Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 12:15:
- Uma: “Be careful that none of your companions retreats from God and refuses / turns-down his love. Be careful that there does not appear in your midst a person who is like a plant that has poison, and who bothers your harmony, with the result that many people are carried-off to sin.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Be careful, for God loves and has mercy and/but perhaps you turn-your-back-on/reject (him). A person who turns-his-back-on/rejects God is figuratively like a plant the fruit of which is bitter and poisonous. He troubles the trusters in God and finally he influences some to sin as he does.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Be on your guard because there might be some of you who will not accept kindness of God. For a person like this is like the grass which bears bitter and poisonous fruit. He disturbs the believers, and many people can come to be like him in doing evil.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Watch-over/Look-after-one-another so that none of you turns-his-back on God’s grace, because that kind of person, he is compared to a plant whose fruit is bitter, and if he/it grows among you, many are the ones it will make-bitter who will be rubbed-off-on by his sin.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Nurture/look-after one another’s believing/obeying so that there will be nobody at all among you who is like left behind with-reference-to God’s grace/mercy. For if there is someone like that, that’s what will lead him to drop/give-up. For what a person who does like that is like is weeds with poisonous fruit. Well, if he is just left to grow/become-strong, of course many will be affected (lit. transferred to) in that their head will be troubled, for it’s like (they) will be like poisoned by his poison.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Receive the grace of God which he wants to give you, don’t refuse it. Be very careful that you do not cause that it happens that you spoil the faith which others have.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quotes, see Psalm 118:6 and Deuteronomy 29:18s
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 16:20:
- Uma: “When they came in front of those rulers of Roma, they said: ‘These people are Yahudi people, they come to bother our town.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They placed them in front of the officials of the Roma tribe and they accused them. ‘These men are bringing trouble to our (incl.) place,’ they said. ‘Moreover these are Yahudi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When they were there already, they brought them before the Roman officials, and they said, ‘As for these men, they are Jews and they are making trouble here in our village.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then they brought-charges-against-(them) to the judges that the one(s)-from-Roma had appointed, saying, ‘These Jews, they are disturbing/disrupting our town,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then having stood Pablo-and-companion in the presence of the highest officials, they said, ‘As for these people, they are Jews, and they are causing much trouble here in our city.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:25:
- Uma: “Indeed I tell you: beginning from now, I will no longer drink anggur until the time comes that God becomes King in the world. At that time, then I will drink new anggur in his Kingdom.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Truly I tell you, after this I will not drink grape juice again as long as I don’t yet drink the new drink in the (sphere of) ruling of God.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It is true what I say to you, that starting now I will never again drink this wine until the time in the future when we drink new wine together when God rules.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This that I tell you is true that I will not again drink grape juice until the day I drink-with you the new grape juice in God’s ruling.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This which I will say to you is true, that I will no more drink that drink which is juice of ubas until the day when I will drink the new drink there in the kingdom of God.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 13:18:
- Uma: “We(excl.) request that you keep praying for us (excl.). We(excl.) know that our (excl.) hearts are as holy/clean as an egg [i.e., we are innocent, not hiding anything], for in everything we (excl.) always want to do what is straight.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Do not rest from praying for us (excl.) to God. We (excl.) know that there is nothing causing uncertainty/fear in our (excl.) mind for that is only what we (excl.) always want to do the good and the straight/right.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Brethren, pray also always for us. We (excl.) know that there is nothing to be rebuked in our behavior, because we only want to always do good.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Continue to pray for us (excl.), because we (excl.) know that our (excl.) conscience is clean and we (excl.) want to continue doing what is right continually.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Don’t forget us (excl.) in your prayers. For we (excl.) are not aware of anything wrong that we are doing. And we (excl.) really want to always live with nothing criticizable in God’s sight.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Pray to God for me. Because I think that I have been walking good and I want that I continue to walk good.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 17:12:
- Uma: “In-the-end, many of the Yahudi people believed in Yesus, also many big-named Yunani people, they also believed in Yesus, both men and women.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Many people of Berea trusted already in Isa including prominent women from the Girik tribe, and Girik men also.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Many of them believed in Jesus, and many of these were respected Greek women, and also there were some Greek men who believed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So many of them believed, along-with many Gentile men and rich women.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore many of those Jews believed. As for the Griego, it was like that too. Many were their women of high/important blood who believed and many men also.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:57:
- Uma: “There were several who stood and who gave lying witness, they said:” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then there were others who got up to witness against Isa which also wasn’t true.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were lying people there who came forward and gave their accusation against Jesus,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When that was so, there were those who stood-up to testify. They said lying,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “After a long time, some others stood up giving-evidence which was lies against him. They said,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of James 1:25:
- Uma: “That’s why we must put-in-our-hearts well the Lord’s commands and we [must] keep following them. For the Lord’s commands are very holy, and they have-power to free us from sin. So, let’s not just hear [them] dry and right away forget [them]. We must follow his commands. For a person who is like that is the one that the Lord will bless in all that he does.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But if a person really listens very well to the law of God which has no fault/blemish and which can set people free, and if he does not get tired of listening and if he really does not forget what he has heard but/instead he does what that law says, he will be given good/blessing by God whatever he does.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But if there is a person who thoroughly studies the law which has no lack which is what can free us (incl.), and he does not forget it, rather he obeys it, God will bless whatever he does.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the one who carries-through in thinking-about/remembering and at-the-same-time obeying the good law of God which sets-people -free, that is the one God blesses in all that he does, because of course he hasn’t merely listened and afterwards forgotten.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But the person really will be shown-grace/mercy who really finds-out-for-sure all which has been commanded which is the will of God, this word of his which has no lack and can give salvation. He will be shown-grace/mercy provided he isn’t just simply listening, only to forget it as soon as it stops, but rather he continues to follow/obey it. For if it’s like that, he will be helped by God in everything he does.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now concerning the person who thinks deeply about the word God commands, and does not forget it, and does what it says to do, this person is the one God will bless in what he does. Because the word God commands is supremely good, the people who obey this word are those who from the heart want to do what God commands.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 18:10:
- Uma: “Because many are the people in this town who will become my people. I myself will be-with you (sing.). No-one will lay hands on you (sing.).'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For I am there accompanying you,’ he said. ‘Nothing can harm you because I have many people in this place.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because I am with you. There is no one who will be able to harm you. There are many people yet who will believe in me in this town.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “On one night, Pablo dreamed that the Lord Jesus said to him, ‘Don’t be afraid, no one will injure you (sing.), because I will companion you (sing.). Persevere therefore in preaching without being silent, because there are yet many inhabitants here who will become my people.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “for I won’t leave you alone. I am always taking care of you, so that no one at all can do you wrong by physical-harm or persecution, for there are many more people here in the city whom I will cause to believe.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
