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• Oral LawBible

  The Oral Law is the body of Jewish interpretations and regulations believed to have been transmitted by word of mouth alongside the written law of the Pentateuch. In the New Testament it appears under the expression "the tradition of the elders."

• Matthew 15Bible

  Matthew 15 recounts the dispute over handwashing and the tradition of the elders, the faith of a Canaanite woman from the region of Tyre and Sidon, healings beside the Sea of Galilee, and the feeding of the four thousand.

• Mark 7Bible

  Mark 7 records Jesus' dispute with the Pharisees and scribes over the tradition of the elders, his teaching that what defiles a person comes from the heart, and his healing of the Syrophoenician woman's daughter and of a deaf man with a speech impediment.

• HalakhaBible

  Halakha refers to the body of Jewish legal interpretation and regulation that organizes the commandments of the Pentateuch for application to daily life. The practices on which it rests appear in the New Testament under the name "the tradition of the elders."

• PhariseesBible

  The Pharisees were a group within Judaism in the New Testament era. They strictly observed the Law of Moses and "the tradition of the elders," and in the Gospels they appear chiefly as opponents who dispute with Jesus.

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Verses in the King James Version 3, showing 3

• Matthew 15:2

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

• Mark 7:3

  For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

• Mark 7:5

  Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

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