Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 23:4:
Uma: “They require the people to follow [lit., they put-on-the-shoulders of the people] commands and customs that are heavy, yet they themselves don’t help the people follow those commands and customs.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “They make-it-difficult-for/put-heavy-(loads)-on the people with the laws they are not able to do but they do not help them carry/do it even a little bit.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They make people obey many things that are hard to obey but there is nothing they do to help people obey that which they ask them to obey.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “They make-the people -carry heavy (loads) that are the many commands that they insist must be followed, but they don’t join-in-carrying even a little.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “For they keep on adding to what they command which is only giving people a very hard time. What it’s like is they bundle into big bundles what they cause people to shoulder which they really aren’t able to shoulder. But even the little finger of their hand, they don’t want to touch with it in giving-a-helping-hand.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the law they teach the people to do, no one is able to complete it all. For it is like as though they tie huge loads on the people, yet the people cannot be able to carry it all. And not even with one finger do they want to help them carry it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Philippians 2:10:
Uma: “so that all that live submit to Yesus, whether the contents [i.e., inhabitants] of heaven, whether the contents of earth, whether those in the dwelling-place of the dead, they will all kneel to worship him,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “so that all those that are in heaven and here on earth and including all who have died prostrate/bow-down praising Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason God did this was so that when the title of Jesus is heard, Jesus will be worshipped by every creature that is in Heaven and on earth, and even in Iveyaan (the place of the dead) they will all have to kneel to Him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “so that he would be praised. Because all that are in heaven and on the earth and even the dead and other unseen-ones, they will all kneel to praise him” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “so that at this name of his, Jesus will be bowed down to by all who have been created, those in heaven/sky, here in the world, and in the wherever of those who have died. Really none will be left out. All will bow down to him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “He wanted that when it would he heard that the name of Jesus is spoken, all will kneel, those in heaven, and those who live here on earth, with those who are in hell, all will kneel.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 14:12:
Uma: “‘These my words are very true: People who believe in me, they can do what I do–or even more than what I do–because I will go to live with my Father.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Truly I tell you,’ said Isa, ‘whoever believes in me, he will also do the deeds I have done. And he will do more (or greater; both can be understood) deeds than my deeds for I am going to my Father God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It’s very true what I say to you that if there is one who believes in me, he will be able to do what I have done. However he’ll be able to do more powerful things because I am going home to my Father.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “‘This that I say to you is indeed true that whoever believes in me, he will also do the amazing-things that I have been doing. And there will also be that which he does which is more valuable than these. Because I am going to my Father,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “This is the truth which I will say to you, that one who believes-in/obeys me, through his trust-in/relying-on me he also will be able to do these things which I am doing. And he will be able to do much more than these, because I will now go to the Father.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “It is true what I tell you. He who believes in me also will be able to do like I do. He will be able to do more because I am going to where my Father is.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 23:36:
Uma: “Yes indeed! You who live at this time will be punished because of all those wrongs of your elders.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Truly I tell you, all this that they did will come home to you, the people living now (i.e. you will be punished for it.)'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I tell you, that you, you people today, you’ll also be punished for the murder of all of these.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “This that I say to you is true that the people now, they will be responsible for the deaths of all of them.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “What I will say to you really is true, that as for the punishment for all of this, it’s certain it will come to you Judio at this time.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Truly I tell you that concerning this punishment which must come, this is what all the people who live now will pass through.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Philippians 3:12:
Uma: “Relatives, I am not saying that I already have received all that, to the point that I am holy and have no more sin. Of course not. But I exert-effort to get all that, so that I can really be holy–for that is why Kristus Yesus chose me to become his portion.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “I am not saying that all those (things what he talked about) are mine/belong to me now or that now I have no more fault. But I continually aim at doing the will/wish of Isa Almasi, for that is the reason why he claimed-me-as-his-own.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I’m not saying here that all of these things have already been fulfilled in me, or that I have already become a person who has nothing to be scolded for; but rather, I just keep on so that these things might come to pass, because this was the purpose of Jesus Christ when He made me His subject.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “I don’t think/say that I have already attained these-things and neither do I think/say that I now have no faults. But I put-forth all my efforts (lit. ability) to fulfill Cristo’s purpose in turning-me -into his person.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “That’s not to say that all of this has now been fulfilled in my life. Also it doesn’t mean that I don’t happen-to-sin any more. But I am really striving very much to be able to do the whole will of Cristo Jesus, because he made me his subject so that I would strive for this in my life.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “It lacks in what all I must do in my walk. I cannot say that there is noting that lacks now. But now I earnestly endeavor to bring about that perhaps I will arrive to doing what Christ called me to do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 15:13:
Chol: “There is much love in the one who will give himself to die on behalf of his friends. There is no one who has more love than this.”
Ojitlán Chinantec: “If one is willing to die for a friend, he has loved that one to completion.”
Huehuetla Tepehua: “The biggest love is this, when a person gives up his life for a friend of his.”
Shipibo-Conibo: “Only upon very really loving their friend can they want to die in his place.”
Yanesha’: “There isn’t love which surpasses this: We let go of ourselves to die for our loved ones.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
Uma: “If there is a person who gives his life so that his companion lives, his love is indeed big. There is no love greater than the love of a person who gives his life in order to help his companion.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “If a person submits to die because of his love for his friends, there is no human love greater than this.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If there is a person who allows himself to be killed in order to free his friends, this is a sign that his friends are very dear in his breath. There is no dearness which can equal this.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “This is the largest love that a person is able-to-show, if he dies so that his friends may live.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “True valuing which can’t be exceeded is the valuing by a person who will give his life/breath in place of the life/breath of his friends.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “The most important thing one can do when he loves his friend is to give his life for his friend.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
In Ogea the word for “love” is “die for someone,” echoing the content of this verse. (Source. Sandi Colburn in Hiolzhausen 1991, p. 22)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 24:29:
Uma: “‘When that time of suffering is over, all the powerful things in the sky will be shaken. The sun will become dark, the moon will no longer shine, the stars will fall from the sky.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “‘So-then in those days,’ said Isa, ‘when those difficulties are finished, the sun will become dark and the moon will no longer shine, and the stars will fall from the sky and the different things in the sky will leave/move from their places.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when that time of torment is over, the sun will no longer shine and neither will the moon. The stars will fall from heaven, and the strong supernatural beings in the upper sky will be shaken.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “‘When the time of that hardship is done, then the sun will become-dark and the moon will not shine. The collective-stars will also fall and everything that is up-above will be shaken.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “When that hardship has ended, the sun/day will then darken and the moon won’t shine either. Stars will keep falling from the sky, because the whole sky will be caused to quake/tremble by the strength of the supernatural-power of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “When the trouble which must happen has passed, then the sun and the moon will both be darkened. The stars in the heavens will fall. All that is above will all be changed from where they pass.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Amele: “‘Look, at that time that big heavy will finish the sun will become darkened and the moon will not shine again, and then the stars will pluck out of the sky and fall down, and then the sky’s strong doing will come up and come and go and they will thrown down,’ he told them.” (Source: John Roberts in this article )
Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 1:3:
Uma: “Every time we (excl.) pray for you, we (excl.) always say thank you to God the Father of our Lord Yesus Kristus,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Every time we (excl.) pray for you, we (excl.) always thank God, the Father of our (incl.) Leader Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for us, when we pray for you we always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “When we (excl.) pray-for you to God who is the Father of Jesu Cristo our Lord, we always thank him,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Every time we (excl.) pray for you, we are really always giving thanks to God, he who is the Father of our Lord Jesu-Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Concerning God, he is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. To him I always give thanks when I pray concerning you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
