Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 12:5:
- Uma: “And don’t forget the admonition of the Holy Book that speaks to you like a father speaks to his children. It is written like this: ‘My child, consider well the teaching of the Lord, and don’t be discouraged if he admonishes you (sing.).” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Have you forgotten the words that God spoke to you encouraging you when he called you his children? It is written in the holy-book, it says, ‘My children, pay attention when I teach you. And don’t become tired following me when I punish/discipline you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Perhaps you have already forgotten the advice God gives to you, his children. For there is a written word of God which says, ‘As for you, my child, when I scold you, you must carefully check up on your behavior. And when I train you, it’s necessary that this not be the cause for you to stop holding on to your trust in me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Have you perhaps forgotten what God caused-to-be-written which ought to strengthen the minds of you who are his children? He said, ‘My child, don’t belittle/look-down-on it if the Lord teaches you (sing.). Neither should you (sing.) be discouraged if he admonishes/rebukes/instructs you (sing.).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s like you have now forgotten what God said in the past to you who are his children, which was like a strengthening of your mind/inner-being. This is what he said, ‘Child, regard it as no-joking-matter when God corrects/straightens you (sing.). Don’t weaken when you (sing.) experience (lit. are-reached-by) this correcting of his.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do not forget the word God tells us, we being his children. There in the Holy Book is written the word God speaks: ‘Listen, my children. Consider well how it is that God punishes you. Do not let your hearts turn back when God rebukes you for what you do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Proverbs 3:11 and Proverbs 3:12.
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 16:10:
- Uma: “At his seeing this vision, we (excl.) got ready [lit., gathered our stuff] to go to that land of Makedonia, because it was clear to us (excl.) that the Lord God had commanded us to carry the Good News there.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Paul had seen that vision, immediately we (excl.) got ready because we (excl.) understood that God was calling us (excl.) to Makedoniya to proclaim to the people there the good news about Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And immediately when he saw this, we began to look for a way so that we might continue on to Macedonia because we understood that we had been divinely called to spread the Good News there to the People of Macedonia.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When that was so, we (excl.) looked-for something-to-ride-in to go to Macedonia, because we (excl.) had-come-to-know that that’s where-God wanted us (excl.) -to-go to preach the good news.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, therein, we (excl.) knew that it was after all in Macedonia where the Lord wanted us (excl.) to teach the Good News. Therefore we (excl.) persevered in searching for what (we) could sail in to go there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:15:
- Uma: “The house owner will show you a big room up above. That room is all prepared, complete with stuff [i.e., furniture, utensils]. There you will prepare the Paskah food for us.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then he will show you a big room upstairs,’ said Isa. ‘That room is already prepared beforehand. Prepare there our (incl.) food.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then he will show you a wide room overhead which is already outfitted. There you prepare our supper.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He will then show/point-out-to you a wide room upstairs where all that we need is located. Prepare what we will eat there.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, he will show you a spacious room upstairs, complete with utensils/furnishings. There in that room is where you are to prepare our (incl.) evening meal.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 13:8:
- Uma: “Yesus Kristus does not change: long ago, now, and forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa Almasi really does not change. From the beginning until now and forever he changes not.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because as for Jesus Christ, He never changes; He is always the same — long time ago and today, and in the future forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because Jesu Cristo, he doesn’t change but rather he is the same back then and now/today and forever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for this Jesu-Cristo in whom they believed, there is really no changing in him. As he was in the past, (he is) indeed like that now and forever.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning Jesus Christ, it is the same for the days gone by, and it is the same for now, forever he never changes.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 17:2:
- Uma: “So, Paulus went again to that house of prayer as he usually did, and he exchanged words with the people gathered there. Three weeks in a row Paulus’s work was always like that on the Sabat Day.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “As he usually did, Paul went to the prayer-house. Three Saturdays in a row, he debated with the Yahudi about the teachings in the holy-book.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there Paul went to worship the Jews because that was his custom. And every Saturday for three weeks he debated with the people, and he preached to them about the prophesy which is written in the book the word of God that the king whom God had chosen, suffering and death were decreed for him, and when this was finished, God would raise him from the dead. And Paul said, ‘As for this person who is named Jesus, he is the king whom God has chosen.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That’s where Pablo went to join-in-discussing concerning the word of God, because that was his custom, and that’s what he did for three Saturdays.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “therefore like they had been doing all along, Pablo went in and taught those gathered. For three successive Days of Rest, he was explaining to them the meaning of the writings which are the word of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:47:
- Uma: “From there, one of the people standing near Yesus drew his sword, he hit a slave of the Big Priest with his, managing to slice off his ear.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But there was one of those standing close by, he drew his sword and slashed a servant of the leading priest, and severed his ear.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But one of the persons there before drew out his sword and slashed at the servant of the high priest and it landed on his ear and cut it off.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Simultaneously one who was standing there drew his sword. He suddenly-sliced-at the slave of the highest priest and his ear was sliced-off.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When one of the disciples saw, he drew his bolo and slashed. The one he slashed was a slave of the Most-important Priest. The ear which got hit was cut off.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of James 1:15:
- Uma: “If he follows the desires of his heart, in-the-end he will do sin. And if he continues to do sin, finally he will die and be separated from God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “His greedy-desire gives him thoughts to do bad. As he keeps thinking (about it) finally he goes-through-with-it/proceeds-with-it and does that evil. So-then if a person is used-to doing evil the result is he will be put in hell.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if he fulfills his desires, he sins. And the end of that person, if he keeps on doing wrong is death without end.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If then he thinks about doing that-aforementioned-thing that he wants, that is the source of sin, and the outcome of a person’s sins, it is death and separation from God forever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For as long as one’s own desire which is disgusting is indulged, the outcome is sin. And when sin has now been able to flesh-out/fruit, there is no other result of it than death which is unending punishment.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When a person does that evil which came to his mind, then it is sin. This person who is sinful, now must await punishment when he continues on sinning.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Guhu-Samane: “Then it overwhelms the man and the sin becomes reality, and in return the man encounters death.”
- Tzotzil: “If we let the coveting of our hearts grab its strength, thus we will seek our sin; if sin has grabbed its strength, we will be lost because of it.”
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “If we obey our evil hearts, we are doing evil; and if we continue doing evil the day will come when God will desert us.”
- Sayula Popoluca: “When that evil he wants stays in him, it gives room for sin to grow in him, and that sin when it grows big, then it kills him.” (Source for this and three above: Ellis Deibler in Notes on Translation July, 1967, p. 5ff.)
- German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999): “The whole thing is then like twofold begetting and childbearing: A person’s instincts are like a womb that conceives the evil thought and gives birth to the evil deed. The evil deed, for its part, matures and grows, and gives birth to death.” (see also complete verse (James 1:18))
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 17:34:
- Uma: “But there were some that followed Paulus and believed Yesus: One of those who believed Yesus, his name was Dionisius, a leader of the gathering that was at Areopagus Mountain. There was also one woman who was named Damaris, and a few others also.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There were some men who joined him and trusted in Isa. Some of them were Diyonisi, one of that council, and a woman named Damaris, and there were also others.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were people there who believed in Jesus, and they followed Paul. These were Dionysius and company, one of the chiefs there in the Areopagus, and also a woman named Damaris, and there were also some others who believed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But there were however those who followed him who believed in Jesus. There was Dionisius a leader of the Areopagus, there was a woman named Damaris, and there were also others.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But there were also some who became-constant-companions of Pablo and believed in the Lord. One of those believers was Dionisio who was one of those highest judges in Atenas. Another was a woman named Damaris. And there were still others who were their companions.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
