5. “But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me has been dedicated,”
6. is certainly released from respecting his father or mother.’ So you have nullified the command of Elohim by your tradition.
7. “Hypocrites! Yeshayahu rightly prophesied about you, saying,
8. ‘This people draw near to Me with their mouth, and respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.
9. ‘But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as teachings the commands of men.’ ”
10. And calling the crowd near, He said to them, “Hear and understand:
11. “Not that which goes into the mouth defiles the man, but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”
12. Then His taught ones came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees stumbled when they heard this word?”
13. But He answering, said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted shall be uprooted.
14. “Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into a ditch.”
15. And Kĕpha answering, said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”
16. And יהושע said, “Are you also still without understanding?
17. “Do you not understand that whatever enters into the mouth goes into the stomach, and is cast out in the sewer?
18. “But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and these defile the man.
19. “For out of the heart come forth wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whorings, thefts, false witnessings, slanders.
20. “These defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”