Haggai 2:12

New English Translation

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.”

Cross References

Exodus 29:37

For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

One dead fly makes the perfumer’s ointment give off a rancid stench, so a little folly can outweigh much wisdom.

Ezekiel 44:19

When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.

Leviticus 6:27

Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.

Leviticus 6:29

Any male among the priests may eat it. It is most holy.

Leviticus 7:6

Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

Matthew 23:19

You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

Deuteronomy 33:10

They will teach Jacob your ordinances and Israel your law; they will offer incense as a pleasant odor, and a whole offering on your altar.