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Mark 7:2-5 World Messianic Bible (WMB)

2. Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

3. (For the Pharisees and all the Judeans, don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

4. 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.)

5. The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

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