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Before praying, the Ethiopian Orthodox wash their hands and face, in order to be clean before and present their best to God; [[Tradition of removing shoes in the home and houses of worship|shoes are removed]] in order to acknowledge that one is offering prayer before a holy God.<ref name="Amherst1906">{{cite book |author1=Mary Cecil, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney |author-link=Mary Cecil, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney |title=A Sketch of Egyptian History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day |date=1906 |publisher=Methuen |page=399 |language=en |quote=Prayers 7 times a day are enjoined, and the most strict among the Copts recite one of more of the Psalms of David each time they pray. They always wash their hands and faces before devotions, and turn to the East.}}</ref><ref name="Kosloski2017">{{cite web |last1=Kosloski |first1=Philip |title=Did you know Muslims pray in a similar way to some Christians? |url=https://aleteia.org/2017/10/16/did-you-know-muslims-pray-in-a-similar-way-to-some-christians/ |publisher=[[Aleteia]] |access-date=25 July 2020 |language=en |date=16 October 2017}}</ref> Ethiopian Orthodox worshippers remove their shoes when entering a church temple,<ref name="Hable1997" /> in accordance with [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] 3:5 (in which [[Moses]], while viewing the [[burning bush]], was commanded to remove his shoes while standing on holy ground). The Ethiopian Church does not hold to Sabbatarianism and is explicitly condemned. <ref> https://eotcmk.org/e/the-fourth-commandmentpart-6/ </ref> Whoever wrote this previously decided to mix in Ethiopian cultural traditions and called that the church.
The Ethiopian Church does not call for circumcision, yet it is cultural practice (but not sanctioned by the church). <ref>https://britishorthodox.org/glastonburyreview/issue-122-circumcision-and-the-copts/ </ref> It is not regarded as being necessary to salvation. <ref> https://www.keraneyo-medhanealem.com/post/gizret-%E1%8C%8D%E1%8B%9D%E1%88%A8%E1%89%B5-circumcision </ref> The liturgy explicitly mentions, "let us not be circumcised like the Jews." It still is common practice, however, because of cultural perceptions (and because Muslims and Ethiopian Jews are circumcised). However, the church itself is against circumcision and only does baptism.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church prescribes several kinds of [[hand washing]] and traditionally follow rituals that are similar to Jewish [[Handwashing in Judaism|netilat yadayim]], for example after leaving the latrine, lavatory or bathhouse, or before prayer, or after eating a meal.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://pwtw.pl/wp-content/uploads/wst/12-2/Pedersen.pdf |title=IS THE CHURCH OF ETHIOPIA A JUDAIC CHURCH ? |access-date=2022-10-08 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304115645/http://pwtw.pl/wp-content/uploads/wst/12-2/Pedersen.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Ethiopian Orthodox Church observes days of [[ritual purification]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=[[Ian Bradley]] |title=Water: A Spiritual History |date=2 November 2012 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |isbn=978-1-4411-6767-5 |language=English|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last= H. Bulzacchelli|first=Richard|title=Judged by the Law of Freedom: A History of the Faith-works Controversy, and a Resolution in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas|publisher=[[University Press of America]]|year=2006|isbn=9780761835011|pages=19|quote=The Ethiopian and Coptic Churches distinguishes between clean and unclean meats, observes days of ritual purification, and keeps a kind of dual Sabbath on both Saturday and Sunday.}}</ref> People who are ritually unclean may approach the church but are not permitted to enter it; they instead stand near the church door and [[Christian prayer|pray]] during the liturgy.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pedersen |first1=Kristen Stoffregen |title=Is the Church of Ethiopia a Judaic Church? |journal=Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne |date=1999 |volume=XII |issue=2 |pages=205–206 |language=en}}</ref>
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