Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 15:31:

• Uma: “When this letter was read to the masses, they were all glad, for its contents comforted their hearts.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “When they read the letter, they were very glad over that letter which encouraged their livers.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for the believers, when they read it they were very happy over this advice to them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “When they read it then, great was their happiness at the good advice.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “When those believers had read it, they were happy about the teaching for them which it contained.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 15:32:

• Uma: “From there, Yudas and Silas also spoke a long time, strengthening the hearts of their one-faith relatives and advising them to keep believing in the Lord, because the two of them were prophets who carried the Word of the Lord God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Judas and Silas were men who spread/made-known the word/message of God. For a long time they taught/preached-to the ones trusting in Isa who were there in Antiyok helping them so that their trust/faith would be strengthened and their livers encouraged.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for Judas and Silas, they were prophets of God. They spent a long time talking to the believers because they advised them so that the strength of their believing might be drawn tight.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “There-were-many-things also that Judas and Silas said to make-happy and strengthen their faith, because they were God’s spokesmen.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “As for Judas and Silas, because they were also prophets, they taught many other things too to the believers there, so that their believing/obeying would become sturdy.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 15:33:

• Uma: “For several nights they stayed in Antiokhia, and after that they sent them off back to Yerusalem. The people of Antiokhia said, saying to Silas and Yudas: ‘Be careful on the road. [the traditional way of saying good-bye] Please give our (excl.) greetings to the apostles of the Lord Yesus who send you here.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “When Judas and company had been there for a long while, they were sent home by the ones trusting Isa there. ‘May you have a good journey, without mishap,’ they said. So-then Judas and company returned to those who had sent them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for the people from Jerusalam, after they had spent how many days there, they returned to the ones who sent them. The believers took leave of them by saying, ‘May your journey go well.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “They stayed there a slightly-long time, then the believers sent-them-off saying, ‘May God take-care-of you where-you -are-going.’ Then they returned to Jerusalem which was the location of those who had sent them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Those taga Jerusalem were quite a while there in Antioquia, and then they returned to those who had sent them. On their leaving, they were given-for-the-journey by the taga Antioquia words that hopefully they would arrive without incident and with a happy mind.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 15:35:

• Uma: “As for Paulus and Barnabas, they were rather a long time in Antiokhia, teaching people and announcing the Word of the Lord, along with many other people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “But Paul and Barnabas were still left behind in Antiyok. They taught and proclaimed the word/message of God together with the others.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Paul and Barnabas stayed a long time there in Antioch. They and their many companions, they talked and they caused to be understood the word of the Lord.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “But Pablo and Barnabas, they continued still in Antiok teaching and preaching concerning the Lord Jesus. Many also of their companions who believed joined-in-helping them in that-aforementioned work of theirs.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Pablo and Barnabe stayed a long time at Antioquia, continuing again to teach the word of the Lord. Many too were their companions who were teaching there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 15:36:

• Uma: “After that, Paulus said to Barnabas: ‘Let’s return going to visit our one-faith relatives in every town that we passed through the other day carrying the Word of the Lord, so that we can see how their faith is.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “After some/a few days, Paul said to Barnabas, ‘Let us (dual) go back and visit our (dual) fellow disciples of Isa in the lands/countries where we (dual) have proclaimed the word/message of God. Let us (dual) see how they are.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And after a long time, Paul said to Barnabas, ‘We’d better go back, and see how the believers are getting along there in the towns where we preached the word of the Lord.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “When how-many days had then gone, then Pablo said to Barnabas, ‘Let’s (du) go visit the brothers in the various-towns where-we (du) went and -preached concerning the Lord Jesus, in order that we (du) will see how they are.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “After a few months, Pablo said to Bernabe, ‘Probably it would be good for us to return to our siblings in believing in all those places where we went teaching the word of the Lord, so that we will know how their situation is.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 15:37:

• Uma: “Barnabas wanted to take Yohanes Markus on their journey,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Barnabas wanted to take Yahiya Markus along.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Barnabas agreed to that, and he wanted to take John Mark.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Whereupon Barnabas wanted that they take-along Juan Marcos,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Bernabe’s reply said, ‘Okay, yes. What you are thinking is good. And as far as I am concerned (lit. according to me only), it would also be good for us to cause Juan Marcos to go along.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 15:38:

• Uma: “but Paulus said: ‘No, for he left us the other day in land of Pamfilia, [when] our work wasn’t yet done.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “But Paul’s opinion was that it was not right for Markus to be taken along because he had left them there in Pampiliya and he had not endured helping them until their work was finished.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, Paul didn’t want to take John Mark because he had stopped helping them and he went off and left them before when they were in Pamphylia.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “but Pablo refused, because he had left them previously when they were in Pamfilia, and he hadn’t continued helping in their work.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “But as for Pablo, it wasn’t okay with him that they cause Juan Marcos to go along for as-already-mentioned, when they were in Panfilia, Juan had separated from them. He couldn’t hold fast in that which they were doing which was going teaching.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)