complete verse (2 Peter 2:3)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Peter 2:3:

  • Uma: “Because of their desire for money, those lying teachers will tell you stories that they simply invented themselves, in order to get profit from you. But God has already long ago prepared their punishment, and he will no longer put off the day of their punishment.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “These teachers who are not true ones crave for money therefore they will make a profit of you with their stories which are not true. They have been sentenced already beforehand. God does not sleep, he will certainly punish them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because of their love for money they exploit you by means of their teaching lies. Their punishment has long been prepared; God is now ready to punish them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because of their grasping-after money, these who teach what isn’t true will trick you by relating-tales that will-come-from their own minds only, and they will use you as a means-of-their -making-a-profit. But don’t think that the one who will judge them is sleeping, because he has already condemned them long ago and their punishment is already-prepared.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, since those teachers are really greedy, through that fabricated talk of theirs which is wholly lies, they will just make of you a means-of-income. But the truth is, from long ago a heavy/severe judgment which had been sentenced was already being held in store. There’s really no doubt about their being reached by punishment.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “These lying teachers will want to get money away from you by the lying teaching they say. But God already long ago has determined that people who do this will be punished. There will come the day when they will go through their punishment.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 24:10)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 24:10:

  • Uma: “After that, the Governor motioned to Paulus to speak. Paulus spoke, he said: ‘I am really glad, because I have been given the opportunity to say my defense in front of Father Governor. Because I know that for years-and-years Governor has been the decider/judge in our village/nation.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then the governor made a sign to Paul telling him to speak, and he spoke now. He said to the governor, ‘I am happy to speak for myself here before you, Sir, because I know that for a long time now you have enforced (lit. cause-to-walk) the law here in our (excl.) tribe.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the governor motioned to Paul, which was a sign that he was allowed to speak. And Paul said to him, ‘I know that you have been in charge of our province here for a long time. That’s why I am not hesitant to make clear before you my explanation.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then the governor gestured to Pablo to take-his-turn to speak. And this was his answer. ‘Sir Governor, I know that you (sing.) have been ruling-over and judging us (excl.) Jews for a long-time, so I am happy to answer what these have-accused-me -of.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “The governor then motioned to Pablo that he speak next. Therefore Pablo spoke answering that accusation of theirs. He said, ‘Respected Governor, I know that for a long time now you have been a judge here in this land. That’s why I don’t hold back from speaking concerning myself, which is my defence.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 3:30)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 3:30:

  • Uma: “Lewi the child of Simeon, Simeon the child of Yehuda, Yehuda the child of Yusuf, Yusuf the child of Yonam, Yonam the child of Elyakim,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Libi was a son of Simiyun, Simiyun was a son of Yuda, Yuda was a son of Yusup, this Yusup was a son of Jonam, Jonam was a son of Eliyakim.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and Levi was the son of Simeon, and Simeon was the son of Judah, and Judah was the son of Joseph, and Joseph was the son of Jonam, and Jonam was the son of Eliakim,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Levi, he was the child of Simeon who was the child of Juda who was the child of Jose who was the child of Jonam who was in-turn the child of Eliakim.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “who was the son of Simeon who was the son of Juda. The one to whom Juda was born was Jose, Jose being the son of Jonan who was the son of Eliaquim.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (2 Peter 3:13)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Peter 3:13:

  • Uma: “But we wait for what God promised to us: a new sky and a new world, that is dwelt in by upright people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But God has also promised that he will give us (incl.) a new sky and a new world/earth. And there will be no bad there, all will be only good. This is what we (incl.) are waiting for.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But as for us, by contrast, we are expecting a new earth and sky which God promised to us. The only ones who can live there are those whose acts are righteous.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “But as for us, we are expecting that God will fulfill what he promised, and there will be a new sky and a new earth on which the behavior of all who stay there will be entirely righteous.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But what we are expecting/hoping-for which God promised is really good. For we are sure of a new sky/heaven and new earth which can’t be entered by anything evil, but rather wholly righteous/straight.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “But God has promised us that there will be a new heaven and a new earth. On this new earth the peole will live in all goodness. This we wait for.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 25:15)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 25:15:

