13. “No servant is able to serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall cling to the one and despise the other. You are not able to serve Elohim and mammon.”
14. And the Pharisees, who loved silver, also heard all this, and were sneering at Him,
15. so He said to them, “You are those who declare yourselves righteous before men, but Elohim knows your hearts, because what is highly thought of among men is an abomination in the sight of Elohim.
16. “The Torah and the prophets are until Yoḥanan. Since then the reign of Elohim is being announced, and everyone is doing violence upon it.
17. “And it is easier for the heaven and the earth to pass away than for one tittle of the Torah to fall.
18. “Everyone putting away his wife and marrying another commits adultery. And everyone marrying her who is put away from her husband commits adultery.
19. “But there was a certain rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and lived luxuriously every day.
20. “And there was a certain beggar named El‛azar, being covered with sores, who was placed at his gate,
21. and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Indeed, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22. “And it came to be that the beggar died, and was carried by the messengers to the bosom of Aḇraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.
23. “And while suffering tortures in the grave, having lifted up his eyes, he saw Aḇraham far away, and El‛azar in his bosom.
24. “And crying out he said, ‘Father Aḇraham, have compassion on me, and send El‛azar to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.’