Mark 7:4-6

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⁴ and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash,^[a] and there are also many other traditions that they observe: the washing of cups and pots and bronze kettles and beds.^[b])^{(A) 5} So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders but eat with defiled hands?”^{(B) 6} He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,