Haggai 2:12 - English Standard Version 2016

¹² ‘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.”

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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:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests the law, saying:

Haggai 2:12 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

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 stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Ezekiel 44:19

And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers. And they shall put on other garments, lest they transmit holiness to the people with their garments.

Leviticus 6:27

Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy, and when any of its blood is splashed on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was splashed in a holy place.

Leviticus 6:29

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

Leviticus 7:6

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

Matthew 23:19

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

Deuteronomy 33:10

They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.