Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 5:39:
- Uma: “But I say: don’t pay-back someone who has done evil-ones to us (incl.). If for example there is someone who slaps our (incl.) cheek on one side, offer him the other side also.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But I, I say: do not revenge if a person has a fault against you. If a person slaps your face on one side turn also the other side to him and let him slap it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But my teaching to you is, it is not possible that we revenge those who harm us, rather we should be good to them. If he slaps our right cheek, let us say that it is all right if he also slaps the other.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But I say to you that you are not to revenge the bad things that your companions do to you, but rather do like this. If someone slaps your (sing.) right cheek, have-(him) -slap the other also.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But now/today, I am the one saying to you (pl.) that you must have nothing in your mind about wanting to recipricate if/when caused suffering by another. Just you (sing.) leave-it-alone. Supposing someone slaps you (sing.) on your right cheek, just leave-him-alone to slap the other side also.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But I tell you that concerning the evil done by people to you, do not pay it back. Rather, if someone strikes you on the cheek, give the other side of your face to be struck.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 15:36:
- Uma: “How stupid are people who ask like that! If we plant something, our planted-thing doesn’t yet grow unless it is first buried and covered-over like a dead-person.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You are so slow to learn! (lit. stupid/dull cause-to-be-good you) Observe the seeds. The seed has to be planted first, then it sprouts and when it already sprouts the seed is no longer there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “my answer is: it’s evident that that person does not know how to think, because when we plant a seed in the ground, it’s necessary that the body of the seed be changed. For that seed will be detroyed and then it will sprout.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The one who asks that, it’s as if he is has a (mental) lack. He should think of what happens to a seed. Because if you (sing.) plant a seed, it doesn’t sprout if it doesn’t rot first.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for the one who asks like that, he is stupid. For think about seeds. A seed will definitely not live as long as it has not rotted in the ground.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Such a one is a person who is foolish in asking such a question. You see that when a seed is planted, the shell rots, but the heart of it sprouts up.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 24:39:
- Noongar: “See my hands and feet. Look! This is me, myself! Touch me, and you will know, because ghosts do not have flesh and bone, but you can see my body!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “See the scars on my hands [this word includes the arm and hand] and my feet. It is I! Touch me and make certain, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones like you see in Me.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Look at my hands and my feet. It is really me. Touch me so that you know that I am not a ghost. For ghosts do not have a body. But I here, you see that I have a body.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Look here at my hands and my feet because it really is I! Touch me and you will know! Because a soul has no body; however, I — look at me, I have a body,’ he said.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Look at my hands and my feet so that you will believe that it is truly I. Put-your-hands-on me so you will be satisfied. Because a ghost, it has no body and bones, and you are emphatically able to see that I have (them).'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Here, look where the nails went here in my hands and feet. It’s I all right. Feel and scrutinize me well. For as for a spirit, it has no flesh and bones, but I myself have flesh and bones as you can see.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 6:23:
- Uma: “But if our (incl.) eye is cloudy, it’s like our (incl.) sight is dark. So, if the Lord enlightens our (incl.) heart, and we (incl.) make it dark again, it will really be pitch dark. [lit., no kidding its pitch darkness.]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But if our (dual) seeing is clouded, that means our (dual) works are bad, our (dual) whole body is like dark. If we (dual) say/think that our (dual) body is light but in fact/surprise it is dark, then it is really very dark.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But if we are blind, which is to say, if we are wicked, it’s as if we are benighted. And if we are blinded because of our wickedness, then our way is dark indeed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But if your (sing.) sight/viewpoint is bad, it is as if your (sing.) mind is extremely dark. So if you (sing.) say/think that your (sing.) mind is lighted but unexpectedly it is dark, surely it is extremely dark!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But if your eye has a defect, of course in your sight all is darkened/unclear. Well this which I am saying that the eye is like the lamp of the body, what is being alluded to here is your mind/inner-being. For as long as it’s your own will and good-situation here in the world that you are giving priority to, alas, it’s really very darkened/unclear in your mind/inner-being.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But if you don’t open your understanding, then you do not truly know what is the good by which you must live. Then how bad is the darkness where you walk (live), because your thoughts are not opened for you to know the good.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Martu Wangka: “If you think to do bad things, then you will be bad and you will be ignorant of the Father.” (Source: Carl Gross)
- German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999) verses 22 and 23: “The eye is light for the whole body. When the eye is clear, the whole body is brightly illuminated; when it is dim, the body is dark. If your own light does not dispel the darkness within you, how great is the darkness outside!”
