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They don`t eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)
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The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don`t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"
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He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, `This people honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
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But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.`
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"For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men -- the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things."
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He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
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For Moses said, `Honor your father and your mother;` and, `He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.`
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But you say, `If a man will tell his father or his mother, "Whatever you might have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"`
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and you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,
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making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."