Haggai 2:12-14

International Standard Version

¹² “If a man carries consecrated meat in the folds of his garment, and if his garment touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other edible thing,^[a] will these things become consecrated?”’”^[b]

The priests answered, “No.”

¹³ So Haggai responded, “If someone who is unclean^[c] because of contact with a dead body were to touch any of these things, would they become unclean?”^[d]

The priests responded, “They would be unclean.”^[e]

¹⁴ Then Haggai answered, “‘That’s how I look at this people and this nation,’ declares the Lord. ‘And that’s how it is with everything they undertake^[f] and with what they offer there—it is unclean.^[g]