Mark 7:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews eat not without often washing their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients:

⁴ 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.

⁵ And 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?