Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 8:21:
- Uma: “That’s why all that God created hopes that the time will come when God will release the world from the power that brings death, to the point that this world really becomes free and gets a share in the bigness of life [i.e., glory] of God’s children.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “it’s as if they really are expecting that they will be made good in the future. Now all that God has created its destiny is death. But they will all become/be made new when the day comes when God honors his children. They will no longer die but they will really become good that day.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “when God will make it so that there is no longer any decay among all creation, and everything will become new just like the sons of God when they are made immortal, will be made new also.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because it is God’s plan that all that was created will be-set-free in-the-future from the power of decay and death so that they will share-in the very-good status of his children.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It will be a day in which no longer there will be death in the world. Then the things which have life will not spoil. All these things will happen when the day comes that God will give the good to his children.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:8:
- Noongar: “Now what then? I tell you, if he will not get up and give you the bread because you are his friend, yet he will get up and give you everything you need because you are not ashamed to ask again and again.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “His answer will not be like that. Even if our friend does not want to get up and give us anything, but because we do not let-up/give-up and we are not ashamed to request-of him, he will certainly get up and give us what we need.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I tell you,’ said Isa, ‘eventually that friend of yours will get up and give you all you need, not because you are friends but because you do not stop asking.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “That’s the way it is,’ says Jesus, ‘even though he does not want to get up and help his friend, if his friend does not stop begging, he will force himself to get up and give him everything he needs.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If for-example that’s what happened, what then will take-place? I tell you, even though your (sing.) friend will not be persuaded to get up because of your (pl.) friendship, yet because you (sing.) insisted on repeatedly-requesting, he will get up anyway to give you (sing.) all you (sing.) need.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This which I will tell you is true, that even if he doesn’t want to get up because of their friendship, however because that one requesting is really persisting, that’s why his friend will indeed get up and give him what he came for.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 11:19:
- Uma: “After that, the door of House of Worship of God in heaven was opened, and inside was visible the storage Box for the Promise(s) of God that was written in stone long ago. Lightning was flashing all around, thunder was rolling, and there was an earthquake, and large hail fell.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then the prayer-house of God in heaven was opened and inside it was seen the chest containing the writing of God’s covenant with his people. When the prayer-house was opened immediately there was lightning and thunderclaps and rolling-thunder. There also was an earthquake and much ice big like stones fell from the sky.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “In heaven the church, the House of God, was opened, and inside was seen the trunk where the written promises of God are placed. And then lightning flashed, and there were loud noises, and thunder rolled, and there was an earthquake, and very large hail fell.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then the temple of God in heaven opened, and the Chest of the Agreement could-be-seen there. Then there was fearful lightning and the thunder also roared while it also earthquaked and the hail was severe (lit. strong).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, someone opened the entrance to the Temple of God in heaven, and I saw there inside the Chest of his Initiated-agreement. Suddenly/unexpectedly there was lightning and it thundered with loud thunder claps. The earth shook and it rained, what was falling being big(pl.) ice like the hardness of rock. As for these, they are testimony to the praiseworthiness/glory of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I saw then that the church of God which is in heaven was opened. Inside the church there was seen to be a box in which was kept the agreement God had made with the people. Then there was lightning, very much did it thunder. The earth quaked. There was heavy hail.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
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)