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 16:10:
- Uma: “When Timotius arrives, I hope/expect you will receive him well, so that he won’t be nervous with you, for our (excl.) work is the same that we (excl.) do for the Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Timoteo comes there, really (amey-amey) serve/look after him, because he also works for God like I.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When Timothy arrives there to you, take good care of him because he is also a servant of the Lord like I am.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When Timoteo arrives there (near addressee), show-him-proper -hospitality, because he is working for the Lord Jesus just like I am.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Whenever Timoteo arrives there welcome/treat him well, so that he won’t feel nervous inside. Because, as for him, he is a worker of the Lord the same as I am.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “If Timothy arrives to where you live, welcome him respectfully because he also does the work of the Lord like I do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 1:20:
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “He said to them clearly, ‘I am not the Christ, the person whom God is to send to help the nation of us Israelites.'”
- Ojitlán Chinantec: “He said, ‘I am not the Christ, the chosen of God for a particular task.’ John showed the truth. He did not speak lies.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “Well he admitted the truth. He immediately made it plain to them that he wasn’t Christ whom it was said God would send.”
- Mezquital Otomi: “. . . I am not the Christ, whom God chose.”
- Alekano: “Then not denying it, revealing it, he told them this: ‘I am not the Christ.'”
- Chol: “John did not keep it a secret . . . ” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
- Uma: “Yohanes answered them plainly, he said to them: ‘I am not the Redeemer King.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Yahiya did not hide (anything) instead really confessed/spoke the truth, he said, ‘I am not the Almasi.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And this is what John said because he did not hide it. He said, ‘As for me, I am not the one chosen by God to rule.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Juan didn’t deny the truth of it but rather he admitted saying, ‘I am not the Messiah.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He really didn’t make-claims for himself but on the contrary he told the truth, saying, ‘It’s not I who am the Cristo who is that promised Savior King.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “John straightly spoke. He said, ‘I am not the Christ whom God appointed to rule.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 7:22:
- Uma: “On the Kiama Day many people will say to me: ‘Lord! Lord! Don’t you (sing.) know, we are the ones who announced the Word of God in your (sing.) name? And it was in your (sing.) name that we caused-to-go-out demons. And many also were the miracles that we did with your (sing.) name, Lord.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the day for the judgment of mankind has come/is reached, many people will say to me, ‘You are our (excl.) Leader/Lord because we have spread God’s word by the power of your name, and we have driven out demons and we have done many miracles by the power of your name.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “On that day in the future many will want me to pity them saying, ‘Oh Lord, through your power we prophesied, and we cured those afflicted with demons, and many are the miracles that we did.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When the day that God will judge the people arrives, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, we (excl.) were prophesying as your (sing.) representatives, we (excl.) also used your (sing.) name to remove evil-spirits and to do many miracles!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really, at the day of judging, many will say to me, ‘Lord, let us (excl.) enter because isn’t it so that we taught about you, and your name is what we mentioned when we were driving out evil-spirits and when we were doing amazing-things?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When the day arrives for people to be judged, many people will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord. We also have told the people about you. And with your name we have cured people who walked with evil spirits. With your name we have done many miracles,’ they will say to me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 1:18:
- Uma: “No, relatives! Like God’s promises to us (incl.) don’t change, so also our (excl.) words to you, relatives do not change, one time ‘Yes’ one time ‘No.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But as for me, I am not like that. As God can be trusted in the same way can I (be trusted). My words to you are true. I don’t mix yes and no.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If what God says is true, then true also is what I am saying, because what was in my breath, it was necessary that I fulfill it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because what we (excl.) are saying to you is absolutely true like the truth of what God says.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But it really is not like that. For just as God is not a liar, it’s just like that with us (excl.), everything we (excl.) sid to you is the truth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But God knows that never do I say that I will do something which I know that I cannot do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
