Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 23:4:

• Uma: “They require the people to follow [lit., they put-on-the-shoulders of the people] commands and customs that are heavy, yet they themselves don’t help the people follow those commands and customs.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “They make-it-difficult-for/put-heavy-(loads)-on the people with the laws they are not able to do but they do not help them carry/do it even a little bit.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They make people obey many things that are hard to obey but there is nothing they do to help people obey that which they ask them to obey.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “They make-the people -carry heavy (loads) that are the many commands that they insist must be followed, but they don’t join-in-carrying even a little.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For they keep on adding to what they command which is only giving people a very hard time. What it’s like is they bundle into big bundles what they cause people to shoulder which they really aren’t able to shoulder. But even the little finger of their hand, they don’t want to touch with it in giving-a-helping-hand.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the law they teach the people to do, no one is able to complete it all. For it is like as though they tie huge loads on the people, yet the people cannot be able to carry it all. And not even with one finger do they want to help them carry it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 23:5:

• Uma: “‘They do have much behavior that is good, but their reason for doing that behavior is just to be seen by others. They use wide-wide prayer headbands, and they make the decorations [lit., fruit] of their clothes long, so that their following of the Law of Musa can be seen by others.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “All their deeds they do so that they are seen by people. Look at their containers for the writing copied from the holy-book which are tied to their foreheads and their arms, they are bigger than those of others and the tassels of their clothes are also long.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They do many things so that people might praise them for they want to show that they are obeying the commands of God by means of layers of the written word of God which they tie on their hands and by means of the wide hem of their skirts.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “All they are doing, they do so that people will see and praise them. Therefore they enlarge the storage-place of verses that are part of the law, that they tie around their foreheads and their arm/hands, and they also lengthen the fringe(s) on the hem of their outer garment.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “What they do is wholly only to be seen by their fellowman. As for what is bound round the head and arm which contains a few words of the written word of God, they make theirs wide. And as for what is attached to the hem of cloaks, theirs are long.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “What all they do, they do only to elevate themselves before the people. They like to attach on their foreheads and on their arms the paper on which is written the word of God. They like to have their clothing that reaches the ground.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 23:7:

• Uma: “They are happy if people on the edge of the big roads bow in greeting to them and call them ‘Teacher.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “They like to be greeted in the market places and (like it) when they are called ‘Teacher’.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They are really happy when people honor them in the markets and when they are called ‘Teacher.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “They also like people to honor them saying ‘Sir’ when they go to visit, and they like to be spoken-of-as teachers.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “And something else they like is that they are appropriately-acknowledged in places where there are many people and they are called teacher.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “And they like to have people pay respect to them where they are greeted in the markets. They like to be called teachers.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 23:8:

• Uma: “‘But you, don’t you want to be honored and called ‘Teacher,’ for only one person is your Teacher, and you all are all just relatives of each other.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “As for you, do not want to be called ‘Teacher’, for you all are like brothers and only one is your teacher, I.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t you allow anyone to call you ‘Teacher’, because you are all brothers, and you have only one teacher, I, the one chosen to rule.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “‘But as-for you, don’t permit that teacher be the spoken-opinion/designation of your companions toward you, because you are all siblings and only I am your teacher.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “But as for you, don’t you have yourselves called teacher, because I alone am your teacher. You are all like one brotherhood.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “But as for you, do not want that you elevate yourselves so that people call you their teachers. Because there is only one who is your teacher, that one who is called the Christ. As for you, you are all brethren with each other.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 23:9:

• Uma: “And also don’t you make-so-high anyone on this earth and call them ‘Father,’ for your Father is just one, he is your Father in heaven.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Do not call anybody in this world ‘Father’, for you have only one father, he is God in heaven.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t you also title anyone here on earth as ‘Father,’ because your father is only one, God in heaven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Don’t moreover be calling anyone on this earth Father, because you have only-one Father who is God in heaven.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “And don’t call your fellow human here on earth father, except (the one who is your father) by blood, because only one is your Father, that being the Father in heaven.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Here on earth do not call any person your Father. Because your Father is only one, and he lives in heaven.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 23:10:

• Uma: “And also don’t you want to be called ‘Leader,’ for your Leader is just one, he is the Redeemer King.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “And you may not be called ‘Leader’ for only one is your leader, Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And don’t you also allow yourselves to be called ‘Master,’ because I, the one whom God has chosen, I alone am your master.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “And neither are you to allow your companions to call you Lord/Sir because I the Messiah am your only-one Lord.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “And don’t have yourselves called master, because only one is your master, by which is meant Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Do not want to be the bosses of people. The only one who is to be the boss of the people is the Christ.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 23:11:

• Uma: “Who of you wants to have a big life [i.e., be important], he must become the ordered-one of others.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Whoever of you wants to be made really great he shall be your servant.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the one you consider to be greatest among you, it is necessary that he be like the servant of all of you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The most-important among you is the one who is serving his companions.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “As for the most-important of you, he must be like your servant.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “The one who works to help his fellowmen is the one who is greater than all of you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)