Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 4:2:
- Uma: “Be faithful [lit., remain] praying, don’t stop saying thank you to God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then about praying to God, you really ought to persevere in praying and your thoughts/minds ought to be just/simply wholehearted while you are praying. You ought/must also thank God when you pray.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for all of you, pray strongly and carefully guide your thinking when you pray and always give thanks to God for his kindness to you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Persevere all of you in praying continually while also you are careful so that your thoughts don’t go-astray from what you are praying-about, and also thank God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This yet is more that I will say to you, be-persevering in prayer, and when you pray be thankful people. Think well what you are saying in your praying, not just doing-a-mediochre-job.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Endeavor to always pray to God. Never cease thanking God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Bariai: “You must hold strongly to prayer always. And in your prayers, you must be wakeful, and be thanking (lit. talking good to) God. (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Mairasi: “You guys must pray in truth and in regularly guarding, saying to Above-One “it’s a good thing [thanks].” (Source: Enggavoter 2004)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 18:35:
- Uma: “Pilatus said: ‘As if I were a Yahudi person! It is your (sing.) own Yahudi people with the leaders of the priests who brought you (sing.) to me. What wrong did you (sing.) do?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Pilatus answered, he said, ‘Am I a Yahudi? Your (sing.) tribe and the leaders of your (pl.) priests have handed you over to me. Why, what is your sin?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Pilate answered, ‘Am I a Jew? Your companion Jews and the chief priests, they are the ones who brought you here. What is your sin?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Pilato said, ‘Do you (sing.) think I’m a Jew maybe? It was your (sing.) fellow Jews and the leaders of your (pl.) priests who handed-you (sing.) -over here. What is you (sing.) sin/crime then?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘As if I am a Judio!’ said Pilato. ‘Your (sing.) fellow-countrymen and chiefs of your (pl.) priests, they are the ones who delivered you here to me. What have you really done?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Pilate said, ‘Am I a fellow-Jew? Your fellow-Jews and the chief priests have delivered you here to me. What have you done?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:41:
- Uma: “Watch/guard and pray that you will not get tempted. In your hearts you do want to do what is right, but you are unable because mankind is weak.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Watch/watch-out and pray to God so that you will not be carried-away/overtaken by temptation/tempters. The liver thinks but the body cannot do it.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t go to sleep, but rather pray, so that you might be able to avoid being tested. Your breath wants to follow, but your bodies are weak.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Don’t go-to-sleep, but rather pray in order that you will not be successfully-tempted. Because your motives are admittedly right, but your bodies are weak.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It would be good for you to overcome your sleepiness and pray, so that you won’t be defeated by evil if/when your belief-in/obeying-of me is tested. Because in your minds/inner-being, you truly want to believe/obey, but the problem is the will of your body which as it were doesn’t want to obey for it is weak.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Pray to God, don’t sleep. If you don’t pray perhaps you all will do what isn’t right. Your hearts want to do the word I speak, but your bodies are very weak.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Thessalonians 2:6:
- Uma: “We also did not request-to-be-praised to you or to other people. Actually we would not have been wrong to request [things] of you, relatives, because we really are Kristus’s apostles.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “We (excl.) did not want to be respected/made great/honored by men, by you or by other people,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “We did not seek praise from you; we did not seek praise from others. Since we are apostles of Christ, which is to say, He sent us, it is possible that we give you orders, however we did not do this.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And it wasn’t your praise/honor or the praise of other people that we (excl.) were seeking,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Also it’s not a major-concern to us (excl.) to be well spoken of by people, either by you or by anyone else,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “We did not speak the word because we wanted that people look well upon us, not you nor any other people. We did not speak strongly to order you, even though we could have done so as being representatives of Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Mairasi: “Because we did not have the throat [intention] of exalting our name: Not looking for anything from other people. Neither from you, nor from other people did we make the throat [intention] of exalting our name. That’s how it was but, definitely, we could have possibly exalted our names as Kristus’ sent- witnesses [apostles], turning your face [bothering you] or perhaps giving you a heavy burden.” (Source: Enggavoter 2004)
