Haggai 2:12

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Exodus 29:37

Seven days you shall spend in purging the altar and in consecrating it. Then the altar will be most sacred, and whatever touches it will become sacred.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies corrupt and spoil the perfumer’s oil; more weighty than wisdom or wealth is a little folly!

Ezekiel 44:19

And when they go out to the people in the outer court, they shall take off the garments in which they served and leave them in the rooms of the sanctuary, and put on other garments so they do not transmit holiness to the people by their garments.

Leviticus 7:6

Every male of the priestly line may eat of it; but it must be eaten in a sacred place. It is most holy.

Matthew 23:19

You blind ones, which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

Deuteronomy 33:10

They teach your ordinances to Jacob, your law to Israel. They bring incense to your nostrils, and burnt offerings to your altar.