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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."
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Then Yeshua called the people to him again and said, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand this!
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There is nothing outside a person which, by going into him, can make him unclean. Rather, it is the things that come out of a person which make a person unclean!"
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Some manuscripts include verse 16: "Anyone who has ears that can hear, let him hear!"
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When he had left the people and entered the house, his talmidim asked him about the parable.
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He replied to them, "So you too are without understanding? Don't you see that nothing going into a person from outside can make him unclean?