² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

³⁸ And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first bathed himself before dinner.

⁸ Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

² and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.

⁵ 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?

²⁰ If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

²¹ Handle not, nor taste, nor touch

²² (all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?

²³ Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; `but are' not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

¹⁸ knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: