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And the priests answered and said, No. <a href="/nkjv/haggai/2.htm">New King James Version</a> “If one carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with the edge he touches bread or stew, wine or oil, or any food, will it become holy?” ’ ” Then the priests answered and said, “No.” <a href="/nasb_/haggai/2.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and touches bread with this fold, or touches cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?’” And the priests answered, “No.” <a href="/nasb/haggai/2.htm">NASB 1995</a> If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and touches bread with this fold, or cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?&#8217&#8221 And the priests answered, &#8220No.&#8221 <a href="/nasb77/haggai/2.htm">NASB 1977 </a> ‘If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and touches bread with this fold, or cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?’” And the priests answered and said, “No.” <a href="/lsb/haggai/2.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches bread with this fold or cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?’” And the priests answered, “No.” <a href="/amp/haggai/2.htm">Amplified Bible</a> If a man carries meat that is holy [because it has been offered in sacrifice to God] in the fold of his garment, and he touches bread, or cooked food, or wine, or oil, or any [kind of] food with this fold, does what he touches become holy [dedicated exclusively to God’s service]?’” And the priests answered, “No!” [Holiness is not transferrable.] <a href="/csb/haggai/2.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> If a man is carrying consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does it become holy? ” The priests answered, “No.” <a href="/hcsb/haggai/2.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> If a man is carrying consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does it become holy?&#8221 The priests answered, &#8220No.&#8221 <a href="/asv/haggai/2.htm">American Standard Version</a> If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No. <a href="/cev/haggai/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Suppose meat ready to be sacrificed to God is being carried in the folds of someone's clothing, and the clothing rubs against some bread or stew or wine or olive oil or any other food. Would those foods that were touched then become acceptable for sacrifice? "Of course not," the priests answered. <a href="/erv/haggai/2.htm">English Revised Version</a> If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No. <a href="/gwt/haggai/2.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Suppose a person carries meat set aside for a holy purpose and he folds it up in his clothes. If his clothes touch bread, boiled food, wine, oil, or any kind of food, does that make the food holy?" The priests answered, "No." <a href="/gnt/haggai/2.htm">Good News Translation</a> Suppose someone takes a piece of consecrated meat from a sacrifice and carries it in a fold of his robe. If he then lets his robe touch any bread, cooked food, wine, olive oil, or any kind of food at all, will it make that food consecrated also?" When the question was asked, the priests answered, "No." <a href="/isv/haggai/2.htm">International Standard Version</a> "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, will these things become consecrated?"'" The priests answered, "No." <a href="/msb/haggai/2.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy??? ?No,? replied the priests. <a href="/net/haggai/2.htm">NET Bible</a> If someone carries holy meat in a fold of his garment and that fold touches bread, a boiled dish, wine, olive oil, or any other food, will that item become holy?'" The priests answered, "It will not." <a href="/nheb/haggai/2.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> 'If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?'" The priests answered, "No." <a href="/wbt/haggai/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> If one shall bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt shall touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. <a href="/web/haggai/2.htm">World English Bible</a> ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?’” The priests answered, “No.” <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/haggai/2.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Behold, [when] one carries holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and he has come with his skirt against the bread, or against the stew, or against the wine, or against the oil, or against any food—is it holy?” And the priests answer and say, “No.” <a href="/ylt/haggai/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Lo, one doth carry holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and he hath come with his skirt against the bread, or against the pottage, or against the wine, or against the oil, or against any food -- is it holy?' And the priests answer and say, 'No.' <a href="/slt/haggai/2.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> If a man shall lift up holy flesh in the wing of his garment and touch with the wing of his garment upon the bread and upon pottage, and upon wine and upon oil, and upon any food, shall it be made holy? And the priests shall answer and say, No.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/haggai/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> If a man carry sanctified flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touch with his skirt, bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat: shall it be sanctified? And the priests answered, and said: No. <a href="/cpdv/haggai/2.