Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Acts 11:6)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 11:6:

  • Uma: “I looked at its contents, I saw many kinds of animals with four feet, wild animals, animals that slither, and with birds also.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “I looked to see/clarify as to what was inside that blanket. What I saw were animals, animals of the forest, those that crawl on the ground, and birds also.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I stared at it and I saw its contents which were crawling creatures such as beasts, reptiles, and birds.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When I looked-carefully, there were there types of tame and wild animals, there were also those that crawl/slither and those that fly.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, I looked-closely at its contents. What I saw was, animals which walk and which crawl, including fierce animals, and there were birds too.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 11:7)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 11:7:

  • Uma: “From there, I heard one speaking to me he said to me: ‘Petrus, stand up, slaughter them and eat.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then I heard a voice speaking to me. The voice said, ‘Get up, Petros. Butcher and eat.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then I heard something say, ‘Oh Peter, butcher so that you can eat.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then I heard a voice saying, ‘Pedro, get-up to butcher something to eat-as-meat-viand.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And then I heard speech saying to me, ‘Go ahead, Pedro. Butcher and eat.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 11:8)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 11:8:

  • Uma: “I answered: ‘No indeed, Lord! I have never-yet eaten an animal that is taboo/forbidden or dirty according to the custom of our (excl.) religion.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But I said, ‘I won’t, Sir. As long as I have lived, I have never yet eaten anything defiled or forbidden.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I answered, ‘Not me, Lord, because I have not yet eaten anything unclean like that which is forbidden by the law.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Whereupon I said, ‘I emphatically don’t-want-to, Lord, because I have eaten-for-viand absolutely nothing that we (excl.) Jews consider-taboo.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “However, I replied saying, ‘Oh, I can’t do like that, Lord, for as long as I’ve been in the world, I haven’t trespassed by eating any food which is forbidden by our (excl.) handed-down law.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 11:9)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 11:9:

  • Uma: “I heard again that word saying to me: ‘What God says is good, don’t you (sing.) [emphatic] say is dirty.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But I heard the voice again, it said, ‘Don’t call forbidden what God has made lawful.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there in heaven I heard also something saying, he said, ‘That which God says is good, don’t you say it is unclean.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘I heard again the voice from heaven that said, ‘What God has said is good food, don’t consider-taboo.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “That one speaking who was there in heaven spoke again. He said, ‘Pedro, no longer taboo what God regards as acceptable to him now.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 11:10)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 11:10:

  • Uma: “I saw that three times, and it was pulled again going to the sky.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “This happened three times to me, and then the blanket was taken up again to the sky.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “After all of these words were repeated three times, that which was let down was returned to heaven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Three-times I saw and heard that, then everything returned to heaven.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Three times I was instructed and rebuked like that, and then that which contained the animals was pulled up into heaven/sky.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 11:11)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 11:11:

  • Uma: “At that time also, three men arrived at my dwelling house. Those there were not Yahudi people, who had been ordered from the town of Kaisarea to go to Yope to look for me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “While that (was going on), there arrived at the house where I was staying three men who were sent to me from the place Kesarea.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then there were three people which arrived at the house where I was staying. They were not Jews, and they had been sent to me from the village of Caesarea.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘And that being so, three men suddenly-arrived at the house where-I-was-staying. They had-been-sent from Cesarea to go call me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Just when that was disappearing, there were three people from Cesarea who arrived at that house where I was staying, who had come to fetch me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 11:12)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 11:12:

  • Uma: “The Holy Spirit said to me: ‘Petrus, don’t let your (sing.) heart be uncertain about following those people.’ So I did indeed go with them. And there are indeed my witnesses here, because those six relatives of ours over there accompanied me to Kaisarea. When we (excl.) arrived at the house of Kornelius, we (excl.) entered inside.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “The Spirit of God told me not to hesitate to go with them. And I was also accompanied by these here, six of our (incl.) fellow disciples of Isa from Joppa. When we (excl.) arrived at Kesarea, we (excl.) went and entered the house of Captain Korneliyus.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the Holy Spirit said to me that I should go with them and I shouldn’t be reluctant to go with them. These six believers also who are our companion Jews went with me to Caesarea. And we went into the house of Cornelius,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When that was so, the Holy Spirit said that I should not doubt to go-with them. So-of-course I went-with (them), my group-mates being these-here and six of our siblings. When we (excl.) arrived in Cesarea, we (excl.) entered the house of plural Cornelius.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “I was told by the Espiritu Santo that I wasn’t to hesitate in going with them. Well, these six siblings of ours in believing accompanied me. We(excl.) went to the house of that person who was having me fetched.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Acts 11:13)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 11:13:

  • Uma: “Kornelius recounted to us (excl.) that he had seen an angel appear in his house who said to him: ‘Send people going to Yope to search for a man named Simon Petrus, so that he comes here.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Korneliyus told us (excl.) that he reportedly had seen an angel standing there in his house and speaking to him. The angel reportedly said, ‘Send to the place Joppa to fetch a man named Simon, also named Petros.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and Cornelius told us that there was an angel of God that appeared to him in his house. And this angel said to him, ‘Send there to the village of Joppa someone to get a person named Simon Peter.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “And then he related the appearing of the angel to him in his house and what the angel told saying, ‘Send-someone to go to Joppa to go call/invite Simon nicknamed Pedro,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “When we (excl.) had entered, he related to us (excl.) how he had seen an angel there in his house. The angel said, ‘Send a few people to go to Jope. Have Simon fetched whose other name is Pedro.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)