Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 11:16:

• Uma: “If the firstfruits [lit., first-born] of our crops we offer to God, it means that all our crops belong to God. If the roots are God’s, the branches are also God’s. The Jews can be compared to an olive [Indonesian: zaitun] tree that is tended. Its roots mean/stand-for the ancestors of the Jews that God had as his portion. Its branches mean/stand-for their descendants. Some of its branches were broken off by God. And in the breaking-off place he stuck on branches of an olive tree that was not tended, in order that those branches live and get richness from the root of the tended tree. Those branches that he stuck on are you, who are not Jews.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “I give an illustration/parable to you about the Yahudi. It is the custom of us (excl.) Yahudi, if/when we (excl.) make dough to make bread, we (excl.) take a handful to give to God. If that one handful belongs to God, that means all of the dough also belongs to him. Or the illustration/parable is a tree. If the root belongs to God, the branches also belong to God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the ancestors of the Jews, came to be owned by God, it’s not possible that their descendants also not become owned by God. If God owns the root of the tree, it’s necessary that He owns also the body.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The Jews can-be-compared to bread. Because we know that if the first piece/hunk of bread is offered to God, the rest of the bread is also counted as belonging to God. Another thing-they -are-compared-to is a tree, because if its root was offered to God, its branches also belong to God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Abraham was the first of the Jews and he belongs to God. Also those Jews who are his descendants also belong to God. This Abraham is like a trunk of a tree. The Jews who are his descendants are like the branches. But all belong to God, all make up the tree.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “And if it is good a bit of dough, then it is good all of that dough. And if it is good the root of a tree, then are good the branches of the tree. And so it is with the Israelites; their fathers were good, so they themselves are good.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)