Mark 14:22

Translating the Bible into Toba...

How do we translate the Scriptures into Toba? Sometimes we have to make choices, based on theological understanding and church teaching...

Now, taking into account the huge symbolic meaning of the whole passover meal, and the teaching over the centuries of the protestant church, this is how we translated it into Toba:

Mane'e ca'li cha'li deque'tape, qama'le Jesus yacona ga'me pan nataq'aen yanem da'me lamaic joñe'me Dios, yecolaĝatapiye qama'le yanouelo jogaa'me lapaĝaguenataqa, enaac:

—Auacoñiya jenjo', jo'ne mach'e laloĝoiqui qoyen jena'me yapat.

Which means: “While they were eating, then Jesus takes a bread and gives his thanks to God, he breaks it into pieces and he shares them round to his students, he says to them: ‘Take this, which is made now into a symbol of my flesh.’”

Mark 14:22