Following are a number of back-translations of Philippians 4:11:
- Uma: “The reason that I say this, it is not my intention to say that I have a need/lack. Because I am already used to living happily with whatever there is.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And I am not saying this because I am in need, for I am used already to whatever happens-to-me/I-experience, whether I have anything or not, I am not troubled.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason why I’m saying this is not because I lack the things I need. Because even when my situation is not very good, God has taught me that it’s necessary that I be happy just the same.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I don’t say this because of the lack of what I need, because I have-accustomed-myself to be satisfied with whatever is my situation.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I don’t mean to say that I am in need and that’s why I am looking to you to help me. For it’s true that I have become used to being able to be happy whatever my situation is.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I do not suffer when you do not help me. I rejoice in however I live.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 16:3:
- Uma: “They do all that to you, because they do not know my Father, and I also, they do not know me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They will do this to you because they do not know my Father nor me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason they will do this to you is because I and my Father, they do not know us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They will do these-things because they don’t know my Father and me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They really will do this because they don’t recognize/know me, or the Father either.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “This will happen to you because they have never come to know my Father nor me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 24:46:
- Uma: “No kidding his blessedness/good-fortune if his noble returns from his journey and finds him doing his work.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When his master comes back, that servant is very happy when his masters sees that he has done all that he was commanded to do.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When his master returns, how great is the joy of the servant if his master finds that he obeyed all that his master told him to do.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Fortunate is that servant if his master comes-home and comes-upon him doing the work that was entrusted to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That slave will be able to be really happy if on the arrival of his master, like that truly is what he is doing.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The good fortune will be met by the worker who does what his boss ordered. When the boss arrives he will find him working.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 1:20:
- Uma: “God ordered his Son to come die on the cross, so that everything that is would be caused-to-be-at-peace / caused-to-be-united again with him, both what is in the world and what is in heaven. It was that death of Yesus on the cross that made everything be-at-peace / united with God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And because of this Child/Son of his, God wants that everything, that means all which is there in the sky and which is here on earth, be reconciled again with him. And because of the death of his Child/Son on the post it is possible for them to be reconciled with him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And He wants also that by means of His Son, everybody here on earth and in Heaven, might be returned to a good relationship with Him. And by means of the shedding of the blood of His son on the cross, it might be possible that everybody becomes His friends.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And he decided to again bring-close to himself all that exists on the earth and in heaven by-means-of that Child of his, so he removed what was separating them from him by-means-of the blood of Cristo that flowed-down at his death on the cross.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And he also determined that by the strength of the death of Jesus in-which he caused- his blood -to-drip on the cross, he would cause absolutely-all to return to himself, here in the world and in heaven also, so that they could be reconciled again.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God wanted that by means of Christ it would be possible to be friends with all the people who live here on earth also those who live in heaven. They are brought together because Christ died on the cross.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 17:2:
- Navajo (Dinė): “You have given me charge of human beings, as many as there are, in order that I should give to all that you have given me life that does not end.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “You have given me my chieftainship so that I can rule all people. In this way can give eternal life in heaven to all you gave me.”
