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St Mark 7:9-18 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

9. And he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.

10. For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy mother; and He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die.

11. But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban, (which is a gift,) whatsoever is from me, shall profit thee.

12. And further you suffer him not to do any thing for his father or mother,

13. Making void the word of God by your own tradition, which you have given forth. And many other such like things you do.

14. And calling again the multitude unto him, he said to them: Hear ye me all, and understand.

15. There is nothing from without a man that entering into him, can defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that defile a man.

16. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

17. And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him the parable.

18. And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? understand you not that every thing from without, entering into a man cannot defile him:

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