When translator Des Oatridge, working in Papua New Guinea, came to the words "born again" in John's Gospel, he asked his native co-translator to think of a good way to express it. The man explained this custom:

Sometimes a person goes wrong and will not listen to anybody. We all get together in the village and place that person in the midst of us. The elders talk to him for a long time. "You have gone wrong!" they say. "All your thoughts, intentions, and values are wrong. Now you have to become a baby again and start to relearn everything right."

It was the answer Des was looking for. Today the words of (John 3:3) in Binumarien reads, "No one can see the Kingdom of God unless he becomes like a baby again and relearns everything from God's Word."