Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:14:
Uma: “So the Word of God foretold by the prophet Yesaya long ago is fulfilled. Like this its sound: ‘They hear, but they still do not know its meaning. They see, but it is like they still do not really see.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Na, what Nabi Isaya wrote in the holy-book is fulfilled already, it says, ‘You really listen but you do not understand. You really look but you do not see/recognise.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “That which Isaiah prophesied has been fulfilled in them, because he said, God said, ‘They listen carefully, but they can’t understand. They look carefully, but they cannot see.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “They are the fulfillment of what God caused-to-be-written by Isaias the prophet saying, ‘Even though they repeatedly-hear, they will not understand. And even though they repeatedly-look-closely, they will not recognize.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Really what was said by the prophet Isaias in the past can find fulfillment in them, which he wrote which was what God said, saying, ‘Even though you (pl.) keep on listening, you really won’t be able to understand. And even though you stare and stare, you won’t recognize what you are looking at.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Concerning what these people are doing, thus has happened the word predicted by the prophet Isaiah who said: ‘The people will hear about the word, but they will not understand about the word they hear. Concerning what the people will see, they will not understand what they see.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 12:11:
Uma: “These words of mine earlier, [they make me sound] like I am really a stupid person for I was praising myself, but you, relatives, are the reason I was doing it. Actually, it should have been you, relatives, who praised me. For though I’m not really anybody, but I am still really the Lord Yesus’ apostle/messenger, I am not inferior [lit., younger-siblinged] to those apostles/messengers there [where you are] who make-big their own names.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “I am really like a stupid/bad person to make myself great. But I blame you because I would not make myself great if you had made me great/had honored me. Because even though some say that I am of no use, I am not surpassed by those people there who pretend that they are commissioned by Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I’m acting like a stupid person because I’m boasting, but you forced me to do it, for you should be the ones to give my arguments in answer to those false apostles of Christ. In spite of the fact that I have no wisdom, I am not overshadowed by these people who pretend to be so high, who are false apostles of Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “I am like a person who has a (mental) lack because of this boasting-about myself, but you (particle = you ought to know) are the ones who have-forced-me. Because you should have been the ones to boast-about me. Because even though I have no importance, I am still not lower than those aforementioned pretend apostles who say that they reportedly are the highest.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “It could now be said that I went-crazy in this boasting of mine, but it’s like you are the ones who pushed me into doing like that. You should have been the ones to stand up for me, at that time when people there were belittling me saying that they reportedly are real apostles who are unsurpassable. For it cannot really be said that I am behind those people, even though I have no ability of my own which can be relied on.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “In my opinion, I am now speaking like a person who does not feel shame in bragging. But this word I have spoken needs to be said. Because you have not overcome the words of those teachers who say that I do what is not good. Shouldn’t you have been able to tell them I do what is good? You know that these teachers whose words you follow say that they are Christ’s supreme representatives. But how can it be that they are supreme when concerning the word they know, I also know even though they say that I am of no value.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Lalana Chinantec: “For truly my flesh and blood give strength.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
Uma: “Because my body is real food, and my blood is real drink.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “For my flesh is the real food and my blood is the real drink.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “for my body and my blood become food and drink forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Because my body and my blood, those are the true food and drink.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Because as for my flesh, it truly is food, and that blood of mine, it truly is drink.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Because my flesh truly takes the place of food for the people. And my blood takes away the thirst of the people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:46:
Uma: “When he found a mutiara that was very expensive, he went and sold all his goods/belongings, and he used-to-buy that mutiara.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “When he finds/found one very valuable pearl he sells/sold all his belongings and buys/bought that one pearl.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when he finds one pearl which is most expensive, he sells all he possesses, and he buys it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “When he saw one that was extremely-valuable, he went-home and sold all his possessions so that he would have a way to go buy that pearl.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “When he had found one which was really first-class, he went home and sold all his possessions and bought that one.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “When he has found a pearl of very great price, then he sells all that he has and buys the pearl he had found.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 1:8:
Uma: “But I say to you, whoever brings a Good News that is different, that is not the same as the Good News that we (excl.) already announced to you, [may] God curse them! Whether it is we (excl.) ourselves or even an angel from heaven, they must definitely be cursed by God!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But if there is a person or even yet we (excl.) or even yet an angel from heaven and he proclaims/preaches a different good news than/from the true teaching which we (excl.) have preached to you, truly he will go to hell.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, I say to you that if there’s anyone – even if it is we, or even an angel who comes from Heaven – and he preaches to you that which he calls Good News but it is different and it is not the true doctrine which we preached to you, may he be placed in hell.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “I warn you that even if we (excl.) ourselves or an angel from heaven were to go preach something different from the good news that we (excl.) preached to you previously, may he be punished in hell forever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “But well, the truth of it is, whoever teaches you differently from that which we (excl.) taught, it’s really necessary that God punish him with unlimited punishment, even (if it’s) us (excl.) apostles, or one of the angels from heaven/sky.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “But even though we ourselves, or an angel should come from heaven, if one should arise to tell you another good news and it is not just the same as the word we have already told you, then the one who tells a different word will go to punishment.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Anyin: “If even us, we come tell you a new matter and if that matter and the one we told you before are not the same, let misfortune hit us. Also if an angel comes from heaven and comes tells you a new matter, and if that new matter and the one we told you before are not the same, let misfortune hit him.” Click or tap here to see an explanation of this translation
“The Greek verb translated in English as ‘should preach’ is in the third person singular. It is also in the third person singular in French and in Spanish. The agreement of the verb with ‘angel’ as opposed to ‘we’ (Paul and his friends) poses problems of language and meaning in some African languages with resumptive pronouns [=a personal pronoun appearing in a relative clause, which restates the antecedent after a pause or interruption, such as ‘This is the girl that whenever it rains she cries‘]. In Anyi, for instance, if the verse is translated without paying attention to the issues of resolution rules, Paul could be taken to mean that if he and his friends were to come back and preach a different gospel they would not be accursed. However if an ‘angel’ preached a different message he would be accursed. (…) The best way to translate Galatians 1.8 and verses like it without producing an ungrammatical sentence or translating the verse incompletely is to make two separate sentences. In one sentence ‘should preach’ and ‘him’ agree with ‘we,’ and in the other ‘should preach’ and ‘him’ agree with ‘angel.'”
