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Mark 7:5

Weymouth NT

So the Pharisees and Scribes put the question to Him:»Why do your disciples transgress the traditions of the Elders, and eat their food with unclean hands?«

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»Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not washing their hands before meals?«

thus nullifying God's precept by your tradition which you have handed down. And many things of that kind you do.«

»You neglect God's Commandment: you hold fast to men's traditions.«

»Praiseworthy indeed!« He added, »to set at nought God's Commandment in order to observe your own traditions!

Now what they have been repeatedly told about you is that you teach all the Jews among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, and that you forbid them to circumcise their children or observe old-established customs.

Associate with these men and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses so that they can shave their heads. Then everybody will know that there is no truth in these stories about you, but that in your own actions you yourself scrupulously obey the Law.

and the forefather of the circumcised, namely of those who not merely are circumcised, but also walk in the steps of the faith which our forefather Abraham had while he was as yet uncircumcised.

and how in devotion to Judaism I outstripped many men of my own age among my people, being far more zealous than they on behalf of the traditions of my forefathers.

For we hear that there are some of you who live disorderly lives and are mere idle busybodies.

But, by the authority of the Lord, we command you, brethren, to stand aloof from every brother whose life is disorderly and not in accordance with the teaching which all received from us.




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