Following are a number of back-translations of Philemon 1:1:
- Uma: “This letter is from me, Paulus, who am imprisoned because of my work spreading the news of Kristus Yesus, and from Timotius, our one-faith relative, we (excl.) send to you, Filemon, our (excl.) relative whom we (excl.) love, and our (excl.) friend of one-work,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This letter is from me, Paul and from Timoteo our (incl.) brother who trusts in Isa Almasi. I am jailed here because I follow Isa Almasi. We (excl.) send this letter to you Pilemon. You are our (excl.) friend and our (excl.) companion working for God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Our dear friend and partner Philemon. As for me, Paul, the one in prison because of my faith in Jesus Christ, and as for Timothy, our (incl.) brother, we write to you and to Apphia, our sister because of believing, and to Archippus our fellow soldier of Christ, and we also write to the believers who worship in your house.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I am Pablo who am-imprisoned because of my serving Cristo Jesus. My companion here, it is our sibling/cousin (henceforth brother) Timoteo. Here is our (excl.) letter to you (sing.) Filemon who are our (excl.) much-loved friend and fellow-worker.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Our(excl.) held-dear friend Filemon, who is our (excl.) fellow-worker of the work of the Lord, there-(with-you) is our (excl.) letter, I who am Pablo, who is being-imprisoned because of my service to Cristo Jesus, and our sibling in believing Timoteo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Listen, our dear fellow worker Philemon. I, along with our brother Timothy, greet you. I, Paul, am in prison here because I speak the word about Jesus Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 8:39:
- Uma: “When they came out from the water, suddenly the Spirit of the Lord God took Filipus from there, with the result that the Ethiopia person no-longer saw him, [he didn’t know] where he was. He continued his journey with a happy heart.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When they came out from the water, suddenly Pilip was taken away by the Spirit of God. He was not seen again by the official but the official proceeded on his way very happy.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as they were coming up away from the water, surprisingly the Holy Spirit took Philip away, and he disappeared from the seeing of this official. And the official, he continued going to his place and very great was his joy.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When they then left the water, the Spirit of God suddenly-took Felipe, and the official didn’t see him again. But he continued nonetheless to go where he was going rejoicing.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Just as they were then leaving-the-water, through the determining by the Espiritu Santo, suddenly/unexpectedly Felipe disappeared. That taga Etiope official looked all around but he could no longer see him. Well, without anything further, he climbed-aboard again and went home very happily.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 7:27:
- Uma: “That’s why Yesus said to her: ‘I, I help the Yahudi people now. It’s not good to take children’s food and feed it to dogs.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa spoke to her in a parable, he said, ‘The children should be fed first because it is not right to take the food from the children and to throw it to the dogs.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus spoke to her, he said, ‘The children are fed first because it is not good if we take the food of the children and give it to the dogs.’ Jesus meant that he would first help the Jews and then those who are not Jews.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon Jesus said, parabling, ‘Wait so-that first the children who are eating will-get-full, because it is emphatically not right if the children’s food is fed to dogs.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But Jesus replied, ‘It’s necessary to cause the children to eat-to-the-full first. It’s not possible/acceptable to grab away what the children are eating and throw it there to their dogs.’ He meant, the Judio were the ones he was going to first. Not yet those who weren’t Judio.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tsafiki: “Now Jesus thus said: First I must do things for the Jewish people. I must not do things for other people before doing it for the Jewish people. If I did things for you first, it would be like giving children’s food to dogs.”
- Palantla Chinantec: “Jesus said to the woman in double talk [= parable] Let me help my countrymen first, because it isn’t right to give what the children should eat to dogs, is it?” (Source for this and above: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 1:8:
- Uma: “Yet to his Child, God says to him like this: ‘O God, you are King forever, you rule justly [lit., straight-straight].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But about his Son this is what God said. He said, ‘You are God, and your rule has no end. Your rule is straight/righteous towards your people.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But what He said to His son was: ‘You are God and there is no end to Your rule. Your controlling Your kingdom is righteous.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But what he says concerning his Child is, ‘You (sing.) God, you (sing.) will rule forever. The way you (sing.) rule moreover is righteous.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But to this Son of his he said, ‘You (sing.), God, are the one who will reign without ending. You (sing.) will reign in which wholly good justice/straightness is what you will set in motion.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God said to his Son: ‘You are God, and you will rule forever. When you rule, you will do all that is good.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 45:6 – Psalm 45:7.
