Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:28:

• Noongar: “If one of you plans to build a very big, tall house, first he will sit and think how much money he will need, and see if he has enough money for building the house.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “‘If someone wants to build a big house, he sits down first to count-up the cost of building, whether his money will be sufficient or not.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “If any of you (pl.) want to erect a big house, you (pl.) first sit down figuring/calculating as to how much your (pl.) expenses will be so that you (pl.) will know if you (pl.) will be able to meet the expenses until it is finished or not.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For example, if there’s one of you who’s building a very high house, there at the time before he begins, he calculates the money that he will have to spend so that he might know whether he can afford to set up that house or not.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “‘It is necessary then that you think first about the difficulty of becoming my disciple. For-example, if one of you builds a large house, he first calculates its value whether his money will suffice for what he will spend until it is completed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For supposing there is one of you who is planning to build a big house, isn’t it so that he will first count what it will cost him, whether the money he has put away is just right to be able to complete it?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Noongar: “‘This I will do’, he said to himself, ‘I will break down my grain houses and make bigger houses for keeping everything, my grain and all my other things.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:29:

• Noongar: “If he doesn’t have enough money, and he starts building the house, but afterwards he must stop, all the people seeing what happened, they will tease him.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “Because if he goes ahead and puts in the foundation-stone and does not finish building because his money is gone, all the people who see will laugh at him,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “For if you (pl.) do not calculate first, all the people who see it will finally make fun of you (pl.) when you (pl.) have put up the posts but do not have (the means) to finish it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because if he does not calculate the money he’ll have to spend, he might just be able to set up the posts and that’s all. And the many people who see that will just smile and make fun of him because what was supposed to be a house, turned out only to be some posts stuck in the ground.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Because if he doesn’t calculate it and-meanwhile his money doesn’t suffice, later the house-posts only will be finished and he won’t be able-to-continue-it. Surely all who see, they will laugh at him” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For maybe that’s as far as it will go, just the framework will be put up. He won’t be able to complete it. Well, he will be made a laughing-stock by each who sees.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:30:

• Noongar: “They will say, ‘This man began building a house but he couldn’t do it!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “they will say: ‘Ii, what’s-his-name wanted to build a big house but actually he did not have enough money!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “They (will) say, ‘This person is able to start putting up a house but cannot finish it.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they will say to each other, ‘It would have been better if he had not set up the posts of that house, because it’s evident that he cannot afford to continue.’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “saying, ‘E (mocking exclamation), look at that, would-you! He only started and he isn’t able-to-continue-it.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “They will say, ‘Expl., just spikes set in the sky!’ (idiom for frame of house left incompleted). Therefore the one who wants to submit to me, he must think about it well first.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:31:

• Noongar: “‘A king has 10,000 men. If this king goes out fighting, but the other king comes, and that king has 20,000 men, he will sit first and think whether he has enough strength to fight that other king.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “‘So also, if a king with ten thousand soldiers fights with a king who has twenty thousand soldiers, he must think first, whether he is able to oppose him or not.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Or if there is for example a king who is going to fight with another king, he sits down first and thinks if in his estimation he and his ten thousand adherents/disciples can challenge the king with twenty thousand adherents.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said, ‘It’s the same way with a certain king. For a king who wants to fight against another king, he must first decide whether his ten thousand soldiers can defeat the twenty thousand soldiers who are coming, sent by another king who is his enemy.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “‘Another illustration/comparison of it, if there is a king who has ten thousand soldiers and he goes to war-with a king with twenty thousand soldiers, he will emphatically think first if he is able to defeat his opponent-in-war.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For it’s also like a king who wants to go-and-attack another king. Isn’t it so that he will first study well whether, with his ten thousand soldiers, he is able to come against the twenty thousand men of that one he wants to attack?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:32:

• Noongar: “If he doesn’t have enough strength, when the other king is far away, he will send messengers to meet the other king and ask him if he will talk of peace.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “If he knows that his soldiers cannot do it, while his enemy is still far, he sends a messenger searching/asking-for one-life/harmony/peace.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “If he estimates that he cannot win, he will send his people when his opponent is still far away to meet him and to take word that he wants a reconciliation.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if he decides that his soldiers cannot defeat the enemy, it’s better if he sends his servants there to his enemy while his enemy’s soldiers are still far away, so that they might settle it before their soldiers begin to fight.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “If he estimates that he can-not -win, he will send-some to go meet that enemy of his while they are still far away so that they will go and inquire what they want in order to settle-the-dispute.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Well of course, if he isn’t able to, instead of going to attack, those he will send there will be ones to request a peace-treaty be made.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:33:

• Noongar: “So then Jesus said, ‘This same way, not one of you can become one of my disciples, only if he thinks seriously that he must give up everything, everything he owns.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “Yesus continued his words, he said: ‘So also you, if you do not let go of all that is to you/all that you have, you cannot become my followers.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Likewise also you,’ said Isa, ‘think first, for if you do not submit to forsake/turn your back on your all/everything you cannot be my disciples.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the same way also,’ says Jesus, ‘for you who are my disciples, you cannot truly be my disciples if you don’t abandon everything that you set your hearts on.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “It’s the same with you if you want to become my disciples, you should count/consider the difficulty first. Because a person cannot become my disciple if he doesn’t leave everything he has.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Therefore think well about it and then do what you must do. For if a person can’t leave whatever he values, submitting it to my control, he isn’t possible/acceptable as my disciple.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:34:

• Noongar: “This salt is no good for growing food, and no good for the soil. You must throw this salt out. Listen then, if you have ears!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Noongar: “‘Salt is good, but if salt does not taste like salt, you cannot make this salt become good again.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “‘Salt has many uses. But if its saltiness changes so that it is no longer salty, what then can make it salty?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Isa parabled again, he said, ‘You know that salt is really good. But when the salt has no more taste, it cannot become salty again.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Jesus told a parable because he wanted to let people understand that being his disciple is like salt. He said, ‘Salt is good because it makes food taste good; however, if salt has lost its flavor, there’s no way that you can bring back its flavor.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Jesus parabled again saying, ‘Salt has a use, but if it becomes-insipid, it is emphatically not possible to return its saltiness (lit. bitterness).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Jesus added on saying, ‘That one who wants to submit to me but he won’t submit all he has to my control, he is like salt which is no longer salty. For as for salt, its usefulness is big. But if it is no longer salty, how can it again be made salty?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)