Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:39:
- Noongar: “‘Go back to your house and tell people what God has done for you.’ The man went across the town, saying what Jesus had done for him.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘Return going to your (sing.) home and say to them there what God has done for you (sing.).’ He really went spreading in the town what Yesus had done to his body.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Go home and tell the people about the great things God has done to you.’ So the person went and he covered the whole town telling about what great things Isa had done to him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘Go home and you tell people the good things that God did for you.’ And then that man went home and he told to all the people there what Jesus had done for him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘It-would-be-good-instead if you (sing.) went-home (lit. Even-if you (sing.) go-home) to go relate all that God has done to you (sing.).’ Then that man went-home, and there is nowhere he didn’t go in their country telling what Jesus had done to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What Jesus responded with to him was, ‘It would be good,’ he said, ‘for you to go home to your place and relate there all which God has done for you.’ Therefore that person went. He was relating in all the town that which Jesus had done for him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 3:16:
- Uma: “So, because you are just lukewarm [lit., sun-warm], you are not hot, you also are not cold, that is why I will spit/eject you out of my mouth.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But because your thinking/mind is vaccilating/doubting about me figuratively like water between hot and cold, therefore I will remove you/spit you out from my mouth.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If only you were hot, or if not, then cold. But since you are only lukewarm, I spit you out.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “but since you are lukewarm, I will spit-you -out.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, since you disgust me, I will just vomit you out like water in the mouth which is nauseating/makes-one-throw-up.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But since halfheartedly you believe in me I am going to throw you out.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 4:18:
- Uma: “Although there was no longer any hope for Abraham to have children, he kept believing and hoping in God. He believed God’s promise to him that said: he would become the father of many people all over the world. For before Abraham had any children, God said to him: ‘Your (sing.) descendants will be like the stars in the sky in number.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Ibrahim believed God’s promise and even though he had nothing to expect/hope for, he really yet continued-to-expect that God’s promise would be fulfilled. Therefore it finally was fulfilled and he became the parent of many-nations/tribes. As God has promised him, it is said in the holy-book, ‘Your descendants will be very many like the stars.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for Abraham, even though that at that time it seemed that it was not possible that the promise of God to him could be fulfilled, he believed just the same what God had said, that he would have an offspring and that he would become the ancestor of very many people. For God said to him that his descendants would be as many as the stars in Heaven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Abraham believed, hoping that what God promised him would surely be fulfilled, even though it was as if it was impossible to be fulfilled. Thus he became the ancestor of people in many countries according to what God had told him saying, ‘The number (lit. quantity of the number) of your (sing.) descendants will be like the stars.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God told Abraham that he would have a child. This child would have descendants increase all over the world, and they would not be able to be counted as to how many they were. Abraham didn’t know how this could be. But concerning this word God said, he believed that it would happen .” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:15:
- Noongar: “After the disciples had done this,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “His disciples followed what Yesus commanded them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They did what Isa had told them and they caused all the people to sit.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then they had all of the people sit down.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And that’s what they did.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The disciples had all the people sit down like that.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 6:1:
- Uma: “After that I saw the Lamb open the first seal of those seven seals. I heard one of those four living things call loudly like the sound of thunder, he said: ‘Come here!’ [singular command]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then while I was watching, the Sheep removed the first of the seals on the paper roll. And I heard one of the four angels of-different-kind calling. His voice was like rolling-thunder. The angel said, ‘Go now, proceed.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then I looked and the young sheep removed the first of the seven marks on the scroll, and I heard one of the four creatures speaking, he said, ‘Now get going!’ And the sound of his speaking was like a thunderclap.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “As I was watching, the Sheep detached the first of the seven things-that-were-adhering/affixed, and I heard something like thunder which was the voice of one of the four living creatures. ‘Come (sing.) right-now,’ he said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well I saw that the one referred to as Young Sheep then removed the first fastening from that rolled up writing. At the same time, I heard one of those created living beings speak. He spoke just like claps of thunder in volume. He said, ‘Come now!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Then I saw the Lamb break the first of the seven seals. Then one of the four who stood at the corners of the chair spoke with force, it sounded to me like thunder. He said to me: ‘Come here so that you can see well,’ he said to me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 6:4:
- Uma: “In/At our being baptized, we can say that it is we who died and were buried together with Kristus, in order that as Kristus was brought back to life from death by the power of God the Father, so also we get new life with new behavior.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “That’s why when we (incl.) were bathed it was like we (incl.) died together with (him) at his death and as if we (incl.) also were buried together with him when he was buried, so that we (incl.) be given new life, like the life of Isa Almasi when he was made alive again by the power of our (incl.) Father, God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For by means of our being baptized, because Jesus is our substitute, it was like we were the ones who died and were buried along with Him. Now this happened so that we might be given new life just like Jesus rose again by means of the power of our father God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Yes, we were included in dying and being-buried at his death and burial in order that we would follow a new way-of-life like God’s making-Cristo -alive again because of God’s amazing power.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When we were baptized we make the judgment that now we have finished with the evil which we committed before. It is as though we were buried as Christ was buried. But concerning Christ, his Father with his power caused that he resurrected from where he was buried. And as for us, it is as though we have now resurrected in order that we live anew.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:47:
- Noongar: “Jesus knew their thinking, so he got a child and told the child to stand in front of them,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus knew what was in their hearts. That is why he took a small child, he caused-him-to-stand beside him,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa knew as to what was in their thoughts therefore he took a small child and stood him beside him/at his side.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus knew what was in their thinking, so he got a child and he caused him to stand there close to him,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Jesus knew what was in their thoughts, so he called a child and had-him -stand beside him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But Jesus knew what they were thinking. That’s why he got a child and had him stand close to him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 7:16:
- Uma: “They are no longer hungry, they are no longer thirsty, they are no longer shined upon by the intense/blazing sun.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They will no longer be hungry or thirsty. They will not be caused to be hot by the sun or by anything else hot.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They no longer get hungry, they no longer get thirsty, they also no longer get burned by the sun or anything hot.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They will absolutely-never again be-left-hungry and thirsty, and neither will they be sunburned or hardshipped by other hot-things.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They won’t any more be aware of hunger and thirst. It will no longer be necessary for them to expose themselves to the heat of the sun or for them to suffer whatever form of heat.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “No longer will they hunger. No longer will they thirst. No longer will they suffer from the heat of the sun.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
