Mark 7:1- 2 and 5 - 17a in Mexican Sign Language

Following is the translation of Mark 7:1-2 and 5-17a into Mexican Sign Language with back-translations into Spanish and English underneath:


© La Biblia en LSM / La Palabra de Dios

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Todos los judíos y los fariseos tienen sus costumbres y tradiciones, por ejemplo no empiezan a comer antes de lavar las manos, y cuando estén limpios pueden comer.

Los fariseos y algunos maestros de la ley salieron de Jerusalén y fueron (hacia Jesús y sus disípulos) y se dieron cuenta de que los discípulos estaban comiendo pan.

Los Fariseos pensaban: No han lavado las manos, están inmundos. Y dijeron: “Jesús, ¿porqué no obedecen tus discípulos la ley? Ellos saben las costumbres y las tradiciones de la Ley.”

Vemos que los discípulos están comiendo con manos inmundas.

Jesús (dijo): “Alto, mira, les explico algo. Hace mucho el hombre Isaías escribió en un rollo que Dios dice: uds siempre están hablando sobre respeto a Dios, pero adentro sus corazones están vacios, y su adoración a Dios no sirve porque lo que personas inventaron uds lo copiaron y lo han enseñado como ley, y después (se convirtió en) costumbres y tradiciones.

Isaías tenía razón en lo que escribió: Uds mismos, fariseos y maestros de la ley, son hipócritas porque lo que Dios manda en los mandamientos de la ley uds no lo toman en serio, pero las leyes que fueron inventados por personas uds las obedecen como costumbres y tradiciones. ¡Son bien inteligentes! Uds se apartan de los mandamientos de la ley de Dios

Moisés dice que Dios manda en los mandamientos de la ley que se debe respetar a los padres, y si alguien es disrespetuoso y rebelde debe ser matado.

Pero yo veo algo diferente; uds fariseos sugieren a un hombre que diga a sus papás que no les puede ayudar con dinero porque es ocupado por el corban, que significa que da el dinero al templo, para Dios.

¿Porqué aconsejan uds, los fariseos, que no es necesario ayudar a los papás? Porque uds no valoran la palabra de Dios, no lo toman en serio, pero sí valoran sus costumbres y tradiciones como leyes. Veo que tienen muchos errores.”

Llamó a la gente a que vinieran y una multitud se acercó. (Dijo): “Por favor pongan atención. ¿Uds piensan que lo que se come y entra el estomago puede hacer el corazón sucio y separarlos de Dios? No.

Si el corazón está inmundo de adentro sí hay separación de Dios. Veanme y entiendan, uds necesitan intentar a descubrirlo.”

Jesús se despidió y se fue a casa.


All the Jews and the Pharisees have their customs and traditions, for example they don’t begin to eat until they have washed their hands, and when they are clean they can eat.

The Pharisees and some teachers of the Law went out of Jerusalem and went over (towards Jesus and his disciples) and they noted that the disciples were eating bread.

The Pharisees thought: They haven’t washed their hands, they are unclean. And they said: “Jesus, why are your disciples not obeying the Law? They know the customs and the traditions of the Law.

“We see that the disciples are eating with unclean hands.”

Jesus (said): “Stop, look, I will explain something. A long time ago the man Isaiah wrote in a scroll that God says: you are always talking about respect for God, but inside your hearts are empty and your worship is in vane, because things that people have invented, you have copied and taught them as law, and then (they have become) customs and traditions.

“Isaiah was right in what he wrote: You yourselves, Pharisees and teachers of the Law, are hypocrites because what God has ordered in the commandments of the Law you don’t take seriously, but the laws that were invented by people you obey as your customs and traditions. You are really clever! You separate yourselves from the commandments of the Law of God.

§Moses says that God in the commandments of the Law orders that people need to respect their parents, and if someone is disrespectful and rebellious he needs to be killed.

“But I say something different: you Pharisees suggest to a man that he say to his parents that he cannot help them with money because it is taken for the corban, which means that he will give the money to the temple, for God.

“Why do you, Pharisees, advise people that they don’t have to help their parents? Because you don’t value the word of God, you don’t take it seriously, but you do value your customs and traditions as laws. I see that you have many errors.”

He told the people to come and a multitude gathered. (He said): “Please pay attention. You think that what you eat and what goes down to your stomach can make your heart dirty and separate you from God? No.

“If your heart is impure on the inside that will separate you from God. Watch me and understand, you need to try and figure it out.”

Jesus said goodbye and went home.

Source: La Biblia en LSM / La Palabra de Dios

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Mark 7:1-23 in Russian Sign Language

Following is the translation of Mark 7:1-23 into Russian Sign Language with a back-translation underneath:


Source: Russian Bible Society / Российское Библейское Общество

The people of Judea strictly followed the demands of tradition. Before eating, they were to wash their hands thoroughly up to the elbows. After going to the store and the market, they had to wash their hands thoroughly. Also they had to be thorough with kitchen utensils: cauldrons, plates.

And so the Pharisees and teachers of the law came from Jerusalem. They were indignant when they saw that Jesus’ disciples were not fulfilling the demands of tradition.

