Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:26:
- Noongar: “Jesus and his disciples went in the boat to the country of Gerasa, across Lake Galilee.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “They continued being-in-the-boat, until they came to the land of Gerasa that is on the other side of the lake from the land of Galilea.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then they went on crossing over and arrived at the place Gerasa which is opposite to the place Jalil.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then they continued in the boat until they arrived at the land which was the place where the Gergesene people lived, across the lake from the province of Galilee.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Plural Jesus continued crossing the lake until they arrived at the region of Gerasa which was across from Galilea.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They came to shore on the other side of the lake. The Geraseno (pl.) were the people of that place which was opposite Galilea.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 3:3:
- Uma: “That is why I say to you: remember the teaching you heard and received long ago. Follow what was taught to you, repent from your laxness. If you continue to not wake up/get up, I will go meet you. And my coming will be like the coming of a thief, because you will not know when that my coming/when I will come.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore think-hard/remember the true teachings that you heard and believed-obeyed in the beginning. Really follow those teachings and regret your sins and leave them. If you don’t watch out, I will suddenly come to you like a thief. You will not even know at what time I will come.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t forget what was taught to you which you accepted long ago, but rather hold tight to it, and take out of your breath your unbelief. Because if you do not forsake your bad custom, I will come to you at a time you do not expect Me because of My coming is like a thief.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Remember therefore what was taught to you previously which you received. You must believe/obey that while at-the-same-time you repent-of your sins. Because if you don’t wake-up, I will arrive like a thief at night to punish you, and you will be taken-by-surprise, because you will not be-expecting the time (lit. hour) at which I will come.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Remember the teaching you heard which was taught to you there. That’s what you must follow/obey. Repent and let go of your evil. For if you don’t wake up, I will come there like a thief, there being no knowing when. You really don’t know when my coming will be.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning all the word taught to you, don’t let it be that you forget this word which you heard. Do this word I order you, no longer be resting away. If you do not earnestly do what I tell you, unexpectedly will I come to where you are. Like when a thief arrives, you will not know what hour I will come.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 4:5:
- Uma: “But our connection/relationship with God is not that. For it is not because of our behavior that God receives us. If we believe in God, even though we are wrong/guilty, he says we are straight in his sight just because of our faith in him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If/when a person does good so that, he says/thinks, God will forgive his sin and God will consider him straight, he is really wrong/mistaken. For it is not because of our (dual) good deeds but because of our (dual) trusting God, the one who forgives sins, that we (incl.) are forgiven and considered straight by God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And God’s considering us (incl.) righteous is not like that because it’s just His favor to us. The reason God considers us (incl.) to be righteous is not because we carried out what He told us to do, but rather only because we believed in Him who is able to make transgressors righteous.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But if a person doesn’t work-for his salvation but rather believes in God that he is the one who counts a sinner as righteous, his faith is the reason God counts him as righteous.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But God does not tell us that we must do work in order to clear our sins. Because he gives us the favor of clearing our sins. It is just that we believe what God says will happen.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Tzeltal: “But the one who believes in the one who sets free from their sins those who are sinners, it is now through his belief of heart that he will have his heart made straight, not through his good work which he has done.”
- Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “But we receive freely as a favor that which God does for us, and God is able to say that our hearts are straight when we still lack of becoming entirely good in our hearts. Well then, we believe in God, and on account of our belief, God reckons up that our hearts are straight.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
- Chichewa (interconfessional translation, 1999): “But a person having believed, instead of depending on his/her works, God who views sinful people that they are not guilty, that person on believing [a syntactic, object front-shift], God views him/her that s/he is right[eous] in his eyes.” (Source: Wendland 1998, p. 112)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:2:
- Noongar: “Then Jesus sent them to tell people about the Kingdom of God and to heal sick people.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “He ordered them to go heal the sick-people and spread the news: ‘The time has almost come for God to become King in the world.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then he sent them to proclaim about God’s ruling. They were also told to heal the sick.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then he sent them out, so that they might cause to be understood the good news about the ruling of God, and that they might be able to heal any kind of sickness of people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he sent them to go preach concerning the ruling of God and to heal the sick.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then he sent them to go teaching concerning the kingdom of God and to heal as many as would come for help who had an illness.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 5:2:
- Uma: “I saw, there was a strong angel, he called loudly, he said: ‘Who is fitting/worthy to open this letter? Who is fitting/worthy to open the seals so that this letter can be read?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And I saw a very strong angel who spoke loudly, he said, ‘Is there anyone here worthy to remove the seals of this roll of paper and open it?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then I saw a very strong angel of God, and he shouted saying, ‘Who is worthy to open this scroll? Who is worthy to remove these marks so that it might be read?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I also saw an angel whose power was large raise (lit. cause-to-be-strong) his voice saying, ‘Who is worthy to detach these things-that-are-affixed to unroll the paper?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And I also saw a far-from-ordinary angel who called out loudly, saying, ‘Who is really acceptable/possible to remove these fastenings and open this rolled up writing?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I saw an angel who was very powerful loudly make a question, saying: ‘Who will come forth who is supremely good so that he is able to open the seals which are on the paper in order that it be unrolled?’ he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 5:12:
- Uma: “Sin is in the world because of one person who broke God’s command, that is Adam. And because of that sin of Adam’s, the result is there is death in the world. From that sin of Adam’s, all his descendants became sinners, with the result that all mankind must die.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, why is there sin in the world? This is how it went: at the beginning it was just one human being who sinned, Apu’ Adam (Grandfather, a title always used for Adam). That was the beginning of sin in the world. Because there was now sin in the world, there is also death in the world. Therefore all human beings finally die because all sin.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason evil behavior came to be here on the earth is because of the transgression long ago of one person who was Adam. And God caused that he should die because of what he did. And also because of that, death spread all over the world. And everybody dies because there is not anybody who doesn’t do evil.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Let us consider the results of what Adan did and what Cristo did. Adan sinned long ago and that was the beginning of people’s sinning. Because of his sin moreover, he was condemned to die, so starting from then, all people die, because all people sin.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Here on earth just one person sinned at the beginning. And thus there began to be death, because of the sin that was committed. Therefore now, concerning all the people who live, all die because all commit sin.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:34:
- Noongar: “As he was speaking, a cloud came and covered them, and the disciples became afraid because the cloud came on top of them.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “While Petrus was still speaking, a cloud arrived shadowing/sheltering them. They were afraid seeing the cloud that enclosed them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “While he was still speaking there came a cloud (bright, not rain cloud) and they were overshadowed and they were afraid when they were covered by the cloud.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then while Peter was still speaking, they were covered by a cloud and the three disciples were very much afraid when they were covered by the cloud.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “While he was still talking, a cloud suddenly-arrived and blocked-them all -from-view. After that plural Jesus were hidden-from-view and his disciples became-frightened.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Pedro was still speaking when suddenly/unexpectedly they were overshadowed by a cloud. Well since they were now enveloped by that cloud, Pedro and company were very scared.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 7:3:
- Uma: “‘Do not yet strike the sea and the shore/land and the forest with plagues/tortures, before we (excl.) put this sign on the foreheads of the slaves/servants of God our [inc] Lord so they will not be hit by those plagues .'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The angel said to them, ‘Don’t destroy yet the earth and the sea and the trees as long as the servants of our (incl.) God have not yet been marked/sealed on their foreheads.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for the four angels to whom are entrusted the destruction of the earth and sea, He spoke to them. He raised His voice and said, ‘Don’t yet destroy the earth and sea and trees until we have placed the mark on the foreheads of the servants of our God.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Don’t destroy the earth or the ocean or the trees until we (excl.) mark the foreheads of those who serve our God.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He said, ‘Don’t yet destroy the ground/earth, the ocean and the forest. Wait until the foreheads have been marked of the servants of our God.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He said to them: ‘Do not do any damage on the land nor on the sea nor on any tree while I am marking the people who are God’s workers, putting a seal on their foreheads,’ he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
