Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:10:
- Noongar: “For all people who ask, that thing will be given; and he who seeks, he will find. Knock and the door will be opened for all people who knock.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Because whoever asks/requests will definitely be given. Whoever searches will definitely find. Whoever asks-to-be-opened the door, the door will definitely be opened for him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For all who ask will be given, the ones seeking will find and the ones asking to be let in, it will be opened for them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because all who beg from God receive, and those who look, find; and those who call-at-the-door, God opens the door for them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “For even anyone who requests from God will be given, and even anyone who searches will find what he is searching for. Even anyone also who knocks, the door will be opened for him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because as many as request are given to. Those who search can find. And as many as plead to be allowed to enter really will be responded to favorably.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:43:
- Noongar: “43 ‘How terrible for you Pharisees! You love the best seats in the Synagogue. And in the market, you want people saying, ‘You are great’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘Disaster to you Parisi people! Because you are happy sitting in the seats of honor in the house of prayer, and you are happy when people along the side of the main-road bow to greet you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘You Pariseo are to be pitied. When you are in the prayer-house you want to sit in front. When you are in the market you are really happy when the people come and greet you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Pity you Pharisees because when you are in the church, you want that they will let you sit in the seats of the rulers, and if you’re there in the market, it really makes your breath feel good if the people show respect for you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Pitiful are you Pharisees, because you love to choose the best seats in the synagogue and you also like people to praise/honor you saying ‘Sir’ when you go visiting.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really very hard is what is in store for you Pariseo. For your favorite seats in the worship-place are those seats where the important are seated. And it is your pleasure to be suitably-greeted in the places where there are many people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:26:
- Noongar: “If you can’t do this small thing, why worry about other things? ” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “So, if you are not able to do that small thing, why do you have so much thinking/worry?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If you can’t do even a little thing like this, why do you worry about the others?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if, by means of your troubling, you cannot do anything about even this very small thing to do, what’s the use of your being troubled with other things?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore if you aren’t capable of even one hour, you shouldn’t be worrying about other things you need.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well if you can’t do such a little thing as that, well why are you agitating your mind/thinking about other things?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:59:
- Noongar: “‘I tell you, you will stay there to the day when you will give the last coin, everything you must give.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Truly I say: we will not be freed from jail until we have finished paying our fine.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I tell you that you will not come out from there as long as you have not finished-paying all that was fined to you. It will not be reduced even one centavo.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there you will have to stay until you can completely pay your fine.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It is emphatically true that you (sing.) will not be-able-to-come-out from the jail until you (sing.) have paid all your (sing.) debt.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What I will say to you is really true, that you have no getting out from there until you have paid in full all which you were sentenced to.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:32:
- Noongar: “Jesus said to them, ‘Go and you tell that dog, ‘I am driving evil spirits out of people and healing sick people today and tomorrow and after three days I will finish all my work’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus said saying to them: ‘Go, say like this to that strategy-maker: today and tomorrow I still work, expelling demons and healing the sick. And on the third day, my work is finished.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘Go, tell Herod that deceiving one there that today and tomorrow I continue my work driving out demons and healing the sick and on the third day my work is finished already.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to them, ‘As for Herod, that person who really knows how to deceive, you tell him that I will not yet leave here because today and tomorrow I will drive away the demons that are afflicting people, and I will cure the sick, and two days from now, then I will finish my work here.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Jesus said to them, ‘Go tell that tricky-one that I will be continuing still to cause-spirits -to-leave and heal the sick, but it won’t be long, because I have almost finished my work.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied, saying, ‘Go to that king Herodes, what he is like being a deceiving wildcat. Tell him that I won’t be frightened by him into leaving here in a hurry. I will indeed continue my work of driving out evil spirits and healing the sick, for I still have time even though it’s not long now. And then it really will come that I will have fulfilled everything.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:29:
- Noongar: “If he doesn’t have enough money, and he starts building the house, but afterwards he must stop, all the people seeing what happened, they will tease him.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Because if he goes ahead and puts in the foundation-stone and does not finish building because his money is gone, all the people who see will laugh at him,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For if you (pl.) do not calculate first, all the people who see it will finally make fun of you (pl.) when you (pl.) have put up the posts but do not have (the means) to finish it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because if he does not calculate the money he’ll have to spend, he might just be able to set up the posts and that’s all. And the many people who see that will just smile and make fun of him because what was supposed to be a house, turned out only to be some posts stuck in the ground.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because if he doesn’t calculate it and-meanwhile his money doesn’t suffice, later the house-posts only will be finished and he won’t be able-to-continue-it. Surely all who see, they will laugh at him” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For maybe that’s as far as it will go, just the framework will be put up. He won’t be able to complete it. Well, he will be made a laughing-stock by each who sees.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 15:27:
- Noongar: “‘Your brother has come back home’, the worker said, ‘and your father has killed the best bullock because his son has come back from the dead’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “That servant said: ‘Your (sing.) younger-sibling has returned home! Your (sing.) father ordered a fat calf slaughtered, because his lost child he has found again with goodness/safety.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The servant said to him, ‘Your younger brother has arrived and your father commanded the fattened cow to be butchered for nothing-bad has happened to your younger brother.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And that servant answered, ‘Your younger brother has come home and your father has butchered the young cow that he had fattened because he has come home without harm.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Your (sing.) younger-brother has come-home,’ that servant answered, ‘so your (pl.) father has butchered-for-him a fat cow because (reassurance particle) he has received him with nothing having happened to him.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That slave replied, saying, ‘That’s celebrating since your brother has come home. Your father had that fattened young cow butchered, for he arrived unharmed (lit.no whatever to his life/breath).'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 16:27:
- Noongar: “‘Then the rich man, he said, ‘Then I beg you, Father Abraham, send Lazarus to the house of my father.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘From there, that rich man also said: ‘If it is thus, Father, I ask that you (sing.) order Lazarus to go to the house of my father.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then the rich man said, ‘If it is like that, Grandfather, we can’t do anything about it (lit. I am not blaming). But I beg you, send Lasarus to the house of my father,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the rich man spoke again, ‘If that’s the case, Grandfather, I only beg you to send Lazarus back to the house of my father,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Then the rich man said, ‘I request you (sing.) then sir that you (sing.) send Lazarus to the house of my plural father,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The rich person spoke again, saying, ‘Well if it’s like that, Uncle, please send Lazaro to the house of Father.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)