Haggai 2:12 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

¹² 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.”

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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 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.