Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 2:9:
- Uma: “Every person who does evil will suffer/groan and have difficulty, beginning with the Jews, down to [lit., arrive-arrive at] the people who are not Jews also.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “All who do bad are given trouble by God and they are made to suffer/be-in-tight-place. Not only the Yahudi but including the other tribes/nations also.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For everyone who does wickedly, especially Jews extending to non-Jews, hardship and trouble is what He will punish them with.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Yes, all who do evil will experience extreme pain and hardship/suffering, especially the Jews but so also the Gentiles.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Great suffering will be what comes to all who live in evil. Not only for Jews, but also those who are not Jews, overflowing will be the pain.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Teutila Cuicatec: “Sinners of all nations, especially those of the nation of Israel, will suffer, God punishing them.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:2:
- Noongar: “and also women whom Jesus had healed of their evil spirits and sicknesses. Mary (called Magdalene) — Jesus had driven seven evil spirits out of her;” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “There were also several women who accompanied them. Those women were women whom Yesus had healed from their diseases or from evil spirits that possessed them. One of them was Maria, who was usually called Magdalena. One time Yesus had expelled seven evil spirits from that Maria.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There were also women going with him. Among those women were some whose sicknesses had been healed. Some also had been demon possessed and Isa had driven out the demons. One of these women, Mariyam, a woman from Magdala, had seven demons driven out from her.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there were also some women there who went along with him, and as for these women, he had before cured them from their sicknesses, and some of them, he drove away the demons that were afflicting them. One of these women was Mary Magdalene, the one from whom Jesus drove away seven demons.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “along with some women from whom Jesus had removed sicknesses and caused-to-leave the evil-spirits that possessed them. These women were Maria Magdalena whom seven evil-spirits had left,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And others who went around with him were women whose illness he had healed and from whom he had driven out evil spirits. One was Maria who was called Magdalena. There were seven evil spirits possessing her which had been driven out.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:8:
- Uma: “After that, the Lord Yesus also said to me, ‘Write like this to the angel who takes care of my followers in the village of Smirna: ‘These are the words of the Lord Yesus, he who is named the first and the last, who died but lives again.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then he spoke to me again, he said, ‘Write to the one in charge of the church in Ismirna, and write this: ‘This message is from me. I am the beginning and I am also the end; I am the one who was dead but I live again.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And He said again, ‘Write to the angel of God who watches over the believers in the town of Smyrna, and say, ‘These are My words. I am the origin of all the ending also of all. I died and am raised again.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he said, ‘What you (sing.) are also to write to the angel who watches-over the congregation at Esmirna, it is this. ‘I am the first and last. I also am the one who died and lived again. This is what I say to you:” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Also, this is what you are to put in the letter to send to the overseer of the believers in me in Esmirna. Say, ‘This is what he wants to say who was first before all and will be at the very end too, he who although he died came alive again indeed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Write a letter to send to God’s worker who leads where the believers are in the city of Smyrna. Here are the words you will write: ‘Thus is the word of him who was living when the things which now are began, and he continues to live forever. This one died, but again he lived. He says:” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:12:
- Uma: “All people have gone far away from God, their lives are no longer useful. No one has good behavior, not so much as one.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “All mankind, they turn-their-backs-on/reject God. They are no longer useful to God. There is none who does good, not even one.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For they have all separated themselves from the true way. All of them have done evil, there’s not even one of them that behaves righteously.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They have all turned-their-backs on God, so they have become people who are useless. There is not even one who does what is right.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “All people have separated from God. Because all have become lost in evil in how they walk/live. No one comes out that he does good, not even one person.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:34:
- Noongar: “The people working with the pigs, they saw what happened, so they went to the houses and villages of the country and told the news.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “When those caring for the pigs saw that happening, they ran going to the town and close-by gardens to announce that happening.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the people who took care of the pigs saw what happened there they ran and told there in the town and in the other places inland.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the men who took care of those pigs, when they saw what happened, they ran like a feather being blown away and they told in the towns and the fields what had happened.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When those who were watching the many-pigs saw the-aforementioned which happened, they up-and-ran to their town and to the adjoining places to go report it to the inhabitants there.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When the herders of those pigs observed, they ran and told there in the town and at the neighboring houses.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 3:11:
- Uma: “‘I am coming soon! Hold strongly to the teaching that you know, so that God will give you a reward for your victory. Don’t let there be those who cause you to fall with the result that you do not receive that reward.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I will soon come back to the world. Really store-away/regard-highly all that has been given to you so that nobody can/will snatch away your reward.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I will soon come. Grasp tightly the true teaching which you know so that the reward which I will give you if you overcome Satan will not be given to another.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “My time-of-coming is soon, so persevere in following the true teaching so that no one will remove the crown that is your reward.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I really will come in a short while. Take care that, as for your belief in the truth and obeying the will of God, that you don’t get misled, so that my reward to you won’t be forfeited, but on the contrary you will really be able to receive it.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Soon I will come. Don’t let loose what work you have grabbed so that someone else will not have come to them the payment which is meant for you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 4:13:
- Uma: “Long ago God promised to Abraham and to his descendants that he would give them the world. God’s purpose was that Abraham and his descendants receive what he promised because they believed, and from their belief they would become straight in his sight. It is not people who follow the Lord’s Law who get what God has promised.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “In old times God promised to Ibrahim that he would give him and his descendants the whole world and finally it would be theirs. This promise of God was given by him to Ibrahim not because God’s law was followed by Ibrahim but because he believed God and he was forgiven and considered straight by God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It was a long time ago when God promised Abraham and his descendants that they would be the ones to be in charge of all mankind. The reason this was promised, was not because Abraham obeyed the Law but rather, because Abraham believed God. And because of this belief of his, God considered him to be righteous.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God promised Abraham and his descendants that they would be the ones who would inherit the world. But the reason God promised that was not Abraham’s obedience to the law but rather it was because he believed and God counted him as righteous.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God promised a word to Abraham that his descendants would be given the land so that there would come to be their possession all the world. But this land was not given to belong to them because it was said that he had done all that the law says. No, no that. Rather, he upon believing God was cleared of his sins and therefore he was given the land to become his.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:10:
- Noongar: “Jesus’ disciples came back and they told Jesus everything they had done. Jesus took them together with him. They left all the other people and they went to a village called Bethsaida.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Those twelve disciples/messengers of Yesus arrived back, and they told-story to Yesus all that they had done. After that, Yesus went with them going to an empty-place near the town of Betsaida.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, the people whom Isa had commissioned gathered again going to him. They told Isa all they had done. Then Isa took them towards the town of Betsaida, them only.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The twelve apostles came back to Jesus and they told him all that they had done. And then he took them with him along, going to the town of Bethsaida.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When the apostles returned, they told Jesus all that they had done. Then he accompanied them and they went alone to the town of Betsaida.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “After the return of those twelve disciples whom Jesus had caused to go, they related all which they had done. After that, they went to a place in the direction of the town of Betsaida. Jesus didn’t cause anyone else to go with him, only his disciples.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
