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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 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતીમાર્ક ૭:૪
બજારમાંથી આવીને નાહ્યા વિના તેઓ જમતા નહોતા; અને વાટકા, ગાગરો, તાંબાનાં વાસણ ધોવા અને બીજી ઘણી ક્રિયાઓ પાળવાને તેઓએ સ્વીકાર્યું હતું.
हिन्दीमरकुस ७:४
और बाजार से आकर, जब तक स्नान नहीं कर लेते, तब तक नहीं खाते; और बहुत सी अन्य बातें हैं, जो उनके पास मानने के लिये पहुँचाई गई हैं, जैसे कटोरों, और लोटों, और तांबे के बरतनों को धोना-माँजना।)

In context

2Now 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 Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

4They 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.)

5The 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?”

6He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

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