Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 10:2:
- Noongar: “Jesus said to them, ‘Much grain stands ready for gathering, but not many workers are ready for gathering the grain. We will ask the person who own the grain so he will send workers for gathering his grain.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “He said saying to them: ‘People who want to hear the Good News may be compared to ripe rice. There is much rice that must be harvested, but the harvesters are not many. That is why you must call-out to the owner/lord of the field, you request that he order people to go harvest in his field.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He said to them, ‘Many people want to receive the good news. They are like a field ready to be harvested. The field is wide/big but there are few who are harvesting. Therefore you should ask God, the owner of the field, so that he sends people to harvest.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he said to them, ‘There are many who would like to accept the good news. They are like a field that the grain is ripe in already. The field is wide, but we who harvest are few. Pray to the Lord that he might send still more into his field, in order to harvest.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He said to them parabling, ‘Many are the people who should be harvested, but the ones to harvest them are lacking. Request then the rice-field owner in order that he will send others to join-in-harvesting.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He said to them, ‘The crowd of people who want to hear the Good News, they are like ripe wheat. There really is much to be harvested but the harvesters are not many. Therefore what would be good for you to do is to beg-mercy from God who is the owner of this which is to be harvested. Request that he send other like harvesters to go teaching also.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 10:3:
- Noongar: “‘Go! I am sending you, like little sheep among dingos.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘Go, but be careful, because I order you to go in the middle of evil people. You will be like sheep in the middle of serigala.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, go now. But be careful for I send you to bad people, you are like the offspring of sheep going among a crowd of fierce dogs.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You leave now, but be on your guard because I am sending you to a harmful people. You are like young sheep, and they are like lions.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Go! But be careful, because I am sending you to evil/malicious people as if you are sheep going to where fierce dogs are.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, you go now. I am sending you like sheep in a mass of wild dogs.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 10:4:
- Noongar: “Take no money bag, no begging bag, no shoes. Don’t stop and talk with people on the road.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Do not carry a money wallet or food-bundle or two pairs of shoes. Do not spend a long time talking to people along the road.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Do not take a purse or a bag or shoes. Whoever you happen to meet on the road, do not rest and talk.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t you take money or a bag, or an extra pair of shoes. Don’t spend a long time talking to people that you meet on the trail.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Don’t take-along money or a backpack or a change of chinelas, and don’t be-sidetracked by conversation on the way (lit. path).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Don’t take provisions of money (lit. what-to-buy-with), something in which to put what you are given, or a change of footwear. And don’t delay on the trail chatting with anyone.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 10:5:
- Noongar: “When you go into a house, first say, ‘Let peace rest on this home’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘When you enter into a house, immediately you say: ‘Goodness from the Lord arrives to you houseowners!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And when you go up into a house, say first, ‘May God give peace to all in this house.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And whichever house you go up into, you greet the people there. You say, ‘You who live here, may God bless you.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If you enter a house, say first, ‘May it be that God will bless you in this household.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Whichever house you go into, first say, ‘Hopefully peace/protection of mind/inner-being which God gives will be yours (pl.).'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 10:6:
- Noongar: “If one man is living there who loves peace, your words of peace can sit with him; if not, you take back your words of peace.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “If the houseowners are kind [lit, have good hearts] to receive you, the Lord God will definitely bless them. But if they should not want to receive you, they will not receive blessing/benefit from your blessing.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If there is a person there worthy to be given peace, the peace that you ask for them will stay there with him. But if not, what you said will have no result.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if they welcome you, God will greatly bless them. But if they do not welcome you, then God will not go ahead and bless them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If they are worthy to receive the blessing that you said, they will truly be blessed, but if they are not worthy, neither will they be blessed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well it the householder habitually-wants peace/protection, this peace will be theirs, but if not, well, it won’t be theirs.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 10:7:
- Noongar: “Stay in one home, eat and drink everything they give you, because workers should get their pay. Do not go from one home to another home.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Just one-house your staying-place, do not move-around to other-houses while you are carrying the Good News in that town. What food is given to you, just eat it, because the worker is deserving/worthy to receive his salary.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Stay just in one house. Don’t keep changing your place-for-staying. Eat and drink whatever they place before you, for that is like their wages to you. People who work are worthy to be paid.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But that house where are no people who welcome you, you should stay there until you leave. And you accept anything that they feed you and give you to drink, because it’s like their payment to you. The one who labors is worthy of being paid. Don’t you transfer around to other houses.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If someone shows-you -hospitality, there is where you are to stay without transferring to another house. Do not also be embarrassed to eat and drink what they set-before you, because the one who works is worthy to be salaried.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And you just be there in that house where you went to stay. Eat and drink whatever it served to you, for of course as for a worker, he has the right to receive his pay. Now don’t go transfering from one house to another. Wherever you went to stay, you just be there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 10:8:
- Noongar: “When you enter one place and they welcome you, eat and drink what they give you,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘If you enter into a town and you are received, eat what they offer to you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Whatever village you come to, if the people treat-you-according-to-custom, eat whatever they place before you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now when you arrive in a town and there’s someone there who welcomes you, whatever food they have which they feed you, you eat it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So even whatever town you go to, if they give-you-hospitality, eat what they set-before you,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, whichever town you come to, as long as you are received, eat whatever will be served to you, not choosing or avoiding any.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 10:9:
- Noongar: “heal the sick people of the house and tell people, ‘The Kingdom of God has come close to you’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Heal the sick in the town, and say to the townspeople: ‘The time has come for God to become King in your midst.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Heal the sick people that are there and say to the people, ‘God’s rule is come/reached here to/with you.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Heal the sick in that village, and you tell all the people there that the time of God to rule them is very near.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “heal the sick, and tell the residents there that God’s ruling them is near.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Heal those who are ill there, and say to the people of the town, ‘The kingdom of God is close to you now.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Gurung: “. . . You have had the opportunity to see God’s powerful works.” (Source: Warren Glover in The Bible Translator 1978, p. 231ff.)