Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 15:35:
- Uma: “Several people standing close to his cross heard that cry, they said: ‘Listen! He’s calling the prophet Elia!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the people who were standing there heard this, their hearing was faulty/mistaken. They said, ‘Listen. He is calling Nabi Eliyas.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the other people standing nearby, when they heard that word of Jesus, said, ‘Listen, for he’s calling Elijah, one of the long ago prophets of God.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When some standing there heard that, they said, ‘Listen to that! He is calling Elias!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When those who were still standing there heard, some said, ‘Listen! He is asking for help from Elias who was that prophet in the past.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of James 4:4:
- Uma: “You, you aren’t faithfully [lit., remaining] following the Lore! You know, don’t you, relatives, if we follow the evil actions in this world, we become God’s enemies? Once more I say: whoever likes evil actions in this world, he is God’s enemy.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You are not trustworthy! Don’t you know that if you like/are-fond-of the different-kinds of bad in this world, you are already the enemies of God? For whoever likes the bad works/deeds in this world, he is already God’s enemy.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You are not faithful to your promise to God. Don’t you know that if what you want is the evil behaviour of the enemies of God here on the earth, then you also are the enemies of God? Anyone who wants evil behaviour here on the earth is an enemy of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Oh confound (frustration/anger particle) you who are not trustworthy to follow God! Don’t you know that if you love what is on this earth, you are opposing God? So whoever is intentionally following the kind-of-behavior that is opposed to what God wants, he makes himself his enemy.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for you people, you are like a married woman who is immoral, who doesn’t really value marriage, for like that is what you are doing to God. Don’t you know that as long as what you give preference to are things here in this world, you are opposing God? It’s true, whoever determines that it isn’t the will of God but rather the desires here in the world which he will give preference to, he is doing none other than getting himself secured/established as an opponent of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Why do you want to depart from God? Don’t you know that the people who do as the people who live here on earth do are the enemies of God? Therefore whoever wants to do the evil done by the people here on earth ends up as the enemy of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 19:32:
- Uma: “At that time, no kidding the boisterousness of those gathered. There were some that said this, some that said that. Most of them did not know why they were meeting.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “At that time, it was very noisy in that meeting place. Some kept calling out like this, others also were calling out like that. Because the majority, they did not even know why they were gathered there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for the people there in the gathering house, their rioting was really drawn tight. They shouted out one after another and each one shouted something different. Very few people there actually knew what had happened to cause them to gather together there.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Meanwhile the many-people, they excessively made-a-racket-all-at-once, what they shouted being mutually-different and mutually-contradictory, because the majority of them, they didn’t know the origin and reason of their being-gathered.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, as for those people there at that meeting-place, their noise couldn’t be known/decifered, for they were shouting out differing things. As for the majority of them, they didn’t know the root-cause, but were only going along with others in shouting.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Teutila Cuicatec: “Meanwhile, the townspeople were buzzing [idiom for complete confusion in assembly when many are talking and shouting at the same time] in there. Some were shouting one thing and others were shouting another because almost all of them didn’t even know why they had gathered together.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 16:20:
- Uma: “From there, his followers went to spread the Good News everywhere. The Lord worked together with them, and he gave them authority to do amazing signs in order to strengthen [i.e., confirm] the truth of the news they carried.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then his disciples went to proclaim in all the places/countries. And they were given by the Lord power to do powerful deeds, in order that the people would know that their teaching was true.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the disciples of the Lord Jesus traveled out, and they preached the good news everywhere, and the power of God helped them for they were able to do miracles so that people might believe what they were preaching.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then his disciples went to preach the good news in all-the-various-towns. The Lord Jesus was helping them and confirming the truth of what they were preaching because-of/by-means-of the amazing signs that he was causing-them -to-do.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The disciples truly did go all over, for they taught in every place. They were really being helped indeed by the Lord in that work. He was testifying to the word which the disciples were teaching through the means/ability to do amazing things, which he granted to them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of James 5:19:
