Mark 7:3

ECB⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ for the Pharisees and all the Yah Hudiym eat not unless they wash their hands to the fist; thus empowering the tradition of the elders:

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oft. or, diligently. Gr. With the fist. Up to the elbow.Theophylact. [Pugme,] the fist; which Dr. Lightfoot illustrates by a tradition from the Talmudical tracts, that when they washed their hands, they washed the fist up to the joint of the arm, [ad perek.] The Jews laid great stress on these washings, or baptisms, [baptismos,] considering eating with unwashen hands no ordinary crime, and feigning that an evil spirit, called Shibta, has a right to sit on the food of him who thus eats, and render it hurtful.
the tradition.
Mark 7:7-10; Mark 7:13; Matthew 15:2-6; Galatians 1:14; Colossians 2:8; Colossians 2:21-23; 1 Peter 1:18