13 thereby invalidating the word of God by your (A)tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”

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9-13 He went on, “Well, good for you. You get rid of God’s command so you won’t be inconvenienced in following the religious fashions! Moses said, ‘Respect your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone denouncing father or mother should be killed.’ But you weasel out of that by saying that it’s perfectly acceptable to say to father or mother, ‘Gift! What I owed you I’ve given as a gift to God,’ thus relieving yourselves of obligation to father or mother. You scratch out God’s Word and scrawl a whim in its place. You do a lot of things like this.”

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13 thus (A)making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

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13 And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others.”

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