Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 23:6:

• Uma: “They are happy to be made to sit in the honored seats in the houses of prayer.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “When they are at feasts, they want to sit in the most honored place/seat. In the prayer-house they want to sit in the places of the honored people.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “What they want is that they will be greatly honored when they attend gatherings. And when they are in the worship place, they want that they’ll be the ones asked to sit in the seats where the people high in rank sit.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “When they go to join-in-eating, they choose the important people to sit-with, and they also choose the best seats in the synagogue.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Their favorite seats at feasts are the seats where important people are seated. It’s like that too in the worship-place.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “There where people have feasts and also in the church they hunt out the chairs which are good and sit there.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
• Choapan Zapotec: “Also they want to sit where the respected people sit in the synagogue. Also when there is a fiesta, they want to eat first.” (Source: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)