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Matthew 15:4-6
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4 For God said, ‘Honor your[a] father and your[b] mother,’[c] and ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother must certainly die[d].’[e] 5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his[f] father or his[g] mother, “Whatever benefit you would have received[h] from me is a gift to God,” 6 need not honor his father,’[i] and you make void the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

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  1. Matthew 15:4 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  2. Matthew 15:4 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  3. Matthew 15:4 A quotation from Exod 20:12; Deut 5:16
  4. Matthew 15:4 Literally “let him die the death”
  5. Matthew 15:4 A quotation from Exod 21:17; Lev 20:9
  6. Matthew 15:5 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  7. Matthew 15:5 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  8. Matthew 15:5 Literally “you would have been benefited”
  9. Matthew 15:6 Most later manuscripts add “or his mother”
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