Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 26:32:
- Uma: “King Agripa said to Festus: ‘Actually, if he had not requested-to-be-taken-up his case to Kaisar, we could just release him.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Agarippa said to Pestus, ‘That man could have been freed if he had not said that he wants to be judged by the Leader King.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Agrippa said also to Festus, ‘If only he had not appealed for help to the king in Rome because it’s possible that he should be set free.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “King Agrippa also said to Governor Festus, ‘He could be released if he hadn’t appealed his case to the Emperor.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then Agripa said to Festo, ‘If only he hadn’t said that he wanted to appeal to the Impiradur, that person could have freedom/release.’ (Note: All 1st person plural pronouns in this chapter are exclusive unless otherwise marked.)” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 5:24:
- Noongar: “So I will prove to you, in this World, the Son of Man has power to forgive sins.’ So Jesus said to the sick man, ‘I tell you, stand up, pick up your bed, and go to your home.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “So, I show you that I have power [lit., there is my power] to forgive sins.’ From there, he turned to that lame person, he said to him: ‘I say to you (sing.), get up, lift your (sing.) stretcher, and go home.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I am making this person well so that you will know that I, the Son of Mankind have authority here in the world to forgive sin.’ Then Isa said to the person with the dead body, ‘Get up. Carry your for-lying-down and go home.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “By means of my curing this person today, I will show you that I, the long-ago prophesied older sibling of mankind, I have authority here on the earth to forgive sins.’ And then he said to this man who was paralyzed, he said, ‘You, son — get up, pick up that hammock of yours and go home!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But if that is so, I will then say what is difficult in order that I will confirm to you that I who am Child of a Person have authority on the face (lit. surface) of the earth to forgive sins.’ Then he said to that cripple, ‘What I am commanding you (sing.) is get-up, pick up that stretcher of yours (sing.) to go-home.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore I will heal this illness of his so that you will comprehend that as for me, who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human, I do indeed have authority here under the heavens to forgive sin.’ After he had said that, he said to that person with the paralysed part, ‘Stand up now, pick up what you are lying on and go home.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 4:8:
- Uma: “People who don’t love others, they do not yet know God, for God, he is loving.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He who does not love does not know God, because God really loves hep.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Anyone who has no love for his companions, know nothing at all about the actions of God, for every act of God is His showing His love.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the one who has no love for his fellow, neither does he know God, for God is consistently-loving.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But the one who doesn’t value like this, that one doesn’t yet know/acknowledge God, because God really is the one who is the source of this valuing.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He who does not love his fellowman is not acquainted with God, because God loves all people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “If we do not love our fellows we are not yet acquainted with God, because we do not do like God does. God loves mankind.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “But he who has no love, doesn’t know God, because God is love (lover).”
- Tzotzil: “If we do not take on the character of a lover it is because we do not know God. Because God has the character of a lover (or God’s character is to habitually love).” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: “The one who doesn’t love, doesn’t come to know (learn) God. For God is one who loves.”
- Yanesha’: “Those who are not lovers do not know our Father how he is, because our Father, he is love.”
