Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 2:21:
- Uma: “At that time, whoever calls out to the Lord will be lifted from the punishment of their sins.’ ‘ Those are the words of the prophet long ago foretelling the arrival of the Holy Spirit.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And whoever will call/invoke/utter my name asking for mercy/pity from me,’ God said, ‘he will be saved.’ ‘” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And at that time, whoever calls me, the Lord, for mercy, I will save him from punishment.’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And all they who ask-mercy of the Lord, they will be saved.’ That is what Joel prophesied,’ said Pedro.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And it’s true, as many as are asking me for grace/help will be saved,’ says God.”” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Lalana Chinantec: “All those who ask help of our Lord will escape. That’s the way the word is that Joel put down on paper back then.
- Chuj: “‘Everyone who pleads to our Lord, they will be saved,’ said God.”
- Totontepec Mixe: “All who beseech the Owner will have their sins forgiven.” (source for this and two above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 2:19:
- Uma: “I show you amazing things in the sky, and amazing signs on the world also. There will be blood and fire and billowing smoke.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And I will show what-causes-amazement/wonder up in the sky, and signs here in the world: blood and fire and thick smoke.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there will be amazing signs which I will show in the heavens and here also on the earth. Blood will be seen and fire and a great amount of smoke.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “In-the-future indeed (prophetic formula) I will show something up above (i.e. in the sky) that is amazing. Even on the land, I will show signs which are blood, fire and fearful/terrible smoke.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And I will cause to be seen signs which are amazing things which will be seen in the sky and here in the world. There will be blood, fire and thick smoke seen.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Teutila Cuicatec: “I will perform miracles in the sky. I will make omens on the earth; blood and fire and smoke which will be omens on the earth.”
- Chuj: “I will show some things in the sky; people’s abdomens will be lost because of them. I will also show some other things which show my power in the world. These things are blood with fire and smoke.”
- Chichimeca-Jonaz: “And I am going to show you great works up there in the sky so that your hearts will be puzzled. And I am going to show you big signs down there on the earth, signs that I have my power. Truly, blood with fire and with smoke like a cloud, those are the signs.” (source for this and two above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
For the Old Testament quotes, see Joel 2:28ff.
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 2:2:
- Uma: “Suddenly they heard something making noise from the sky, like the blowing of a big wind. That noise was audible all over in their meeting house.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Suddenly there was a sound from the sky like the sound of a strong wind. And that sound entered the house where they were sitting.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And taking them by surprise was a very loud noise which they heard coming from heaven that was like the roaring of a very strong wind. This noise reverberated there inside the house where they were gathered.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When that was so, they suddenly-heard a loud-noise from heaven like a rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where-they -were-gathered.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Suddenly/unexpectedly there was a sound they heard coming from heaven/sky, like the sound of a strong wind, and the house where they were gathered was enveloped in that sound.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Isthmus Mixe : “Then the air suddenly made a loud noise in the house where they were sitting. It started making the noise from the sky.”
- Chuj: “Just then, something sounded from heaven, like a wind very angrily it sounds. Very angrily (loudly) it sounded entering into the house where they were sitting.” (Source for this and one above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
- Hiligaynon: “While they are-gathering together, suddenly there was a roar which came from heaven the-same as a strong wind, and now only roaring-noise was what they heard inside the house where they are-gathering.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Mairasi: “Right while they were sitting there they heard a roar like that of a strong wind coming down from the sky. The house in which they sat pressed down on them with the roar.” (Source: Enggavoter 2004)
- Bariai: “Suddenly, they heard something like a very great wind roaring from heaven and coming, and then its sound filled the house in which they were sitting.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Kupsabiny: “Before long, some noise came from above like a whistling whirlwind and that noise covered all the house.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 1:6:
- Uma: “One other time, when his disciples gathered at one time with Yesus, they asked Yesus, they said: ‘Lord, is it perhaps at this time you (sing.) will release us from our enemies and become the King of the Israel people?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One day while Isa and the persons/people he had commissioned were gathered together, they asked him, they said, ‘Sir, are you now going to set free our (excl.) nation/tribe Isra’il and will you now restore the kingdom to us (excl.)?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there was a time when they were gathered together again, and they asked Jesus, they said, ‘Lord, is this now the time of your helping us, the descendants of Israel, so that our former power to be ruled by our own king might be returned to us?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When the apostles and Jesus gathered-together, they inquired of him, ‘Lord, is it now when you will cause-the ones-from-Roma -to-be-removed who are ruling over us so that we who are from-Israel will-be-the-ones-to-rule?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Once again when the apostles were gathered together, Jesus again came to see them. They questioned him. They said, ‘Lord/Chief, will you now/today make it that these ruling over us will be removed so that the kingdom of our nation of Israel can rise again?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Teutila Cuicatec: “In those days when they were gathered together they asked Jesus: ‘Is it now in these days that you are going to re-establish that the nation of Israel rule itself?'”
- San Mateo del Mar Huave: “So when they were still together with Father Jesus they asked him, they said: ‘Father, will you now permit the people of Israel to rule their own villages again?’ they said.”
- Chuj: “Those gathered together with Jesus, they asked him: ‘Lord, is it now you will make our tribe Israel to become the rulers one time more?’ they said.” (Source for this and two above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 4:14:
- Uma: “The planter(s), they are people who announce God’s Word.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The person who broadcasted seeds,’ said Isa, ‘if explained, he is the man teaching/preaching the word/message of God to the people.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “In my parable, the meaning of the person’s planting is the spreading of the word of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The meaning of the parable is this. The seeds that were sown, that is the word of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This is the meaning of that one. That seed which was scattered is the word of God which is being taught.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Isthmus Mixe: “The sowing person he sowed the seed; thus it is also how God’s word is spread.”
- Usila Chinantec: “The one who sows is like one who speaks the word of God.”
- Chuj: “The man who sowed the seed, that means he spread forth the word of God.”
- San Mateo Del Mar Huave: Then he began to tell them what he taught the story about. He said,Well, that sower there is like one who talks the word of God. (Here the transition to the explanation has been made explicit as required by San Mateo Del Mar Huave) (Source for this and three above: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.).
