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Mattityahu 15:7-22 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

7. You tzevuim, well did Yeshayah give a dvar hanevuah concerning you, saying,

8. YAAN KI NIGASH HAAM HAZEH BEFIV UVISHFATAV KI-BDUNI VLIBO RICHAK MIMENI VATEHI YIRATAM OTI MITZVAT ANASHIM MELUMADAH (This people with their lips honor me, but their heart is far away from me,

9. and in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the mitzvot of [mere] men, YESHAYAH 29:13.)

10. And having summoned the multitude, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Listen and understand!

11. It is not the thing entering into the mouth that makes the man tameh (unclean), but the thing going out from the mouth this makes the man tameh.

12. Then Moshiach's talmidim approached and say to him, Do you know that the Perushim took offense when they heard [this] dvar?

13. But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, in reply, said, Every plant which Avi shbaShomayim did not plant will be uprooted.

14. Leave them. They are blind morei derech (guides, teachers) of [the] blind. And if the ivver (blind man) leads the ivrim (blind), both will fall into a pit.

15. And Kefa said in reply to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Explain to us the mashal.

16. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Are you still devoid of binah (understanding)?

17. Do you not have daas that everything which enters into the mouth goes into the stomach and passes into a latrine?

18. But the things coming out from the mouth come out from the lev (heart), which makes tameh.

19. For out of the lev comes evil machshavot (thoughts): retzichot (murders), niufim (adulteries), zenunim (fornications), genevot (thefts), eduyot sheker (false testimonies), giddufim (revilements).

20. These are the things making the man tameh, but eating with hands lacking the netilat yadayim (ritual of the washing of the hands, see Mt 27:24), this does not make the man tameh.

21. And having gone from that place, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach withdrew into the districts of Tzor and Tzidon.

22. And a woman from Canaan came out from those regions, and was shouting, Have mercy on me, Adoni, Ben Dovid! My bat is in torment possessed by shedim.

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