^{3 Ref} (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;

^{4 Ref} and `when they come' from the market-place, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)

^{5 Ref} And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?

^{6 Ref} And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.

^{7 Ref} But in vain do they worship me, Teaching `as their' doctrines the precepts of men.

^{8 Ref} Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

^{9 Ref} And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

^{10 Ref} For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

^{11 Ref} but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given `to God';

¹² ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;

^{13 Ref} making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.