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for the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands with a fist[a], holding-on-to the tradition of the elders.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:3 There are different opinions about the exact procedure in view here. In any case it is a ceremonial washing for which the water is seen in Jn 2:6. Some manuscripts have a different word meaning ‘often’ or ‘thoroughly’.

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