These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Matthew 15
Brit Hadashah 39 verses
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Then there came to a party of Pharisees and Scribes from , who inquired,
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“Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not their hands before meals?”
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“Why do you, too,” He retorted, “transgress Elohim’s commands for the sake of your tradition?
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- 4 For said, ‘Honour thy father and thy mother’; and ‘Let him who reviles father or mother be certainly put to death’;
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but you—this is what you say: ‘If a man says to his father or mother, That is consecrated, whatever it is, which otherwise you should have received from me—
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he shall be absolved from honouring his father’; and so you have abrogated Elohim’s Word for the sake of your tradition.
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Hypocrites! well did prophesy of you,
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“’This is a People who Me with their lips, while their is far away from Me;
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but it is in vain they Me, while they lay down precepts which are mere human rules.’”
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Titus 1:14 Isaiah 29:13 Colossians 2:18-22 Mark 7:7 Hebrews 13:9 1 Timothy 1:4 Proverbs 30:5-6 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Isaiah 58:1-3 Malachi 3:14 1 Corinthians 15:2 1 Samuel 25:21 Revelation 22:18 Isaiah 1:13-15 Psalm 39:6 1 Timothy 4:6-7 Exodus 20:7 Leviticus 26:16 Ecclesiastes 5:2-7 Leviticus 26:20 Psalm 73:13 James 2:20 Deuteronomy 12:32 - 10 Then, when He had called the people to Him, said, “Hear and understand.
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It is not what goes into a man’s mouth that defiles him; but it is what comes out of his mouth—*that* defiles a man.”
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Acts 10:14-15 Romans 14:14 Mark 7:15 Psalm 58:3-4 Matthew 12:34-37 Psalm 52:2-4 Psalm 10:7 Luke 11:38-41 Romans 14:17 Matthew 15:18-20 James 3:5-8 Psalm 12:2 Romans 14:20 Isaiah 59:13-15 2 Peter 2:18 1 Timothy 4:4-5 Titus 1:15 Jeremiah 9:3-6 Romans 3:13-14 Hebrews 13:9 Isaiah 37:23 Isaiah 59:3-5 Acts 11:8-9 -
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Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do you that the Pharisees were greatly shocked when they heard those words?”
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“Every plant,” He replied, “which my Heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
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- 14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind; and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into some pit.”
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“Explain to us this figurative language,” said .
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- 16 “Are even you,” He answered, “still without intellingence?
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Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterwards ejected from the body?
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- 18 But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the , and it is these that defile the man.
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For out of the proceed wicked thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, impiety of speech.
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- 20 These are the things which defile the man; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile.”
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Leaving that place, withdrew into the vicinity of and .
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- 22 Here a Canaanitish woman of the district came out and persistently cried out, “Sir, Son of , pity me; my daughter is cruelly harassed by a .”
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But He answered her not a . Then the disciples interposed, and begged Him, saying, “Send her away because she keeps crying behind us.”
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- 24 “I have only been sent to the lost sheep of the house of ,” He replied.
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Then she came and threw herself at His feet and entreated Him. “O Sir, help me,” she said.
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“It is not right,” He said, “to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
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- 27 “Be it so, Sir,” she said, “for even the dogs eat the scraps which fall from their masters’ tables.”
- 28 “O woman,” replied , “great is your : be it done to you as you desire.” And from that moment her daughter was restored to health.
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Again, moving thence, went along by the Lake of ; and ascending the hill, He sat down there.
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- 30 Soon great crowds came to Him, bringing with them those who were crippled in feet or hands, blind or dumb, and many besides, and they hastened to lay them at His feet. And He cured them,
- 31 so that the people were amazed to see the dumb speaking, the maimed with their hands , the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they gave the to the of .
- 32 But called His disciples to Him and said, “My yearns over this mass of people, for it is now the third day that they have been with me and they have nothing to eat. I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they should faint on the road.”
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“Where can we,” asked the disciples, “get bread enough in this remote place to satisfy so vast a multitude?”
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“How many loaves have you?” asked. “Seven,” they said, “and a few small fish.”
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So He bade all the people sit down on the ground,
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- 36 and He took the seven loaves and the fish, and after giving thanks He broke them up and then distributed them to the disciples, and they to the people.
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And they all ate and were satisfied. The broken portions that remained over they took up—seven full hampers.
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- 38 Those who ate were 4,000 adult men, without reckoning women and children.
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He then dismissed the people, went on board the boat, and came into the district of Magadan.
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