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> <V 2:13>If a man will have carried sanctified flesh in the pocket of his garment, and the top of it touches his bread, or appetizer, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be sanctified? But the priests responded by saying, “No.” <a href="/nabre/haggai/2.htm">New American Bible</a> If someone carries sanctified meat in the fold of a garment and the fold touches bread, soup, wine, oil, or any other food, do they become sanctified? “No,” the priests answered. <a href="/nrsvce/haggai/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> If one carries consecrated meat in the fold of one’s garment, and with the fold touches bread, or stew, or wine, or oil, or any kind of food, does it become holy? The priests answered, “No.”<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/haggai/2.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> If a man carries holy meat in the skirt of his cloak, and touches with his skirt bread or pottage or wine or oil or any kind of food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. <a href="/hpbt/haggai/2.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> If a man carries meat of holiness in the skirt of his cloak and it touches in his skirt bread or stew or wine or drink or any food, is it able to be made holy? The Priests answered and they were saying ”No.”<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/haggai/2.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> If one bear hallowed flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy?' And the priests answered and said: 'No.' <a href="/sep/haggai/2.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> If a man should take holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and the skirt of his garment should touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. <a href="/parallel/haggai/2-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E3FsGMCt5I0?start=295" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/haggai/2.htm">Blessings for a Defiled People</a> …11“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Ask the priests for a ruling. 12<a href="/hebrew/2005.htm" title="2005: hên (Interjection) -- Lo! behold! A primitive particle; lo!; also if.">If</a> <a href="/hebrew/376.htm" title="376: ’îš (N-ms) -- Man. Contracted for 'enowsh; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term.">a man</a> <a href="/hebrew/5375.htm" title="5375: yiś·śā- (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- Or nacah ('abad); a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. And rel.">carries</a> <a href="/hebrew/6944.htm" title="6944: qō·ḏeš (N-ms) -- Apartness, sacredness. From qadash; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity.">consecrated</a> <a href="/hebrew/1320.htm" title="1320: bə·śar- (N-msc) -- Flesh. From basar; flesh; by extension, body, person; also The pudenda of a man.">meat</a> <a href="/hebrew/3671.htm" title="3671: biḵ·nap̄ (Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- Wing, extremity. From kanaph; an edge or extremity; specifically a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle.">in the fold</a> <a href="/hebrew/899.htm" title="899: biḡ·ḏōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage. From bagad; a covering, i.e. Clothing; also treachery or pillage.">of his garment,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3671.htm" title="3671: biḵ·nā·p̄ōw (Prep-b:: N-fsc:: 3ms) -- Wing, extremity. From kanaph; an edge or extremity; specifically a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle.">and it</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/5060.htm" title="5060: wə·nā·ḡa‘ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to touch, i.e. Lay the hand upon; by implication, to reach; violently, to strike.">touches</a> <a href="/hebrew/3899.htm" title="3899: hal·le·ḥem (Art:: N-ms) -- Bread, food. From lacham; food, especially bread, or grain.">bread,</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: wə·’el- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- To, into, towards. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/5138.htm" title="5138: han·nā·zîḏ (Art:: N-ms) -- Something sodden or boiled, pottage. From zuwd; something boiled, i.e. Soup.">stew,</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: wə·’el- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- To, into, towards. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/3196.htm" title="3196: hay·ya·yin (Art:: N-ms) -- Wine. From an unused root meaning to effervesce; wine; by implication, intoxication.">wine,</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: wə·’el- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- To, into, towards. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/8081.htm" title="8081: še·men (N-ms) -- Fat, oil. From shaman; grease, especially liquid; figuratively, richness.">oil,</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: wə·’el- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- To, into, towards. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">or any</a> <a href="/hebrew/3978.htm" title="3978: ma·’ă·ḵāl (N-ms) -- Food. From 'akal; an eatable.">other food,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6942.htm" title="6942: hă·yiq·dāš (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To be set apart or consecrated. A primitive root; to be clean.">does that item become holy?’”</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">“No,”</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: way·yō·mə·rū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6030.htm" title="6030: way·ya·‘ă·nū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To answer, respond.">replied</a> <a href="/hebrew/3548.htm" title="3548: hak·kō·hă·nîm (Art:: N-mp) -- Priest. Active participle of kahan; literally, one officiating, a priest; also an acting priest.">the priests.