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 9:31:
- Uma: “So at that time, there was no-longer any fear/uneasiness of all the believers in the Lord Yesus in the land of Yudea, Galilea and Samaria. More-and-more people believed in Yesus and their faith grew stronger-and-stronger. Because they indeed submitted to the Lord God, and the Holy Spirit himself strengthened their hearts.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then it was peaceful now for all the ones trusting in Isa throughout the land of Yahudiya and in Jalil and for those in the land of Samariya. They were helped by the Holy Spirit therefore the trust/faith of all of them became stronger and they also increased in number. They really reverenced God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the situation of all the believers there in the province of Judea, Samaria, and Galilee became peaceful. Their faith was drawn tight. And since they always put first their respect for the Lord and because of the help which the Holy Spirit gave them they continued growing in number.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That then being the case, the persecuting of believers in Jesus in the many-towns in Judea, Galilea and Samaria stopped. And they increased-in-number while-simultaneously their faith became-stronger-and-stronger on-account-of their esteeming/respecting the Lord and the help of the Holy Spirit.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, at that time, there was no more trouble for the believers in all the places belonging to Judea, Galilea and Samaria. They were always being helped by the Espiritu Santo, that’s why their believing/obeying became sturdy, and in/through their lives they were honoring the Lord with fear. And through the help of the Espiritu Santo, their number increased and increased.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999): “A peaceful time was now beginning for the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria. The fear of God determined the spiritual foundation and their entire behavior. The Holy Spirit assisted the church and it grew.”
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:22:
- Uma: “From there, they arrived in the village of Betsaida. In that village, there were some people who brought a blind person to Yesus. They requested that he put-hands-on him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then they arrived in the town Betsaida. Some people came to him bringing a blind person and they begged Isa asking him to touch him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they came to the village of Bethsaida, and there were some people there who brought Jesus a blind person. And they begged Jesus to touch him and heal him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When they arrived in Betsaida, some (people) brought a man who was blind to Jesus. They entreated him to lay-hands-on him so that he would get-well.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus and company arrived at Betsaida. Some people arrived who were bringing a blind (person). They were asking Jesus for help that he would if possible/acceptable touch/put-his-hand-on him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Aguaruna: “Village, Bethsaida called place, coming ashore, other people a blind-man, object brought saying “Jesus, you touch him, ‘be healed’ saying.” (Source: Mildred L. Larson in Notes on Translation, September 1965, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 3:8:
- Uma: “don’t harden your hearts like your grandparents long ago, whom the prophet Musa brought out of the land of Mesir. Your grandparents long ago repudiated/rejected God and tested/tempted him in the uninhabited prairie, to see how patient he was.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “don’t harden your liver like your ancestors of old (who) did not want to follow/obey God. In those times there in the lonely country they tested God if he could do (something) to/for them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “it’s necessary that your breaths be not hard (it’s necessary that you be not stubborn) like your breaths were long ago when you resisted God at the time when you tested His endurance of you there in the land where no people live.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “don’t harden your minds like the way your ancestors did who opposed God when they were walking through the place with no inhabitants.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “hopefully don’t harden your heads like your ancestors did in that they opposed and tested him in that wilderness place (lit.place where-one-could-starve).” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do not reject the word God speaks now. Do not do like the old-time people did in the desert when they rejected what God said, keeping on until they caused God to be angry.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 95:7 – Psalm 95:11.
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:20:
- Uma: “Hurry down. Don’t let your heart be uncertain to follow them, because I [emphatic] am the one who ordered them.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Get up and go down. Do not hesitate to go with them because I was the one who sent them here.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Go down quickly, and don’t you be reluctant to go with them because I am the one who sent them.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Go-down, and do not doubt to go-with them, because I of-course am the one who sent them.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Go downstairs now, and don’t hesitate in going with them for I myself am the origin of their being sent here.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
