NEW TESTAMENT

Mark 7:4

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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.)

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Verse 4. Washed: lit. baptized. By beds are not understood night beds, but couches to eat upon, as it was then the custom. Witham.

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