Mark 7:3 (KJV)

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For the Pharisees and all the Jews except they wash their hands oft eat not holding the tradition of the elders
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the tradition. Mr 7:7-10 Mr 7:13 Mt 15:2-6 Ga 1:14 Col 2:8 Col 2:21-23 1Pe 1:18

oft. or, diligently. Gr. With the fist. Up to the elbow.Theophylact. [Pugme ,] the fist; which Dr. Lightfoot illustrates by a tradition from the Talmudical tracts, that when they washed their hands, they washed the fist up to the joint of the arm, [ad perek.] The Jews laid great stress on these washings, or baptisms, [baptismos ,] considering eating with unwashen hands no ordinary crime, and feigning that an evil spirit, called Shibta, has a right to sit on the food of him who thus eats, and render it hurtful.

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