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You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men."
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And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to 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 surely die';
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but you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to God) --
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then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
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thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do."
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And he called the people to him again, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand:
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there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him."
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And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.
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And he said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him,