Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 7:9:
- Uma: “From there, Yesus said further to them: ‘You, you are so clever at circumventing God’s command in order to follow your own customs.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “You are really experts,’ said Isa. ‘You turn your back on/reject the commands of God in order that you can follow the teachings of your forefathers.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said again, ‘You really know how to abandon the things commanded by God so that you may thoroughly carry out the laws made by men.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus continued, saying, ‘You are admittedly of-course clever in treating-as-nothing the law of God in order to follow your customs.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus further said, ‘How good your decisions are as to how you can remove the strength of the law of God just so that you can follow/obey your handed down teachings.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Western Highland Chatino: “You think you do well when you obey your grandfathers of long ago even though when you obey them you disobey God.” (Source: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Philemon 1:15:
- Uma: “That is why I order(ed) him to go [to you], I thought/said that perhaps this short separation of yours (pl.) the Lord is using-as-a-road, so that he will return to you forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Perhaps that is why Onesimus was caused-to-be-separate from you for a short while so that as long as he lives he will be there with you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Perhaps the purpose of God in Onesimus’s leaving you is: he was taken away from you for a short time so that he might become yours again forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It’s-possible that the reason Onesimus was separated from you (sing.) for a short-while was so that he will return to join you (sing.) forever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And another thing, maybe he was separated from you for a short time so that he could return again and stay for always under your authority.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It seems that it was necessary that your worker left you for a while. Because when he returns, now as a believer he returns and now he will nevermore leave you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 9:13:
- Uma: “Ananias said: ‘Lord, many people talk-about that Saulus. Much his persecution of your (sing.) followers in Yerusalem.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Ananiyas answered, he said, ‘Allo, Sir, many have told me about that Saul. The things he did to your disciples in Awrusalam are very bad.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Ananias answered, ‘Lord, I have learned through many people about the very bad things that he has done to your followers there in Jerusalem.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Yes Lord, but they are many who have been reporting to me what Saulo has been doing to persecute your (sing.) people in Jerusalem.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But when Ananias heard that, he said, ‘Oh, Lord, many have related to me concerning this person, that really very big is the evil which is his persecuting of those who are believers in you in Jerusalem.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:4:
- Uma: “His disciples said: ‘From where would we get food to feed them, seeing as how it is uninhabited hereabouts?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “His disciples said to him, ‘Na, where shall we get food to feed them here in this lonely place?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And his disciples answered, they said, ‘This is far from any houses. We can’t get anything here to feed these many people.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Yes admittedly,’ said his disciples, ‘but where will we get what-they -will-eat, because it is definitely isolated here?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The reply of those disciples of his was, ‘Lord, wherever can we (incl.) get food here in this wilderness place to be able to feed a crowd of people like that?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 2:8:
- Uma: “You gave him authority to rule everything.’ So, what we just read was: The Lord God gives mankind authority to rule everything. That means, there is not anything that is not under [lit., in] the authority of mankind. Yet at this time, we do not yet see everything under the authority of mankind.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “and you give/gave them authority to rule over everything.’ It says here that mankind is given by God authority to rule over everything. There is nothing that man is not ruling over. But as of now we (incl.) do not yet see mankind ruling over everything.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And you said also that it would be necessary that in the future, you would make Him to rule over everything.’ That’s what was written long ago. And since it says there that God will make man in charge of everything, we (incl.) understand by that, that there is a time in the future when there will be no created thing that is not ruled over by mankind. And now, we know that mankind is not yet in charge like that.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because you (sing.) have caused-to-be-subject-to them all that exists.’ What it says here that God has caused-to-be-subject-to people all that exists, it means (lit. wants to say) that there is absolutely nothing that they don’t rule. It can admittedly be seen that we people are not now ruling all that exists.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because you have entrusted to them the oversight of all things.’ Well, is it not so that if it’s like that, there really won’t be anything left over? Everything will be under the oversight of people/humanity. But today/now, this has not yet happened.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning all the things there are, you caused that they rule them,’ it says. Since this is how it is written, that God caused that people rule all the things there are, thus it is apparent that no matter how much there is, it all has been put under their care. But until the present time we do not see that all the things are ruled by the people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 8:5 – Psalm 8:7.
