Colossians 2:21
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Touch not: taste not: handle not.

Colossians 2:20
If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?

Colossians 2:22
Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the precepts and doctrines of men.

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Touch not: taste not: handle not.

Genesis 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.

Isaiah 52:11 Depart, depart, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing: go out of the midst of her, be ye clean, you that carry the vessels of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

Context
Alive in Christ
20If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world? 21Touch not: taste not: handle not. 22Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the precepts and doctrines of men.…
Lexicon
“{Do}
Μὴ (Mē)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.

not handle,
ἅψῃ (hapsē)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Middle - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 680: Prop: I fasten to; I lay hold of, touch, know carnally. Reflexive of hapto; properly, to attach oneself to, i.e. To touch.

{do}
μηδὲ (mēde)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 3366: And not, not even, neither�nor. From me and de; but not, not even; in a continued negation, nor.

not taste,
γεύσῃ (geusē)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Middle - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1089: (a) I taste, (b) I experience. A primary verb; to taste; by implication, to eat; figuratively, to experience.

{do}
μηδὲ (mēde)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 3366: And not, not even, neither�nor. From me and de; but not, not even; in a continued negation, nor.

not touch!”?
θίγῃς (thigēs)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2345: A prolonged form of an obsolete primary thigo; to manipulate, i.e. Have to do with; by implication, to injure.


Additional Translations
“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

"You should not handle! You should not taste! You should not touch!"?--

(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

Handle not, nor taste, nor touch

Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch,

Handle not, nor taste, nor touch

(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

"Do not handle this;" "Do not taste that;" "Do not touch that other thing" --

"Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch"

-- thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle --
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