- Aguaruna: “But he who does not love, he doesn’t know ‘God is like that’ saying; because ‘God is one who really loves.’ saying, he doesn’t say it.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 27:33:
- Uma: “When it was almost sunrise, Paulus said to them: ‘You all must eat! For fourteen days you have just been waiting to see what will happen. You didn’t eat.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When it was almost day, Paul begged all of them telling them to eat. He said, ‘For fourteen days now you have worried/has been your trouble. You have not eaten anything.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when it was almost morning, Paul begged all of them that they should eat. He said, ‘It’s been fourteen days that we have had to endure being afraid and nothing has entered our stomachs.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When it was dawning, Pablo insisted that they eat saying, ‘Here it has been two weeks with you not eating properly, because you have been sidetracked/distracted by your fear.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When it was getting toward dawn now, Pablo tried-to-persuade that crowd that hopefully they would now eat. He said, ‘It would be good if you would eat now, for look here, this is the fourteenth day that you haven’t eaten. You have been bothered/preoccupied by this bad weather.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:17:
- Noongar: “After Jesus and his disciples came down from the mountain, Jesus stood on the plain. Many of his disciples stood with him. Many people came from everywhere, from Judea and from Jerusalem and places on the coast of Tyre and Sidon.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “After that, Yesus descended from the top of the hill/mountain with his disciples, and they stopped on the flat place/plain. There, many of his followers were waiting for him, and very many people gathered. Those people were from all over the land of Yudea, from the town of Yerusalem and from the towns of Tirus and Sidon on the edge of the sea.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “After that Isa and his disciples whom he had commissioned went down. He stood there on a level place. Crowds of his other disciples gathered there and also crowds of people from the different places in Yahudiya and from the town Awrusalam and from the towns Tiros and Sidon at the seashore were waiting there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When Jesus had finished choosing them, he went down the mountain along with those whom he had chosen. They stopped on a level place and there gathered together many of his disciples and very many people who’d come from villages in Judea and there from the town of Jerusalem, and they had come from the towns of Tyre and Sidon, which is on the shore of the sea. The reason the people had come was they wanted to hear the teaching of Jesus, and they wanted to be healed by him, of their diseases.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Plural Jesus went-downhill until they came to the wide meadow where many of his disciples and also very-many people were gathered from Judea and Jerusalem and all-the-towns along the edge of the ocean at Tiro and Sidon.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus went down the hill together with those he had chosen. When they reached the plain, they halted there. The majority/large-number of those Jesus was teaching were there and very many other people too, coming from all the area of Judea, including the city of Jerusalem, and coming also from the towns of Tiro and Sidon which were beside the Mediteraneo Sea. They were there because they wanted to listen to the teaching of Jesus, and those who had illnesses were asking help that they would be healed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 5:19:
- Uma: “What we know: we here are-children of God, and this whole world is controlled by the King of Evil-ones.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “We (incl.) know that we (incl.) belong to God, but all the others in the world are under-the-power/in-the-hold of the leader of demons.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “We (incl.) know that we are children of God, however, all of the enemies of God here on the earth, Satan controls them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Second, we know that even though Satanas rules all those who don’t believe, yet as for us, we are God’s children.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “We know that as for us, we are now children of God. But Satanas still is the one ruling here under the heavens.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now we know that we are God’s children. All the other people all over the world are in the hands of the devil.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “We know we are God’s children, but all the people whose heads are sitting (who are concerned) about just what is happening on this earth are under the feet of (ruled by) the deceiver.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “And we know that we are God’s children. But all the rest who live in the world are in the power (dominion) of the big-evil-one.”
- Tzotzil: “We know that we are in the hand of God. We know also that all the people are in the hand of the devil.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: “We are of God. Surely we know this. The world belongs completely to the evil-one.”
- Yanesha’: “We, we know that we are of the category-lineage of our Father. But the people of the earth, his followers they are to him, the devil.”
- Aguaruna: “However this also we know: ‘We belong to God, but the devil commands all others here in this world.'” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 28:21:
- Uma: “The Yahudi elders said to Paulus: ‘We have not received a letter from Yudea talking about you (sing.). And there has also been no-one from there bringing news or speaking of your (sing.) evil.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They said to Paul, ‘We (excl.) have never received a letter from the land Yahudiya concerning you. There are also no Yahudi who have been there bringing information here or speaking evil about you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they said to Paul, ‘There is no letter that we’ve received which has come from the province of Judea telling us about you, and there are none of our companions who have arrived from Judea that have any news about anything that you’ve done that’s bad.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “After that they said, ‘We (excl.) have received no letter from Judea about you (sing.). Even also our companions who have come-from there, there is nothing they have reported-negatively or related that is evil that you (sing.) have done.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Those people said, ‘All this time, there has been no letter which came here to us from Judea telling concerning you. And those of our (incl.) fellow-countrymen who have been coming here from there, there was nothing they related or were discussing about evil which you had done.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:1:
- Noongar: “When Jesus finished saying these things to the people, he went to Capernaum.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “When Yesus was finished teaching all the people, he went to Kapernaum town.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Isa had finished saying all this to the people, he went to the town of Kapernaum.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When Jesus had finished teaching the people, he went to the town of Capernaum.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When Jesus had finished teaching all these-things to the many-people, he went to Capernaum.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jesus had ended all of that which he was teaching the people, he continued on to Capernaum.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
