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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Mark 7 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/mark/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/mark/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Mark 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../mark/6.htm" title="Mark 6">◄</a> Mark 7 <a href="../mark/8.htm" title="Mark 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/mark/7-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Tradition of the Elders<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/15.htm">Matthew 15:1–9</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the Pharisees are gathered together to him, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And having seen some of his disciples with common hands, that is, unwashed, eating loaves, they rebuked. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they vigorously wash hands, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And from the market-place, except they be immersed, they eat not. And there are many other things which they received to hold; the immersion of cups, and of measures, and of brazen vases, and of chairs.) <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Wherefore do not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he having answered, said to them, That Esaias prophesied well concerning you, as it has been written, This people honour me with lips, and their heart keeps far from me.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And in vain they revere me, teaching doctrines the commands of men.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For having left the command of God, ye hold firmly to the tradition of men, the immersion of measures and cups: and many other such like things ye do.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he said to them, Well do ye abrogate the command of God, that ye might keep your tradition. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and he reviling father or mother, in death let him die: <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And ye say, If a man say to father or mother, Corban, which is, a gift, whatever thou be profited by me; <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And ye permit him to do nothing more for his father or his mother. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Abrogating the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">What Defiles a Man<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/15.htm#10">Matthew 15:10–20</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And having called all the crowd, he said to them, Hear me, all ye, and do ye understand: <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>There is nothing from without a man, entering into him, which can defile him: but things coming out from him, these are the things polluting the man. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-15.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If any have ears to hear, let him hear.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And when he came into the house from the crowd, his disciples asked him of the parable. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he says, So are ye also without understanding? Do ye not perceive, that anything from without entering into a man, cannot pollute him. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For it goes not into the heart, but into the belly, and goes forth into the privy, purging all food. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he said, That going out of a man, that pollutes a man. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders, <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Thefts, overreaching, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, defamation, pride, foolishness: <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>All these evils go out from within, and pollute a man.<p> <A name="25"></a><p class="hdg">The Faith of the Gentile Woman<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/15.htm#21">Matthew 15:21–28</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And arising from thence, he departed into the bounds of Tyre and Sidon, and having come into the house, he would have none know; and he could not be hid. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For a woman having heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, having come, fell at his feet: <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And the woman was a Grecian, a Syrophenician by birth; and she entreated him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Jesus said to her, Permit the children first to be satisfied; for it is not good to take the children's bread, and cast to little dogs. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And she answered and says to him, Yes, Lord: for also the little dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And he said to her, For this word retire; the demon has gone out of thy daughter. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And having departed to her house, she found the demon gone forth, and the daughter cast upon the bed.<p> <A name="32"></a><p class="hdg">The Deaf and Mute Man<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/9.htm#27">Matthew 9:27–34</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And again, having gone out from the bounds of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, in the midst of the bounds of Decapolis. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And they bring to him a deaf one, tongue-tied; and they beseech him that he would put the hand upon him. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And having taken him away from the crowd apart, he put his fingers in his ears, and having spit, he touched his tongue; <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And having looked up to heaven, he sighed, and says to him, Ephphatha, which is, Be opened. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And quickly his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake rightly. <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And he charged them that they should say to none: and as much as he charged them, they proclaimed more abundantly; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And above measure were they struck with amazement, saying, Well has he done all things: he makes the deaf to hear, and the speechless to speak.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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