complete verse (Acts 23:32)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 23:32:

  • Uma: “The next morning the foot soldiers returned to the house of the soldiers, and it was just the horse-riding soldiers who took Paulus on to Kaisarea.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “The next day the soldiers on-foot returned to the fort and they left those riding on horses to go on to bring Paul.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And on the next day the soldiers who were walking returned, and the only ones with Paul were the soldiers who were riding on horses.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The next-day then, the soldiers who walked returned to their barracks in Jerusalem while the horse-riders continued to accompany Pablo.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “There was the limit for some of the soldiers. They then returned to Jerusalem. The only ones who took Pablo to Cesarea were the horsemen.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 3:17)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 3:17:

  • Noongar: “He brings his dish and he will sift the seed. He will beat all the seeds and gather the good seeds into his grain house. But he will burn the husks in a fire. That fire burns forever.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “He can be compared to a person who winnows rice. He separates the good rice [lit, rice that has contents] from the empty ones until it is clean. The good rice he puts into his granary, the empty he burns in a fire that blazes on forever.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “He will separate the good people and the bad people. He is figuratively like a person winnowing rice, he separates the kernels and the chaff. The kernels he will store in the storage-container (a huge basket) but the chaff he will burn with fire which cannot be put out.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Since He is separating the good people and the bad people. He is like the person winnowing rice, who removes the hull from the rice. The rice will put into the storehouse, but the hull, he will burn it with fire which cannot be put out,’ said John.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “He is compared to a person holding a winnowing-basket that he will use-to-winnow the pounded rice. Its meat (lit. fruit), he will go and store it in his house, but as for the husks, he will burn them in the fire that never-goes-out.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “He is the one who will judge the people. For it’s like he is holding his tossing-tool with which he will toss the grain-stalks. He will separate the grain to store in his silo. But the straw, he will throw it on the fire which can never go out till forever.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (2 Peter 2:22)

Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Peter 2:22:

  • Uma: “There is a parable that says like this: ‘The dog eats its vomit again, the pig that is bathed goes and wallows again in the mud.’ That parable is so very appropriate for those people earlier, for they have returned [emphatic] to the evil that they had left behind the other day [lit., yesterday].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Their doing is like this saying says, ‘The dog eats what he has vomited,’ and ‘The pig that has been bathed goes back to wallow/immerse in the mud.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “By means of them is fulfilled the saying which says, ‘The dog ate what he vomited, and the washed pig wallowed again.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “What has happened to him, it confirms the truth of two proverbs (proverbio) which say, ‘A dog eats again what he vomited’ and ‘Even though you (sing.) bathe a sow, it goes again to roll-in-the-mud.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “So surely if it’s like that, they are the ones to whom the saying applies (lit.hits) which says, ‘The dog is eating after all what he vomited already.’ And another, ‘A pig, even though it has just been bathed, will indeed go and wallow again.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Thus have done these peole according to the proverb which says, ‘The dog again eats the vomit he has vomited. The pig which was washed again gets into the smelly mud.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 25:2)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 25:2:

  • Uma: “When he arrived there, the leading priests and the other Yahudi leaders met him and they said to him their accusations that they accused Paulus of.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When (he was) there in Awrusalam the leading priests and the leaders of the Yahudi went to him bringing their accusations against Paul.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the leaders of the sacrificers and the bosses of the Jews, they told Festus their accusations against Paul.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When he arrived there, the leaders of the priests and the leaders of the Jews went to see-him in order to file-charges-against Pablo to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “When he arrived there, the chiefs of the priests and other leaders of the Jews told of nothing other than that they brought up before him their case against Pablo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 4:11)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 4:11:

  • Noongar: “‘The Scriptures also say, They will grasp you, so your feet do not strike the stones’.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “They hold you (sing.) so that your (sing.) feet do not hit the rocks.’ ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “And it is also written it says, ‘The angels will carry you on their hands so that not even your foot will hurt from a stone.’ ‘” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and they will grab you so that not even your foot will be bruised against a stone.’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “They will support-you (sing.) -in-their-arms so that your (sing.) foot/leg will not be struck-against a stone.’ ‘” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “and they will support/take-by-the-arms you so that even your foot/leg won’t get stubbed against a rock.”” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And also it says, | ‘‘They will lift you up in their hands, | lest a stone stab your foot/leg.’ ‘” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Kupsabiny: “so that a stone doesn’t make you stumble.’ ‘” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Mairasi: “Then also in the Holy Book it says: ‘Then they themselves will hold you in the palm of their hands so that your foot will not hit a rock!’ it says.’” (Source Enggavoter 2004)

