Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:14:
- Uma: “On their journey, Yesus’ disciples didn’t remember to take a food-bundle, there was only one [loaf of] bread in the boat.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The disciples of Isa had not remembered to take food with them. They had only one bread in the boat.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The disciples forgot to bring their supply of bread, and there was only one piece of bread among them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Now (new development particle) his disciples had forgotten to take-along bread for their pack-lunch. Only-one bread was what was in the boat.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus and company were now sailing crossing over but well, the disciples had forgotten to take along a lot of bread. They only had one bread for their bit-of-provisisons.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 2:18:
- Uma: “Yesus underwent suffering when he was tested, that’s why he can help people who are tested, for he too got/ underwent testing.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And now he can help the people who are tempted so that they are not carried to sin because he has experienced temptation and persecution/suffering.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And it’s possible for Him to help those who are tempted by Satan, because He has experienced difficulty because of His being tempted.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And because he experienced hardship and temptation, he knows how to help all people who experience temptation.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And because he was hardshipped and really tested/tempted by Satanas (to see) if he might-be-made-to-fall(fig., into sin), therefore he can really help us when we also are tested/tempted. 2:2 According to the perception of the Jews in the past, when God set in motion his laws, the angels were the ones he entrusted (with the task) (Deuteronomy 33:2). 2:6-8 Psalm 8:4-6. 2:8 Genesis 1:26-28. 2:12 Psalm 22:22. 2:13 Isaiah 8:17. 2:13 Isaiah 8:18.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He knows how to strengthen the hearts of the people when they are urged to sin. Because here on earth he went through the sufferings there and he himself was urged to sin.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:12:
- Uma: “Inside the blanket being lowered, there were all kinds of animals: those with four feet, those that slithered, with birds also.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Inside that blanket there were various kinds of animals that walked, those that crawled and birds.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And inside of that there were all kinds of legged creatures such as animals, and reptiles, and birds.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Its contents were all that are seen of large-animals, crawling/slithering-things and flying-things, which are forbidden to the Jews to eat.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Its contents were all kinds of animals. Crawlers, walkers and fliers, they were there. There were many which the Jews didn’t eat for they tabooed them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:8:
- Uma: “All of a sudden, they looked around, there were no longer any other people with them, just Yesus alone.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then, when they looked around, suddenly they didn’t see anything else, except Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the disciples looked around, but they could no longer see any other person, for Jesus again was their only companion.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They immediately-looked-up, but there was no other whom they saw except Jesus alone.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Suddenly/unexpectedly again, when those disciples looked around, they saw nobody else with them, only Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 4:13:
- Uma: “There isn’t anything that is hidden in his sight. Everything is plain and clear/exposed to him. It is to him that we must admit/confess our behavior.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There is nothing whatsoever that one can hide from God because all that he created is open/visible in his sight. And in the future all of us (incl.) have to face him confessing/saying-the-truth about all we (incl.) have done.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for God, nobody can hide from Him. He can always see anything that we are doing, and if there is anything we are doing, He is the one to check up on us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Even whatever creature, it is not able-to-hide-from God. It’s as if they are all naked in his sight, because he knows absolutely-everything about them. And he is the one to-whom-we -answer/will-answer for all that we have done and thought.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There is really nothing that can be hidden from God. All things are clear in his sight, and he is the one to whom we will all answer for everything that we have done.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And now, concerning whatever word is in our thoughts, there is not a word which we can hide from God, thinking that he doesn’t know what our thoughts are. Because there is nothing of our thoughts closed to him, God knows all that we think. And it is God we will submit to for judgment concerning how we have walked.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:44:
- Uma: “While Petrus was still talking, the Holy Spirit came down upon all the people who heard his words.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “While Petros was still speaking, the Holy Spirit entered into all the people who were listening to his words.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And while Peter was still talking, the Holy Spirit came down on all the people who were listening there. (The word ‘came down’ is a special religious Manobo term which only a supernatural can do, and it is something that is done to people.)” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Pedro was still talking, right-then the Holy Spirit entered all who were listening.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Pedro hadn’t yet ended that which he was saying when suddenly/unexpectedly all those who were listening to his teaching were entered-and-indwelt by the Espiritu Santo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:40:
- Uma: “People who don’t oppose us, it means they are on our side.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For a person who does not oppose us (incl.),’ he said, ‘takes our (incl.) side.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For the person who is not our enemy helps us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because the one who does not oppose us, he is helping us.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because the truth is, if (a person) isn’t opposing me, he is supporting me/on my side.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 6:15:
- Uma: “Abraham, he faithfully [lit., remained] believed in God, until he got what he had promised him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Ibrahim did not become tired/fed-up waiting for God’s covenant/promise therefore he received what God had promised to him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for Abraham, he was very faithful to trust God until God fulfilled His promise to him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Since Abraham waited patiently, what God promised was fulfilled to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Abraham really did not get fed up with waiting. He eagerly awaited until what was promised to him arrived.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When people say that it is true what they are saying, they call upon God to be their witness. When a person has called on God to be his witness, then his friend with whom he is talking cannot say that it is not true in what he said. But God promised a word to Abraham and since no one is greater than God, therefore he used his own name, telling Abraham it is God’s own word that which was said. He said to him: ‘It is true what I say to you, overflowingly I will bless you. I will cause that very much will increase your children,’ he said. But Abraham did not get anxious concerning the word God spoke. Rather he waited, waited until there came the day when it happened according to the word God promised would happen.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
