A number of complications may be involved in rendering the Jews have rules about ritual washing. In the first place, a phrase such as ritual washing may be equivalent to “being acceptable to God by washing,” but such an expression may be difficult to combine readily with the meaning of “rules.” One way of expressing these relations is “In the way in which the Jews worship God, they have many rules about how to wash themselves” or “In order for Jews to make themselves acceptable to God they must obey