Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 2:21:
- Uma: “I gave her an opportunity to repent from her sin, but she refused to let go of those wrong deeds of hers.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I have warned/instructed her, told her to regret and leave now her sin of fornication/adultery, but she does not want to.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I have put up with her for a long time so that she might stop doing those bad things, however she will not stop.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I have given her the opportunity to repent of her sins, but she refuses to turn-her-back-on her sleeping-with those who are not her spouse.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I have already given her room to repent and let go of these disgusting things which are her way-of-life, but she is really determining that she won’t let go of them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I have waited for this Jezebel, perhaps that she will separate from the fornication she walks in, but she does not want to separate from it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 3:25:
- Uma: “According to God’s plan/command, Yesus was killed and his blood was spilled. God did that so that Yesus was punished to pay-for/redeem the sins of mankind, so that he would forgive our sins if we believe in Yesus. Before Yesus died, God did not punish the sins of man. He let-be [i.e., did nothing about] the sins of man for the time being, because of his patience. But if he never punished sin, he would not be just. So, with the death of Yesus, God showed that he was upright.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa Almasi was sent here by God in order to die and that his blood be spilled, and because of that death of his, the sin of human beings/mankind is forgiven if/when they trust him. God did this demonstrating/showing that he is really straight. Formerly God endured the doings of people and it was as if he just did not do anything (about) their sins.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “God sent him so that he might become a sacrifice in our (incl.) place, and because His blood flowed, God will forgive our (incl.) sins if we believe in Him. God did this so that we might understand that His judgment is righteous, even though long ago, because He was long-suffering, He did not for awhile yet punish people because of their sins.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God sent him to die so that he would thus pay-for/undergo the punishment of our sins, and by-means-of his blood, our sins can be forgiven if we believe in him. God did that in order to show the righteousness of what he had done previously. Because previously, he had been bearing-with people’s sins, not punishing them immediately,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God sent Christ in order to die before the face the eye of the people. He died in order to clear the sins of all people who would believe in him. When Christ died, it was seen why it is that people had been cleared of sin. In past days, God endured the people patiently, he didn’t send punishment for the sins they had done before.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999): “God used the violent death of Jesus as an opportunity to make Jesus Christ the public place of forgiveness for everyone. In this way, God proved that he himself is righteous by forgiving the sins that people had previously committed. This forgiveness is granted to the individual by believing in Jesus as its mediator.”
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:47:
- Noongar: “The woman saw that Jesus knew she had touched him, so she came trembling and she fell down at the feet of Jesus. In front of all the people she told Jesus why she had touched him and how she had been healed at that moment.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “That woman knew that her doing/what she had done was not hidden. So she came shaking/shivering to kneel in front of Yesus. She confessed to the people that she was the one who touched the shirt/clothes of Yesus and that she was healed from her disease.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the woman knew that she could not hide what she had done, she came close shaking and prostrated at Isa’s feet. And she told Isa in the hearing of the people as to why she had touched him and she also told that she was healed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then when the woman understood that Jesus knew what she had done, she came up to Jesus, shaking because she was very much afraid. She knelt down to Jesus, there in front of all the people, and she told the reason why she had taken hold of the shirt of Jesus, and she told also that immediately at that time, her disease was healed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That woman realized that she was found-out, so she approached Jesus trembling and knelt face-down in front of him. Then she told Jesus in the sight of the many-people the reason that she had touched his clothes and the instantaneous removal of her sickness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When that woman realized that apparently what she had done wasn’t hidden from Jesus, she approached trembling and kneeled down in front of Jesus. She related in the hearing of the crowd why she had touched Jesus and how suddenly/unexpectedly the blood which was abnormal had stopped.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 4:2:
- Uma: “At that time also, I was controlled by the Spirit of God and he carried me to heaven. Arriving there, I saw a Seat of a King, and there was One who Sits on that Seat.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Immediately I was ruled by the Spirit of God and I saw there in heaven a throne, that means a distinguished/important sitting-place/seat and someone was sitting on it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the Holy Spirit caused me to go there, and when I was already there in heaven, I saw the seat of the one who rules” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God’s Spirit immediately caused-me-to-dream, and I saw a throne of a king which had someone seated (on it).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Suddenly/unexpectedly it’s like I was taken by the Espiritu Santo going up. When I was now in heaven, I saw a seat of a king, and there was indeed someone sitting there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “At that time the Holy Spirit changed my seeing. I saw a chair there in heaven. There in that chair sat God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 5:1:
