Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Luke 17:26)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 17:26:

  • Noongar: “‘The Days of the Son of Man will come like the days of Noah.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “‘Like what happened at the time of the prophet Nuh long ago, like that also what will happen at the day of my coming, I the Son of Man.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “In the future when I come back to the world, the works of the people will be like the works/doings of the people of the time of Nu ley.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And in the future, at the time when I return to the earth, the activity of people will be like the activity of the people long ago at the time of Noah.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘The behavior of people on the day that I come again will be like the time of Noe.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “It’s true, that how the punishment coming to them wasn’t being considered by (lit. in the head of) the people in the time of Noe, that is indeed how it will be at my returning here, I who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 17:27)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 17:27:

  • Noongar: “People always ate and drank, and men and women always married, until the day when Noah got into the boat and much rain came and drowned all of them.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “At the time of the prophet Nuh, people continually ate, drank, getting married and marrying, any old way, until the prophet Nuh entered into a big boat and a flood killed them all.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “At that time they ate and drank, got wives and husbands until the day was reached when Nu went into the ship. Then God flooded (lasey an especially big flood) the world and they all perished/were destroyed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because a long time ago, at the time of Noah, the only thing people were thinking about was happy times, and they ate and they drank and they got married, until Noah entered into the large boat called the ark, and when the water got deep, people were all drowned.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because at that time they were continuing to eat and drink and get-married until the day that plural Noe entered the ark. Right afterwards the earth was flooded and they all drowned.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “For at that time, the people were keeping on eating and drinking and marrying until Noe boarded that boat he had made. When the flood came which dissolved/destroyed the world, the people had no awareness of danger. Well what else but what happened was, they were all wiped out.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 17:28)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 17:28:

  • Noongar: “That Day will come like the days of Lot. People always ate and drank, and traded and planted and built houses.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “So also was the laxness of the people long ago in the town of Sodom when Lot lived there. People continually ate, drank, sold/acted-as-merchants, farmed and built houses.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Likewise it was at the time of Lot ley. They ate and drank, bought and traded, planted and built houses.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The time when I return will also be like the time long ago, of Lot. Because at that time they were continually making merry, and eating and drinking; they continued buying and selling, planting and building houses.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “It’s also like in the time when Lot was in Sodoma. Because all of them, they were continuing to eat and drink, buy and sell, plant and build houses” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “It was indeed like that in the time of Lot, the people in Sodoma and its neighboring towns also having no awareness of danger. For those people, they kept on eating, drinking, buying, trading, planting and building houses.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 17:29)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 17:29:

  • Noongar: “On the day Lot left Sodom, fire and burning ash fell down from the sky and killed them all.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “But actually when Lot went-out from Sodom, fire and rocks that were glowing/embers from heaven landed, killing them all.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But when the day came when Lot was sent away from the town Sodom, fire and sulphur fell like rain from the sky and they all were destroyed/perished.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And on that day when Lot left his town which was named Sodom, all the people who lived there were destroyed by fire and sulphur which God dropped from Heaven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “until the day that plural Lot left that town. Right after-that fire and burning rocks called sulfur fell from heaven and they were all burned-up.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But on the day when Lot left/had-to-leave Sodoma, it rained, what was falling coming from heaven/sky being fire and asupri, which burned them all up.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 17:30)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 17:30:

  • Noongar: “The Day when people see the Son of Man, his day will come like that.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “So also will be the laxness of men in the day of my coming back to the world to show my power.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “In the same way like that will also be the doings of the people in the world when the day comes when I, the Son of Mankind, will be shown/seen.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When I, the older sibling of mankind, return in the future, it will be just as fast as that.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Like that indeed also is what will happen on the day when-the one Child of a Person -will-appear.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “It will indeed be like that at the returning here of the One From Heaven Born of Man/human.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 17:31)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 17:31:

  • Noongar: “That Day, a man sitting on the roof of his house, he must not go down inside his house to get his things. Also, a man standing outside his house, he must not go back inside the house.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “‘On that day, quickly run away! The person sitting on the porch, let him no longer take-time-to enter into the house to get his goods. So also the person in the garden/fields, let him no longer take-time-to go home to get anything in the town.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “‘When that day arrives, if there is someone outside his house and all his belongings inside the house, he shall not go inside to fetch them but he shall flee. Likewise also the person who is on his field he shall not go back to his house.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And on that day,’ said Jesus, ‘a person who is found outside of his house and still inside are his possessions, he should not go back into the house to get anything, because on that day there will be no value in possessions. It’s the same way also with a person who’s found in the field. It’s not necessary that he return home to his house.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘On that day, the one who is in the yard of his house, he must not enter to go get his possessions. The one also who is in the rice-field, he should not go-home.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “On that day, that one there on the flat roof of his house isn’t to enter his house again to get his belongings. And that one in the field, he isn’t to go home to get anything. Because on that day, belongings will have no more usefulness.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 17:32)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 17:32:

  • Noongar: “Remember Lot’s wife!” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Remember what happened to the wife of Lot!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Remember as to what happened to the wife of Lot of old.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Remember also what happened to the wife of Lot when she turned around to see her possessions, because she turned into salt.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Remember what happened to Lot’s spouse.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Think about what happened to the wife of Lot.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 17:33)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 17:33:

  • Noongar: “A person wanting to keep his life, he will lose it. A person losing his life, he will keep it.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Whoever clings to his own desires, he will not get good life. But whoever lets-go of his desires because of his following of Me, even if it kills him, he is the one who will get eternal life [lit, good life until forever].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Whoever cherishes/loves his life will not have everlasting life. But whoever does not cherish/love his life because of me, even though he dies he has life forever.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “That person who sets his heart on his life rather than his being my disciple, he will just not be able to possess the life which has no end. And that person who does not set his heart on his life, because he wants to follow me, he will be given life without end.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The one who esteems/values himself will die just the same, but the one who dies because of his faith in me, he will have life that has no end.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “For that one who really values very much this life of his now, it will be lost-permanently to him. But that one who holds-fast to me, even if it will cause his life/breath to be severed, life which is far from ordinary really will be his.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)