Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 11:18:
- Uma: “Since so many praise themselves and recount the work they have done with their own strength, thus also I will praise myself.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But because many boast about their doings/work here in the world, na, perhaps I can also boast even a little about myself.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since there are many who boast about their works here on the earth, perhaps it can be for just a little bit that I boast also about mine.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But since many there (near addressee) are boasting-about themselves based on what is important on the earth, kindly give me a chance as well (lit. OK please so that I also).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But I’m constrained to do this in order to teach you. Because many are boasting about their own situation here in the world, I will boast too so that you will listen to my teaching.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “You can see that many teachers tell you about all the matters they are doing. Therefore I also want to tell you about all that I am doing.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:29:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘This is the work that God likes: believe in me whom he has sent.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa answered them, he said, ‘This is what God wants you to do, you should believe in me, the one he sent.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered, ‘This is what God wants you to do: As for me whom God has sent to the world, believe in me.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus answered, ‘This is the work that God wants you to do. Believe in me whom he sent.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Well this is what God is causing to be done, you must believe-in/obey the one he sent to come here,’ was the answer of Jesus to them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said, ‘What God wants you to do is that you believe in him whom he has sent.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:20:
- Uma: “‘The seed that fell in the stony ground stands-for people who hear the world of God and right away their hearts are glad to hear it.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The seeds that fell on the bedrock is a figure of the people who hear the message of God and immediately believe and are happy/glad.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And that which was planted that fell on the thin soil on top of the rock, are like people that hear the word of God and they really like to listen to it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What fell also in the stony-area, those are the people who are happy to receive the Word of God upon their hearing it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This rocky place which was scattered on, what this refers to is people who listen and immediately they happily acknowledge-as-true the word of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Other people are compared to the ground which is not deep with the stone in it, where the seeds landed. Upon hearing the word, these people rejoiced greatly, looking well upon it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 12:17:
- Uma: “Not true! The people I sent to you, were there any who tricked you, with the result that I got benefits? There were none.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “How did I fool you? Were you cheated by the people I sent to you?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if that is what you think, you just show me that way was that I cheated you. Was there anything that I got from you when I sent my companions to you? Did they cheat you?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “How indeed have I done that? Go-on please and say. Have I cheated you by means of those whom I have been sending to you?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But how can that be? As for those people that I sent to you, are you thinking that I sent them to fool you?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do you think that some person I have sent to you has extracted money from you? No, there isn’t it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:61:
- Uma: “But Yesus knew that his followers were complaining. That is why he said to them: ‘So you did not like [lit., make-small-heart] hearing my teaching earlier?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Nobody told Isa but he knew that they grumbled about that his teaching. Therefore he said to them, ‘Are you angry (lit. is your liver bad) about my teaching?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus knew that there were some of his disciples who were disgusted with his teaching. And he said to them, ‘Are you disgusted with what I have said?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “No one said-it to Jesus, but he knew nonetheless that they were grumbling-in-a-mutter-about what aforementioned he had taught, and he said to them, ‘So you are offended!” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus was aware that they couldn’t accept those things he had said. That’s why he said to them, ‘It’s like you tripped-and-fell over what you heard which I said.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus knew that they complained about the words he spoke. He asked, ‘Are you angry about this word?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:52:
- Uma: “From there he also said to them: ‘If so, here is also another parable: If there is a teacher of the Yahudi religion who asks-to-be-taught the teaching that says that God rules as our (incl.) King, that religion teacher can be compared to a house-owner: from the storing-place of his stuff, he brings-out and shows old stuff/goods and also new stuff/goods.’ [In an earlier draft we had added one more sentence to explain the point of this parable, but decided to delete it and make the point explicit in the section heading. The sentence was: ‘ Because he knows the previous / former teachings of the Law of the Lord, and he also knows my new teachings. ‘]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then Isa said, ‘If there is a teacher of the religious law and-what’s-more he follows the ruling of God, he is figuratively like a rich person who has many treasures new and old because he knows to teach the former teaching and the new teaching.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said again, ‘Therefore,’ he said, ‘if there is a teacher of the law who has followed God our King, he becomes like a person who has great possessions in his house. For that teacher of the law, it is not only the old that he can teach, but he can teach the new also.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said, ‘You will understand then that if there is a teacher of the law who believes what I am-teaching concerning God’s ruling, he can be compared to a house owner who knows (how to) bring-out old-things and new-things that can be used that were stored in his bodega.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Well,’ said Jesus next to them, ‘that explainer of the word of God who has studied these truths about the kingdom of God, he is like the owner of a household who easily-brings-out (implies, knows just where to put his hands on them) his possessions which are new and old from where he stores them. Because he knows how to teach not just those teachings of the past but these new ones too.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus again spoke to the people, he said: ‘Concerning the teacher of the law, when he becomes my learner, anew he will study how to be in the hand of God, and much more will he know. He will become like a man who has much to keep in his house, there are some things old, there are some things new.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 1:14:
- Uma: “You certainly know, relatives, the story of my former life, while I was still following the Yahudi religion. Many of my companions who were my age-group follow(ed) the Yahudi religion, but I defeated them all, because I followed the customs of our (excl.) ancestors with my real heart. At that time, I was dead-set / out-to persecute the followers of Yesus who worship God, I wanted to wipe them out.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “My fellow Yahudi of the same age as I (lit. the same life we) they could not challenge/surpass me in being-religious. The teachings of our (excl.) ancestors were really cherished/held-to by me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “My fellow Jews who are the same age as I, they did not equal me in observing the doctrines of us Jews. And none of them equalled me in observing the handed down customs of our forefathers.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Concerning also our (excl.) faith as Jews, I distinguished-myself above many of my companions who were Jews who were my-age, because I was far-more industrious in following and defending the traditions that we (excl.) inherited from our (excl.) ancestors.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And really very few of my contemporary Jews could compare with me in my submission to this religion of ours(excl.), because I really did persevere in standing up for whatever customs of our (excl.) elders/forefathers.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the beliefs of the Jews which I held, I obeyed them much better than other of my fellow Jews who were born at the same time I was. I better followed the customs which my ancestors held.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 7:22:
- Uma: “But you also work on the Sabat Day when you do the custom of circumcision. The prophet Musa long ago commanded you to circumcise your children. (But really that custom of circumcision is from our ancestors long ago who were before Musa, not from Musa himself.) If there is one of your children who must be circumcised on the Sabat Day, you go ahead and circumcise him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Musa told you to circumcise your male children. (But this command is not hep from Musa but from your forefathers.) So-then when the day for circumcision is reached even if it falls on a day of-no-work, you certainly circumcise your male children.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Moses commanded you long ago that you should circumcize your children, but this did not just come from Moses, this custom of circumcision, because it was long before that with our ancestors. And it is possible that you circumcize a person even if it is the day of rest.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “even though there is also that which you do on that day. Because there is that which Moses commanded you that he inherited from his ancestors that you circumcise your male children on the eighth day. Now if that day falls-on the day for-resting, you nonetheless circumcise-him in order to obey that command.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Moises gave you the law concerning circumcizing. (It didn’t in fact come from Moises. It came from your earlier ancestors.) And now you do it even on the Day of Rest.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Moses left a sign for you to do which is called circumcision. Although he didn’t begin it, rather our ancestors began it. Therefore it is that you mark your sons when they are born even though it be the day of rest.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
