Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 10:18:
- Uma: “So also is the custom of the Israel people When some of them offer their offerings to God on the offering burning table, and they call their friends to accompany them in eating part of that offering, they are united in their custom of worshipping the Lord God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Look at the custom of the tribe of Isra’il. The ones who eat the food given to God are also included/together in worshiping God. If it is like that, that means that the people who eat what was given to the idols are also included/together in worshiping those idols.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Think about what the Jews do because each one of them who eats of that which is sacrificed on the altar there before God, by means of their eating, they share in worshipping God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Think-about the descendants of Israel. When they join-in-eating what has been offered to God, they show that they are joining in worshipping him, isn’t that so?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Remember also the Israelita of the past, the Israelita according to blood, not according to believing/obeying. Was it not so that when they would eat what was being sacrificed as a thank-offering on the altar(lit.burning-place), they were going-along-with the worshipping of God who was the one being thanked?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “You see what the Jews do when they make a sacrifice to God. All who eat the meat which is killed to offer to God share together because their hearts are together in the worship they do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 21:35:
- Noongar: “Because the Day will come to all people of every part of the Earth.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “My arrival will strike all people in the world, like a snare traps a mouse.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For that day will really come suddenly figuratively like a trap snapping shut and all people in the shallow of this world are hit/caught.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because this is how fast this day is going to overtake all mankind.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because the people in all the many-countries on the surface of the earth will emphatically be startled-speechless like a bird caught in a bird-snare.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because it’s true, what my returning here will be like is a bamboo-trap which is sprung, for all the people here under the heavens will truly panic.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 11:17:
- Uma: “Continuing on, there is another thing that I want to say to you. I do not praise you because of this behavior of yours, for your gatherings do not result-in [lit., bring/carry] goodness, but rather just evil/bad.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There is still something else that I instruct you about command you. But you are not fit/right to be praised about this. Because when you gather to worship, you don’t become better but become worse.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There’s something else I have to say to you, and it is: I don’t like what you do when you gather together, because your faith is not strengthened by your gathering together, but rather it’s as if it is made weaker.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Now concerning this that I will command you, it’s not possible for me to praise you, because when you congregate to worship God, the result of it is not good but rather bad.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This now is what I will also mention. It is not possible for me to praise you in this thing, for as for your gathering together to worship, it is not for good but rather for bad.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “There is another word I want to say to you. Because it is not right in what you do when you gather together. There where you gather together, it isn’t for good, rather it is painful in its result.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 22:29:
- Noongar: “And now, my Father gives me power to be King, so I give you the same power.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “So, like my Father gave me power/authority to rule, so also I give you power/authority to rule.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I have been given authority by my Father God to rule in the future. In the same way I also give you authority to rule.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “My Father God gave me the right to rule in the future, and in the same way also, I give you also the right to rule.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “therefore I will do to you what my Father has done to me. Because he gave me my authority to rule and that indeed also is what I will do to you” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, in the same way that I have kingship kept in store for me by my Father in heaven, like that indeed you have kingship kept in store by me,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 1:24:
- Uma: “When Yusuf woke up, he did follow what that angel of the Lord had said to him. He went ahead and married Maria.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Yusup woke up he did what the angel had commanded him. He married Mariyam.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Joseph woke up. He did what the messenger told him to do, and he married Mary.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When Jose got-up/woke-up, he obeyed what the angel had said, and took- Mary -home-as-his-wife,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jose woke up, he did indeed obey that which the angel of God had said. He went ahead with marrying Maria.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Upon waking up Joseph did according to what the angel had said, that one who was a messenger of God. He took Mary to live with him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 12:15:
- Uma: “If we think of our bodies, we have feet, we have hands, and many other parts. It’s not all one part. For instance the foot says: ‘I, I am not a hand, so I’m not part of the body.’ Even so, the feet are still part of the body.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For example, the foot says, ‘I don’t belong to this body because I am not the hand,’ even if it speaks like that, it still belongs to that body.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For example, if the foot could speak he would say, ‘I’m not a part of the body because I’m not a hand.’ Now in spite of the fact that this is what he says, it’s not possible that the foot is not part of the body.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If for-example, a leg/foot says, ‘I’m not (empathy particle) an arm/hand, so I’m not part of the body,’ yet it is nonetheless part-of/joined-to the body, even though it says that.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But even though it’s like that, all of these are a single-body-entity. For if supposing the foot/leg says, ‘I am not a hand therefore I am not a part of the body,’ isn’t it so that that’s not true? It is indeed a part of the body, even though it is not a hand.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “If the foot of the person should say ‘How come I am not the hand? Then I am not a part of the person’s body’ it says, but it also is a part of the person’s body.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 22:61:
- Noongar: “Jesus turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: ‘This night, before the bird crows, you will tell three lies, saying you do not know me.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “and the Lord turned to look at him. From there, he remembered the words of the Lord that said to him: ‘Before the night chicken crows, you (sing.) will already have denied three times that you (sing.) know me.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Isa turned around and he looked at Petros, and Petros remembered that Isa had said to him, ‘when the cock hasn’t crowed yet this night you will have three times asserted that you do not know me.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Jesus turned toward Peter and looked closely at him. And then at last, Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him, ‘Before the chicken crows a little later, you will say three times that you do not know me.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Right then the Lord Jesus turned and looked-closely at Pedro, and then he remembered what the Lord had said that before the rooster crowed that night he would three-times say-in-denial that he didn’t know him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, there inside the house, Jesus turned toward Pedro and looked-intensely at him. When Pedro saw, he remembered what Jesus had said to him, which was ‘Before the rooster crows later at pre-dawn, you will deny me three times.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 3:8:
- Uma: “If you have really repented from your sins, do good behavior.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Do good deeds so that it can be seen that you forsake/turn-your-back-on your sins.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If it is true that you have had done with your bad way of doing, show it by good works.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It certainly cannot be, because it is necessary that you do what shows that it is true that you have repented of your sins.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “You must testify by your life-style that you repent truly.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “You must do what is good in order that it appears that you have separated from evil.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
