Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 12:7:
- Uma: “You must endure in suffering, consider it advice or beating from your Father in heaven. God advises you like a father advises and beats his children. For there are no children who are not advised by their father.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore if there are difficulties coming/caused to come to you simply endure them for these difficulties (are used by) God for teaching you because he considers you his children. Are there any children that are not punished/disciplined by their fathers for teaching them?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore, if there is anything difficult that you have to go through now, endure it. For by means of this, God is teaching you because you are his children. There is no child who is not trained by his father.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore consider your (pl.) hardship as God’s advice to you and endure it, because that’s how you know that God considers you his children. Because is there indeed (rhet. quest.) a child whom his father doesn’t admonish?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore just endure whatever hardship that comes to you, for that is for your correcting. As for this, it causes to be recognized that, in God’s estimation of you, you are now his children. For which child is not corrected by his parents?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When you suffer, remember that God is doing to you as his children, that is why he whips you. Because for all the children, when they do wrong their fathers whip them.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 16:12:
- Uma: “From there, we (excl.) came down from the ship and we (excl.) walked to the town of Filipi. Filipi, it was a town in the first part of Makedonia. Many Roma people dwelled in that village. We(excl.) stayed there for several nights.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Arriving there we (excl.) went up to Pilipi, a big city there in Makedoniya. Many people of the Roma tribe lived there. We (excl.) stopped there a few days.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “We got down there and went upstream and we arrived in the village of Philippi which is in the earliest district of the province of Macedonia. As for the town of Philippi, there were many Roman settlers there. And for how many days we were there in the village of Philippi.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “We (excl.) disembarked there and walked to Filipos which was the largest town in that district of Macedonia. The majority of the inhabitants there, they were from-Roma. From-Roma also were the officials. And that’s where-we (excl.) -stayed how-many days.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There is where we (excl.) then embarked and then walked continuing on to Filipos, a praiseworthy city in the first section of the province of Macedonia. The majority of those living there were Romano, for Filipos was a colony (expl. in glossary). We(excl.) were there for quite a while.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:17:
- Uma: “[When] it was dark, Yesus and his twelve disciples arrived.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When it was already evening, Isa went there to that house together with his twelve disciples.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when evening came, Jesus and his twelve disciples came to the house.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When it was night, Jesus and his twelve disciples went to that house.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When night came, Jesus arrived with his twelve disciples.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 13:10:
- Uma: “We have something [emphatic] that is better than the custom of the Yahudi religion. The Big Priest of the Yahudi religion slaughtered livestock on the worship-gift burning-place table [altar] to pay-for the sins of the people. But the priests who work in the Worship Tent long ago, they were forbidden to eat anything from that worship-gift. But we [emphatic], we can say, we have an worship-gift that is better, that is the death of Yesus to redeem our sins. Every single one of us gets goodness [salvation] from the death of Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “We (incl.) the ones trusting in Almasi have a sacrifice but the Yahudi priests in the temple have no authority to eat it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for us (incl.) believers in Christ, we have a sacrifice; however, those Jewish priests who offer sacrifice in the church there in Jerusalem, they don’t have any right to eat it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore those who persist in following the law of Moses, they have no right to share in our blessings that result from Jesus’ being-offered on the cross for sins.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “We who are believing/obeying Jesus, his death on the cross is the means-of-forgiving our sin. But those who still sacrifice animals which are-a-means-of-asking-for forgiveness for sin, they really have no part in the forgiveness that can-be-obtained at that cross.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “As for us, it is Jesus Christ who becomes the sacrifice which clears our sins. Now the high priest of the Jews kills animals to make sacrifices to God and there is the sacrifice of which there is not permission to eat the meat of it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 17:4:
