Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:32:
- Noongar: “Near that place, many pigs were eating on the hill. So the evil spirits begged Jesus, ‘Send us into the pigs!’ And Jesus sent them.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Not far from there, there were many pigs rooting on the side of the mountain/hill. Those demons requested to Yesus, they said: ‘Please permit us (excl.) to enter those pigs over there.’ He did permit them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “At the slope (of the mountain) there was a large herd/crowd of pigs feeding there, they were very many. The demons begged Isa to enter the pigs. Isa told them to.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And not very far away from there, there was a herd of pigs grazing on the hillside. And the demons begged Jesus that they might be allowed to transfer to the pigs; and Jesus allowed them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Now there were many-pigs rooting-together there on the slope, so the evil-spirits begged Jesus to not send them below where would be their punishment, but rather to permit them to go possess those many-pigs. ‘Yes indeed,’ he said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, on a hill beyond them, a large herd of pigs was being caused to feed by herders. Those evil spirits requested that if possible/acceptable, Jesus would allow them to transfer to those pigs. Jesus permitted them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:33:
- Noongar: “They left the man and they went into the pigs. All the pigs ran together down the cliff into the lake and they drowned.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “The demons really did go-out from inside that person, immediately entered the pigs. When they entered those pigs, the pigs stampeded going to plunge into the lake, they drowned [lit., died swollen] in the water.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then the demons came out of the person and entered the bodies of the pigs. Immediately the great herd of pigs rushed down the hill to the cliff and into the lake and they all drowned.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And that was all there was to it — they left the man and they transferred there to the pigs. And then those pigs ran, and they arrived there to a cliff, and they jumped over and they were all drowned in the lake that they had jumped into.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So they then left the man and went and possessed the pigs. Then the pigs ran-as-a-group going-downhill and then they fell into the lake and drowned.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Without anything further, those evil spirits then left that person and moved to that large herd of pigs. Well, what else but those pigs ran directly to the steep edge of that lake. Those pigs numbering about two thousand fell off and all drowned.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:34:
- Noongar: “The people working with the pigs, they saw what happened, so they went to the houses and villages of the country and told the news.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “When those caring for the pigs saw that happening, they ran going to the town and close-by gardens to announce that happening.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the people who took care of the pigs saw what happened there they ran and told there in the town and in the other places inland.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the men who took care of those pigs, when they saw what happened, they ran like a feather being blown away and they told in the towns and the fields what had happened.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When those who were watching the many-pigs saw the-aforementioned which happened, they up-and-ran to their town and to the adjoining places to go report it to the inhabitants there.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When the herders of those pigs observed, they ran and told there in the town and at the neighboring houses.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:35:
- Noongar: “People came out seeing what was happening. They came to Jesus and they saw the man. All the spirits had gone away. He sat near Jesus’ feet, wearing his clothes and straight inside his head. So they were all afraid.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “That is why the townspeople came wanting to see what had happened. When they arrived at Yesus, they saw the person who was usually possessed by demons, sitting quietly beside Yesus. He was dressed/clothed and his mind was clear. They were afraid.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then the people went there to look what had happened. When they came there to Isa, they saw the person who had been demon possessed sitting there beside Isa’s feet. He was dressed and his mind was good (he was sane). Then they were afraid.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now the people who heard this news, they went out to Jesus because they wanted to see. And they saw there the person who was cured, who was sitting before Jesus, and he had clothes on and his thinking was now proper. And because of that, they were very much surprised.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So the many-people, they went to see what had happened. When they arrived then where plural Jesus were, they found the man whom the evil-spirits had left sitting in front of Jesus clothed and with his mind made-good, so they all become afraid.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When the people knew, they went there so that they would see the truth/proof of what was being told. On their coming to Jesus, they saw that sitting now beside him was that person from whom the evil spirits had been driven out. He was dressed now and his mind was clear/alert. That crowd was reached by fear.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:36:
- Noongar: “The people who saw what happened, they told the other people how Jesus had healed the man.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “The people who saw that happening told-the-story of how Yesus healed the possessed person.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then they were told by the people who had seen it as to how Isa had healed the person who had been demon possessed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And those people who had seen Jesus heal the person, they told the people who had just arrived, just how the person who was afflicted with demons was cured.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then those who saw it again related how that man had become-well.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Those who had seen related how the craziness of that person had been stopped.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:37:
- Noongar: “Then all the people of the place asked Jesus to go away because they were very afraid. So Jesus got into the boat and went away.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “From there, all the people in the land of Gerasa requested to Yesus that he go-out/leave from their town, because they were very afraid. So he rode a boat returning going to the other-side.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then all those people from the different places there in Gerasa told Isa to leave, for they were entered by much fear. Therefore Isa went into the boat and soon left.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then all those people who were inhabitants there in the land of the Gergesenes, they begged Jesus that he might leave them because they were very much afraid of him. So that was that, and Jesus and company got into a boat in order to leave.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And all those-people from the region of Gerasa, they begged Jesus to leave their town/country, because they were totally/already defeated by their fear.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, what that crowd of Geraseno did was, they asked Jesus not to stay in their place, because what was dominant was their fear. When Jesus heard, he got into the boat again and they sailed again.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:38:
- Noongar: “The man who had been healed of many evil spirits, he begged Jesus, ‘I want to go with you.’ But Jesus sent him away, saying,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “As for the person whom Yesus healed, he asked that he could go with them. But he did not permit him, he said to him:” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The person who had been healed begged to come along with him. But Isa sent him home, he said,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for that person who was newly healed, he begged Jesus, he said, ‘I want to go with you.’ But Jesus would not let him come, rather sent him home. Jesus said to him,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus was-getting into the boat while-at-the-same-time the man whom the evil-spirits had left was also begging to go-with him koma. But Jesus sent-him-home saying,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for that person from whom the evil spirits had been driven out, he was asking Jesus to take him along, but Jesus didn’t want to.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
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)