- Uma: “All my relatives! If there is a companion of ours who has circumvented/wandered-from from the true teaching, and there is one who guides him back to the Lord, he has done a good deed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then, my brothers, remember this, if there is someone among you who no longer follows/obeys the true teaching and one of you can influence/bring him back again to follow/obey the true teaching, (that is) good.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Brothers, if any one of you departs from and forgets about the true doctrine and someone helps him so that he might return,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Think-about this brothers. If there is someone among you who goes-far from the correct teaching or behavior that God wants and there is someone among you who advises him to cause-him-to-return to what is right,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The final thing I have to say to you, my siblings in believing, is that if one of you will get led astray from the path of truth and there is also one who can cause him to return, that is really good.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Listen, my dear brethren, if there is anyone who has departed from the word which is true, let another person cause that he return again.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 20:23:
- Uma: “All I know is, in every town that I have gone to, the Holy Spirit made clear to me that I will certainly be bound/tied-up there and received suffering.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The only thing I know,’ Paul said, ‘I am assured by the Holy Spirit in all the places I come to, that I will be imprisoned and persecuted.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The only thing I know is that in every village that we have passed through, the Holy Spirit has made clear to me that I am going to be put in prison and there will be many hard things that I will have to experience.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I know only what the Holy Spirit has warned me in the various-towns I have visited that in-the-future I will be imprisoned and hardshipped.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “All I know is what the Espiritu Santo has testified about to me in each city I arrived at, that waiting for me is jail and other hardships also.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 1:32:
- Noongar: “He will be great. He will be called the ‘Son of God’. God says this. He will stand up as King, like his ancestor David.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “He will become an important person [lit., big life], and he is called the Son of God that is in heaven. And the Lord God lifts him to become a King like King Daud, his ancestor long ago.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He will be really great and he will be called the Child/Son of God the Most High. And God will make him king like his forefather King Da’ud ley.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “His rank will be very great, and he will be called the Son of the Very Highest God, and the Lord God will make it be that this one you will give birth to will rule just like his ancestor long ago David ruled.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He will be great and will be called the Child of the Highest God. God will moreover make-him -king like his ancestor King David long ago,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He is really great/important, and is called the Son of God who is Exceedingly the Greatest/Most-important. God will give to him the kingship which is like that of his ancestor David.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Peter 2:6:
- Uma: “In the Holy Book the Redeemer King [Messiah] is compared to a rock that God chose. Like this its sound: ‘I chose an expensive rock, I plant it on Sion Mountain, I made it the main foundation stone. Whoever believes in that stone, they will not have-a-fall / be-disappointed.’ [an idiom that means that you were counting on someone to do something and that person ‘lets you down’]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because the holy-book says hep, ‘I have chosen a very valuable stone, to-be/which-is used to make the house firm/strong in the city/town Siyon. Whoever trusts in it/him will really not be made ashamed.’ This stone is a parable/figure-of-speech. It means Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For there is a written Word of God which says, ‘There is a king whom I have chosen and He is like a very precious stone. I will place Him in the town of Zion. He is like a strong stone upon which a house is built. Anyone who trusts in Him will not be disappointed, for He is the one to be trusted.’ This is the written Word of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “We know that these-things are true, because there is that which God caused-to-be-written which says, ‘Look, I have chosen a most-valuable stone which I have erected in Zion which makes-firm the house. Even anyone who believes in him, he will absolutely not be shamed.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because it says in what is contained in the writing which is the word of God, ‘Consider this. There is someone whom I have chosen, whom I am setting up in Sion who is like a far-from-ordinary smoothed stone/rock which is the main-support of a house. As many as trust in him really won’t be let down.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It is written in the Holy Book that God says: ‘There in Zion I will put a stone in place which will be for the corner of my house. It is a chosen stone, and it is supremely valuable. He who believes in him, there will never come the day that he will say that it isn’t true what he believes.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- The Greek text of 1 Peter 2:6-7 is translated in Martu Wangka (combined with verse 7) “The Father’s talk from a long time back, is like this, ‘Some people will make a shade and they will stand up two forked sticks. And then they will get another long strong stick and lay it across (on those other two). And they will get that same strong stick and throw it down thinking mistakenly that it is rubbish. The Father from above will take that stick which was thrown down and make a shade out of it. After that we will see that very good shade which was made from that stick.'” (Source: Carl Gross)
