Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 9:14:
- Uma: “But let’s not say/think like this: ‘If God chooses one person and rejects another, he is not just!’ Those words are not true!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then if it is like that, you (pl.) perhaps say that God is not straight. It is not that God is not straight.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now some will say that what God has done is not proper because he chooses one and not the other; but that’s not what I’m trying to say.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Does this mean to say that what God did is not right? It’s not possible!” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “So now, is it possible that we say that it is not good what God does? No, not that. Because what all God does, it is all what is proper.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:40:
- Noongar: “You stupid people! God makes the outside part. God also makes the inside part, doesn’t he?” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “You are very foolish! Was it only our bodies that the Lord created? Did he not also create our hearts?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You are foolish. Don’t you know that God did not just create what is seen on the outside but he also created the inside which is not seen?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “God who created the outside of your body created also your breath and your mind, and it’s necessary that your breath and your mind is clean, just like the outside of your body.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You foolish-ones! God who made our bodies, he also of course made our minds, isn’t that so?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “You must be simple/stupid, for isn’t it so that the one who made your body is the same as who made the mind/inner-being? Of course he wants all to be clean.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 13:14:
- Uma: “That surprising sign he did with the power/authority from the first animal. With that surprising sign he deceived the people who live on earth and ordered them to build an idol, their way of honoring that first animal. That first animal is the animal that was cut with a sword but he still lived.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Many people were deceived and influenced by him because of his amazing deeds that he did by the power from the first creature. The people were told by the second creature to make a statue to honor the creature that had been wounded by the weapon but was healed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And by means of the miracles which he was permitted to do in front of the first beast he deceived all mankind on the earth. Then he commanded people to make an image of the first beast and to worship it. That first beast had been struck by a sword, but he did not die.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So he deceived the unbelieving collective-people on the earth because of the amazing signs that he was permitted to show in his serving of the preceding animal. And he instructed them to make an animal-image with-which-to-worship the preceding animal who had been wounded with a sword but was nonetheless still alive.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He deceived/lured all the people here in the world through those amazing things he was doing which that first monster was causing to be done. He commanded the people to make an image made like that first monster who had been wounded with a bladed-weapon but lived anyway.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He was given power to do miracles while he was with this fellow terrible animal, the first one. It wanted to deceive the people all over the world so they would go with them. It told the people to make an idol which would appear like the face of the terrible animal which had been wounded with a sword and then the wound had healed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 10:13:
- Uma: “For ‘All people who call-out to the Lord will be lifted from the punishment of their sins.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The holy-book says, ‘Whoever asks the Leader to be rescued he is saved and goes to heaven.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For there is a written word of God which says, ‘Anyone who asks for help from the Lord, He will be saved from God’s punishment.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because there is that which God caused-to-be-written which says, ‘All those who ask-the Lord -for-mercy, they will be saved.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because whoever calls to the Lord, that one will have his soul saved.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Joel 2:32.
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:18:
- Noongar: “‘This I will do’, he said to himself, ‘I will break down my grain houses and make bigger houses for keeping everything, my grain and all my other things.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Ah, I have an idea! I will just tear down my storehouse and build one that is bigger, so that there [locative] will be my putting-away-place for all my rice and my goods.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “A, I know as to what I should do,’ he said, ‘I will break down my storehouses and will build bigger ones than the first ones so that I can store there all that my plants yielded and all my wealth.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he said, ‘I will tear down these bodegas of mine and I will build again greater ones, so that all that I have harvested and all of my possessions might be placed in them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Ah, now this is what I will do. I will destroy all my granaries so that I will then build bigger-ones so that it will suffice as a place-for-me-to-store all my harvests and my possessions as well.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Probably it would be good if I break up these silos of mine, for I will then have much bigger ones built, so that places-to-put-into won’t lack for what I have harvested and for my belongings.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 15:8:
- Uma: “At that time also, the Worship House that is in heaven suddenly was full of smoke that appeared from the shining and from the power of God. There was not anyone able to enter into it, before the seven tortures that were carried by the seven angels were finished.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then that prayer-house was full of smoke, a sign of God’s glory/brightness and power. Nobody could go inside the prayer-house until the seven disasters carried by the seven angels were finished.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the church was filled with smoke which came from the shiningness and power of God. And then no one was able to enter the church until the seven torments for mankind caused by the seven angels were finished.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then the temple was filled with smoke which was a sign of the greatness (lit. highness) and power of God, so no one could-enter there until the seven hardships that were entrusted to the seven angels were finished.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then that Temple was filled with smoke which showed the glory and supernatural-power of God. That’s why no-one at all could go into the Temple as long as those seven epidemics taken by those seven angels hadn’t yet been used up.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Inside the church it filled with smoke which accompanied the power of God, he who is supreme. No one was able to enter the temple. They could, but only after there had been finished all the seven calamities which the seven angels must bring about.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 11:24:
- Uma: “For you are compared to branches from a tree that is not tended, but even so you were stuck onto the trunk of the tended tree. So if a branch from an untended tree can be stuck onto the trunk of a tended tree, how much more a branch from the tended tree can be stuck back on to the place it was broken off from to-start-with.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You, the not Yahudi, you are figuratively the branches of a forest-tree that were cut off and then joined to the cared-for tree even though such a thing isn’t done very much. The Yahudi hep are figuratively that cared-for tree and the branches that were cut off can easily be/are easily joined again by God to the tree where they had been cut off from.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for you who are not Jews, you are not true branches in the tree because you came from the tree which was not planted, and He made you to be branches there in the tree that He is taking care of. And if this is possible for you who came from the tree that wasn’t planted, how much more it will be possible for Him to return the true branches to their former place.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because you who are like branches of an olive that merely grew, if God was able to graft you into the planted olive which is not your proper origin, surely it will be even-easier for him to return the removed branches of that tree to their proper place-of-origin.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because it is more not harder to replace that which was taken from the good tree than you who are from another tree.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:50:
- Noongar: “The day of my baptism must happen, and I will be very stressed before the day when everything will finish.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “There is still suffering which I must suffer, and my heart will never be still/calm if that suffering has not yet happened.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There are persecutions which I have to experience. I have difficulties/am-made-heavy as long as it is not yet over/finished.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There is that with which I will be baptized which are the many torments that I have to go through, that have not yet taken place. It’s as if I were carrying the sky on my head until the time when this is finished.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But it is necessary that I endure suffering first and here-now I am burdened (lit. heavied) until it is finished.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really big is the hardship/suffering which I must experience, this being what I am very much distressed about as long as it hasn’t yet been fulfilled.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
