complete verse (Acts 19:36)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 19:36:

  • Uma: “No one denies that. That is why let’s be quiet for now, don’t let’s get carried away by the anger of our hearts.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “No one can deny concerning this. So just stop and do not do anything unless you have thought about it first.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “No one can say that this isn’t true, therefore that’s why it’s necessary that the heat of your breath be taken way and stop rioting.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “No one is able to say that this isn’t true, therefore let us (empathy particle) quiet-down not being-in-a-rush.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Really no-one can attribute lies to these things, therefore it’s necessary that you cause this anger of yours to cool off now. Don’t be too hasty.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 1:4)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 1:4:

  • Noongar: “I am writing so that you will know the full truth, everything you have heard.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “My purpose is so that you (sing.) will really know the truth of what has already been taught to you (sing.).” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “so that you will know that all that has been taught to you is really true.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason I am writing this is so that you might thoroughly understand the trust of all that has been taught to you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because I want you (sing.) to know that all that has been taught to you (sing.) is absolutely very-true.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “I am writing this so that you will really know the truth of these things which have been taught to you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Peter 1:3)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Peter 1:3:

  • Uma: “Let us praise God, the Father of our Lord Yesus Kristus! From his big love, he gave us new life, and that new life we receive from the living again of Yesus Kristus. That is why our hope is strong.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “We (incl.) should really praise God, he is the Father of our (incl.) Lord Isa Almasi. Because of his pity/mercy for us (incl.) he gave us (incl.) new life through/because of his causing Isa Almasi to be alive from his death. Therefore we (incl.) expect for certain that he will also make us (incl.) alive again when we (incl.) die.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “My thanks to God who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is very big. For because of His great mercy to us (incl.), He has given us new life. And now we are able to expect that we will be raised from the dead in the future since He raised Jesus Christ from the dead.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Let us praise God who is the God and Father of Jesu Cristo our Lord. For because of his large grace/mercy, he gave us new life through the living again of Jesu Cristo. Therefore there is that which we are expecting which will certainly be-fulfilled,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Now, let us all praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesu-Cristo! For we have comprehended that, through the big-size of his grace/mercy to us, it’s like we have been born again now and the good we hope-for/expect is really certain now. This grace/mercy of his, it is certain because of the coming alive again of Jesu-Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Let us praise God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because he very much gave us his grace by causing us to be able to live anew when he caused that Jesus Christ resurrected from where he was buried. Therefore always we await what God will give to us.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 20:27)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:27:

  • Uma: “Because I am/was not afraid/uneasy to say to you all of God’s purposes for us.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “For I have not hidden anything from you but I have told you all that God has planned.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because I taught you everything that God wanted me to.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “because I have carefully/thoroughly taught you all that God wants keeping-nothing -to-myself.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “For I haven’t left anything out. I have now told you everything which God has determined which he wants people to know.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 1:36)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 1:36:

  • Noongar: “You remember (lit.: “ear-hold”) Elizabeth, your relative? People say this one can’t bear a child, yet now she is pregnant six months — and she is an old woman.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Listen: your (sing.) relative Elisabet who is very old, and whom others call barren is six months pregnant! She will give birth to a male child.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Look also at your relative Elisabet. She is pregnant now even though she is old. The woman they said couldn’t give birth is now in the sixth month of her pregnancy.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And this is not the only news I have for you, because your aunt Elizabeth, even though she is already very old, she has become pregnant. It is already six months now that she is pregnant, she whom the people long ago thought that she could not give birth.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Think-of your (sing.) relative Elizabet. Even though they thought/said she was barren and she was moreover an old-woman, she became-pregnant nonetheless, and her pregnancy (lit. fetus) is six months now.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And isn’t it so that you have a relative who is Elisabet? It’s clear to everyone that as for her, she is a non-child-bearing woman. But now/today, this is the sixth month of her pregnancy, even though she is old already.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Peter 2:10)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Peter 2:10:

  • Uma: “Long ago, you were not his portion, but now you are his portion. Long ago you did not know his love, but now you know his love.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Formerly you were not God’s people but now you are God’s people. Formerly you did not know God’s mercy/pity but now you know it because he has shown/revealed already his mercy/pity to you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For long ago we were not subjects of God and now we are His subjects. Long ago we had no idea about the mercy of God, but today He has revealed it to us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Previously, you were not God’s people, but now, you are his people. Previously, you were not joining-in-experiencing his grace/mercy, but now, you-experience-it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “It’s the truth, in the past you weren’t yet people of God. But today, you are now his people. Previously it’s like you weren’t being graced by him with salvation, but now this grace/mercy of his has become yours.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “In another day you were not God’s people then, but now you are God’s people. In another day you did not understand about God’s grace then, but now you understand God’s grace.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 21:21)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 21:21:

  • Uma: “Yet they also have heard news criticizing you (sing.). They heard that you (sing.) teach the Yahudi people who dwell-as-foreigners with the non-Yahudi people so that they no longer follow the Law of Musa. You (sing.) teach them not to circumcise their children any longer and not to follow any longer the custom of our elders long ago.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “They have been told about you, that you teach reportedly (ko’) to all the Yahudi living in the places of other tribes, that they should no longer follow/obey the law of Musa. You say reportedly that they no longer should circumcise their children and they no longer should follow the customs of the Yahudi tribe.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They have heard a report that our companion Jews that are in the towns where the Gentiles live, they heard that you teach them that they should stop keeping the law that was left behind long ago by Moses. You teach them, they say, that they should not circumcize their male children, and that they should no longer follow the customs of us (incl.) Jews.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “They have heard that you (sing.) have reportedly been teaching the Jews who live in the many-towns of the Gentiles that they turn-their -backs-on the commands of Moses and that they not circumcise their children and moreover that they not follow the customs of us Jews.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “They have heard news that you are always teaching to all the Jews in the lands where you have gone that they now let go of the laws of Moises. You are saying, it’s said, that they are no longer to circumcize their sons and no longer follow/obey all the customs handed down to us by Moises.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 1:68)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 1:68:

  • Noongar: “‘We will praise the Lord. He is Israel’s God! He has come to his people, helping them and freeing them.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “‘Let us the descendants of Israel praise God our Lord. Because he has landed/come-down here to help us his people. He came to free us from our enemies.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “‘Let us (incl.) praise God, he is the God worshiped by our (incl.) tribe of Isra’il, for he certainly remembers us (incl.) his people and we (incl.) are set free by him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘We the descendents of Israel, we will praise our Lord God because we who worship him, he has come down to us and he has freed us from our enemies.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘Let us praise God the Lord of the descendants of Israel, for he has come to set-us who are his people -free.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “‘Praise the God of us (incl.) who are the descendants of Israel. Because he has shown pity/mercy to us, for it has now come that he will save/free his chosen people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Chichewa (interconfessional translation, 1999): “May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, because he came to move among his people, and to come and redeem them.” (Source: Wendland 1998, p. 154)