Mark 7:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, 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 making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do.”

Mark 7:5

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

Luke 11:38

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

John 2:6

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

Galatians 1:14

and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,