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7:3 porque los fariseos y todos los judios, aferrandose a la tradicion de los ancianos, si muchas veces no se lavan las manos, no comen.
7:4 and when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. and many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.

el creyente debe conservarse fiel a la forma que el señor ha diseñado, aferrandose solamente a lo que ha sido escrito: "tu palabra es verdad".
the believer is to be true to the way of the lord, holding alone to what is written: “thy word is truth.”

los esfuerzos por modernizar las armas nucleares aferrándose a disposiciones y justificaciones anticuadas de la guerra fría plantean graves dudas a la opinión pública.
15. the efforts to modernize nuclear weapons by clinging to outdated cold war arrangements and justifications raise serious questions for public opinion.