Bible Verses About Government: Mosaic: Legislates in Later Times

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

Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.

And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

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