Following are a number of back-translations of John 2:7:
- Uma: “Yesus said saying to those workers: ‘Fill those water containers with water.’ They filled them full.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to the servants, ‘Fill those jars with water.’ They filled them until they almost overflowed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill these with water.’ And they filled those jars up to the lip,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus said to the drink-servers, ‘Fill all of those rice-wine-jars with water.’ And they did that.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus instructed those servants. He said, ‘Fill up these jars with water.’ Without anything further, they transferred water into them till they were-full-to-the-brim.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said to the waiters, ‘Fill the big jars here with water.’ They filled them then.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:31:
- Uma: “The demons that were possessing [lit., riding] those people asked Yesus, they said: ‘If you (sing.) must cause-us-to-go-away from here, order us to enter those pigs over there.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The demons begged Isa, they said, ‘If you command us to leave, cause us to go into the bodies of those pigs.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The demons begged Jesus, they said, ‘If you drive us out, permit us to go into those pigs.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “so the evil-spirits pleaded with Jesus saying, ‘If you (sing.) cause-us (excl.) -to-leave, please send us (excl.) to those pigs so that we (excl.) will possess them.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The evil spirits begged-for-mercy from Jesus. They said, ‘If you are going to drive us out of these people, allow us to transfer to those pigs.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The evil spirits said to Jesus: ‘If you want that we leave these men here, then give us permission that we enter to the hearts of the pigs over there.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 3:15:
- Uma: “Until this time, when they read the letter(s) written by the prophet Musa, we can say their hearts are still covered-up with a veil.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Even up to now, each time when it is read to the people of Isra’il from the holy-book of the law of Musa, there is like a cover on their thoughts/minds and they do not understand.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they still don’t understand today, for when the Jews read the Law left behind by Moses, they are not able to understand because their thinking is still covered up.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Yes, that is true, for even today, when what Moses wrote is read, it is as if there is a headcloth that covers-over their minds.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Yes indeed, really right up to the present, each time the writings which God caused Moises to write are being read, it’s like their minds/thinking are being veiled still.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Until the present day the minds of the Jews are closed when they study the words which Moses wrote.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 3:14:
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “Moses hung up the snake out where it was quiet. Well, also in the same way it is necessary that I should be hung up, I who am the friend of all men.”
- Alekano: “Just like Moses a long time ago in the wilderness lifted up the thing made to look like a snake, they will surely lift up me the true man.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
- Uma: “‘Long ago in the wilderness, the prophet Musa made an image of a snake from brass, and he put it on the end of a wooden pole and stuck it in the ground to stand it up. Whoever was bitten by a snake, if they looked up at that brass image of a snake, they would live. So, like that brass snake was made high long ago, so also I the Child of Mankind must be made high,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Musa in old times, at the time when he was there in the lonely place together with the tribe of Isra’il, he made (a thing) in the shape of a snake from brass and lifted it up and hung it onto a post so that when the people who had been bitten looked at that snake would get well. Likewise I, the Son of Mankind, I also have to be lifted up onto a post and be killed,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Jesus said again, ‘Long ago when Moses was still out in the land where nobody lives, he made a brass snake and he put it on wood and he raised it up. As for me, the older sibling of mankind, that is the same thing that is going to happen to me in the future because I also will be fastened to a wood and raised up.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And what will happen to me, it is like what happened to the imitation/fake snake which Moses fastened-to and raised-up on a post when they were walking through the place with no inhabitants. Because I also who am Child of a Person, I must be fastened-to the cross and be-raised-up” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And in the way in which Moises put-up-high what he’d made which was like a snake there in the wilderness, putting it on wood/tree which he set up, like that indeed is what will be done to me who am the One From Heaven Born of Man. They will nail me to a cross and then put-up-high like that snake which was made.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “There in the wilds, Moses made a metal snake and standing up a pole he raised it high. In like manner it will happen to the Man who came from heaven, it is necessary that the cross be stood up with him on it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 9:29:
