Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:45:
- Noongar: “But if this servant says to himself, ‘My master is a long time coming back’, and if he begins to hit the other servants, the men and also the women, and eating and drinking and getting drunk,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But disaster will [come] to the slave who slaves: ‘The nobleman will not soon come.’ He begins to beat/strike his fellow slaves, woman or man, and he continually eats and drinks to the point of drunkenness.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But if for example that servant says in his liver, that it is still a long time till his master comes, and then he beats his fellow servants including the women and that is what he does he feasts and has drinking-parties and gets drunk,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But pity him if what is in his thinking is that his master will be a long time coming home, and he beats his fellow servants, women and men, and the only thing he does is to eat and drink and get drunk.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But if for-example that servant is evil, he says to himself, ‘My master’s return will probably still be a long-time-away.’ And he repeatedly-hardships his fellow slaves who are men or women and meanwhile eats-and-eats, drinks-and-drinks and gets-repeatedly-drunk.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But supposing the nature/ways of that slave are evil, what is in his mind is, ‘Probably it will be much longer before my master returns.’ Well, what he will do is he will keep causing-hardship/suffering to his fellow slaves, female and male. And he will do nothing else but eat only and get drunk.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 17:6:
- Uma: “I saw that woman, she was drunk drinking the blood of the followers of the Lord God. Meaning, she was riled-up/all-out to kill people who admit/confess that Yesus is their Lord. No kidding my surprise seeing that woman.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And I also saw that that woman was drunk with the blood she had been drinking, the blood of God’s people, those that had been killed because they did not let-go-of/stuck-to Isa. When I saw that woman I wondered greatly.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of believers whom she had killed because of their faith in Jesus. I was very amazed when I saw that woman.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s people who had died because of their faith in Jesus. Upon my seeing her, I was extremely amazed,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I saw that that woman was drunk. What had made her drunk was the blood of God’s people, the people who had been killed because of their standing up for and believing in Jesus. When I saw her, I was really amazed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I saw that this woman was drunk. Because concerning the people of God who had been killed because they had not rested from speaking about Jesus, she had drunk their blood. I then was surprised about what I had seen.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 12:15:
- Uma: “Be happy together with people who are happy, weep with people who weep.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Be joyful/glad together with those who are joyful/glad and grieve together with those who grieve.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If there is a person and he has a cause for rejoicing, let us also rejoice because of his joy. And if there is a person who has a cause for sorrow, be sorrowful also because of his sorrow.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Be-happy-with those who are happy, and mourn/be-sorrowful-with those who are mourning/sorrowful.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When there is occasion for your fellowman to rejoice, also you rejoice. When your fellowman is crying, also cry with him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:18:
- Noongar: “Jesus asked, ‘What of the Kingdom of God? What can I say it is like?” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “From there, Yesus said: ‘When God becomes King in the world, how will it happen? Its happening, is like this parable:” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said still more, he said, ‘What shall we (incl.) compare the ruling of God over his people to? What is my parable for it?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now Jesus also taught another parable, he said, ‘What is a good thing to which to liken the increase of the people whom God rules over?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said, ‘What perhaps will I use-as-a-parable/comparison of the ruling of God? What is it like?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus spoke again, saying, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 18:20:
- Uma: “Be glad, inhabitants of heaven, over its destruction! Be glad, followers of God, his apostles and prophets! For God punishes the Babel people, paying-back-for-you their evil deeds against you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then, be glad you who are in heaven because that city is destroyed. Be glad God’s people and his apostles and the prophets who make God’s message known, because God has sent his judgment to that city because of the bad she did to you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You inhabitants of heaven, rejoice over the punishment of that great city. Rejoice also you prophets, and apostles, and believers in God, because God has punished that city because of its persecutions to you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You who are in heaven, be-happy. You who are God’s people, apostles and prophets, be-happy also, because the legal-accusations of that city against you, God has reversed (them), and he has judged and punished them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “You (pl.) there in heaven, be very glad about this which has happened to her/it. You prophets and apostles and others of God’s people, you can now be glad. Because God has paid back the people from Babilonia for the things they did to you.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Let all who live in heaven rejoice over what the city went through. Let the representatives of Christ along with all the spokesmen of God rejoice. All the rest of the people who are in the hand of God, let all of them rejoice. Concerning the punishment given to this city, it is God who judged it for what it did to you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 14:12:
- Uma: “So, every one of us must answer God’s questions about our behavior.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then all of us (incl.) ought/must tell to God about what we (incl.) have done here in the world.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And at that time, we (incl.) will have to be before God and He will check up on us and we will have to tell Him about everything that we did here on the earth.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore God is the one each one of us will face so that we will tell him what we have done.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore at that time each one of us will give account to God concerning how we have lived.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “Each of us will really tell God what we have done here in this world.”
- Central Tarahumara: “Thus it is very sure that each one of us will confess to God how we ourselves have done.”
- Isthmus Zapotec: “That is the way it is: God is the one to show the deeds of each one.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “Because of this we knew that God will have to judge each one of us.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:15:
- Noongar: “One man sitting among them, he heard this and he said, ‘They will be very happy! These people will sit feasting in the Kingdom of God!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “While they were eating, a guest heard the words of Yesus and he said to him: ‘Blessed/fortunate is the person who attends the feast in the Kingdom of God.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One of those eating there, when he heard those words of Isa he said, ‘The people who eat at the feast in the ruling of God are really glad/happy.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then one of the men who was sitting near Jesus, when he heard that teaching of Jesus he said, ‘How happy those people will be if they are able to stand in the future, that feast where all the people eat whom God rules over!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When one of those eating-with heard that advice of Jesus, he said to him, ‘Yes really, I-agree, extremely fortunate is the one who will eat in the ruling-place of God.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There was one of the companions of Jesus eating there at that eating-place who spoke, after hearing that which Jesus said. He said to Jesus, ‘The one who gets to join in the celebration there in the kingdom of God will really be able to be happy!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 20:7:
- Uma: “When the thousand years is finished, the King of Evil-ones is released from his imprisonment,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When one thousand years are over, the leader of demons will be let loose from the hole where he is imprisoned.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When those thousand years are finished, Satan will be released temporarily from his prison.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When the one-thousand years are finished, Satanas will be released from his place-of-imprisonment,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well at the end of those one thousand years, Satanas will again be released from that prison of his.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When the one thousand years had finished, the devil was let loose from where he was jailed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
