Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 4:14:
- Uma: “The planter(s), they are people who announce God’s Word.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The person who broadcasted seeds,’ said Isa, ‘if explained, he is the man teaching/preaching the word/message of God to the people.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “In my parable, the meaning of the person’s planting is the spreading of the word of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The meaning of the parable is this. The seeds that were sown, that is the word of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This is the meaning of that one. That seed which was scattered is the word of God which is being taught.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Isthmus Mixe: “The sowing person he sowed the seed; thus it is also how God’s word is spread.”
- Usila Chinantec: “The one who sows is like one who speaks the word of God.”
- Chuj: “The man who sowed the seed, that means he spread forth the word of God.”
- San Mateo Del Mar Huave: Then he began to tell them what he taught the story about. He said,Well, that sower there is like one who talks the word of God. (Here the transition to the explanation has been made explicit as required by San Mateo Del Mar Huave) (Source for this and three above: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.).
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Timothy 1:9:
- Uma: “He lifted us from the punishment of our sins and called us to be his holy portion. He lifted us and called us not because of our good behavior. He did it only because of the whiteness of his insides [grace], and according to his own purpose(s). For from before the world was created, God already had a purpose / intention to give us goodness [salvation] from the whiteness of his insides, because of our connection with Kristus Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “We (dual) are already saved/rescued by him and chosen by him, made his people, not because we (dual) have done something good and this is his repayment to us (dual). But the reason he did this to us (dual) is because he loved and he pitied/had mercy on us (dual), and because beforehand he planned, at the time when the world had not yet been created, that he (would) show his love and mercy to us (dual) because of what Isa Almasi has done.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “God is the one who frees us from punishment and He has made us His possession. The reason He has done this is not because our behavior is good, rather only because it is His purpose and because His kindness toward us is very great. Long ago before anything was created He decided that He would show His kindness to us through giving us Jesus Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “(God) who saved us and called us so that we would be his holy people. His doing that, it wasn’t due to what we have done, but rather due to his plan to show-mercy-to us. Because before the world was created, he had already decided to show mercy/grace to us through Cristo Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Consider that this God is the one who saved us, and he set us apart as his people now to live lives far from all sin. He saved us, not because of our own deeds, but rather in harmony with what he had already determined, and because of the big-size of his grace/mercy. The truth is, he determined when he hadn’t yet created the world, that he would grace us with salvation because of what Cristo Jesus would do.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God saved us and he called us to separate from evil. Even though we did not walk always good, yet God did the favor that he called us to save us. Because before God made the world, he already had determined to send Jesus Christ to save us.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 5:35:
- Uma: “After that, then he said to the judges: ‘My relatives, people of Israel! Consider well just what you want to do to these people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then he said to the councilors, ‘You, my fellow tribesmen of Isra’il, you be careful whatever you are going to do to these men.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Gamaliel said to his companions, he said, ‘You my companions, the descendants of Israel, let’s not be in a hurry about what we do to these people because we might be mistaken.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They put-them-out, then Gamaliel said, ‘Fellow descendants of Israel, let’s be circumspect/careful what we do with those-people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “After they had gone, then he spoke. He said, ‘My fellow-countrymen who are descendants of Israel, we must be careful, and think well about what we intend to do to them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 5:5:
- Uma: “In that land of Gerasa, there was a person who was possessed by an evil-spirit. His dwelling was in the graves. He couldn’t be kept bound even with chains, for no kidding was he strong. Sometimes his feet and hands were bound, but he could always break the ropes and chains. Because he was so strong, no-one dared to guard him. Day and night he kept wandering among the graves and in the mountains, and he called out and wounded himself with rocks. So, just as Yesus got-off/descended from the boat, this possessed person appeared from the graves.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Day and night he was always shouting in the burial places and in the hills and cutting himself with stones.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore day and night, he wandered around the graves and the mountains, and he was always screaming and wounding his body with stones.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Every-day and every-night, he went-about the caves and mountainous-area screaming/screeching and cutting himself (lit. body) with stones.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Night and day he would cry out there in the cemetary and in the hilly-country, and he was wounding his body with rocks.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Timothy 2:23:
- Uma: “There are people who continually argue-about teaching that has no use, but they have not yet learned [lit., their hearts are not yet clear] to know the true teaching. Don’t you go-along-with them in their arguments, for you yourself know, their words just make disagreements, with the result that people don’t get-along / aren’t in-harmony.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Beware of the arguments which have no use and cause-to-be-foolish only. You (sing.) indeed know that that results in their fighting.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But have nothing to do with those stupid and ignorant things to be studied. You know that those things are the beginning of quarrels.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Distance-yourself (sing.) also from the foolish discussions of people who are lacking in what they (lit. he) know, because it of-course leads to quarrels.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Put far away the habit of challenging/being-argumentative with arguments which achieve nothing. You are well aware that that’s what starts violent-disputes.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But those who only want arguments and do not know what they are saying, separate from them. You know that the argument is the source of hatred between people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 7:10:
- Uma: “and in the end he freed him from all his suffering. God gave him skill that gladdened the heart of Firaun the king in the land of Mesir, with the result that Firaun raised him to be the governor of the land of Mesir and to be the commander in his house.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God delivered him from all the troubles that came to him. God also gave him knowledge, and when he went to face the king of Misil, the king was pleased with him. Therefore the king gave him the title governor of that country Misil and he was given charge of the people in his palace.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and rescued him out of all the difficult things that happened to him. The Lord blessed Joseph. That’s why the king there in Egypt liked Joseph because he saw that great wisdom had been given to him. And as for the king, he made Joseph governor of all his kingdom, and the one who would be in charge of all of his possessions.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and he saved/rescued him from all his sufferings. He gave him intelligence and a good behavior that was the cause-of-the Faraon or king of Egipto’s -liking him. Therefore, the Faraon appointed him to-be-governor of all the towns in Egipto and to also be-in-charge of all his possessions.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Proof is, he freed him from all the hardships which happened to him, and also gave him far-from-ordinary wisdom/understanding, that being why the king of Egipto was pleased with him. And then what that king did was, he set Jose up as governor who had authority over the whole land of Egipto, including the household of the king.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Lalana Chinantec: “God saved Joseph. The sorrow of Joseph was all gone. The king of the Egyptian people whom they called Pharaoh came to like Joseph. Pharaoh heard that the words which Joseph spoke were very good because God had done that for Joseph. Therefore Pharaoh selected Joseph to be his assistant. He appointed Joseph the authority of the land of Egypt and of all of the things that he himself had in his house.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 5:37:
- Uma: “Yesus continued on walking, but he didn’t permit the many people to accompany him entering into Yairus’ house; only Petrus, Yakobus and Yohanes the relative of Yakobus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa did not take anybody else along only Petros and the two brothers Yakub and Yahiya.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the only ones whom Jesus allowed to go with him and Jairus was Peter, James, and John the sibling of James.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And Jesus did not permit anyone to go-with him except Pedro and the siblings Santiago and Juan.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then he said to that crowd that they were to stay behind now. The only ones he took with him were Pedro and those two brothers Santiago and Juan.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Kuku-Yalanji: “Jesus said: ‘Peter, James and John you come with me. Nobody else come.” (Kuku-Yalanji tends to use direct speech; source: Callow 2007, p. 18)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Timothy 4:12:
- Uma: “Tikhikus I ordered / am ordering to go [to where you are–implied in verb] to Efesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I commanded Tikikus to go to Epesus.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I have sent Tychicus to the town of Ephesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I have sent Tikicus to Efeso.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for Tiquico, I sent him to Efeso.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning Tychicus, I sent him to the city of Ephesus.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
