◄ Haggai 2:11 {12} ►
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Good News Translation
He said, "Ask the priests for a ruling on this question:

New Revised Standard Version
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Ask the priests for a ruling:

Contemporary English Version
to ask the priests for their opinion on the following matters:

New American Bible
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Ask the priests for a ruling:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests the law, saying:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Leviticus 10:10,11 And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean: . . .

Deuteronomy 33:10 Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.

Ezekiel 44:23,24 And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean. . . .

Malachi 2:7 For the lips of the priests shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.

Titus 1:9 Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to convince the gainsayers.

Context
Blessings for a Defiled People
10In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius the king, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, saying: 11Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests the law, saying:12If a man carry sanctified flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touch with his skirt, bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat: shall it be sanctified? And the priests answered, and said: No.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:8
If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose.

Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have despised my law, and have defiled my sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and profane: nor have distinguished between the polluted and the clean: and they have turned away their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.

Ezekiel 44:23
And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean.

Malachi 2:7
For the lips of the priests shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.

Haggai 2:10
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