Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:21:
- Uma: “He said further: ‘Yet do you still not comprehend?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Na,’ he said, ‘and you still don’t understand?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to them, ‘Perhaps you now understand that it is not bread that we have to worry about.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘And do you still not understand what I mean to say?’ said Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Well, why can’t you yet understand?’ said Jesus again/next. ‘It wasn’t food which I was alluding to in this warning of mine.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 3:7:
- Uma: “So, listen to the advice/scolding of the Holy Spirit that is written in the Holy Book long ago. He says like this: ‘Today, if you hear the voice of God,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore we (incl.) should really think about what is written in the holy-book spoken by the Holy Spirit. It says, ‘When/if you hear God’s voice speaking this day,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For there’s a written word of the Holy Spirit which says, ‘Today if you hear the word of God to you,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore we must obey/believe what the Holy Spirit caused-to-be-written which says, ‘Today, if you hear God’s words,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Now, therefore, let us consider that warning of the Espiritu Santo which says, ‘Now/today, if you have heard what God is saying,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore, concerning the word the Holy Spirit speaks in the Holy Book, pay attention to the word which says: ‘Concerning this day, listen to the word God speaks to you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 95:7 – Psalm 95:11.
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:19:
- Uma: “While Petrus was still thinking, the Holy Spirit said to him like this: ‘Listen! there are three people here looking for you (sing.).” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “During that time Petros was still there thinking as to what the meaning was of what he had seen. Then God’s Spirit said to him, ‘Listen. There are three men there looking for you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Peter, at that time, was still thinking about what was to be understood by what he had seen, and then the Holy Spirit said to him, ‘There are three men looking for you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Pedro, he was still continuing-to-think-about the significance of what God had shown him, so the Spirit of God said to him, ‘There are three people looking-for you (sing.).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for Pedro, he was still trying-to-understand what had been shown to him. The Espiritu Santo said to him, ‘Pedro, listen well. There are three people looking for you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Lalana Chinantec: “As Peter was meditating what he had dreamed about, the Great Spirit spoke to Peter: ‘Three Gentiles who are looking for you have arrived at your house.'” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:15:
- Uma: “The many people saw, there was Yesus coming. As soon as they saw him, they were amazed / startled. Off they ran to meet him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then when the crowds saw Isa, they were-astonished/wondered because they had not expected that Isa would go there. They ran to greet him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When the people saw that Jesus had come, they were very much amazed because not expecting Jesus and they quickly went up to meet him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When the many-people saw Jesus, they were very surprised, and they ran to where he was and greeted him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s like the people were startled when they saw Jesus. They ran to meet him and give-greeting.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 5:4:
- Uma: “And also, no-one appoints himself to be Big Priest. People who become Big Priests, it is only God who appoints and calls them to that work, like what happened long ago to Harun.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There is no person who has the power to make himself great/honor himself and make himself high priest, but God is the one who chooses the person whom he makes high priest like Harun of old was made high priest by God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The high priest is highly respected; however, there’s no one who can choose himself so that he might become the high priest. Because the one who chooses him is God, just like he chose Aaron long time ago.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “No one chooses himself to get the high position of highest priest but rather it is necessary that God call him like what happened to Aaron.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This far-from ordinary responsibility/job of Most-important Priest, it’s not possible for anyone at all to just receive it according to his own will. Because it’s God who chooses him, just like (he did) with Aaron in the past.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “This high priest does not pick out by himself that he will work as the high priest. It is like Aaron didn’t decide by himself that he would be God’s high priest, rather God appointed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 11:3:
- Uma: “they said to him: ‘Why did you (sing.) enter the house of people who are dirty according to the custom of our religion and you (sing.) even ate with them?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They said, ‘Why did you go to the house of people who have not been circumcised and you also ate with them?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they said, ‘Why is it that you a Jew, you visit there with the people who are not Jews who are not circumcized, and you ate also with them?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘(Exclamation of reproof) you (sing.) who visited in the house of Gentiles and furthermore ate-with them.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They said, ‘Expl! Why did you do like that, that you went to the house of people who aren’t Jews? And you even ate with them!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:47:
- Uma: “And if for instance one of our eyes makes [carries] us sin, just gouge it out. It is better we just have one eye and become God’s person/crowd in his Kingdom. That would be far better than for us to have two eyes, yet in the end be cast into the fire of hell.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And also if your eye carries/influences you to sin, leave your sin. It’s parable is, as if you dig out your eye. It is better for you to enter heaven even if you have only one eye, than that you have two eyes but are thrown into hell.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if your eye is the means by which you are successfully tempted, goudge it out and throw it away. For it is better if you have only one eye and are given eternal life, rather than having two eyes, you are thrown into hell.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Your (sing.) eye also, if that’s what-makes-you-(sing.)-sin, extract-it. Because it would be better if you (sing.) go to share the life in heaven one-eyed than your (sing.) having two eyes and you (sing.) are thrown into the fire in hell.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well supposing your eye is what causes you to sin, just pluck it out. For it doesn’t matter even if one eye is plucked out, as long as you can enter the kingdom of God. Rather than having both eyes still and have to go there to far-from-ordinary punishment.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 7:2:
- Uma: “After that, Abraham divided the stuff he had gotten in the battle, and he gave one-tenth-part to Melkisedek. The name Melkisedek, its meaning: ‘Straight [Upright] King.’ And also, because he was king in the village of Salem too, his other name is ‘King who brings goodness of life,’ [i.e., peace, prosperity], for the meaning of the name Salem is goodness of life.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Ibrahim gave Malkisadik tithe, one part of ten parts of the wealth that he had gotten in the war. The meaning of the name Malkisadik is ‘Sultan Righteous/Straight’. And because the place where he was sultan is called Salem and its meaning is ‘peace’ therefore he is also called ‘Sultan Peace’.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for Abraham, he gave to Melchizedek the tenth part of all the spoils he’d captured. Now this name, Melchizedek, has two meanings: the first, is king who makes people righteous; and because he was king over the town of Salem which is to say, peace, the interpretation of his name is also ‘king which is able to give peace.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This Melkizedek, he was king of (lit. at) Salem. He was also a priest who served God the Highest. The meaning of his name, it is righteous king and the meaning also of his position, it is king of peace, because the meaning of Salem is peace. When plural Abraham were returning from defeating the four kings, Melkizedek went to meet him and blessed him. Then Abraham gave him a tenth of all the possessions he took-back in his winning in battle.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then what Abraham did was, he gave to that Melquisedec the tenth part of all he had plundered from those kings he had killed whom they had chased. (Now this name Melquisedec, it has significance. It means ‘king who gives justice/righteousness (lit. straightness).’ And this name Salem means ‘peace’. Therefore, because Melquisedec was king there in Salem, its significance is, ‘king who gives peace’.)” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And Abraham, concerning all the things he had taken from the war he had won, he gave a tenth to the priest Melchizedek. This name Melchizedek means to say the king who does what is good. And because he ruled there in the city of Salem, therefore he was called the king who makes peace between people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