- Uma: “There were some Yahudi people who believed those words and they followed Paulus and Silas. There were also many Yunani people who submitted to the Lord God and also many women with big names, they also believed in the word that Paulus brought.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Some of the Yahudi believed and joined Paul and Silas. And many Girik people who worshiped God also joined. And many prominent women also joined.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then some of the Jews believed, and they followed Paul and Silas. There were also many Greeks who believed who had worshipped God before, and also there were some high women of the village who believed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There were Jews who were persuaded by what he was saying, and they followed Pablo and Silas. Many Gentiles who joined-in-worshipping God and rich women also believed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When they heard the teaching of Pablo and Silas, many believed what they were saying. There were indeed some Jews who believed, but those who were very numerous were those who although not Jews were indeed devout-worshippers of God. Even the women of high/important blood, many of them also believed in Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:49:
- Uma: “Every day I was with you in the House of God teaching, why didn’t you catch me then? But this must happen, so that what is written in the Holy Book happens.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Every day I was there teaching/preaching in the temple. You were there but you did not seize me there. But,’ he said, ‘all that is written in the holy-book has to be fulfilled.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Everyday I was with you in the House of God teaching, and you did not seize me. However, this is taking place for the prophecies in the written word of God are being fulfilled.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Daily emphatically I was in the Temple teaching you, but you didn’t arrest me. But all these-things have happened in order that what God caused-to-be-written will be fulfilled.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Daily I was teaching there in the Templo but you didn’t arrest me there. However it’s necessary that the written word of God be fulfilled.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of James 1:17:
- Uma: “All gifts that are good and that are complete we receive from God [emphatic]. He is the one who made all the shining things in the sky. All those shining things in the sky, they do change [lit., there is their changing.] But God, he never changes, and there is not a lessening of his goodness.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But/instead all different-kinds of good and which has no fault/blemish is given to us (dual) from heaven, from God. God created all that is light up in the sky. All (the things) that are light in the sky, its brightness/glory changes, but God really does not change.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Whatever comes from God is not bad, rather it is good. And it has no lack for it comes from our Father who created everything which shines in the sky. These things can be changed, but as for God, he, by contrast, does not change and he cannot be changed by anything.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because God in heaven is the source of all that is good and right. He also of course is the one who created all that shines in the sky, but even though their appearance changes, he definitely does not change.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “God is the one who is the source of all good, and wholly good is what he gives. There really is no lack in the grace/mercy which comes from this Father of ours who created all which give-light in the sky/heaven. As for these which he created, their light is changeable/comes-and-goes, but as for God, his nature/ways never change.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because all that which God gives us is supremely good. God who gives us the good is he who made the lights in the heavens. These lights change their faces, but God never changes what he says; that which he says is said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 18:2:
- Uma: “In Korintus, Paulus met a Yahudi man named Akwila. The town of his birth was in the land of Pontus. This Akwila with Priskila his wife, had just arrived in the town of Korintus themselves, because they had just moved from the land of Italia. This move of theirs from the land of Italia, was because there was a command of King Klaudius expelling all the Yahudi people from the town of Roma in the land of Italia. So, when Paulus arrived in Korintus, he went to visit this Akwila and Priskila,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There he met with a Yahudi named Akila, born in the land of Pontus. That Akila had newly arrived in Korinto from the country Italiya together with his wife, Pirisila. They left Italiya because King Kalaudi had commanded all the Yahudi to leave Roma, the big city in Italiya. Then Paul went to visit Akila and company.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there he came upon two Jews, a married couple from Pontus, Aquila and his wife Priscilla. They had just arrived there from Italy because there was a law of King Claudius causing all of the Jewish people to go out from the town of Rome. Paul went to visit them,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There he came-upon a Jew from-Pontus named Aquila and his spouse Priscilla. They had-just-arrived from Italia, because Emperor Claudius had commanded that all Jews leave Roma which was the capital of Italia. Pablo went to go visit them,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There he met/saw a man who was a Jew named Aquila. As for that person, Ponto was where he was born but he had moved to Roma, the main city in Italia. From there, he and his wife Priscila had moved because of the law sent down by the Impiradur Claudio, saying, ‘All Jews in Roma must now leave.’ Therefore they were now there in Corinto for that’s where they’d moved to. It wasn’t yet long since they had arrived there. After Pablo had met him, he went to their house.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
