Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 9:35:
- Uma: “All the people in the town of Lida and in Saron saw that he was healed, and they too believed in the Lord Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Very many people living in Lidda and those living in Saron saw him and they now followed Isa, the Lord.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And all the people who lived there in Lydda and Sharon saw that he was cured. And all of them believed in the Lord Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And the residents in Lidda and in the plain at Saron, when they saw him, they believed in Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, all the taga Lida, including the taga Saron, who saw that he was now well, they all believed in the Lord.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:26:
- Uma: “After that Yesus ordered him to return to his house, he said to him: ‘Return to your (sing.) house, but don’t enter the village to tell the villagers what happened here. ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then he was sent home by Isa. Isa said to him, ‘Do not return to that village/group of houses.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus told that person that he should go straight home, and he should not stop off even in the village.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus sent-him -home saying, ‘Truly go-straight -home. Don’t stop-off at the town that we left.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Well,’ said Jesus to him, ‘go home now. Don’t go through the town.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Aguaruna: “Jesus farewelling said, ‘Do not tell villagers, rather go straight home.'” (Source: Mildred L. Larson in Notes on Translation, September 1965, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 3:12:
- Uma: “Relatives, you take care, lest any of you have an evil heart like that, with the result that you turn your back on the Living God!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “My fellow trusters in Almasi, you should really be careful lest there is someone there who has an evil liver and does not believe and turns away from/rejects the living God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore, brethren, check up your breaths. It’s necessary that there isn’t even one of you who thinks about evil, and he has no faith. For by means of this, he can come to abandon the God who has no death.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore my brothers, be-careful so that none of you has an evil mind that doesn’t believe in God so that none of you turns-his-back-on the living God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore, brethren, always be careful so that hopefully there is none at all among you who has a disgusting nature/ways, in-which his mind/inner-being is not focused on his believing/obeying. Because that’s what will lead him to drop/give-up God who is alive without end.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Listen, my brothers, be careful now, let it not be that any of your hearts say that he will separate from God, that he will not believe in God. Because God truly lives.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:24:
- Uma: “They were one night on the road, and only then arrived in Kaisarea. Upon arrival there, Kornelius with his family had already gathered, waiting for Petrus. There were also his neighbors and friends that he had called to gather in his house.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The following day, they arrived at the place Kesarea. Korneliyus was already there waiting in his house. He had also gathered his relatives and his close friends there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the following day they arrived at Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them, and he gathered together all of his relatives and his friends.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When they then arrived at Cesarea on the second day, plural Cornelius were there waiting, along-with his close-relatives and friends whom he had invited.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “On the second day, they arrived in Ceserea. Cornelio-and-co were eagerly-awaiting them. There were many at his house for he had gathered together his relatives and his good friends.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Lalana Chinantec: “It was yesterday that they left the town of Joppa that they arrived in the town of Caesarea. Cornelius was at home waiting for Peter. At Cornelius’s house were gathered the people of his family and the people who are his friends, for Cornelius had called those people.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:20:
- Uma: “They did bring the child to Yesus. As soon as the evil-spirit saw Yesus, he made the child’s body hard to the point that he fell down and writhed on the ground, his mouth foaming.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They brought him now to him. When the demon saw Isa, the child immediately was convulsed by him. The child crashed to the ground rolling over-and-over and his mouth was foaming.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then they brought the child to Jesus. The demon, when he saw Jesus, made the child convulse, and the child was dashed to the ground, and he rolled around, and his mouth foamed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And they brought him. When the evil-spirit saw Jesus, right then it made-the child -convulse, and he fell-over and rolled/writhed-from-side-to-side while-simultaneously his mouth foamed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That child was taken to Jesus. When the evil spirit saw Jesus, he caused (the madness) to flare up severely. The child convulsed again and fell to the ground, and rolled-over-and-over, his mouth frothing again.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 5:9:
- Uma: “And from that submitting of his, Yesus became a Redeemer who has no lack, and the source of good life forever to all people who submit to him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And when he had completed all of God’s commandments to him, he became the savior of the people who believe-obey him. And he gives them everlasting life.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when He had finished everything that God had caused Him to do, He became the Savior of all who obey Him, so that they might be given life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And since he obeyed God completely, he became the source of salvation that is forever of all who believe in him,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well because he had followed/obeyed everything with nothing lacking, he became the origin of salvation which is life without end, which he will give to all who truly follow/obey him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And now that there was nothing lacking, all that which God had determined for him to go through, he did, therefore he is able to save forever the people who do what he tells them.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 11:8:
- Uma: “I answered: ‘No indeed, Lord! I have never-yet eaten an animal that is taboo/forbidden or dirty according to the custom of our (excl.) religion.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But I said, ‘I won’t, Sir. As long as I have lived, I have never yet eaten anything defiled or forbidden.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I answered, ‘Not me, Lord, because I have not yet eaten anything unclean like that which is forbidden by the law.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon I said, ‘I emphatically don’t-want-to, Lord, because I have eaten-for-viand absolutely nothing that we (excl.) Jews consider-taboo.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “However, I replied saying, ‘Oh, I can’t do like that, Lord, for as long as I’ve been in the world, I haven’t trespassed by eating any food which is forbidden by our (excl.) handed-down law.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 10:2:
- Uma: “There were some Parisi people who arrived wanting to pick a fight. They asked him: ‘According to the law of our religion, can a man divorce his wife?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Some Pariseo went close to him in order to trap him, they asked him, they said, ‘According to the law, is it possible if a person divorces his wife?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then there were some Pharisee people who came to Jesus, for they were looking for a way to accuse him. They said, ‘Does the law allow us to divorce our wives?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There were also Pharisees that went to Jesus to try to trick-him -with-words. They said, ‘Does our law permit a man to divorce his wife?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There were some Pariseo who went to Jesus there, for the motive in their mind was to test him through this question of theirs which said, ‘Is it in harmony with the law of Moises for a man to divorce his wife?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