</a> 13So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/leviticus/6-27.htm">Leviticus 6:27</a> Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in a holy place. <a href="/leviticus/7-19.htm">Leviticus 7:19-21</a> Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it. / But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people. / If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.” <a href="/numbers/19-11.htm">Numbers 19:11-13</a> Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days. / He must purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean. / Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him. <a href="/leviticus/22-4.htm">Leviticus 22:4-7</a> If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen, / or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be— / the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water. ... <a href="/leviticus/10-10.htm">Leviticus 10:10</a> You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean, <a href="/numbers/19-22.htm">Numbers 19:22</a> Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.” <a href="/isaiah/52-11.htm">Isaiah 52:11</a> Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD. <a href="/ezekiel/44-23.htm">Ezekiel 44:23</a> They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean. <a href="/leviticus/15-31.htm">Leviticus 15:31</a> You must keep the children of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them. <a href="/leviticus/11-24.htm">Leviticus 11:24-28</a> These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening, / and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. / Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean. ... <a href="/matthew/23-19.htm">Matthew 23:19</a> You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred? <a href="/matthew/23-26.htm">Matthew 23:26</a> Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well. <a href="/mark/7-18.htm">Mark 7:18-23</a> “Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him, / because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.) / He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him. ... <a href="/luke/11-39.htm">Luke 11:39-41</a> Then the Lord said, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. / You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well? / But give as alms the things that are within you, and behold, everything will be clean for you. <a href="/1_corinthians/6-13.htm">1 Corinthians 6:13-20</a> “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. / By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also. / Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! ...</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.<a href="/exodus/29-37.htm">Exodus 29:37</a> Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.<a href="/leviticus/6-27.htm">Leviticus 6:27,29</a> Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place… <a href="/leviticus/7-6.htm">Leviticus 7:6</a> Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/zephaniah/3-18.htm">Bear</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-7.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/amos/6-10.htm">Carries</a> <a href="/ezekiel/46-24.htm">Cooked</a> <a href="/zephaniah/1-17.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-17.htm">Fold</a> <a href="/nahum/1-10.htm">Folded</a> <a href="/zephaniah/3-13.htm">Food</a> <a href="/micah/2-8.htm">Garment</a> <a href="/zephaniah/1-7.htm">Hallowed</a> <a href="/zephaniah/3-17.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/nahum/2-9.htm">Kind</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-17.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/haggai/1-11.htm">Oil</a> <a href="/2_kings/4-40.htm">Pottage</a> <a href="/haggai/2-11.htm">Priests</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-8.htm">Skirt</a> <a href="/daniel/5-17.htm">Someone</a> <a href="/2_kings/4-40.htm">Stew</a> <a href="/daniel/10-10.htm">Touch</a> <a href="/amos/9-5.htm">Touches</a> <a href="/haggai/1-11.htm">Wine</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/zechariah/5-10.htm">Bear</a> <a href="/malachi/1-7.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/mark/4-15.htm">Carries</a> <a href="/luke/24-42.htm">Cooked</a> <a href="/zechariah/2-13.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/matthew/13-23.htm">Fold</a> <a href="/luke/2-12.htm">Folded</a> <a href="/zechariah/7-5.htm">Food</a> <a href="/zechariah/13-4.htm">Garment</a> <a href="/matthew/6-9.htm">Hallowed</a> <a href="/zechariah/2-12.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/zechariah/1-13.htm">Kind</a> <a href="/malachi/1-12.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/zechariah/4-12.htm">Oil</a> <a href="/genesis/25-29.htm">Pottage</a> <a href="/haggai/2-13.htm">Priests</a> <a href="/zechariah/8-23.htm">Skirt</a> <a href="/zechariah/13-6.htm">Someone</a> <a href="/genesis/25-29.htm">Stew</a> <a href="/haggai/2-13.htm">Touch</a> <a href="/haggai/2-13.htm">Touches</a> <a href="/haggai/2-16.htm">Wine</a><div class="vheading2">Haggai 2</div>1. <a href="/haggai/2-1.htm">He encourages the people to the work, </a> 4. <a href="/haggai/2-4.htm">by promise of greater glory to the second temple than was in the first.</a> 10. <a href="/haggai/2-10.htm">In the type of holy things and unclean he shows their sins hindered the work.</a> 20. <a href="/haggai/2-20.htm">God's promise to Zerubbabel.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/haggai/2.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/haggai/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/haggai/2.