Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:9:
- Uma: “‘ Don’t carry much stuff/baggage on your journeys. Don’t carry money or gold or silver.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Do not take money along, not even change in your belt (change purse).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t take gold or silver or even copper.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Don’t take-along large monies or (lit. and) even coins.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Don’t take along money to buy with, whether gold, siver or brass/bronze/copper.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Don’t take along money of gold, silver or copper.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:10:
- Uma: “Don’t carry a food-bundle, don’t carry two shirts or shoes or walking sticks. Because it is appropriate/right that you be given your needs from/by the people to whom you carry the Word of the Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Do not carry a bag or a shirt/garment for changing into or shoes or a walking-stick. A person who works shall be given all he needs.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t also take a sword. And don’t take along shoes or a walking stick. And even a change of clothes, don’t take along. Because as for a servant, what he needs will be given to him.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Also don’t take-along a backpack, change of clothing and sandals, and a walking-stick. Because the one-who-works is worthy to receive his living.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Also don’t carry baggage on this trip of yours. Don’t take clothes to change into, or replacement for footwear and walking stick. You will be taken care of by these ones you are helping, because it’s fitting to pay the expenses of the worker.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Don’t carry a traveling bag. Don’t carry a change of clothing. Do not carry extra shoes or walking sticks. Because concerning God’s worker, it is necessary that he be given what he needs.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:11:
- Uma: “‘When you arrive in a village, search there for people who have good hearts to receive you into their homes. Stay/live there until you go on to the next village.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘When you arrive in a town or a village, look for a person who has good customs. Stay there with him as long as you are there in that place.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus said, ‘If you arrive at a big town or even a little one, look for a person who will receive you, and you go up in his house. Stay there until you leave that village. (‘Stay’ here means ‘make it your headquarters.’)” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘When you arrive in a town, look-for someone worthy to show-hospitality to you, and stay there until you leave that town.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, whatever town or bario you come to, what you are to look for is a person of good ways who will welcome/treat you properly. There is where you are to stay while you are in that place.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When you arrive at a city or town, look for a man who is respected in the town, ask him for permission to stay with him. There you must stay at his house until you depart.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:12:
- Uma: “When you enter into a house, say to the owner of the house/the host: ‘The Lord bless you!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When you go up to a house say, ‘May God give you peace.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when you go up into a house, invoke a blessing on those who live there saying, ‘May God bless you’, so that God might bless them if they receive you. But if they don’t receive you, never mind, because God will not go ahead and bless them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When you enter a house, say, ‘May God bless you who-live-here.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “On entering the house, say, ‘Hopefully that peace of mind which God gives will be yours (pl.).'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When you enter a house, say: ‘May God bless the people who live here.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:13:
- Uma: “If the hearts of the house owners/hosts are good, the Lord God will definitely bless them. But if their hearts are not good, they will not get goodness of life from the Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If you are treated-according-to-custom/honored by the people of that house the peace you have asked for will stay with him. But if you are not treated-according-to-custom/honored nothing will come of what you said.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when you go up into a house, invoke a blessing on those who live there saying, ‘May God bless you’, so that God might bless them if they receive you. But if they don’t receive you, never mind, because 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 have-said, they will truly be blessed, but if they are not worthy, they will correspondingly not be blessed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, this truly will be theirs provided they truly believe/obey your teaching, but if not, well indeed it won’t.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “If the people who live in the house look well upon you, then they will receive the salutation you give them. But if they do not look well upon you, then the salutation you say does not apply to them.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:14:
- Uma: “If there is a house owner or villager who does not want to receive you or who does not want to listen to your words, leave that house or that village, and you knock off the dust that sticks to the soles of your feet, as a sign that God will punish them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If the people do not treat-you-according-to-custom and if they do not want to listen to you, leave from that house or that town. First shake off the dust of your feet as a sign that you are ‘through’ with them, and then leave.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if there is a village that doesn’t receive you or if they don’t listen to what you cause them to understand, leave them. And knock the dust off of your feet as a sign to them that God will punish them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When you arrive in a town or house and they do not entertain you and they also refuse to hear what you are saying, brush-off your soles (of feet) at your leaving so they will thereby-know that they are responsible for their punishment.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And whoever won’t receive you or listen to what you are teaching, when you go from that house or town, brush off the dust from your legs/feet as a sign that the people there who didn’t believe are now regarded by God as not his people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “If you are not looked well upon in a town or at a house, you are not given a welcome and the people do not want to listen to what you say, then go, leave the town or the house. Shake off the dust that is on the soles of your feet.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:15:
- Uma: “Consider this: at the Kiama Day, the punishment of God punishing those people will surpass his punishment on the villagers of Sodom and Gomora long ago.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Truly I tell you that when the day is reached when God judges mankind, the judgment for the people of that town will be heavier than the judgment for the places Sodom and Gomora, the places well known for the sin of their people.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t you forget this, that in the future on the day of God’s punishing, the punishment on that town will be greater than his punishment long ago on the wicked people who lived in the town of Sodom and the town of Gomorrah.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This that I say to you is true that when the time-that-God -judges people arrives, the punishment of those who live there will be heavier than the punishment of those-from Sodoma and those-from Gomora.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This which I will say to you is really true that at the day of judging, much heavier will be the punishment of those people in that town, far more than that experienced by the taga Sodoma and taga Gomorra.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Truly I tell you that on the day when God judges people, these people who pay no attention to you will go through more suffering of punishment than will be suffered by the people who lived in the city of Sodom and the city of Gomorrah.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:16:
- Uma: “Be careful, because I command you to go in the midst/between evil people. You will be like sheep among serigalas [jackals]. You must be scheming/crafty like a tarsier, but your hearts must be gentle/smooth with no evil intentions.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Be careful because I send you to bad people. You are figuratively like offspring of sheep going among masses of fierce dogs. Therefore your thinking/reasoning must be deep (being wise) and you must be only good in your livers.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Listen, you all. I am sending you to harmful people. But as for you, you, by contrast, are not harmful. You are like sheep, and they are like lions. It is necessary that you be on your guard, but don’t you do anything harmful to anyone.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus continued saying, ‘Think-about this. I send you to cruel people, as-if you are sheep who go to the location of vicious dogs. It is thus necessary that you be wise/intelligent and prudent/careful with nothing also that can be blamed on you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus said further, ‘Well now/today, I am sending you out like you are sheep among a large-gathering of wild-dogs. Therefore you must use-your-heads(fig.) like snakes and be tame like doves.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now I am sending you to where evil people live, it will be fearful like when sheep arrive where dangerous animals live. But be wise, being careful like snakes are. Yet do not fight anyone, be like doves who do not want to fight.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)