- Uma: “From there he touched their eyes and said to them: ‘I heal you according to your faith.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then Isa touched their eyes. He said, ‘It is done to you as you believe.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘Yes, Chief, we believe.’ Then Jesus touched their eyes, and he said, ‘May you be healed according to your faith.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus laid-his-hands-on their eyes and said, ‘It will be fulfilled to you because of your trust.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Without anything further, Jesus touched the eyes of those two and spoke saying, ‘You will receive this which you are certain of.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus put out his hands and touched the eyes of the blind men. He said to them: ‘Because you believe that I can heal you, then you are healed now.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 5:11:
- Uma: “So, we (excl.) are uneasy/afraid to do anything that the Lord will not like, for we (excl.) know that he will examine us (incl.) all. That’s why we (excl.) exert effort to lead people to believe in the Lord Yesus. God knows the contents of our (excl.) hearts. And I hope, relatives, that none of you have uncertain hearts about us (excl.) any longer, I hope that all of you know the contents of our (excl.) hearts.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because we (excl.) know that the judgment of the God is frightening, therefore we (excl.) always beseech/instruct the people telling them to trust in Almasi. God knows what is really in our (excl.) liver, that we (excl.) are really straight. And I trust that in your liver you also know this.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since we know that when the Lord examines the works of mankind in the future, it will be very fearful, we do what we can so that people might believe. God knows that our purpose is not bad and I desire that you know it also.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Since we (excl.) know how to fear the Lord Jesus, therefore we (excl.) continually are persuading people to believe what we (excl.) say. God knows that our (excl.) motives are sincere, and may you also know it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well now, because we (excl.) know that this judging by the Lord is really frightening, we (excl.) are industriously-striving to win-people -over to submit to him. God really knows that we (excl.) don’t have any evil ulterior-motive in this teaching of ours (excl.), and I am hoping that your minds/inner-being have also comprehended this.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And now, it is the Lord Jesus whom I look with reverence on and I want the he looks well upon me. Therefore I earnestly endeavor to win the hearts of other people so that they will believe the word. God knows what all I am doing and I want that you also know about what I am doing.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:11:
- Uma: “That woman said: ‘From where that living water that you (sing.) say, for you (sing.) do not even have a dipper, and the well is deep.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Sir,’ said the woman, ‘where would you get/fetch water that gives life? You have, surprise, nothing for drawing it with and this well is hep deep.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the woman said, ‘Sir, you don’t have any dipper and this well is deep. Where are you going to get that water that gives life?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon the woman said, ‘Sir, you (sing.) have nothing to dip-out-with and that well there is deep. Where perhaps will you (sing.) get water that gives life?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When the woman heard, she said, ‘Master, this well sure is deep, and it seems you have no drawing-vessel. Well from where would you get that living water? (In Tagbanwa, living water refers to water at the very source of a spring).” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The woman said to him, ‘Sir, there isn’t anything for you to draw the water and the well is deep. How can you get the water which gives the new life in order to give me?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:23:
- Uma: “If you are persecuted in one village, go away going to another village. Truly I say to you: before your work is done carrying the Good News to all the villages of the Israel people, I the Child of Mankind will come back.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When you are persecuted in one town, flee to another town. I tell you, you will not yet have gone to all the places in Isra’il and proclaimed, when I, the Son of Man, come again.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If they treat you harmfully in one village, run away to another village. It is true what I am telling you, that you won’t be able to finish what I am causing you to do in all the villages of the nation of Israel before I, the Older Sibling of Mankind, will already return.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If they hardship you in one town, run-away to go to another town. This that I tell you is true, that when I who am Child of a Person come, you will not yet have finished the work-I -gave-you -to-do in all-the-various-towns in Israel.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, if you are caused to suffer in one town, run to the next one. Because this which I will say to you is really true, that your work of teaching in every town of the Judio won’t yet be finished when I come who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When you are persecuted in one town, then flee and go to another town. Yet I tell you that you will not have finished spreading the word where the Jews live when there will arrive the day when the people will be judged by the Man who came from heaven.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
