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Mark 7:3
For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not without often washing their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients.
Mark 7:3 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Mark 7:3 in other translations
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.
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In context
1 And there assembled together unto him the Pharisees and some of the scribes, coming from Jerusalem.
2 And when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.
3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not without often washing their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients.
4 And when they come from the market, unless they be washed, they eat not: and many other things there are that have been delivered to them to observe, the washings of cups and of pots and of brazen vessels and of beds.
5 And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread with common hands?
6 But he answering, said to them: Well did Isaias prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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