4. and coming from the market-place, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions which they have received and hold fast – the washing of cups and utensils and copper vessels and couches.
5. Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your taught ones not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?”
6. And He answering, said to them, “Well did Yeshayahu prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written, ‘This people respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.
7. And in vain do they worship Me, teaching as teachings the commands of men.’
8. “Forsaking the command of Elohim, you hold fast the tradition of men.”
9. And He said to them, “Well do you set aside the command of Elohim, in order to guard your tradition.
10. “For Mosheh said, ‘Respect your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’
11. “But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me, is Qorban (that is, a gift),” ’
12. you no longer let him do any matter at all for his father or his mother,
13. nullifying the Word of Elohim through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such traditions you do.”