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(For the P'rushim, and indeed all the Judeans, holding fast to the Tradition of the Elders, do not eat unless they have given their hands a ceremonial washing.
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Also, when they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they have rinsed their hands up to the wrist; and they adhere to many other traditions, such as washing cups, pots and bronze vessels.)
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The P'rushim and the Torah-teachers asked him, "Why don't your talmidim live in accordance with the Tradition of the Elders, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?"
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Yeshua answered them, "Yesha`yahu was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites -- as it is written, `These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.
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Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.'
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"You depart from God's command and hold onto human tradition. Indeed,"
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he said to them, "you have made a fine art of departing from God's command in order to keep your tradition!
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For Moshe said, `Honor your father and your mother,' and `Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'
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But you say, `If someone says to his father or mother, "I have promised as a korban" ' " (that is, as a gift to God) " ` "what I might have used to help you," '
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then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.
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Thus, with your tradition which you had handed down to you, you nullify the Word of God! And you do other things like this."