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So the Pharisees and Scribes put the question to Him: "Why do your disciples transgress the traditions of the Elders, and eat their food with unclean hands?"
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"Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites," He replied; "as it is written, "`This People honour Me with their lips, while their hearts are far away from Me:
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But idle is their devotion while they lay down precepts which are mere human rules.'
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"You neglect God's Commandment: you hold fast to men's traditions."
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"Praiseworthy indeed!" He added, "to set at nought God's Commandment in order to observe your own traditions!
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For Moses said, `Honour thy father and thy mother' and again, `He who curses father or mother, let him die the death.'
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But *you* say, `If a man says to his father or mother, It is a Korban (that is, a thing devoted to God), whatever it is, which otherwise you would have received from me--'
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And so you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or mother,
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thus nullifying God's precept by your tradition which you have handed down. And many things of that kind you do."
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Then Jesus called the people to Him again. "Listen to me, all of you," He said, "and understand.
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There is nothing outside a man which entering him can make him unclean; but it is the things which come out of a man that make him unclean."