Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:26:
- Uma: “But Petrus forbade him, he pulled him up again, and said to him: ‘Don’t do like that! Stand up. I am also just a man like you.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Petros caused him to stand up. Petros said to him, ‘Stand up. I am just a human/man like you.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “however Peter made him stand up saying, ‘Stand up becausae I am only a man just like you.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Pedro, he had-him -stand-up saying, ‘Stand-up, because I also, I am a mere person.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But he was at once caused to stand up by Pedro who said, ‘Don’t do like that. Stand up, for as for me, I am indeed man/human like you.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Teutila Cuicatec: ” . . . I too am a man it is not right for you to worship me because I am a worldling just like you.”
- Lalana Chinantec: “Peter raised up Cornelius, he said: ‘Get up. we are both just people.'” (Source for this and above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 1:3:
- Uma: “That Good News tells who the Child of God is, our Lord Yesus Kristus. According to his birth as mankind, Yesus is the descendant of King Daud of old. But that Yesus is also the Child of God, for he is holy the same as God. That is clear because God caused him to live again, and with that amazing sign he made-clear that he indeed is the Child of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This good news is about God’s Child/Son, Isa Almasi, our (incl.) Leader. He was born in the world a descendant of King Da’ud when he was a human being.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “This is the news about our Lord Jesus Christ, son of God. And as for this Jesus, he became a human for he was born as a descendant of the long ago King David.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What this good news talks-about, it is his Child Jesu Cristo who is our Lord. As concerning his personhood, he was a descendant of King David.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “This good news tells about our Lord Jesus Christ, the son of God. It tells that he became a person, and tells that he is the descendant of the ruler David.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Isthmus Zapotec: “This gospel teaches us of His son who came from among the children (family) of David at the time when he came to be a person of this world, and He is Jesus Christ our Lord.”
- Central Tarahumara: “And this very Good Word of God speaks advising us about the Son of God, who is our Lord Jesus Christ. And here in the world Jesus Christ was born as a baby boy. And he was born as one of David’s grandsons like.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
- Hausa: “This gospel is about his Son Jesus Christ our Lord it is. By human he is from the tribe of David,” (Source: Hausa Common Language Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 5:2:
- Uma: “For the mediation of Yesus Kristus brings us into harmony with God because of our faith, so that we feel/experience the grace [white insides] of God that we have now obtained. And our hearts are glad because our hope is strong that we get/obtain a share in God’s glory [lit., bigness of life].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa Almasi showed us (incl.) the love and pity/mercy of God to us (incl.) when we (incl.) trusted him and now we (incl.) are considered straight by God. We (incl.) are also glad because our (incl.) hope (expectation) is sure that we (incl.) will be with God and that he will honor us (incl.) there in heaven.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because of our faith in Jesus, he has already made it possible for God to show His favor to us. That’s why our joy is great because we are expecting that in the future, we will be able to share in the very great high rank of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because of him, we share-in-experiencing the grace of God that we are now enjoying, and great is our happiness because we expect in-addition that we will share-in-experiencing the goodness and greatness (lit. highness) of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “We encounter the grace of God because we believed in Jesus Christ. And we rejoice that there will come the day when we will see the good that God gives.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Central Mazahua: “We believe Jesus and now we come into the presence of God who looks on us well because of what Jesus Christ did. Very beautiful is God. Very much we rejoice, we wait for him to make us as he is.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 11:16:
- Uma: “If the firstfruits [lit., first-born] of our crops we offer to God, it means that all our crops belong to God. If the roots are God’s, the branches are also God’s. The Jews can be compared to an olive [Indonesian: zaitun] tree that is tended. Its roots mean/stand-for the ancestors of the Jews that God had as his portion. Its branches mean/stand-for their descendants. Some of its branches were broken off by God. And in the breaking-off place he stuck on branches of an olive tree that was not tended, in order that those branches live and get richness from the root of the tended tree. Those branches that he stuck on are you, who are not Jews.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I give an illustration/parable to you about the Yahudi. It is the custom of us (excl.) Yahudi, if/when we (excl.) make dough to make bread, we (excl.) take a handful to give to God. If that one handful belongs to God, that means all of the dough also belongs to him. Or the illustration/parable is a tree. If the root belongs to God, the branches also belong to God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the ancestors of the Jews, came to be owned by God, it’s not possible that their descendants also not become owned by God. If God owns the root of the tree, it’s necessary that He owns also the body.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The Jews can-be-compared to bread. Because we know that if the first piece/hunk of bread is offered to God, the rest of the bread is also counted as belonging to God. Another thing-they -are-compared-to is a tree, because if its root was offered to God, its branches also belong to God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Abraham was the first of the Jews and he belongs to God. Also those Jews who are his descendants also belong to God. This Abraham is like a trunk of a tree. The Jews who are his descendants are like the branches. But all belong to God, all make up the tree.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “And if it is good a bit of dough, then it is good all of that dough. And if it is good the root of a tree, then are good the branches of the tree. And so it is with the Israelites; their fathers were good, so they themselves are good.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 2:18:
- Uma: “Even [arrive-arrive to] my servants/slaves, man or woman, I will give them my Spirit on that day, and they will utter my words.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Yes, God said, even to my servants male-and-female, I will send my Spirit in those days and they will speak/spread my word/message.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And those who are my servants,’ he said ‘male and female, I will cause them in the future to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and I will inspire them, and they will cause people to understand my word.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Even the slaves who serve me, men and women, I will cause-my Spirit -to-enter them and they will tell what I cause-them -to-speak.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Yes indeed, at that time, I really will grace all my servants, female, male, causing them to be indwelled by my Espiritu Santo. And then through his inspiring them, they will speak what I am causing to be known by people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- San Mateo Del Mar Huave: “In that day I will put my Spirit upon the men and women who do my work. They will speak that which I will say.”
