Mark 7:3,5-8
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
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Galatians 1:14
And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
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