Haggai 2:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

Cross References

Exodus 29:37

Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall become holy.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a foul odor; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Ezekiel 44:19

When they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall remove the vestments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, so that they may not communicate holiness to the people with their vestments.

Leviticus 6:27

Whatever touches its flesh shall become holy, and when any of its blood is spattered on a garment, you shall wash the bespattered part in a holy place.

Leviticus 6:29

Every male among the priests shall eat of it; it is most holy.

Leviticus 7:6

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

Matthew 23:19

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

Deuteronomy 33:10

They teach Jacob your ordinances and Israel your law; they place incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.