Haggai 2:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² If one carries in the skirt of his garment flesh that is holy [because it has been offered in sacrifice to God], and with his skirt or the flaps of his garment he touches bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any kind of food, does what he touches become holy [dedicated to God's service exclusively]? And the priests answered, No! [Holiness is not infectious.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² 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.

Common English Bible

¹² “If someone lifts holy meat into the hem of one’s garment and that hem touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any kind of food, will it be made holy?” And the priests responded, “No.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Thus says the Lord of hosts: the priests question the law, saying:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests the law, saying:

Haggai 2:12 Cross References

Exodus 29:37

Seven days thou shalt make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies cause the ointment of the perfumer to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour.

Ezekiel 44:19

And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, that they sanctify not the people with their garments.

Leviticus 6:27

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 a holy place.

Leviticus 6:29

Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.

Leviticus 7:6

Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in a holy place: it is most holy.

Matthew 23:19

Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

Deuteronomy 33:10

They shall teach Jacob thy judgements, And Israel thy law: They shall put incense before thee, And whole burnt offering upon thine altar.