Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 27:6:
- Uma: “In that town of Mira, the warchief of the soldiers found a ship from the town of Aleksandria that was going to the land of Italia. So he moved us to that ship.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There was a ship which the captain saw there from the city of Iskandal soon to leave for Italiya and he made us (excl.) to ride there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there the sergeant found another ship from Alexandria that was going to Italy, and he put us on it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That’s where-Captain Julius -found a ship from Alexandria that was going to Italia, and that’s what we (excl.) rode-on.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When we arrived there, our boss who was that captain of soldiers found a ship which had come from Alejandria, which was going to Italia. Therefore he told us that we would sail on that one next.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 5:30:
- Noongar: “Levi also invited Pharisees and teachers of the Law so they also came. They became angry about Jesus’ disciples, asking, ‘Why are you eating and drinking with tax collectors and other bad people?'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Seeing that, several religious leaders and religion teachers who followed the teaching of the Parisi people were continually grumbling. They said to Yesus’ disciples: ‘Why-in-the-world are you eating and drinking together/at-one-time with tax collectors and sinners?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There were some Pariseo and teachers of the religious law, they also were Pariseo, who were not pleased, so they said to the disciples of Isa, ‘Why do you mix in eating together with the tax-collectors and other sinful people?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were some Pharisees and some teachers of the Law who saw these people, and they said to the disciples of Jesus, they said, ‘Why do you all join in to eat and drink with cheating tax collectors and transgressors?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon some of the Pharisees and their companions who were teachers of the law, they criticized Jesus’ disciples saying, ‘Why do you eat-with and drink-with tax collectors and other sinful people?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, the Pariseo and their companions, the explainers of law, who observed this criticized. They said to the disciples of Jesus, ‘Why do you eat and drink together with money-grabbing official receivers of payment and those others who don’t fully obey our (incl.) laws?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 4:14:
- Uma: “We (excl.), we (excl.) have seen [emphatic] God’s Child, and we (excl.) testify that he is the one whom God the Father ordered here to be the King who lifts all mankind from the punishment of their sins.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And we (excl.) saw and we (excl.) bear witness also that God sent his Son to the world to save all mankind.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for us (excl.) apostles, we know that God has sent His Son here so that mankind might be freed from punishment. The reason we know this is because we (excl.) saw Him and we are telling what we have seen.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “We (excl.) also (concessive particle), we (excl.) have seen Jesus, so we (excl.) can confirm that God sent his Child to this earth in order that he would be the one to save the collective-people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And as for us (excl.), we (excl.) really saw the Son of God, and testify that God the Father sent this Son of his, he being the Savior of all people here under the heavens.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And we (excl.) have ourselves seen the Son of God, therefore we give our testimony that the Father sent his Son here to earth to save people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “And we (ex) saw the son of God and we (ex) say that our father God sent him to save the people in this world.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “And we (excl.) testify that the Father sent here his Son to redeem the lives of people here in the world. And we have seen his Son.”
- Tzotzil: “We (excl.) saw it, we (excl.) are witnesses that our Father God sent coming (here) his Son. He came to help, save all people.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: “That which we saw we are telling you. God sent His Son to snatch from danger (or death) the people of the world. To that ‘It is true,’ we say, for we saw Jesus Christ.”
- Yanesha’: “We, already we have seen it, it also, we reveal how Father sent for us his Son who is to save us, people on the earth.”