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:2:
- Uma: “He was not a Yahudi person, but he did submit to the Lord God, and they as a family worshipped God. He gave much money to the poor Yahudi, and he faithfully prayed to God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This man was really religious. All of them in the family worshiped God. He gave a lot to help the poor Yahudi and he always prayed to God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now this Cornelius was faithful to the commands of God. He and all of his family, even though they weren’t Jews, they worshipped God. His help to the poor Jews was considerable, and he was always praying to God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He was a Gentile, but all of them in the household, they were religious/devout and worshipped God. Much also was his help to poor Jews, and he prayed to God continually/regularly.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for that person, even though he wasn’t a Jew, he was a devout-worshipper and honored God with fear. Like that too were all in his household. He really was very helpful to the poor and also always/often praying to God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:36:
- Uma: “What is the use of us gathering all the world’s wealth, if we don’t get good life in the future.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For a person, even if he has all the treasures/possessions/wealth in the world, there is no use in it if he has not everlasting life.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Even if a person can come to own the whole world, it’s no use to him if he is not given eternal life.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because what do-you-suppose will be the benefit to a person if he comes-to-own the entire world and then his life is lost and he is punished forever? None!” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For what does a person gain, even supposing all the wealth here in the world would be his, if his soul/spirit will be lost-permanently because it will have to go there to hardship/suffering which is without ending?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tlahuitoltepec Mixe: “What does it profit if a man gains the world for himself and his soul gets lost?”
- El Nayar Cora: “When someone will lose his life it will not help him the one who has everything in this world.”
- San Mateo Del Mar Huave: “What if someone owns everything in the world. What will it serve him if he fails to get life from God.” (Source for this and two above: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 4:3:
- Uma: “Only we who believe are the ones who get that rest with God. As for the people who did not believe, they didn’t get it, according to the Word of God earlier that said: ‘I was angry and so I swore, I said: they will really not be allowed to get the rest/stopping with me.’ They didn’t get that rest, yet there already was a rest/stopping with God that was prepared from the beginning of the world’s creation. For in six days God created the sky and earth, and on the seventh day he stopped/rested.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, we (incl.) the ones believing, we (incl.) are the ones who can enter this place-of-rest that God has promised. But the ones who do not believe cannot enter. God has said hep, ‘I am angry, therefore I covenant/promise that they really cannot enter the land where I would have given them rest.’ God did not say this because the place-of-rest was not yet ready. It had been ready since the world was created.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for us, by contrast, who have believed, it will be permitted to us to enter in there that we might rest along with God. However, it was not permitted to those who do not believe because there is a written word of God which says, ‘I became very angry and I said that it was very true that they could not enter into the land I prepared that they might rest along with me.’ He is not saying here that rest was not yet prepared, because this was already finished from the time when He created everything.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It is only we who believe who enter/will-enter that resting-place, because God said concerning those who didn’t believe, ‘Therefore I promised in my anger that I would never have-them -enter the resting-place that I prepared.’ The truth of it is, that resting-place has been prepared since-the-time God finished his work of creating the earth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because only we who are trusting and believing/obeying God are the ones who can be included in being able to rest under his jurisdiction. For we will just prove (lit. get) this from that which he said which says, ‘In the big-size of my anger toward them I vowed that they certainly would not be able to rest under my care/jurisdiction in that place that I promised them.’ What-a-pity because, from when God created the world, he has been resting and waiting to give- people -a-share of the good there in that rest of his.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning ourselves, because we believed the word God said, now we will be taken in by God to his resting place. But concerning the people who do not believe what God said, these are the people God is angry with. Therefore God said before: ‘So when the people made me angry I said to them: ‘Now you will not enter into the land I had decided that you should have as a place to rest with me,’ ‘ he said. But concerning this resting place which God said that he will give, it has been since God made the world.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