- Aguaruna: “You are the one who said in reference to me, ‘Let him be the commander of all people; so that he gives never ending life to those I have given him.'” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
- Uma: “You gave me authority over all people, so that the people whom you gave me, I gave them good life forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You gave me authority to rule over all mankind so that I could give life without end to all people you gave to me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You have entrusted to me the authority over all people so that I might give life forever to all the people you have given to me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because you (sing.) handed-over to me the authority to rule-over all people so that I would give life that is forever to all those whom you (sing.) entrusted to me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Like indeed your giving to me the rule over all people under the heavens, so that I will give life which is without ending to all whom you have given to me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “You gave your son power to decide over all people so that he will give the new life which is forever to all whom you delivered over to him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 25:28:
- Uma: “The noble also said to another ordered-one: ‘Take the money from him, give it to the one who has ten thousand.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then he said to his other servants, ‘Take the money away from him and give it to the one who has ten thousand pesos.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he said to another servant, ‘Take the thousand away from him, and give it to the one who was able to get ten thousand.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he said to his other servants, ‘Get his talent so you will then give it to the one who has ten talents.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then that master said to his other slaves, ‘Go ahead, take that one thousand from him and add it to the one who got ten thousand.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Then the boss said to the workers who were standing there: ‘Concerning this worker here, take away the one thousand monies he has. Give that money to the worker who is holding the ten thousand monies.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 2:23:
- Uma: “In appearance, those laws look so good, because the people who follow those laws are like ones who are really religious: they humble themselves [lit., lower their hearts] and they follow rules of religion that torture their bodies. But really there is no use to those laws, because the people who follow those laws just follow the evil desires of their hearts.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “True, their teachings/instructions appear to be right/fitting. They are really religious and they pretend that their livers are low/humble and they cause-difficulties to their bodies, but all these doings of theirs are only from their own wishes/will. But these (things) do not cause the greedy-desire of their bodies to stop.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for those people, it sounds as if what they’re teaching is right; they say that it’s necessary for us to worship the angels of God, and it’s necessary that we consider ourselves low in rank, and it’s necessary also that we torture our bodies. But in spite of that, these things which they teach are not right, for commands like this, they cannot help us in resisting the evil desires of our bodies.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Admittedly it’s as if those rules have goodness, because those who follow them, they are careful/thorough in worshipping angels and they humble themselves to obey their customs while-at-the-same-time they very-much hardship their bodies/themselves (ambiguous). But the truth-of-it is, these-things have no usefulness in blocking what the body desires.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “On the surface (lit. if we just look), you could say that these teachings are the truth because those obeying/following (them), in the sight of others, they are devoutly-worshipful and very humble, and they are even causing suffering to their bodies. However there is indeed no usefulness to these things for they indeed are what lead us into indulging our congenital evil desires.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Truly these people who say such things seem to appear as wise people. Because they say that they teach the proper way for people to worship. And they teach you that you should act as though you are of no value. And they teach you to control well the desires of your body. But these teaching are of no value because they do not take away the evil thoughts a person has in his heart.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 3:11:
- Uma: “So, since he has made us new people, we no longer make distinction between Yahudi people and people who are not Yahudi, because in the sight of God people who are circumcised and people who are not circumcised are just the same. He does not look-at-appearance whether a person is schooled or not schooled, nobleman or slave. Kristus is the main-thing of all, and he is the one who dwells-in-us all.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When/if all are equally new then there is no longer any difference between Yahudi and not Yahudi, the ones who have been circumcised and the ones who are not circumcised, the ones who have learning and the ones who have no learning, the servant and the master. There is no difference between them, because in-the-same-way/equally Almasi lives in their livers and Almasi is the only one who is great to them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because of this, we (incl.) whom He has made into new people, we do not favor either Jews or people who aren’t Jews because to God, those who are circumcised and those who are not circumcised are just the same. Just the same to Him are those who studied and those who have not studied; servant and the master; to us (incl.) who are new people, the only one who is high is Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because of this that God has done, there is no distinction between all the people whom he has made-new. Whether Jew or Gentile, whether circumcised or not circumcised, whether stranger and savage/headhunter, and whether slave or not slave, they are all the same in God’s estimation/view, because it is Cristo alone who is important/esteemed, and he is in all who have-believed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “In this new life of ours there is now no distinction, Jews or not Jews, circumcised or not circumcised, those from other lands who have different languages and ways, fierce people who don’t have any education at all, slaves and those who are not slaves. It is not important what the nationality (lit: blood) of a person is or what their circumstances are. All that is important is Cristo, if we believe/obey him or not. He is superior to all and he indwells all who are trusting and believing in him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And now, it is not important whether one is a Jew or is not a Jew, where one has been marked or not, whether one is from far away or whether a person is not educated, whether one is under a boss or not. That which is of the greatest importance is that one believes in Christ. Because Christ is he who walks with all the people who believe in him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
