Mark 7:5-13

Lexham English Bible

⁵ And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their^[a] bread with unclean hands?” ⁶ So he said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written,

⁸ Abandoning the commandment of God, you hold fast to the tradition of men.”

⁹ And he said to them, “You splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can keep^[d] your tradition. ¹⁰ For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’^[e] and, ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother must certainly die^[f].’^{[g] 11} But you say, ‘If a man says to his^[h] father or to his^[i] mother, “Whatever benefit you would have received^[j] from me is corban”^[k] (that is, a gift to God), ¹² you no longer permit him to do anything for his^[l] father or his^[m] mother, ¹³ thus^[n] making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down, and you do many similar things such as this.”