Mark 7:3 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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)

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

Common English Bible

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

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

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

Mark 7:3 Tagairtí Cros

Mark 7:13

thus making void 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 live 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

See to it that no one takes you captive through 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 ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,