- Desano: “To those who do my work as my servants, to them also I will send my Spirit. They will speak because I will cause them to speak.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “When this happens, on my servants, the men and the women, I will send my Holy Spirit. They will prophesy about my power.” (Source for this and two above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
For the Old Testament quotes, see Joel 2:28ff.
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 4:2:
- Uma: “The Saduki people did not believe that the dead will live again. That’s why they were very angry hearing Petrus and Yohanes teaching the people that Yesus lived again, because that teaching of theirs made clear that dead people would live again.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They were very angry because Petros and company were teaching the people, affirming strongly that because Isa was/is alive again, the dead would/will also be alive again in the future.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for these leaders, they were angry at Peter and company for teaching the people that the resurrection of Jesus is proof that people will be raised from the dead in the future.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They became/had-become-angry because plural Pedro were teaching that Jesus lived again, therefore all who die will also live.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They really couldn’t accept what those two were doing teaching the people and saying that Jesus had been made alive again, and that is what gives testimony that people will indeed be made alive again.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Chuj: “Those rulers became angry, because Peter and John were teaching the people. Peter and John were telling out that the dead will come alive again like Jesus came alive again.” (Source for this and above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 6:12:
- Uma: “From there, they incited the people with the leaders of the Yahudi and the teachers of religion, so that they were angry at Stefanus. They went and grabbed him and took him to the religious judges.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because of their lying, the people thought-mistakenly that what they said about Estepan was really true. Therefore the people and the elders and the teachers of the Yahudi religious law were angry with Estepan. They went (and) seized Estepan and brought him to the councilors to be judged.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore the elders and the teachers of the law got angry at Stephen, and they went to Stephen and seized him and brought him before the leaders.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And that was what-made-the many-people, elders and teachers of the law -angry with Esteban. That being so, they went to arrest him and took him to the gathering-place of the leaders of the Jews.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What those opposing Esteban really were doing was, they were putting it in the heads of the people, including the important tribal-chiefs and explainers of law, to oppose Esteban. Well, what else but they then arrested Esteban. They took him to the Sanedrin and caused him to stand in the presence of the leaders of the Judio.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Lalana Chinantec: “The people who made the fuss with Stephen talked to the townspeople and the old men and the people who teach the law that God gave to Moses back then. In a great rush they came upon Stephen. They seized Stephen. They took him before the people who judge.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 19:19:
- Uma: “Many who had magic carried their magic books, they gathered them and burned them in the eyes of the masses. The cost of those magic books if it were gathered, was around 50,000 silver moneys.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Many of them who had ‘practiced medicine’ (tawal), they brought and gathered the booklets (kitab-kitab) where they had written their words-for-medicining and they burned them in the sight of the people. They counted the cost of those booklets, it was five thousand pesos.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And those who did sorcery, they brought their books on magic, and they burned them there in front of everybody. And they counted the value of these books, and it was about fifty thousand pieces of silver that they were worth.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “while some, they gathered-together their books and burned them with the many-people spectating. When they counted the value of what was burned, it was about fifty thousand in their money.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There were many of them who, although they had already believed in the Lord, still had something else they trusted in, like charms, incantations, and other skills/acquired-knowledge (usually supernatural). Well, without anything further, as for the rolled up writings on which were written those skills of theirs, they assembled them all, and then burned them before the eyes of everyone. Someone estimated the cost of all those writings and it came to the sum of over fifty thousand.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Isthmus Mixe: “Many of the ones who practised magic brought the books of magic. Then they burned them before everyone. Then they figured out how much the books were worth. They were found to be worth 50,000 pieces of silver money.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
