Haggai 2:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹² 'If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?'* The Kohanim answered, *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:

Haggai 2:12 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 29:37

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

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

Ezekiel 44:19

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

Leviticus 6:27

Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.

Leviticus 6:29

Every male among the Kohanim shall eat of it: it is most holy.

Leviticus 7:6

Every male among the Kohanim may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

Matthew 23:19

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Deuteronomy 33:10

They shall teach Ya`akov your ordinances, and Yisra'el your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar.