Mark 7:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, thus observing 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 through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this.”

Mark 7:5

So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders but eat with defiled hands?”

Luke 11:38

The Pharisee was amazed to see that he did not first wash before dinner.

John 2:6

Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

Galatians 1:14

I advanced in Judaism beyond many among my people of the same age, for I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

Colossians 2:8

Watch out that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold