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An explanatory household illustration shows a man washing a hand before eating.
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Mark 7:3-4

The Narrator Explains the Washings

What Comes from Within, and Be Opened · Mark 7

Story guide: A man washes before eating, and another household view shows a cup being washed beside vessels and a dining couch.

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3For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands with a fist, holding to the tradition of the elders.

4And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash themselves, and there are many other things that they have received to keep: washings of cups and pitchers and copper vessels and dining couches—

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