  • Uma: “When I was in Yerusalem, the leading priests and the other Yahudi elders said their accusations that they accused him of, and asked me to punish him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When I went to Awrusalam, I was told by the leading priests and the elders of the Yahudi their accusations against him. They requested me to sentence/condemn (ilabo’) him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when I went to Jerusalem there were some accusations made against him by the chief sacrificers and elders of the Jews. They begged that I should sentence him to death.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When I was in Jerusalem, the leaders of the priests and elders of the Jews pressed-charges (against him) to me, and they asked that I condemn him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “When I went to Jerusalem, the chiefs of the priests and important tribal-leaders of the Jews brought out again this case against him. They were asking that I now pass sentence on him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 4:24)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 4:24:

  • Noongar: “‘I tell you,’ Jesus said. ‘People do not speak well of a prophet in his own home town.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Yesus then said to them: ‘Indeed I tell you, there is not a prophet who is honored in his own town.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Truly I tell you,’ he said, ‘a prophet is not honored/treated-according-to-custom in his own place.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However,’ said Jesus, ‘very true is the saying that a prophet of God, he will not be listened to by the people in his own village.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “After that he went-on to say, ‘What I tell you is true that there is no prophet whom his townmates acknowledge.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus continued speaking. ‘What I will say to you is true, that there is no prophet who is acknowledged in his own town.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (1 John 2:17)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 2:17:

  • Uma: “Yet this world is about to be destroyed, so also all its contents that we desire. But people who follow God’s will live forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “This world will simply pass away/go by and all craving of mankind. But all that do God’s wishes/will, live in heaven forever.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The earth in the future will go out of existence, and all the evil things that people desire will also go out of existence, however, he who obeys what God wants, will never, by contrast, go out of existence, rather he has life which is forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “And the earth and all that is evil that people are-searching-for, it will collectively-cease-to-exist, but as for the one who does what God wants, he will have life that is forever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But it’s true, there is an ending to this world and everything which people are bothered/busy with which they choose-to-remain-committed-to. But the one who is obedient to the will of God, he is the one who has life which has no ending.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “But the people will pass away, also the things that please them will pass away. But he who does what pleases God lives forever.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Yatzachi Zapotec: “This world will disappear and likewise the things people on this earth intensely desire will disappear. But if we do what God wants, then we will live forever.”
  • Eastern Highland Otomi: “But the deeds of the world are on the way to being finished-off. And all the pleasures of the world all likewise will be finished-off. But those who do God’s will, they will live for unending time.”
  • Tzotzil: “Because what the people do, once and for all it will come to an end. Therefore it is in vain that it calls, invites (us inferred) right now. If we do what God’s heart wants, we will live forever.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
  • Candoshi-Shapra: “Only-for-this-very-now the world exists. Only-for-this-very-now the things in the world for which we have strong desire exist. They will disappear. But the person who does only that which God wants will keep on existing forever.”
  • Yanesha’: “All that we see on the earth is to pass, it also, that which we want on the earth, that too, is to pass. But this one who accomplished thus he wants, our Father, not does he come to an end, ever.”
  • Aguaruna: “This world here will be lost (go out of existence), therefore the wanting of people (human desires) will also be lost, but one who completes the wanting of God, he will always live.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)

complete verse (Acts 26:20)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 26:20:

  • Uma: “I announce to all people the news that says, that we must repent from our sins and offer/turn-over our lives to God, and we must show with our behavior that we have really repented from our sins. First I preached this news in the town of Damsyik, after that in Yerusalem and all over the land of Yudea. And I also went to people who are not Yahudi people carrying that news.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then I taught/preached beginning there in Damaskus, then in Awrusalam, and then there also in the different places in Yahudiya and including to people who were not Yahudi. I taught/preached-to them all that they must/should regret and let-go of their sins and they should now follow/obey God. And they should also show in their doings that their liver had really changed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I went first to the town of Damascus and then to Jerusalem. And then I went through all the province of Judea, and I went also to the people who are not Jews. I told them that they must give up their sins and they must believe in God and they must show by means of what they do that it is really true that they are giving up their bad doings.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because I went and preached to the many-people that they repent of their sins to turn-to God and to also do the good that would make-known that they had truly repented. That’s what I have-been-preaching beginning-from Damascus, then in Jerusalem, then in the various-towns here in the province Judea, and then also to the Gentiles.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “The first place I taught in was Damasco, and then Jerusalem. From there I went all over the whole district of Judea and then I went to the lands of people who aren’t Jews. I taught them to repent and let go of their sins, and submit now to God, and then to do good deeds which testify that they have now repented of and let go of their previous deeds which weren’t good.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)