Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:12:
- Noongar: “Then Jesus said to the Pharisee, ‘When you invite people to feast with you, you must not invite good friends and brothers and rich people, because they will invite you to go back to their houses, and you will get back what you gave them.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “After that, Yesus also spoke to the houseowner. He said: ‘When we call people to attend our feasts, whether to each during the day or at night, let us not call/invite our friends, our relatives or the rich people in the town. Because they will definitely call/invite us later, with the result that our behavior is returned.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Isa said to the person who had invited him, ‘Na, you also, friend, if you make a feast, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbours/companions close to your house. For if you invite them, they will also invite you when they have a celebration. Then they repay/reward you for what you did for them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to the one who had given a feast, ‘And you also, friend, when you give a feast, don’t you just invite your acquaintances and your cousins and your neighbors who are rich, because as for them, they are wealthy and they will, in turn, invite you when they give a feast and they can pay back to you the good which you did for them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said to the one who had invited him, ‘If you (sing.) invite people to eat-with you (sing.), don’t be inviting only your (sing.) friends, relatives and rich townmates, because they will also go and invite you (sing.) and thus you (sing.) will be repaid.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then Jesus spoke to the one who invited him. He said, ‘When you have a feast, don’t invite your friends, your siblings or other relatives, or rich neighbors. For of course, they will reciprocate by inviting you. Well, you will then have been rewarded.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:13:
- Noongar: “When you prepare your feast day, invite other people, poor people and disabled and lame and blind,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “So if we make a feast, call the poor people, the crippled, the lame and the blind.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But if you make a feast invite the poor ones, the deformed ones, the lame ones and the blind ones.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, when you give a feast, the ones you should invite are the poor and the crippled and the lame and the blind.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The way you (sing.) should do it is, invite also the poor, the cripples, the lame, and the blind,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore when you prepare a big feast, who you are to invite are the poor, those with defects in their body, the lame and the blind.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:14:
- Noongar: “and God will bless you, because they cannot give you what you gave them. God will repay you on the day when the good people rise from death.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “If we do thus, the Lord God will bless us, because people like that are not able to return our behavior. The Lord God will return our behavior on Kiama Day, when he makes-live again people who are straight in his sight.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If you do this you will be very happy/glad. For they are not able to repay/reward you. God will be the one repaying you in the last day (meaning: after death) when the straight people are made alive again.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if this is what you will do, you will be very happy. Because they cannot in turn invite you, and they cannot pay back to you the good which you did to them, and God will be the one to pay you back with a good situation in the future, when the people whose actions, whose customs are good, are raised from the dead.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and you (sing.) will be fortunate. Because even though they will not be able-to-repay you (sing.), you (sing.) will be rewarded nevertheless, because God will repay (you) on the day that good people come-to-life again.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Of course there’s nothing with which they can reward you. That’s why you can be very happy, for God is the one who will reward you, when the people who are straight/righteous in his sight will be made alive again by him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:15:
- Noongar: “One man sitting among them, he heard this and he said, ‘They will be very happy! These people will sit feasting in the Kingdom of God!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “While they were eating, a guest heard the words of Yesus and he said to him: ‘Blessed/fortunate is the person who attends the feast in the Kingdom of God.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One of those eating there, when he heard those words of Isa he said, ‘The people who eat at the feast in the ruling of God are really glad/happy.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then one of the men who was sitting near Jesus, when he heard that teaching of Jesus he said, ‘How happy those people will be if they are able to stand in the future, that feast where all the people eat whom God rules over!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When one of those eating-with heard that advice of Jesus, he said to him, ‘Yes really, I-agree, extremely fortunate is the one who will eat in the ruling-place of God.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “There was one of the companions of Jesus eating there at that eating-place who spoke, after hearing that which Jesus said. He said to Jesus, ‘The one who gets to join in the celebration there in the kingdom of God will really be able to be happy!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:16:
- Noongar: “Jesus said to him, ‘A man prepared his big feast day. He invited many people.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus said saying to that person: ‘One time there was a person who made a big feast, and called many people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Isa told him a parable, he said, ‘There is a person who had prepared a great feast and had invited many.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Jesus told him a parable; he said, ‘There was a man who made a great feast. And as for that man, there were many people whom he invited.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon Jesus answered him parabling. He said, ‘There was an older-man who prepared to feed many, and many also were those whom he invited.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied with an illustration, saying, ‘There was a person who caused-to-be-prepared a big feast and invited many.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:17:
- Noongar: “The day came, he sent his servant to tell his friends, ‘Come! Everything is prepared!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “When everything was ready, he ordered his servants to go say to those who had been invited: ‘Let us go to the feast, for everything is ready.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the day of the feast arrived, he sent his servant to the invited people taking a word/message, saying, ‘Come now, everything is ready.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when the day for the feast arrived, he sent his servant to notify the people that the feast was ready. And he said to his servants, ‘Tell them that they should come because everything is ready!’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When everything was prepared, he sent someone to go tell the guests, ‘Come now so we will go eat.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When the time for the feast arrived, he ordered his messenger/errand-runner to inform those who had been invited. They would be told to go there now for all was prepared.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:18:
- Noongar: “But all of them started saying why they couldn’t come. The first person said to the servant, ‘I have bought land and I must go and see the land. I am sorry but I can’t come.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But the people who were invited all gave-excuses. The first one said: ‘I have just bought land, and I must first go and look at it. I ask forgiveness, I do not go [to where you are].'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But all of them had an excuse. The one he first went to said, ‘I cannot come because I have bought land and I should go there first and look at it. Don’t be angry with me.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, the people whom he had invited, they weren’t even thinking about that feast, and each one of them made excuses as to why they could not attend. One said, ‘I hope you aren’t angry with me, because I cannot come because there is some land which I’ve just bought and I have to go and look at it today.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But those who had been invited, they each one demurred making-excuses. One said, ‘Sorry (pasinsiya), because I’ve-just-bought some land and I must go see it.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But all those informed each-made-his-own excuse-for-not-coming. One person said, ‘I’ve bought some land. Well, it’s necessary that I go there today. I’m sure you’ll forgive me.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:19:
- Noongar: “The next person said, ‘I have bought ten bullocks and now I am going on my way to work them. I am sorry but I can’t come.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Another one said: ‘I just bought five pairs of cows, I must go try using them to plow. I ask forgiveness, I do not go [to where you are].'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And the other one said, ‘I have bought ten cows and I am just off to try them out if they can-be-used-for-plowing. Don’t be angry at me.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And another one also said, ‘I hope you’re not angry with me because I cannot attend the feast, because there are ten cows that I have just bought, and I have to try them out in ploughing!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “One also said, ‘Sorry, because I have bought a group-of-ten cows and I am going to please go try to work them.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “One person said, ‘Forgive me, but I will try out by causing to plough in two’s the ten cows which I have bought.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)