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Mark 7:4

American Standard Version

and when they come from the marketplace, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)

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Mark 7:4 in other translations

They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

Mark 7:4 · World English Bible

Mark 7:4 in context

  1. 2and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.
  2. 3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;
  3. 4and when they come from the marketplace, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)
  4. 5And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?
  5. 6And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.