For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 91:12.

complete verse (1 John 2:4)

Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 2:4:

  • Uma: “The person who says: ‘I know [emphatic] God,’ yet he doesn’t follow his commands, he is lying and does not take-to-heart the true teaching.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “If there is a person saying that he knows God but he does not follow/obey his commands, that person is a liar and there is no truth in his liver.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, if there is someone who says, ‘I am now the friend of God,’ but that one who speaks does not obey the commands of God, he is a liar. He does not obey the true doctrine.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “So if someone says that he knows God while-at-the-same-time he is not following his commands, he is a liar and the true teaching is not in him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “If there is someone who says, ‘I know him all right,’ but he isn’t obeying his commands, he’s only lying. He really has no knowledge at all of the truth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “But whoever says, ‘I know God,’ he says, and he does not do what God commands, this is a person who lies, it is not true that he is an acquaintance of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Yatzachi Zapotec: “If we say that we know him, but we do not do what he commands, we are liars and do not walk with (speak) true words.”
  • Eastern Highland Otomi: “One falsely says, ‘I know God,’ and he doesn’t do his Word, then he is lying. And the Word of God hasn’t entered his heart.”
  • Tzotzil: “If we say ‘I am a child of God,’ if we do not obey his commands, we are lying. We say it in vain.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
  • Candoshi-Shapra: “If someone says, ‘I learned (come to a knowledge of) Jesus,’ but throws away (disregards) His orders, he is a liar. He isn’t doing straight at all.”
  • Yanesha’: “Whoever says, I, I know how he is, however, if he doesn’t reserve on him his word as he tells us, he is just deceiving. It hasn’t arrived on his heart the words true.”
  • Aguaruna: “but he who ‘God is like that saying I know’ says and nevertheless not being an obeyer of His Word, lying he says it. He does not speak truly.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)

complete verse (Acts 26:7)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 26:7:

  • Uma: “So at this time, stand here to be examined, because I trust that God will fulfill his promise to our ancestors that says: all the dead people he will make alive again on a future day. We descendants of the twelve tribes [lit., mother-groups] of Israel, we all wait for the fulfillment of this promise, that’s why we worship God continually, both day and night. King whom I respect, because of this belief of mine in God’s promise, that is why I am being accused by the Yahudi people. And you, my Yahudi relatives! Why is it that you do not believe in the power of God to make alive the dead?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “This was also hoped for by our (excl.) twelve Yahudi tribes, therefore they really worshiped God day and night. But because of this my hope, Sir, I am here accused by my fellow Yahudi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for all of us (incl.) Jewish people who are divided into twelve, we (incl.) believe that this will come to pass. Therefore day and night we worship God. Now, Dear King, in spite of the fact that I believe this, they used it as a reason to accuse me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “All moreover of our fellow Jews, that very thing is what they expect will be fulfilled to them, so they single-mindedly/persistently worship God daily and nightly. But because I believe that God made-Jesus -alive again and that is our basis-for-expecting that he will also make-alive the plural-dead, exactly that Sir King is what they accuse-me -of.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And as for the majority of Jews, who persevere night and day in their serving of God, they too are sure that they will be included in this which he has promised. But well, that indeed is what the Jews hold against me, respected King, this assurance of mine of what God has promised.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 4:43)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 4:43:

  • Noongar: “But Jesus said to them, ‘I must go to other towns, to tell people the Good News, telling them of the Kingdom of God, because God sent me to do this thing.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “But he said to them: ‘I must also go to other towns, announcing to them the good news that says the time has almost come for God to become King in the world. Because they is the intention of God in sending me here.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But he said to them, ‘I have to go also to other places and proclaim the good news about God’s ruling, for that is the reason why I was sent here to the world by God.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But Jesus said to them, ‘The good news about the rule of God, it is necessary that I tell it to people in other villages, because that’s the reason that God sent me.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “But he said, ‘I must go preach in other towns as well the good news concerning God’s ruling (can refer to either place, time or act of ruling), because that’s the reason he sent me.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But Jesus replied to them, ‘It’s necessary that I teach also in other towns this Good News concerning the kingdom of God, for that’s why I was sent here.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Gurung: ” . . . ‘I must declare the good news saying, God is about to rule. Obey him, and he will give you blessing.'” (Source: Warren Glover in The Bible Translator 1978, p. 231ff.)