In indignation they turned to Jesus:

— Behold, your disciples are not fulfilling the demands of tradition! They had not washed their hands and were eating bread. What is this?

Jesus answered them:

— You Pharisees are hypocrites. In ancient times there lived a prophet named Isaiah. He was talking about the people of his time, but they were just like the Pharisees. The prophet said that these people thought they were very pious, very proud of it, but in fact, inwardly they were empty, far from God. They thought they were pious and outwardly honored God — but it was all false. They began to invent their own rules and laws and pass them off as God’s law, as God’s commandments. That’s what you are doing now, Pharisees. You disregard God’s commandments and make up your own. You have rejected God’s law, but you demand that people obey your rules.

In ancient times Moses gave Ten Commandments. There is this commandment: “Honor your father and mother.” If a son offends his parents, according to the law he should be punished by death.

And it happens like this: old parents who have no money to feed themselves, but the son has money. But you say to such a person:

— You should not give money to old parents, you should bring it as a gift to the Temple.

That is, you encourage people not to take care of their parents. Thus, your rules and statutes abrogate the Law of God.

Jesus called the people together and said to them:

— Listen and ponder! Do you think that man is defiled by food? No! Food is outward. But evil thoughts in the heart are what defile a man and spoil him.

Jesus walked away from the crowd and went into the house. Jesus’ disciples followed him. There the disciples began to question Jesus:

— We did not understand the meaning of what you were telling.

Jesus said:

— Have you not understood? Food is external. What you eat, it will not contaminate you, because it will be digested in the stomach and come out again, it does not give you bad thoughts in your heart. But if you have bad thoughts in your heart, it contaminates you. You think bad thoughts, you start doing bad things: cunning, malice, stealing, murder, cheating, greed, malice, deceit, rudeness, slander, insult, pride, stupidity — where does it all come from? It all comes from within, from the thoughts. If thoughts are dirty, then a person is unclean.

Original Russian back-translation (click or tap here):

Жители Иудеи строго выполняли требования традиции. Перед едой они должны были тщательно вымыть руки до локтей. После магазина и рынка должны обязательно чисто-чисто вымыть руки. Также должны были тщательно быть кухонную посуду: котлы, тарелки.

И вот фарисеи и учителя закона пришли из Иерусалима. Они возмутились, когда увидели, что ученики Иисуса не исполняли требований традиции.

В негодовании они обратились к Иисусу:

— Вот, твои ученики не исполняют требований традиции! Они не вымыли руки и стали есть хлеб. Что это такое?

Иисус им ответил:

— Вы фарисеи — лицемеры. В древности жил пророк по имени Исайя. Он говорил о людях своего времени, но они были таким же, как фарисеи. Пророк говорил, что эти люди считали себя очень набожными, очень гордились этим, но на самом деле, внутренне они пусты, далеки от Бога. Они считали себя набожными и внешне почитали Бога — но это все фальшь. Они стали придумывать свои собственные правила и законы и выдавать их за Божий закон, за Божьи заповеди. Так же и вы сейчас поступаете, фарисеи. Вы заповедями Божьими пренебрегаете, и придумываете свои собственные. Божий закон вы отвергли, а требуете, чтобы люди исполняли ваши правила.

В древности Моисей дал 10 заповедей. Есть такая заповедь: «Почитай отца и мать». Если сын оскорбляет своих родителей, по закону он должен быть наказан смертью.

А бывает так: старые родители, у которых нет денег пропитание, а у сына деньги есть. Но вы же говорите такому человеку:

— Не нужно давать денег старым родителям, нужно их принести в дар в Храм.

То есть вы побуждаете людей не заботиться о родителях. Таким образом, ваши правила и уставы отменяют Закон Божий.

Иисус созвал людей и сказал им:

— Слушайте и поразмыслите! Вы думаете, человек оскверняется пищей? Нет! Еда — это внешнее. Но злые мысли в сердце — вот, что оскверняет человека и портят его.

Иисус ушел от толпы и вошел в дом. Ученики Иисуса последовали за ним. Там ученики стали спрашивать Иисуса:

— Мы не поняли смысл того, что ты рассказывал.

Иисус сказал:

— Вы не поняли? Пища — это внешнее. То, что вы едите, это вас не испачкает, потому что это переварится в желудке и снова выйдет наружу, от этого в сердце не появляются плохие мысли. Но если в вашем сердце плохие мысли — это вас пачкает. Вы думаете плохие мысли, начинаете делать плохие дела: хитрость, злоба, воровство, убийство, измены, жадность, злоба, лукавство, грубость, клевета, оскорбление, гордость, глупость — это все откуда? Это все исходит изнутри, из мыслей. Если мысли грязные, то и человек нечист.

