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And they do not eat [when they return][a] from the marketplace unless they cleanse[b] [themselves]. And there are many other traditions which they received to hold-on-to— the cleansing of cups and pitchers and copper-pots and couches[c].

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:4 [when they return]...cleanse [themselves]. Or, [food]...cleanse [it].
  2. Mark 7:4 This refers to a ritual cleansing, as does the related word in the next verse.
  3. Mark 7:4 That is, the dining couches on which people of that day reclined to eat.

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