Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:42:
- Noongar: “The Lord replied, ‘Then, which servant is faithful and wise (lit.: “ear much”)? The servant whose master puts him higher than the other servants in the big house. At the right moment, he will share food and drink to the other servants.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘For example there was a slave who was wise and faithful working the work of his nobleman. The nobleman lifted/raised that slave to become a overseer/commander who commanded his other slaves and divided to them their food every day.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa answered in a parable again, he said, ‘If there is a servant who can be trusted and what he does is good, he is the one that his master will make the leader of the other servants. When the appointed time comes to give, he is the one who gives the provision to the servants.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the Lord answered, ‘As for the wise and faithful servant, he is the one his master puts in charge of the other servants. He is the one who will feed his fellow servants at the time for eating.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus answered him parabling, ‘The trustworthy and wise servant, he is the one whom his master appoints to be in charge of the other servants and to give them their food daily.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The Lord Jesus replied, saying, ‘That slave who is trustworthy and good/nice, he will be given by his master oversight of the other slaves in his household. He will be the one (whose job it is) to give out food provisions.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:43:
- Noongar: “This servant will be very happy if his master sees him doing good things when he comes home!” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “No kidding his good-fortune/blessedness if his nobleman returns home from his journey and finds him while he is working his work.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When his master returns, that servant will be happy when his master sees that he obeyed all that was commanded to him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When his master returns, this servant will be very happy if his master finds that he has obeyed everything he was told to do.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Fortunate is that slave if his master comes-home and comes-upon him doing the work that was entrusted to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That slave can be really happy if on the arrival of his master, like that truly is what he is doing.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:44:
- Noongar: “Truly, I tell you, the master will put him in charge of all his property.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Truly I say to you, his nobleman raises him and gives him authority to look-after all his riches.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Truly I tell you, that his master will entrust to him all his wealth.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I tell you that the faithful servant will be entrusted with all of the possessions of his master.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because this that I tell you is true that his master will raise-him-up so he will be in charge of all his possessions.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What I will say to you is true. He will also be given by his master the responsibility for all the possessions of his master.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:45:
- Noongar: “But if this servant says to himself, ‘My master is a long time coming back’, and if he begins to hit the other servants, the men and also the women, and eating and drinking and getting drunk,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But disaster will [come] to the slave who slaves: ‘The nobleman will not soon come.’ He begins to beat/strike his fellow slaves, woman or man, and he continually eats and drinks to the point of drunkenness.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But if for example that servant says in his liver, that it is still a long time till his master comes, and then he beats his fellow servants including the women and that is what he does he feasts and has drinking-parties and gets drunk,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But pity him if what is in his thinking is that his master will be a long time coming home, and he beats his fellow servants, women and men, and the only thing he does is to eat and drink and get drunk.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But if for-example that servant is evil, he says to himself, ‘My master’s return will probably still be a long-time-away.’ And he repeatedly-hardships his fellow slaves who are men or women and meanwhile eats-and-eats, drinks-and-drinks and gets-repeatedly-drunk.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But supposing the nature/ways of that slave are evil, what is in his mind is, ‘Probably it will be much longer before my master returns.’ Well, what he will do is he will keep causing-hardship/suffering to his fellow slaves, female and male. And he will do nothing else but eat only and get drunk.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:46:
- Noongar: “then his master will return one day at a moment he does not know. This servant is not expecting the master. The master will cut him to pieces and the servant will go down the path of punishment like all people doing wrong.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But actually, while he is being lax like that, suddenly his nobleman arrives on a day and at an hour that he did not know. That slave is severely struck/beaten and he is thrown outside, he is-considered a person who does not believe in God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “then suddenly his master will arrive on a day when he does not expect him and a time he does not know. Na, then he will really be punished by his master and he will be sent to the place that is given/caused-to-belong to the ones who do not believe in God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because on the day that he’s not expecting, and at the hour that he doesn’t know, the master will return. And as for this servant, what will be done to him will be like that which is done to the servants who cannot be trusted, and he will be killed by his master.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then suddenly his master will return at the day and hour that that-aforementioned servant didn’t expect. And he will kill him so that he will join-in-experiencing the punishment of those who don’t believe.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “His master will arrive on a day when he wasn’t expecting/sure-of it and at an hour which he didn’t know. What will happen is, he will be punished without limit by that master of his. He will be caused to companion the people who don’t believe-in/obey God, there in hardship/suffering which has no ending.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:47:
- Noongar: “If a servant knows what his master wants him to do, but is not ready to do this, he will be punished with much beating.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘The slave who knows the desires of his nobleman, but he is not watchful and he does not do the desires of his nobleman, that slave is definitely severely beaten.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘If the servant knows as to what his master wants him to do but he does not get ready and does it, he will be beaten/whipped a lot.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now as for that servant who already knows what his master wants him to do but he does not get ready and he does not obey what his master wanted him to do, now he will not escape a severe beating by his master.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘The servant who knows what his master wants him to do, but he doesn’t begin to fulfil it, he will be punished with many strokes (of the whip).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Think about this, that the slave who knows the will of his master but ignores it, it’s certain that heavy punishment is what he will receive.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:48:
- Noongar: “But if the servant does not know what his master wants him to do, and does the wrong thing, his master must punish him, but the master will lightly punish him. The person given much, he must give much; the person given much more, he must give much more.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But the slave who does not know the desires of his nobleman, and he does [something] worthy to be beaten for, he is beaten, but just a measured-amount. Because whoever is given much, much also is required from him. Whoever is offered much, much also is requested-of him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But if a person is ignorant about the wishes of his master but he does something that he should be punished for, he will also be beaten/whipped but not so much. Whoever has been given much from him is also much expected. And if more is entrusted to him, more will also be expected from him.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now as for that servant who does not yet know what his master wants him to do, but he does something that causes his master to be angry with him, he will not be beaten so severely.’ And Jesus said again, ‘The person who has much trusted to him, much also will be expected from him. And if very much is entrusted to him, very much also will be expected from him.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the servant who doesn’t know what his master wants him to do and he sins something that is worthy of a whipping, he will be whipped just the same, but (only a) little. Because the person to whom much has been entrusted, much also will be expected from him, and the one to whom more has been entrusted, more also will be expected from him.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But that slave who does not know the will of his master, who just sinned unintentionally, he will indeed be punished but it won’t be heavy. It’s true, that one given/favored much by God, much will indeed be drawn-out/exacted by God. If a person has been entrusted with an important responsibility, he really will have to answer for how he attends to (lit. faces) it.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:49:
- Noongar: “‘I came to burn the World. Truly I wish the fire was kindled now!” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘My coming here, I come to light fire in the world. And my desire is that that fire be quickly lit.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said yet, ‘I have come to bring a fire to the world and I wished that it were already burning.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said, ‘The reason I have come here to the earth is so that there will be fire, which is to say, so that people might be judge. And it would please me if that fire were already lighted.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus also said parabling, ‘I came to burn this earth and I wish it were already burning today.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Why I came here,’ said Jesus next, ‘was so that I would as-it-were bring fire here to the world. I-wish it was already lit!” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)