Mark 7:3
“For the Pharises and all the Iewes, except they wash their hands oft, eate not, holding the tradition of the elders.”
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Mark 7:3 Context
1Then came together vnto him the Pharises, and certain of the Scribes, which came from Hierusalem. 2And when they saw some of his disciples eate bread with defiled (that is to say, with vnwashen) hands, they found fault. 3For the Pharises and all the Iewes, except they wash their hands oft, eate not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eate not. And many other things there be, which they haue receiued to hold, as the washing of cups and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables. 5Then the Pharises and Scribes asked him, Why walke not thy disciples according to the tradition of the Elders, but eate bread with vnwashen hands?
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For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash [their] hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
- King James Version
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, {thus} observing the traditions of the elders;
- New American Standard Version (1995)