Mark 7:4
Good News Translation
nor do they eat anything that comes from the market unless they wash it first. And they follow many other rules which they have received, such as the proper way to wash cups, pots, copper bowls, and beds. )

New Revised Standard Version
and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles. )

Contemporary English Version
None of them will eat anything they buy in the market until it is washed. They also follow a lot of other teachings, such as washing cups, pitchers, and bowls.

New American Bible
And on coming from the marketplace they do not eat without purifying themselves. And there are many other things that they have traditionally observed, the purification of cups and jugs and kettles [and beds].)

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they come from the market, unless they be washed, they eat not: and many other things there are that have been delivered to them to observe, the washings of cups and of pots and of brazen vessels and of beds.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when they come from the market, unless they be washed, they eat not: and many other things there are that have been delivered to them to observe, the washings of cups and of pots and of brazen vessels and of beds.

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Job 9:30,31 If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean: . . .

Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:

Isaiah 1:16 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely,

Jeremiah 4:14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

Matthew 27:24 And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, taking water washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man. Look you to it.

Luke 11:38,39 And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he was not washed before dinner. . . .

John 2:6 Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three measures apiece.

John 3:25 And there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews, concerning purification.

Hebrews 9:10 And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.

James 4:8 Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

pots.

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Context
Tradition and Worship
3For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not without often washing their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients. 4And when they come from the market, unless they be washed, they eat not: and many other things there are that have been delivered to them to observe, the washings of cups and of pots and of brazen vessels and of beds. 5And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread with common hands?…
Cross References
Jeremiah 35:5
And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups: and I said to them: Drink ye wine.

Matthew 23:25
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.

Matthew 23:26
Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean.

Mark 7:8
For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these.

Hebrews 9:10
And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.

Mark 7:3
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