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment In ancient Israel, consecrated meat refers to portions of sacrificial offerings that were set apart for holy purposes. The act of carrying it in the fold of a garment suggests a practice of transporting sacred items with care to avoid direct contact with anything unclean. This reflects the Levitical laws where holiness was maintained through separation and careful handling of sacred objects (<a href="/leviticus/6-27.htm">Leviticus 6:27</a>). The garment's fold served as a protective barrier, symbolizing the need for purity and separation from the profane.and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food These items—bread, stew, wine, oil—represent common elements of daily sustenance in ancient Israel. The question posed here highlights the concern for ritual purity and the transmission of holiness. In the Levitical system, holiness was not automatically transferable through contact, unlike impurity, which could spread more easily (<a href="/leviticus/11-32.htm">Leviticus 11:32-34</a>). This distinction underscores the nature of holiness as something that must be intentionally maintained and cannot be casually imparted.does that item become holy?’” This rhetorical question addresses the nature of holiness and its transmission. In the context of Haggai's message, it serves to illustrate a spiritual principle: holiness is not contagious in the same way impurity is. This principle is foundational in understanding the need for personal and communal sanctification. The question challenges the priests to consider the limitations of ritual purity and the deeper need for genuine spiritual transformation.“No,” replied the priests. The priests' response affirms the established understanding of ritual law. Their answer reflects the teachings found in the Torah, where holiness requires intentional consecration and cannot be transferred through mere contact. This response is significant in the context of Haggai's prophetic message, which calls the people to recognize their spiritual state and the need for true repentance and dedication to God. The priests' acknowledgment serves as a reminder of the importance of internal purity over external ritual compliance, a theme echoed in the teachings of Jesus Christ, who emphasized the heart's condition over mere outward observance (<a href="/matthew/23-25.htm">Matthew 23:25-28</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/h/haggai.htm">Haggai</a> A prophet who delivered messages from God to the Jewish people after their return from Babylonian exile, encouraging them to rebuild the temple. 2. <a href="/topical/p/priests.htm">Priests</a> Religious leaders responsible for temple rituals and interpreting the law, consulted by Haggai for their understanding of holiness and defilement. 3. <a href="/topical/c/consecrated_meat.htm">Consecrated Meat</a> Meat that has been set apart for sacred purposes, often part of sacrificial offerings in the temple. 4. <a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a> The city where the temple was located, central to Jewish worship and the setting for Haggai's prophecies. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_temple.htm">The Temple</a> The holy place in Jerusalem that the Jews were tasked with rebuilding, symbolizing God's presence among His people.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/understanding_holiness.htm">Understanding Holiness</a> Holiness is not transferable by mere contact. This teaches us that true holiness comes from a dedicated relationship with God, not just external rituals. <a href="/topical/t/the_nature_of_defilement.htm">The Nature of Defilement</a> While holiness is not easily transferred, defilement can spread quickly. This serves as a warning to guard against sin and impurity in our lives. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_the_heart.htm">The Role of the Heart</a> God desires a heart that is pure and devoted to Him. Our actions should reflect an inner transformation rather than just outward conformity. <a href="/topical/c/community_and_holiness.htm">Community and Holiness</a> Just as the Israelites were called to rebuild the temple, Christians are called to build up the body of Christ, the church, in holiness and unity. <a href="/topical/p/practical_holiness.htm">Practical Holiness</a> We are called to live out our faith in practical ways, ensuring that our daily actions align with God's standards of holiness.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_haggai_2.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Haggai 2</a> <a href="/q/who_was_high_priest_when_david_ate_bread.htm">Who was high priest when David went into the House of GOD and ate the consecrated bread? Abiathar (Mark 2:26) Ahimelech, the father of Abiathar (I Samuel 1:1; 22:20)</a> <a href="/q/who_were_priests_pre-tabernacle_and_post-temple.htm">Deuteronomy 26:3 mentions going to the priest; who fulfilled this role before the Tabernacle or after the Temple's destruction, and does history support a continuous priestly lineage?</a> <a href="/q/why_were_temple_repairs_delayed.htm">How do we reconcile the lengthy temple repair delays (2 Kings 12:6-7) with the supposed zeal of Jehoash and the priests?</a> <a href="/q/what_defines_a_divine_appointment.htm">What is the Bible's perspective on incense?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/haggai/2.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12) Holy flesh.