Back-translation by Luka Manevich

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complete verse (Mark 7:15)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 7:15:

  • Uma: “Whatever we may eat, it isn’t that which makes us bad in God’s sight. The character that appears from in our hearts, it’s that which makes us bad in God’s sight.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “It is not the food that goes into the body of a person that causes him to be defiled. But that is what causes him to be defiled, what comes out of his liver.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “that which can cause God to be displeased with a person is not the food which enters into his mouth even though he has not washed, but rather, it is the words which come out of his mouth.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “It is not what a person causes-to-go-into his mouth that makes-him -dirty, but rather what he causes-to-go-out of his mouth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “It’s not what goes into the mouth of a person which causes him to be disgusting in the sight of God, but on the contrary the evil words which come out of his mouth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Translation commentary on Mark 7:15

Exegesis:

estin … eisporeuomenon ‘is … going in’: although Translator’s New Testament treats this as a compound verbal phrase meaning simply ‘enters,’ the majority of translations, like Revised Standard Version, separate the two, translating ouden estin ‘there is nothing,’ and eisporeuomenon ‘which goes in’ as an independent participle modifying ouden ‘nothing.’

eisporeuomai (cf. 1.21) ‘go in,’ ‘enter.’

exōthen (7.18; cf. exō 3.31, 32) ‘from without,’ ‘from the outside.’

koinōsai (7.18, 20, 23; cf. koinos 7.2) ‘to make common,’ ‘to defile.’

ekporeuomena (cf. 1.5) ‘the things which go out’: the reference, of course, is to passions, sins and evil desires, catalogued in vv. 21-23, which have their origin inside the man, in his heart, and are outwardly expressed in sinful deeds and words.

Translation:

Nothing going into him must be made somewhat more specific in some languages, for this could be understood as referring to being wounded by a spear, pierced by an arrow, or stabbed by a knife. Obviously the meaning here is ‘eating,’ and hence in Guerrero Amuzgo the translation is ‘nothing that he eats.’

For defile see 7.2, but in this context it may be necessary to translate ‘make him bad’ or ‘cause him to sin.’

The phrase the things which come out of a man has been grossly misinterpreted in some translations to mean the excretion of body wastes, vomiting, an the discharge of mucus from the nose. In order that these ‘things which come out’ may be identified as behavior, one may add ‘out of the heart’ (Tzeltal), or say ‘what he does and says.’

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on the Gospel of Mark. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1961. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .

SIL Translator's Notes on Mark 7:15

7:15

In this verse Jesus spoke to the crowd in the form of a parable (7:17b). According to 7:18a, the disciples did not understand what this parable meant.

When you translate this verse, you may need to make some of the meaning explicit in order to avoid a wrong meaning. Some of the English versions have done this. But be careful not to explain the entire meaning of the parable. Otherwise your readers will not understand why Jesus needed to explain the meaning to his disciples in 7:18b–22. Read this whole section carefully before deciding what information needs to be made explicit here in 7:15.

7:15a

Nothing that enters a man from the outside: The Greek phrase that the Berean Standard Bible translates as Nothing that enters a man from the outside is a general expression that refers indirectly here to any kind of food. Some versions make this clear. For example, the Contemporary English Version says:

the food that you put into your mouth

enters…from the outside: The Greek phrase that the Berean Standard Bible translates as enters…from the outside refers to eating.

a man: The Greek word that the Berean Standard Bible translates as a man is used in a general sense here to refer to anyone, whether male or female. So God’s Word translates this as:

a person

7:15b

can defile him: The Greek phrase that the Berean Standard Bible translates as can defile him means “can cause him to become unclean/defiled.” For example, the Easy English Bible says:

People do not become unclean because of things that go into their bodies from outside

This word is used in a figurative sense meaning “unfit before God.” Here it is not used in its literal sense of “dirty.” See how you translated “defiled” in 7:2a.

General Comment on 7:15a–b

In some languages, it may not be natural to speak of food entering a person or coming from the outside. It may be necessary to reorder the parts of this sentence or to make one or both of these ideas implicit. For example:

Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. (God’s Word)
-or-
There is nothing people put into their bodies that makes them unclean. (New Century Version)
-or-
The food that you put into your mouth doesn’t make you unclean and unfit to worship God. (Contemporary English Version)
-or-
You are not defiled by what you eat (New Living Translation, 1996 edition)

7:15c

but: The Greek word that the Berean Standard Bible here translates as but indicates a strong contrast.

Here are some other ways of expressing this contrast:

Rather (New International Version)
-or-
no,… (Revised English Bible)

Some languages show the contrast without using a word like but or rather. The ideas in the sentences show the contrast clearly. For example, the New Century Version says:

There is nothing people put into their bodies that makes them unclean. People are made unclean by the things that come out of them.

Express the contrast in these sentences in a way that is natural in your language.

the things that come out of a man: The phrase the things that come out of a man is a general expression. In 7:21–22 Jesus explained that he was talking about actions and words that express a person’s inner thoughts.

Here are some other ways to translate this:

• With a general statement. For example, the New Century Version says:

People are made unclean by the things that come out of them.

• With a more specific statement. For example:

Instead, the bad things that come out of a person’s heart/mind are what defile him.
-or-
you are defiled by what you say and do (New Living Translation, 1996 edition)

Remember that Jesus was using a parable here and the disciples did not understand what it meant. So in translating this phrase, be careful not to make explicit all of the meaning from Jesus’ explanation in the next few verses.

defile him: See the note in 7:2a.

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