Mark 7

NET

3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.


Darby

3 (for the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands diligentlyD7017, do not eat, holding what has been delivered by the ancientsD7018;


Darby Bible Notes

diligently - Or 'often.' lit. 'with the fist,' a word of very uncertain and contested meaning. ancients - Or 'the tradition of the elders.'


KJV

3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash [their] hands oftK6617, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.


KJV Bible Notes

oft: Or, diligently, in the Original, with the fist, Theophylact, up to the elbow.