Following are a number of back-translations of John 7:16:
Uma: “Yesus said saying to them: ‘What I teach to you, is teaching from God who sent me, not my own teaching.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Isa answered them, he said, ‘My teaching is not from my own knowledge/wisdom but from God, the one who sent me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered them, ‘It’s not my own wisdom that I am teaching, but rather it comes from God who sent me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “When Jesus heard then what they said aforementioned, he answered them and said, ‘This that I am teaching, it didn’t come-from my mind/thoughts, but rather it came-from God who sent me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Jesus answered them, saying, ‘This which I am teaching, it’s not my own, but on the contrary this comes from him who sent me to come here.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said, ‘That which I teach isn’t just my ideas. It is the word of him who sent me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 14:20:
Uma: “They all ate until they were full. After they ate, they gathered up the leftovers, twelve more baskets.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “They all ate and were filled. When they had finished eating the disciples of Isa gathered the left-overs, twelve baskets full.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and every one of the people there ate and became satisfied. And as for that food, there were twelve basketfulls left over of the pieces of bread which his disciples picked up.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “They all ate and they were full. When they then gathered what as left-over, twelve baskets were filled with the scraps of food.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “All of them ate till they were full. The disciples collected what was left over, twelve baskets being filled with those broken-bits.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “All the people ate well and all were filled. When the people had finished eating, Jesus’ learners gathered up twelve baskets of bread which was left over.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 2:16:
Uma: “But even so, we (excl.) know that it is not due to our (excl.) good behavior that become straight in the eyes of God. Even though we (excl.) follow carefully all the commands in the Law of Musa, it is not that which makes us (excl.) straight in God’s sight. The road to become straight in the eyes of God is just to believe in Kristus Yesus. That is why we (excl.) have believed in Kristus Yesus so that we become straight in the eyes of God because of our (excl.) believing in Kristus. We(excl.) no longer trust in our following the Law of Musa, because there is not one single person who becomes straight in the sight of God because of their following the commands in the Law of Musa.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But even we (excl.), we (excl.) know that a person is forgiven and considered straight by God only because of his trusting in Isa Almasi, not because of his following/obeying the commands of the law of Musa. Therefore even we (excl.), we (excl.) already trust in Isa Almasi so that we (excl.) are forgiven and considered straight by God because of our (excl.) trusting Almasi and not because of our (excl.) following the law. Because there is really no person forgiven and considered straight by God because of his following/obeying the commands of the law.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But in spite of this, we (incl.) know that we cannot be considered righteous before God by means of our obeying the Law left behind by Moses, only by means of trusting Jesus Christ. As for us (incl.) Jews, we have also trusted in Jesus Christ so that by means of faith in Jesus Christ we might also be considered righteous before God. We (incl.) know that this cannot come to be by means of obeying the Law; for there is not anybody who can be considered righteous before God by means of obeying the Law.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “But we know nevertheless that a person is not made-righteous in God’s sight because of his following his law but rather because of his faith in Jesu Cristo and that’s-all. Therefore even we Jews, we believed in Cristo Jesus in order that God would count us righteous because of our faith in Cristo, not our obeying the law. Because absolutely no one is made-righteous in God’s sight because of his obeying the law.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “we have now understood that it’s not by a person’s obeying the laws that he is regarded as righteous/straight in the sight of God, but rather through his true belief and trust in what Cristo Jesus did. Therefore, even we Jews, because we have now understood this, we have now believed in Cristo Jesus. For we comprehended that this is how we obtain the removal of sin in God’s sight, not our own obedience to the laws. For there is absolutely nobody whom God will regard as righteous/straight because of his obedience to the laws, because nobody can obey them completely.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “But we know that the reason our sins are taken care of is not because we do what is said by the law the Jews follow. That which takes care of our sins is our faith in Jesus Christ. The people who are not Jews now believe in Christ, but we also believe in Jesus Christ. And this fact that we believe in Christ has taken care of our sins, and not that our sins were taken care of by our doing what is said in the law followed by our fellow Jews. Because no one can arise whose sins will be taken care of because he did what is said in the law.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