--The flesh of the sacrifice hallowed the person who touched it (<a href="/leviticus/6-27.htm" title="Whatever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof on any garment, you shall wash that where on it was sprinkled in the holy place.">Leviticus 6:27</a>), but this sanctification was not conveyed to anything he might afterwards touch. On the other hand (<a href="/haggai/2-13.htm" title="Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.">Haggai 2:13</a>), he who was defiled by such a pollution as contact with a dead body, conveyed defilement even to the tabernacle. (See <a href="/numbers/19-13.htm" title="Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifies not himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.">Numbers 19:13</a> : "Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord.") Even so, according to Haggai, the guilt of impiety incurred by the Jews in neglecting the Temple had tainted the labour of their hands, and caused famine. And what merit they might claim for restoring the altar-worship and keeping the prescribed feasts (<a href="/context/ezra/3-2.htm" title="Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.">Ezra 3:2-6</a>) was not conveyed further. It was cancelled by their neglect of an equally important duty. This latter point, however, is not brought out, but is left to be supplied by the prophet's hearers.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/haggai/2.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 12. - If one bear; literally, behold, one beareth, which is equivalent to "suppose a man bears." Perowne compares <a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">Jeremiah 3:1</a>, "Lo, a man puts away his wife;" and <a href="/2_chronicles/7-13.htm">2 Chronicles 7:13</a>. Holy flesh. The flesh of animals sacrificed to God, which was set apart from profane uses, and might be eaten only by the priests or persons ritually pure (<a href="/leviticus/6-26.htm">Leviticus 6:26</a>; <a href="/leviticus/7-15.htm">Leviticus 7:15-20</a>; <a href="/leviticus/10-13.htm">Leviticus 10:13</a>; comp. <a href="/jeremiah/11-15.htm">Jeremiah 11:15</a>). The skirt of his garment; literally, wing of his garment, as <a href="/deuteronomy/22-12.htm">Deuteronomy 22:12</a>; <a href="/1_samuel/15-27.htm">1 Samuel 15:27</a>. Any meat; παντὸς βρώματος: anything eatable. And said, No. The priests answered correctly according to <a href="/leviticus/6-27.htm">Leviticus 6:27</a>. Whatever touched the hallowed flesh became itself holy, but it could not communicate this holiness to anything else. <a href="/commentaries/haggai/2-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>If הֵ֣ן ׀ (hên) Interjection <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2005.htm">Strong's 2005: </a> Lo! behold! a man אִ֨ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_376.htm">Strong's 376: </a> A man as an individual, a male person carries יִשָּׂא־ (yiś·śā-) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5375.htm">Strong's 5375: </a> To lift, carry, take consecrated קֹ֜דֶשׁ (qō·ḏeš) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6944.htm">Strong's 6944: </a> A sacred place, thing, sanctity meat בְּשַׂר־ (bə·śar-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1320.htm">Strong's 1320: </a> Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man in the fold בִּכְנַ֣ף (biḵ·nap̄) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3671.htm">Strong's 3671: </a> An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle of his garment, בִּגְד֗וֹ (biḡ·ḏōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_899.htm">Strong's 899: </a> A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage and it בִּ֠כְנָפוֹ (biḵ·nā·p̄ōw) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3671.htm">Strong's 3671: </a> An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle touches וְנָגַ֣ע (wə·nā·ḡa‘) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5060.htm">Strong's 5060: </a> To touch, lay the hand upon, to reach, violently, to strike bread, הַלֶּ֨חֶם (hal·le·ḥem) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3899.htm">Strong's 3899: </a> Food, bread, grain stew, הַנָּזִ֜יד (han·nā·zîḏ) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5138.htm">Strong's 5138: </a> Something sodden or boiled, pottage wine, הַיַּ֧יִן (hay·ya·yin) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3196.htm">Strong's 3196: </a> Wine, intoxication oil, שֶׁ֛מֶן (še·men) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8081.htm">Strong's 8081: </a> Grease, liquid, richness or any כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> The whole, all, any, every other food, מַאֲכָ֖ל (ma·’ă·ḵāl) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3978.htm">Strong's 3978: </a> An eatable does [that item] become holy?’” הֲיִקְדָּ֑שׁ (hă·yiq·dāš) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6942.htm">Strong's 6942: </a> To be set apart or consecrated “No,” לֹֽא׃ (lō) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no replied וַיַּעֲנ֧וּ (way·ya·‘ă·nū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6030.htm">Strong's 6030: </a> To answer, respond the priests. הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים (hak·kō·hă·nîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3548.htm">Strong's 3548: </a> Priest <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/haggai/2-12.htm">Haggai 2:12 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/haggai/2-12.htm">Haggai 2:12 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/haggai/2-12.htm">Haggai 2:12 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/haggai/2-12.htm">Haggai 2:12 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/haggai/2-12.htm">Haggai 2:12 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/haggai/2-12.htm">Haggai 2:12 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/haggai/2-12.htm">Haggai 2:12 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/haggai/2-12.htm">Haggai 2:12 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/haggai/2-12.htm">Haggai 2:12 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/haggai/2-12.htm">Haggai 2:12 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/haggai/2-12.htm">OT Prophets: Haggai 2:12 If someone carries holy meat (Hagg. 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