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1 Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,
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5 Then Perushim and Sofrim (rabbonim) from Yerushalayim approach Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying,
2 Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.
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Why do your talmidim transgress the Masoret HaZekenim (the Tradition of the Elders)? For they do not do the netilat yadayim before meals.
3 And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?
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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, in reply to them, said, Why [do] also you transgress the mitzvat Hashem for the sake of your own masoros?
4 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.
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For Hashem has said, KABED ES AVICHA VES IMMECHA (honor your father and your mother, SHEMOT 20:12; DEVARIM 5:16), and MKALEL AVIV VIMMO MOT YUMAT (the one cursing his father and mother to die he must die, SHEMOT 21:17; VAYIKRA 20:9).
5 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;
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But you say, Whoever says to his abba or his em, whatever support you might have had from me, [it is] a gift [i.e., korban, dedicated to G-d].
6 There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.
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By no means does [anyone who says this] honor his abba or em. And you nullify the Dvar Hashem on account of your masoros.
7 You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,
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You tzevuim, well did Yeshayah give a dvar hanevuah concerning you, saying,
8 These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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YAAN KI NIGASH HAAM HAZEH BEFIV UVISHFATAV KI-BDUNI VLIBO RICHAK MIMENI VATEHI YIRATAM OTI MITZVAT ANASHIM MELUMADAH (This people with their lips honor me, but their heart is far away from me,
9 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
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and in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the mitzvot of [mere] men, YESHAYAH 29:13.)
10 And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:
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And having summoned the multitude, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Listen and understand!
11 Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.
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It is not the thing entering into the mouth that makes the man tameh (unclean), but the thing going out from the mouth this makes the man tameh.
12 Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?
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Then Moshiach’s talmidim approached and say to him, Do you know that the Perushim took offense when they heard [this] dvar?
13 But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.
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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, in reply, said, Every plant which Avi shbaShomayim did not plant will be uprooted.
14 Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.
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Leave them. They are blind morei derech (guides, teachers) of [the] blind. And if the ivver (blind man) leads the ivrim (blind), both will fall into a pit.
15 Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us.
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And Kefa said in reply to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Explain to us the mashal.
16 And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?
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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Are you still devoid of binah (understanding)?
17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?
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Do you not have daas that everything which enters into the mouth goes into the stomach and passes into a latrine?
18 But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart; and they make a man unclean.
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But the things coming out from the mouth come out from the lev (heart), which makes tameh.
19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:
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For out of the lev comes evil machshavot (thoughts): retzichot (murders), niufim (adulteries), zenunim (fornications), genevot (thefts), eduyot sheker (false testimonies), giddufim (revilements).
20 These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.
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These are the things making the man tameh, but eating with hands lacking the netilat yadayim (ritual of the washing of the hands, see Mt 27:24), this does not make the man tameh.
21 And Jesus went away from there into the country of Tyre and Sidon.
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And having gone from that place, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach withdrew into the districts of Tzor and Tzidon.
22 And a woman of Canaan came out from those parts, crying and saying, Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.
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And a woman from Canaan came out from those regions, and was shouting, Have mercy on me, Adoni, Ben Dovid! My bat is in torment possessed by shedim.
23 But he gave her no answer. And his disciples came and said to him, Send her away, for she is crying after us.
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But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not answer her a word. And Moshiach’s talmidim having approached, were asking him, saying, Send her away; she shouts after us.
24 But he made answer and said, I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.
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But, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, I was not sent except to the Seh Oveid Beis Yisroel (the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel).
25 But she came and gave him worship, saying, Help, Lord.
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But she came and fell down before him, saying, Adoni, azreini (L-rd, help me).
26 And he made answer and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.
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But, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, It is not good to take the lechem of the Banim and throw it to the kelevim (dogs).
27 But she said, Yes, Lord: but even the dogs take the bits from under their masters' table.
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But she said, Ken, Adoni, but even the kelevim eat the crumbs falling from the tish (table) of their masters.
28 Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.
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Then, in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, O woman, great [is] your emunah. Let it be done for you as you wish. And the bat (daughter) of her was given refuah (healing) at that very hour.
29 And Jesus went from there and came to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and took his seat there.
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And having passed over from that place, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came beside Lake Kinneret, and having gone up the mountain, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was sitting there.
30 And there came to him great numbers of people having with them those who were broken in body, or blind, or without voice, or wounded, or ill in any way, and a number of others; they put them down at his feet and he made them well:
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And great multitudes approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having with them pisechim (lame), ivrim (blind), the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they laid them at Moshiach’s feet, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave the cholim (sick persons) refuah (healing).
31 So that the people were full of wonder when they saw that those who had no voice were talking, the feeble were made strong, those whose bodies were broken had the power of walking, and the blind were able to see: and they gave glory to the God of Israel.
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The result was that the multitude was astounded, witnessing mute people speaking, cripples made whole, the pisechim (lame) walking, and the ivrim (blind people) seeing, and they gave kavod to Elohei Yisroel.
32 And Jesus got his disciples together and said, I have pity for the people, because they have now been with me three days and have no food: and I will not send them away without food, or they will have no strength for the journey.
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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having summoned his talmidim, said, I have rachmei shomayim for the multitudes, for already shloshah yamim (three days) they remain with me and they do not have anything they may eat, and I do not want to send them away famished, lest they might faint on the way.
33 And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?
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And Moshiach’s talmidim say to him, From where bamidbar (in the wilderness) is there enough lechem for us to feed such a vast multitude?
34 And Jesus says to them, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes, and some small fishes.
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And he says to them, How much lechem, how many loaves do you have? And they said, Sheva, and a few dagim.
35 Then he gave an order to the people to be seated on the earth,
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And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave the command for the multitude to recline on the ground,
36 And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.
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Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took the loaves numbering sheva and the dagim, and, making a bracha, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach offered the betziat halechem (the breaking of the bread) and served them to the talmidim, and Moshiach’s talmidim served them to the multitudes.
37 And they all took food, and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits, seven baskets full.
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And everyone ate and they were satisfied, and the Rebbe’s farbrengen shirayim were numbering sheva baskets full.
38 And there were four thousand men who took food, together with women and children.
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And the ones eating were arbaat elafim (four thousand) men, not counting nashim and yeladim.
39 And when he had sent the people away, he got into the boat, and came into the country of Magadan.
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And having sent away the multitudes, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach embarked in the sirah (boat), and came to the region of Magadan.
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