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Mark 7:4-10 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

4. and, [coming] from the market-place, if they do not baptize themselves, they do not eat; and many other things there are that they received to hold, baptisms of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and couches.

5. Then question him do the Pharisees and the scribes, `Wherefore do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but with unwashed hands do eat the bread?'

6. and he answering said to them--`Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, hypocrites, as it hath been written, This people with the lips doth honour Me, and their heart is far from Me;

7. and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings, commands of men;

8. for, having put away the command of God, ye hold the tradition of men, baptisms of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do.'

9. And he said to them, `Well do ye put away the command of God that your tradition ye may keep;

10. for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;

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