⁸ For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.

³ Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them:

⁴ And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.

¹² At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?