Mark 7:3 - English Majority Text Version 2009

³ For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands with [their] fist, holding the tradition of the elders.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For the Pharisees and all of the Jews do not eat unless [merely for ceremonial reasons] they wash their hands [diligently up to the elbow] with clenched fist, adhering [carefully and faithfully] to the tradition of [practices and customs handed down to them by] their forefathers [to be observed].

American Standard Version (1901)

³ (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;

Common English Bible

³ The Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat without first washing their hands carefully. This is a way of observing the rules handed down by the elders.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat without repeatedly washing their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews eat not without often washing their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients:

Mark 7:3 Cross References

Mark 7:13

[thus] nullifying the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. And many similar things you do."

Mark 7:5

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with unwashed hands?"

Luke 11:38

And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that He had not first washed before the meal.

John 2:6

Now there were six stone water jars standing there, according to the purification rites of the Jews, each holding two or three measures.

Galatians 1:14

And I was advancing in Judaism above many my own age, being far more zealous for the traditions of my forefathers.

Colossians 2:8

Beware lest anyone captures you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

1 Peter 1:18

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,