Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 3:11:
- Uma: “God does all that according to his intention that he made certain from the beginning of the creation of the world, and that intention of his he will make happen in the body / person of Kristus Yesus our Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God had thought of this plan already beforehand in the beginning of time, and this his plan came to fruition when he sent Isa Almasi our (incl.) Lord here.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason He did this is because He was fulfilling that which He planned to do long ago before anything was created. And he has done this now by means of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This that God has done, it is based on what he decided long ago to do, and that’s what he has fulfilled by-means-of Cristo Jesus our Lord.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “These determined-plans of his have been from when there was still no world, and he is now causing them to be fulfilled by Cristo Jesus our Lord.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Very long ago he determined what he wanted to take place. But now it has happened when the Lord Jesus Christ was believed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 11:18:
- Uma: “Betania was close to Yerusalem, about three kilometers distance.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The village of Betani is close to Awrusalam, it is only about three kilometers.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The village of Bethany is just near the town of Jerusalem, about three kilometers away.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This-aforementioned Betania, it was close to Jerusalem, its distance being about (lit. going to) three kilometers.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The distance to Jerusalem from Betania was only three kilometers,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “There at the town of Bethany it was only about two and a half kilometers from Jerusalem.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 20:23:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘It is very true, you will indeed carry suffering like what I carry. But as for who sits on my right side and my left side, it is not I who determines [lit., make-certain]. It is my Father who determines who gets that portion.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said, ‘You will really be persecuted as I will soon be persecuted. But as to seating (anyone) on my right or left,’ said Isa, ‘I am not the one who rules/has authority over that. But those seats belong to those whom my Father God has prepared.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘It is true,’ said Jesus, ‘that you will endure suffering like I will have to endure, however I am not the one who will choose who will be allowed to sit on my right side and on my left. The ones who will be able to sit there are those my Father God has prepared for.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said, ‘It’s admittedly true that you will suffer like my suffering. But the one-to-sit on my right and my left, I have no authority to say, because my Father has already chosen the ones to sit there.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘It’s the truth,’ said Jesus, ‘the hardship I will experience, you will also experience it. But the determining of who will sit at my right and at the left doesn’t originate with me. Those seats being referred to are being kept for whom my Father in heaven is keeping them for.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said: ‘Truly it will thus be, very much will you suffer, like the suffering I must go through. Overflowingly the people will make you suffer like I will be made to suffer. But concerning this matter you speak of, it isn’t for me to determine who will sit at my right or who will sit at my left. It is my Father who has already determined who will sit at each side of me.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 4:22:
- Uma: “You were taught like this: you must stop your previous behavior that you followed before you believed in the Lord. All the desires that you followed at that time caused you to fall and destroyed your lives.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore give-up/leave now your former customs. Because those customs of yours are deceiving you therefore you indulge the cravings/desires of your bodies and this is what destroys you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because of this, you must abandon the thinking of your former humanity, because this is subject to the former evil behavior. This can destroy you by means of its deceitful desires.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore you must throw-away your former thoughts and behavior/customs, because that’s the source of the bad desires or cravings that deceive you and that’s what destroys you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore, like was taught to you concerning your disgusting way of life, drop it now. Like dirty clothing, take it off now. Because if you are still following this disgusting life of yours, you are just being deceived. For you mistakenly-thought that happiness is the outcome of your indulging your disgusting desires, whereas your life is like just rotting.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore, concerning whatever evil you walked in before, separate from it now. Because that evil which you liked to do deceived your thoughts.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 11:50:
- Uma: “You do not know what is good for the people. It is better that one person should die in the place of the people, so that our town will not be totally destroyed.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You do not understand that it is for our good hep if just one person dies instead of/as a substitute for the people so that not the whole tribe will be destroyed.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Evidently you don’t understand that it is necessary that there is one person who dies as a substitute for all the Jews so that the situation of us Jews is not destroyed.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You ought to understand that it-is-better if one person dies in order that his countrymen live than that all of us inhabitants die.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Your minds/thinking can’t reach far enough. Of course what is much better for us is, only one person needs to die, like a substitute for all of us, rather than a whole countryful be made to suffer.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Don’t you realize how it is? It is better for us that only one person die for the people and not that all the people of our land be lost.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 21:21:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘Truly I say to you, if you believe and are not doubting/hesitant, you also will be able to do like what I did to that tree earlier. And not only that, you will be able to say to this mountain: ‘Be lifted up, make-yourself(s)-fall into the sea!’ that will certainly happen.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, if you trust and really do not doubt, you can do as I did to that tree. And not only that can you do. If you say to this mountain, ‘O mountain, leave and throw yourself into the sea,’ it will do what you said.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘Don’t forget,’ said Jesus, ‘that if you trust in God and you do not doubt, you can do this which I have done to this fig tree. And not only this, because even if you say to that mountain, ‘Leave there and jump into the seas,’ it will obey you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘This that I tell you is true,’ said Jesus answering. ‘If you have trust in God, not doubting that what you say will be fulfilled, you can-do like what I did to this tree. Not only that but it-is-possible also for you to say to this hill, ‘Go-away from here and go jump in the ocean,’ and it will be fulfilled.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus answered, saying, ‘Think about this. If your belief-in/obeying-of God is really true, not uncertain, you could also do like I did to this igos. Not just that only, but if you say to this hill, ‘Go away from there, throw yourself into the ocean,’ what you said will happen.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said to his learners: ‘When you believe that what you ask God is what he wants and you do not doubt in your hearts, then not only what you saw that I did to the tree will you be able to do, even you will be able to say to that hill there: ‘Move away hill, go to where the sea is,’ you will say. Then the hill will move away and go to where you tell it to go.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 5:22:
- Uma: “Women/wives, you must submit to your husbands, like your submitting to the Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You women should cause yourselves to be low/submit (from now on translated ‘submit’) towards your husbands because you submit to our (incl.) Lord.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for you women, be subject to your husbands just like you are also subject to the Lord.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You women, submit-yourselves-to (lit. cause-yourselves -to-be-ruled-by) your husbands, because that’s what the Lord wants you to do.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well now, you women, you must submit to your husbands, like your submission to the Lord.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Listen you women, obey your husbands in what they tell you. Because this is what the Lord Jesus Christ commands.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 12:25:
- Uma: “The person who clings to his own desires will lose his life in the future. But the person who lets go of his desires in this world, he will receive good life forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Likewise are also people/is a person. If he really values/loves his life here in this world he will not have eternal life. But if he does not value/love his life in this world, he will have life forever.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The person who sets his heart on his life here on earth, he will die just the same, but the person who because of me doesn’t set his heart on his life here on earth, he will get life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If a person values his life, he will die anyway. But if he considers that his life in this world is not valuable, in-the-future he will live forever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “If what a person really values greatly are his own desires and lifestyle, it’s certain that this will be lost to him. But that one not overly valuing his life, for it’s not his own situation which is important to him, life which is without ending really will be his.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He who tries to escape death is the one who will lose his life. But he who gives up his life here on earth will be given the new life forever.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