- Bariai: “And also, we (excl.) didn’t force (lit. pull) anyone to lift up our names. We didn’t force you like that, and other people also not.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 19:27:
- Uma: “And he also said to that disciple: ‘There is your (sing.) mother.’ From there, that disciple took care of Yesus’s mother in his home.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And he said to that disciple of his, ‘That is now your mother.’ Therefore from that day on that disciple of Isa took Isa’s mother to live in his house.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then he said to the disciple, ‘That one is now your mother.’ And from that day on, the mother of Jesus lived there in the house of this disciple of Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he also said to that disciple, ‘Count that-one (near addressee) as your (sing.) mother.’ And then that disciple of his took-home Jesus’ mother to stay-with (him) in his home.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Then he said to his disciple, ‘You now take her for your mother.’ Therefore from then on, that disciple caused (her) to live there in his own house.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Then he said to his learner, ‘Make my mother your mother.’ From then on the learner took Mary to live at his house in order to care for her.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:73:
- Uma: “Not long after that, the people standing there approached Petrus, they said to him: ‘You (sing.) are too one of his companions! It’s knowable from your (sing.) accent that you (sing.) are a Galilea person.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Not long after the people standing there went to Petros and said to him, ‘You cannot deny/argue that you are not their companion, for your speech is the speech of the people of Jalil.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And a little while after that, some of the people who were gathered there, they came over to Peter. They said, ‘It is true that you are also his companion. We can tell because of your language.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “A little later, those standing there went to him and they said, ‘It is definitely true that you (sing.) are one of them, because we (excl.) are able-to-identify the intonation/accent of your (sing.) speech!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Before long, Pedro was approached by the people who were there. They said, ‘You were indeed with them! It’s known in your speech that you are a taga Galilea.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “After a little while, the men there approached Peter and said to him: ‘Truly you walked with Jesus, because it is seen that you are fellow countrymen, it is heard in how you talk.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Thessalonians 4:5:
- Uma: “Let’s not be carried by the desires of our (incl.) evil hearts, like what usually happens to people who do not know God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Don’t satisfy the greedy-desires of your bodies as the people do who don’t know God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and not because you are controlled by the desires of your body, for this is what happens to people who do not believe in God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It should not be the desires of your bodies that direct you like the way of people who do not know God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “You aren’t to marry with what is really dominant in your mind/inner-being being only to indulge the desire of the body, as is still the way/nature of people who have no knowledge of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “They must not cause them to live miserably like what is done by those people who do not know God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 20:17:
- Uma: “Yesus said saying to Maria: ‘Don’t touch/handle me, because I have not yet ascended/gone up going to my Father. Go to my relatives, say to them that I go to my Father and your Father, my God and your God.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to her, ‘Do not hold-on/cling-to (kaput) me because I have not yet gone home to my Father. But go to my siblings and tell them from me that I go home to my Father and my God. He is also your (pl.) Father and your (pl.) God.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to her, ‘Do not cling to me because I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brethren and say ‘I am going to my Father, to my God. He is also your Father and your God.’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Jesus said, ‘Don’t you (sing.) hang-onto/restrain-me (both lit. and figurative meanings possible), because I have not yet returned to my Father. Go immediately make-known to my brothers that I return to my Father who is also your Father, and to my God who is also your God.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Please don’t keep holding on to me, because I haven’t yet gotten to return home to the Father. What you are to do now is, go to my disciples whom I now regard as my brothers and tell them that I will go home now to my Father, who is your (pl.) Father also, to my God who is your (pl.) God also.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said, ‘Don’t hold me because I must go to where my Father is. But you go and tell my brethren that I am going to my Father, he who is your Father. I am going to my God, he who is your God.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