- Uma: “So, since we have become straight in God’s sight because of our faith, our connection with God has become good because of our Lord Yesus Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then because we (incl.) have been forgiven and considered straight by God because we (incl.) trust in Isa Almasi, therefore we (incl.) are now reconciled with him because of what Isa Almasi our (incl.) Leader has done.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now since we (incl.) have already believed in Jesus, God considers us to be righteous as if we had never sinned. And because of this, by means of what our Lord Jesus Christ did, our relationship with God is now peaceful.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore since God counts us as righteous because of our faith, our companionship with him is also good because of what Jesu Cristo our Lord has done.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now our sins are cleared because we believe in our Lord Jesus Christ. By means of Jesus Christ we have been brought together with God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “God says we walk straight because we trust in Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ causes us to be at peace with God.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:23:
- Noongar: “And Jesus told all of them, ‘If a person wants to follow me, he must forget himself, he must lift up his cross every day and follow me.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “From there, Yesus spoke to all the people, he said: ‘Whoever wants to follow me must let-go/free his own will/desires, and he must carry-on-shoulder his cross every day — its meaning: he must follow my command even if it kills him. After that and only then can he follow me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then he said to them all, ‘If a person wants to follow me, he should follow/obey my wishes, not his own wishes. And he should also carry the post for-him-to-be-killed-on every day, that means, he should submit to endure/suffer persecution and even yet to die. Then he will be able to follow me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said again to all of them, he said, ‘If anyone desires to follow the way I go, he must remove from his thinking his own way (of doing) and he must put on his shoulder every day his cross, which is to say, he must carry out my commands even if it means his death. And then he will be able to follow the way I go.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus called the many-people and said to them all, ‘Whoever wants to become my disciple, he must turn-his-back-on himself. Daily also, he must carry-on-the-shoulder his cross so that he will then go-with me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then there was something which he said to the crowd of people, saying, ‘If anyone really wants to follow/obey me, he must forget about his own will. It’s like he will shoulder his own cross every day, for what he is following/obeying is my will even if it causes his breath/life to be severed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 6:9:
- Uma: “After that, I also saw the Lamb open the fifth seal. I saw under the offering burning table there were the ghosts of people who were killed because they announced the Word of God and they did not retreat from their confession/admission that Yesus was their Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then the Sheep removed the fifth seal. Na, I saw an altar and under that altar, there (I saw) the souls of those people who had been killed because they had proclaimed the message of God and because they had persevered telling about Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the young sheep removed the fifth mark on the scroll, and I saw then underneath the sacrificial altar the souls of the people who had been killed because of their faith in the Word of God and because of their spreading it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “After-that the Sheep detached the fifth thing-that-was-adhering/affixed, and I saw beneath the altar (loan altar) the spirits of people who had been killed because of their following God’s word and the teaching that the Lord Jesus made-known.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And next the fifth fastening was removed by that one referred to as Young Sheep. Suddenly/unexpectedly I saw under the altar (lit.burning-place) the spirits of those who had been killed because of their testifying about the word of God and their standing up for this truth of his.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Then the Lamb broke the fifth seal. Then I saw the souls of the dead, those who had been killed for their speaking God’s word, and who had not rested from speaking the word. Therefore they had been killed. All these were there at the altar.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 6:12:
- Uma: “So, let’s not allow sin to control our lives on this earth any more, let’s not follow our evil desires.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore you (pl.) ought/must not let/abandon yourselves to sin and you should not follow your greedy-desires.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because of this, brothers, let us no longer permit that our evil desires control our body which easily dies. Because if we permit this, we will have to obey the evil desires of our body.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore we must not permit the ruling of sin over us so that we will not obey the evil-things which our bodies desire.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore now, during the time we live here on earth, no longer will we give the road to sin. We must not want that we will be conquered by our own body’s desires.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
