complete verse (1 Corinthians 9:4)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 9:4:

  • Uma: “We(excl.) who are apostles of the Lord Yesus, isn’t it fitting for us (excl.) to get our (excl.) food and drink from our (excl.) work carrying the Lord’s Word?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Is it that I don’t have authority to cause the people I preach-to to feed me and give me drink?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “is it bad if I beg my food and drink from those believers who receive my teaching? It’s not bad.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “If it is true then that I am an apostle, do I indeed (rhet. quest.) have no right that those whom I am teaching feed-me?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Think about our (excl.) position/responsibility. Isn’t it so that we (excl.) have the authority to have our needs such as food and drink taken care of by those we are teaching?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “It is right that I be given food for the work that I do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 20:41)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:41:

  • Noongar: “Jesus asked them, ‘The Scriptures say the Messiah, he will be a descendant of David. How can this happen?” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “From there, Yesus also asked, saying to those religion teachers: ‘Why do they say that the Redeemer King is a descendant of King Daud?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then Isa said to them, ‘Why do the people say that the Almasi is a descendant of King Da’ud, they say?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to them, he said, ‘How can it be that the teachers of the Law teach that the king who is expected is just a descendant of King David?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said to them, ‘Why do they say that the Messiah is David’s descendant?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus spoke, saying to them, ‘How can it be said by the explainers of law that the one referred to as Cristo is only the descendant of king David of the past?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Corinthians 10:9)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 10:9:

  • Uma: “Let’s not draw-out/fish-for the Lord’s anger, like some of them did, with the result that they died, bitten by snakes.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Don’t let us (incl.) sin on purpose, testing God if it is true that he will punish us (dual). This was done by some of our (incl.) forefathers in those times and many of them died bitten by snakes.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Let’s not also test to see how long God will put up with us, because this is what some of them did, and the punishment they suffered was they were bitten by snakes, and they died.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “It is also bad if we test the patience of the Lord like what some of them did who were bitten by snakes and they died.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “It is also necessary that we not tempt/test the Lord, like what some of the companions of those people also did, that being how it began that they died-in-large-numbers because they were bitten-in-large-numbers by poisonous snakes.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “God is patient with what we do, but we must not keep on until he gets angry with us. That is what some of our ancestors did. Then God had enough of them and those people died from being bitten by snakes.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 21:26)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 21:26:

  • Noongar: “People will faint for fear, waiting for the things which are coming to cover all the Earth. The powers of space will be driven from their paths.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “There will be people who die standing carried by their terror, seeing what is happening all around the world. For all the powerful things in the sky will be shaken.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “And the people will almost die because of their fear and because of their worry/sadness/trouble about the disaster they expect soon to come to the world. For the different kinds in the sky leave their places.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there will be at that time people who will be at that time people who will become unconscious because of their fear, because they are so worried as to what will be the end of all the things which are expected to happen here on earth, because every light in the sky will be shaken back and forth.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “They will faint from their fear during their waiting for what will happen on the earth, because everything that can be seen above will be shaken.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “As for people, they will faint from fear because they are constantly-thinking/worrying about the harms which will come to the world, because the whole sky will be shaken by the strength of the supernatural-power of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Corinthians 11:8)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 11:8:

  • Uma: “For man was not made from woman, it was woman who was made from man.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Because in the beginning when God created mankind, it was not the man who was created from the body of the woman, but the woman was created from the body of man.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “That’s why the man is in charge of the woman, for that first man, he was not birthed by a woman, but rather he was created by God. And as for that first woman, God made her from the body of the first man.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because when God created the first man and woman, the man didn’t come-from the woman but rather the woman came-from the man.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “For isn’t it so that, when God created that first man and woman, the man did not come from the woman but rather the woman came from the man.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Because when God had made man, it wasn’t from a woman he took a part in order to make a man. Rather it was the man from whom a part was taken from his body in order to make the woman.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 22:20)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 22:20:

  • Noongar: “In the same way, after the meal, Jesus gave them a cup of wine, saying, ‘This cup is the new agreement, written in my blood. It is spilled for you.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “So also, after they had eaten, he took the cup filled with wine and he said to them: ‘The contents of this cup stand for the new promise of God, that makes-in-relationship God and mankind. That promise is made to happen with my blood, that will be spilled when I die to redeem you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Likewise also after they had eaten he gave them the glass and he said, ‘This drink is the sign of God’s new covenant with you. This covenant of God is sure/confirmed because my blood is poured out for you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when they had finished eating Jesus took again the cup, and he said, ‘This that you are drinking is a sign of the new way of being set free which God has established, and this is possible by means of my blood which is caused to flow because of you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When they had eaten, like that indeed also is what he did with the cup which he took and said, ‘This cup, it is God’s new agreement which will be ratified (lit. tied-in-a-knot) by my blood which will flow-out when I die for you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “When they had eaten, he again took hold of a cup. He said, ‘The contents of this cup are the strength/pledge of a new initiated-agreement by God with people, this strength/pledge being none other than my own blood which I will shed (lit. will-cause-to-drip) because of you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 1:15)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 1:15:

  • Uma: “Eliud was the progenitor of Eleazar, Eleazar was the progenitor of Matan, Matan was the progenitor of Yakub,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “From the time of the deportation of the people of Isra’il to Babilon to the birth of Isa, these are the ancestors listed: Jekoniya was the father of Salati, Salati was the father of Serubbabel, Serubbabel was the father of Abiyud, Abiyud was the father of Eliyakim, Eliyakim was the father of Asor, Asor was the father of Sadok, Sadok was the father of Akim, Akim was the father of Eliyud, Eliyud was the father of Eleyasar, Eleyasar was the father of Mattan, Mattan was the father of Yakub, Yakub was the father of Yusup the husband of Mariyam. Mariyam was the mother of Isa called the Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Eliud was the father of Eleazer. Eleazar was the father of Matthan. Matthan was the father of Jacob.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Eliud in-turn was the father of Eleazar who was the father of Mattan who was the father of Jacob.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And then Eliud, he was the father of Eleazar. Eleazar was the father of Matan. And Matan was the father of Jacob.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Eliud was the father of Eleazar. Eleazar was the father of Matthan. Matthan was the father of Jacob.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (1 Corinthians 12:6)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 12:6:

  • Uma: “Many are the ways God shows his power in our lives, but it is also the one and the same God that works everything in the lives of us all.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Our (incl.) work that we (dual) do for God is not the same, but nevertheless it is God who is helping us (incl.) all so that we (incl.) are able to do what we (dual) do for him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for us believers, there are many things that we are caused to do; however, the one who guides each one of us is God, so that each one might be able to carry out what he has been caused to do.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The results of God’s work in our lives are also mutually-different, but the God who is working-(in-us) is only-one.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Very varied is the outcome of God’s supernatural-power in the life of a person, but only-one also is the God who is the source of this supernatural-power.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “We are not all given the same work, rather different work. But concerning all of us, it is God who strengthens the people so they know how to do the work they do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)