For seven days, you shall expiate and sanctify the altar, and it shall be the Holy of holies. All those who will touch it must be sanctified.
Haggai 2:12 - Catholic Public Domain Version Thus says the Lord of hosts: the priests question the law, saying: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 “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.” Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests the law, saying: English Standard Version 2016 ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered and said, “No.” |
For seven days, you shall expiate and sanctify the altar, and it shall be the Holy of holies. All those who will touch it must be sanctified.
Dying flies ruin the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a brief and limited foolishness.
And when they go forth to the outer court to the people, they shall strip off their vestments, in which they ministered, and they shall place them in the storeroom of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe themselves with other garments. And they shall not sanctify the people in their vestments.
Whatever will touch its flesh shall be sanctified. If a garment will be sprinkled with its blood, it shall be washed in a holy place.
Every male of priestly descent shall feed on its flesh, because it is the Holy of holies.
Every male of priestly descent shall feed on this flesh in a holy place, because it is the Holy of holies.
How blind you are! For which is greater: the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
your judgments, O Jacob, and your law, O Israel. They shall place incense before your fury and a holocaust upon your altar.