- Aguaruna: “Father God, he sent his son to this world here ‘That he save them!’ saying. Because we saw him we tell it.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 27:39:
- Uma: “When it became light, the workers of the ship saw that the land was visible. But they did not know what the name of that place was. And they also saw, there was a corner of the sea with beach that was not rocky. That is why their plan was, if they were able, to go aground there.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When it was day, they did not recognize what island that was that they could see nearby, but they could see the sea going-inland/a bay which had sand at the shore. They thought, if possible they would let the ship go aground there on that sand.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when it was morning, as for that land which we had come near to, the workers there on the ship did not recognize it. They saw this inlet of the sea and there was there a sandy beach, and they thought that if it were possible, it would be good to land the ship there.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When it had dawned, the workers saw-in-the-distance the edge of the ocean. They were not able-to-distinguish what country it was, but they saw that its edge was indented and sandy/gravelly, and they thought that perhaps it would be possible for them to direct (lit. cause-to-walk) the ship there.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When it was really light now, they didn’t recognize which that land was to which we had come close. But they saw that there was a beach. ‘Ah,’ they said, ‘probably that’s a sandy-cove.’ And then they discussed that if possible they would try to come into shore there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:23:
- Noongar: “You will become very happy when this happens, and dance joyfully, because God will give you many great things, things of his Heaven. These people, their ancestors did the same things to God’s prophets.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Because so also the actions of their ancestors persecuting the prophets long ago. So, if they do like that to you, jump-up-and-down, and make your hearts glad, because great will be the reward/blessing that your receive in heaven.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Their fathers did the same to the prophets. When the day comes that this happens to you, you will be very glad and you will jump because of your joy for your reward in heaven will be great.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: (includes verse 22) “Far better off are you if people are against you and they don’t accept you as their companion, and they treat you shamefully, and they talk about you and say that your custom is bad, because you follow me, the older sibling of mankind. This is what their ancestors did long ago to the prophets of God. Rejoice very much if this happens to you, because how very great will be God’s reward to you which you can look forward to in Heaven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If they do that to you, you should be happy and jump from/with your happiness, because the reward that has been stored-away for you in heaven is extremely large. For what they do to you, that indeed also is what their ancestors have done to those who were prophets.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Be happy! Really jump-up-and-down for happiness if/when this happens, because really far from ordinary is what you will be rewarded with in heaven. Remember that like that indeed is how their ancestors treated the prophets of the past.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 John 1:4:
- Uma: “My heart was very happy to meet with several of your (sing.) children here. For their behavior follows the true teaching, like God the Father taught us.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I was really glad when I heard that some of your children follow/obey the true teaching as we (dual) have been commanded by our (incl.) Father God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I am very happy for there are children of yours which obey the true doctrine as it was commanded to us (incl.) by our Father God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Extreme was my happiness upon finding-out that some of your (sing.) children are following the true teaching that our Father who is God commanded.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I really am very happy, because I have observed that as for some of your (sing.) children, they are living in harmony with the truth, like God the Father commanded us.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I am very happy because I found certainly that some of your sons follow the true word just like God our Father ordered us to do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “I rejoiced very much when I found out that some of your children are doing what our father God commanded us to do, they are heeding what is true.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “I was very happy when I heard in regard to some of your children, that they follow the Word, as the Father tells us.”
- Isthmus Zapotec: “Very much I was happy to see some of your children walking well as our Father told us to do.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 28:27:
- Uma: “Because their hearts are unmoving/stiff, they have made-themselves-deaf and made-themselves-blind: they refuse to see with their eyes, they refuse to hear with their ears, they refuse to have their hearts made to understand. In the end, they will not return to me, and I will not give them salvation/goodness.’ ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because the people of this tribe their heads are hard (hard-headed). They stop/close their ears, they close their eyes. If their eyes would see and their ears could hear and their minds/thoughts would understand, they would come back/return to me,’ God said, ‘and I would heal them.’ ‘” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore I speak these words because as for this people their minds are hard. They stop up their ears and they shut their eyes, because if they didn’t they would be able to see and they would be able to hear, and they would understand what is right, and they would trust me and I would heal them.’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because those people, their mind/thoughts have already become-stubborn (lit. hard). They turn-a-deaf-ear-to the truth while-simultaneously they close-their-eyes lest they be-able-to-see, able-to-hear and able-to-understand and turn-to-face me so that I will heal them.’ says the written word of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really as for these people, they have hardened their heads. They cause their ears to let things go right through and they are closing their eyes. For if it wasn’t like that, they may indeed be able to see, able indeed to hear, able indeed to understand, and they would indeed return to me, that I would indeed make them well, however they won’t.”” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quotes, see Isaiah 6:10.
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:7:
- Noongar: “and I know, I am not good enough to come to you. Only speak, and my man will be healed.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “That is why I am not brave to go to You, Father, because I am not worthy to meet you (sing.). Even if you (sing.) just say one word, my slave will definitely be healed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For you are really great, therefore I thought myself not worthy to come out to you. But just speak and my servant will be well.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For your rank is very great, and I’m not even worthy to come out and meet you. Your power is very great, and even if you just say, ‘May he be cured,’ my servant will be healed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Moreover he is reportedly not worthy to go appear to you (sing.). Therefore your (sing.) words reportedly would suffice to heal his servant.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And well, it isn’t possible/acceptable either that I approach you for you really surpass me. I am sure that if you just speak, this servant of mine will really get better.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
