Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 17:22:

• Uma: “From there, Paulus stood up in front of those gathered on Areopagus Mountain and he said: ‘Atena people! I see that in all your behavior you are very religious.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Then Paul stood up in front of the councilors and he said, ‘You men/people of Aten, I have observed that you are really very religious.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Paul stood up before the court of Areopagus and he said, ‘As for you Athenians, I understand that you are very faithful to your beliefs.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Then Pablo stood-up in-front-of them and said, ‘You from-Athens, I know (deference particle) that you are thorough/careful in worshipping your gods,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Therefore Pablo stood up in the presence of that crowd gathered there at the Areopago and began to speak. He said, ‘You taga Atenas, I really am observing that you here are devoutly-worshipful people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 17:23:

• Uma: “Because during my wandering in your town and seeing your worship-places, I also saw one worship rock that had writing like this: ‘Worship-place to the Lord whose Name is not Known.’ So, that lord whose name you do not know, he is the one I announce to you here.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Because while I was walking about here in your city, I saw the different things you worship. I saw one place where you worship and this is written there, saying, ‘This is the place for worshiping the god whom we (incl.) do not know.’ Na,’ Paul said, ‘the god whom you do not know but whom you worship, this is the God whom I am explaining to you about now/this moment.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because as I was wandering around here in your village, I saw the things that you worship. And there was also one offering place which I saw upon which was written the words which say, ‘Here is worshipped the god who is not yet known.’ And the God that you worship, even though you don’t know about him, he is the one that I am preaching to you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “because when I was walking through your town looking-at the places-where-you -worship the various-gods, there was an altar (loan altar) that I came-upon that was written-on with words saying, ‘For the god that we (excl.) don’t know.’ That-aforementioned God whom you are worshipping even though you don’t know-him, it is he whom I will make-known to you now.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For when I was walking around looking at the statues which you worship here, I came on one which was written on, saying, ‘Substitute for the god we don’t yet know.’ Well now, that is this one I am teaching you about, that God whom you say you worship, although you don’t yet know him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 17:24:

• Uma: “God who made the world with all its contents, he is the Lord of the sky and the earth. He does not dwell in a worship house made by mankind.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “This is the God who created the world and all the-different-things in the world. He rules in heaven and on earth. This God does not dwell in houses for worship made by humans.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because as for this God, he is the one who created the earth and everything that is in it. He is the Lord of heaven and earth, and he does not just live in churches made by people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “He is the God who created the earth and all that is here, and he doesn’t dwell in temples that people have made, because he is the Lord in heaven and on the earth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “He is the God who created heaven/sky and the world, and all their contents. And because he is the Lord who controls heaven and the world, he doesn’t live in worship-places just made by man.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 17:25:

• Uma: “He also does not ask help of man, because he is the one [emphatic] who gives our life and our breath and all that we need.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “And he also does not ask help from humans because he does not lack anything. Even more-so, he is the one who gives life and breath and everything/all various-kinds-of-things that humans use/need.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there is nothing that is made by men that he needs because he is the one who gives breath and life and everything to all people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “There is moreover nothing he needs that we people are able to help-him -with, because he indeed also is the one who gives life, breath, and all that we need.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “And he also doesn’t need to be served by man, as if there was any help he had need of, because he is the one who gives life, breath and everything which is needed by all he has created.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

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

• Uma: “He did like this so that we would want to know who he is, so that if we look for him, we would indeed find him. For actually he is not far from each of us.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “God did this to the tribes in order that they would seek him and in their perseverance perhaps they might find him. But,’ Paul said, ‘God is not far from us (incl.).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason he did this is so that we might search for him and that we might find him. And as for God, he is not also far from each one of us,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “He did that in order that people would look-for him so-that-hopefully they would find him in their groping, because he is certainly not far from us.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “He did like this so that all people would hopefully search for him, even if only a groping/long-shot search, just so that they would find him. For it’s true, he isn’t indeed far from each one of us.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

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

• Uma: “Like the old people say: ‘It is just from / because of Him that we are alive and move and are in the world.’ The same also what was written by one of your ancestors long ago who was clever making songs, he said: ‘All of us, we are the children of God.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Because the reason we (incl.) are alive, the reason we (incl.) are able to move, the reason we (incl.) have souls, is because of God. Just like what the story-tellers also say, ‘We (incl.) are the children of God.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because ‘By means of his power we are able to move, and there is also our life and personness of each one of us.’ Because just like one of your people said who knows how to make illustrations, he said, ‘As for us (incl.) also, we are his children.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Because there is someone who said, ‘He is the one who gives us life, and it is he who is-taking-care (of us) in our walking and living.’ There are also other learned companions of yours who said, ‘We are definitely his children.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “This is like the saying of the past which says, ‘He really is the source of our life and breath. Yes indeed, we are alive just because of his determining.’ Isn’t it so, of course, that it’s like what was said by other wise-people/thinkers here among you, saying, ‘We people, it’s like he gave birth to us’ ?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

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

• Uma: “‘So, relatives, inasmuch as we are his children, it is not good if we consider the Lord God to be an image that is made from gold or from silver or from rock, according to the skill of man.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Na, because we (incl.) are the children of God,’ Paul said, ‘we (incl.) must not think that God looks like the statues of gold or silver or stone made from the idea/thinking and skill of humans.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since we are his children, we are like his, and therefore we must not think that God is an idol of gold or silver or stone beautified by a skillful person.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “If therefore it is true that we are God’s children, we ought not to say that his godhood is the same as the idols that are made of gold or silver or stone that skilled people decided to make.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Well since it’s like we were given birth to by God, it’s essential that we don’t think he is only like a statue made of gold of silver or stone which has been carved. For as for these images, they are only according to the means/ability and knowledge/skill of man.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)