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So he said, "Don't you under stand even now?
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Don't you see that anything that enters the mouth goes into the stomach and passes out into the latrine?
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But what comes out of your mouth is actually coming from your heart, and that is what makes a person unclean.
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For out of the heart come forth wicked thoughts, murder, adultery and other kinds of sexual immorality, theft, lies, slanders. . . .
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These are what really make a person unclean, but eating without doing n'tilat-yadayim does not make a person unclean."
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Yeshua left that place and went off to the region of Tzor and Tzidon.
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A woman from Kena`an who was living there came to him, pleading, "Sir, have pity on me. Son of David! My daughter is cruelly held under the power of demons!"
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But Yeshua did not say a word to her. Then his talmidim came to him and urged him, "Send her away, because she is following us and keeps pestering us with her crying."
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He said, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Isra'el."
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But she came, fell at his feet and said, "Sir, help me!"
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He answered, "It is not right to take the children's food and toss it to their pet dogs."