the bosses of the Temple and the Law Men, all of them will reject him. They will kill him, but after three days, he will be raised to life.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “He also said: ‘I the Child of Man must receive much suffering. The elders of the town, the leaders of the priests with the teacher of religion will reject me. They will kill me, but on the third day I will live again.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “And Isa also said, ‘I, the Son of Mankind, I have to endure many persecutions and the elders and the chief priest and the teachers of the religious law will not pay attention/believe me. I will be killed and on the third day I will live again.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he said also, ‘As for me, the older sibling of mankind, there are many torments that I will be caused to suffer. The elders of the Jews will reject me, along with the chief priests and the teachers of the Law. They will kill me, and within three days from then, I will rise again.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then he continued to say, ‘I who am Child of a Person, it is necessary that I endure much suffering. The elders and the leaders of the priests and the teachers of the law, they will reject me and have-me-killed, but God will again make-me -alive on the third day.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And Jesus further said to his disciples, ‘I who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human will experience very many hardships. I will be belittled/insulted by the important tribal-leaders, the chiefs of the priests and the explainers of law, and I will even be killed. But on the third day, I will indeed be made alive again.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Revelation 6:8)

Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 6:8:

  • Uma: “I saw a pale horse. The name of the person who rode it was Death, and behind him there was one who followed-him-closely that was named Dwelling-place of the Dead. To those two was given the authority/power to kill one fourth part of mankind. There were those who were killed in war, there were those who died of hunger or died in epidemics/plagues, there were those who were killed by carnivorous animals [lit., eater animals].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When I watched I saw a very pale horse. The name of the rider was Death and someone followed from behind who was called Afterworld. They were given authority to kill one part of the people on earth, three parts not. Fighting, famine, sickness and forest beasts, these could be used by the two for killing.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I looked and I saw a horse whose yellowness was somewhat white. Death was the name of the one riding, and Infierno was the name of the one who followed him. And those two were given authority over one fourth of all mankind that they might kill them by means of contagious disease, and war, and hunger, and hamrful beasts.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “As I looked, a pale/anemic horse suddenly-appeared. The one riding-on-his-back, he was named Death and the one accompanying him who was following, it was Hades which is the place of the dead. They were given authority to kill a fourth of the people on the earth by means of war, famine, sickness and wild animals.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “There was a horse which I saw next whose body was pale/anemic. The name of the one riding on that was Death. Basad (i.e. the place of the dead) was coming right behind him (lit. acting as his tail). Given to them was authority to kill the fourth part of the population here under the heavens, that killing being by fighting-with-blades, starvation, epidemic and killings by wild animals.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “I looked and I saw a horse that was deathly colored. The horseman was named death. Behind the horseman came what was the place where the dead are. These were given the power to kill one fourth of the people who live on the earth. They brought about that the people would be killed in wars, the people would die of hunger, the people would die of sickness, the people would die by being bitten by wild animals.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Romans 6:11)

Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 6:11:

  • Uma: “So also we must say in our hearts: ‘I died together with Kristus Yesus, there is no longer any connection of mine with sin. I live and follow the desire of God from now on because of my connection with Kristus Yesus.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Likewise you (pl.) should/must also consider yourselves like dead people who no longer can sin. And consider yourselves now as if you are now people who have been made alive again; and because you already follow/obey Isa Almasi all your deeds ought to praise God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And in the same way also, you must remember that since we are dead with Christ, our being troubled by our sins has also been removed from us. And by means also of Jesus Christ, we have been given new life and it’s necessary that this new life of ours is also a reason for God to be praised.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “So we also, we should count ourselves as having truly died where sin is concerned (lit. if concerning sin) but as being alive where our serving God is concerned because of our being-united-with Cristo Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “The same for us now, let us do the same. We will do that we are finished with sin because we are walking with Christ. We now live to do the will of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 9:54)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:54:

  • Noongar: “When the disciples, James and John, saw this thing, they said, ‘Lord, do you want us to call down fire from Heaven and kill them?'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Yakobus and Yohanes heard that those townspeople had refused them. That is why they said to Yesus: ‘Lord, if you wish/desire/will, we (excl.) request fire from the sky to burn-up those townspeople!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When his two disciples, Yakub and Yahiya knew this, they said to Isa, ‘Sir, do you want us (excl.) to command fire from the sky so that they will die?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when James and John learned that that village would not receive them, they said to Jesus, they said, ‘Do you want that we ask for fire from heaven to come down, so that these people might be destroyed?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When his disciples Santiago and Juan heard that that’s what those from-Samaria-people had done, they said to Jesus, ‘Lord, do you (sing.) want us (excl.) to ask God to send fire to burn-them -up?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, when Santiago and Juan observed that it was like that, they said to Jesus, ‘Lord, do you want us (excl.) to cause fire to come down from heaven/sky and burn them up?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Revelation 8:6)

Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 8:6:

  • Uma: “Those seven angels earlier, they were ready holding their trumpets to blow them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then the seven angels got ready to soon blow one by one the thing like a tabuli’ that had been given to them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The the seven angels got ready because they will blow their trumpets.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Right after-that those-aforementioned seven angels prepared to blow-their-horns.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Then those seven angels got ready so that they were now prepared to blow those horns which had been given to them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “The seven angels who held the trumpets then got ready to blow them.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Romans 7:20)

Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 7:20:

  • Uma: “But if I do behavior I don’t like, it means it is not I that do it. Sin that is in my heart, he is the culprit [owner of the work].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then if I do the bad which I don’t want to do, it means it is no longer from my thinking/mind but the sin in my liver that is what urges me so that I do (it).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if I do what I do not want to do, I’m not the one who does this but rather, it is the evil desires of my body that is the source of that evil activity.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “If then I persist in doing what I dislike to do, it can-be-seen that it is not I who is doing it but my sinfulness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Therefore since I did the evil I didn’t want to do, then it wasn’t I who caused it, rather it was sin which grabbed my heart and caused it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)