New Revised Standard Version
“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat.”

Contemporary English Version
"Why don't your disciples obey what our ancestors taught us to do? They don't even wash their hands before they eat."

New American Bible
“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash [their] hands when they eat a meal.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

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

transgress.

Mark 7:2,5 And when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault. . . .

Genesis 1:14 And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:

Colossians 2:8,20-23 Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit: according to the tradition of men according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ. . . .

1 Peter 1:18 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

tradition.