Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If someone carries consecrated meat in the fold of their garment, and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, olive oil or other food, does it become consecrated?’” The priests answered, “No.” New Living Translation ‘If one of you is carrying some meat from a holy sacrifice in his robes and his robe happens to brush against some bread or stew, wine or olive oil, or any other kind of food, will it also become holy?’” The priests replied, “No.” English Standard Version ‘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.” Berean Standard Bible If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?’ ” “No,” replied the priests. King James Bible 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. New King James Version “If one carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with the edge he touches bread or stew, wine or oil, or any food, will it become holy?” ’ ” Then the priests answered and said, “No.” New American Standard Bible If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and touches bread with this fold, or touches cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?’” And the priests answered, “No.” NASB 1995 If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and touches bread with this fold, or cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?’” And the priests answered, “No.” NASB 1977 ‘If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and touches bread with this fold, or cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?’” And the priests answered and said, “No.” Legacy Standard Bible If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches bread with this fold or cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?’” And the priests answered, “No.” Amplified Bible If a man carries meat that is holy [because it has been offered in sacrifice to God] in the fold of his garment, and he touches bread, or cooked food, or wine, or oil, or any [kind of] food with this fold, does what he touches become holy [dedicated exclusively to God’s service]?’” And the priests answered, “No!” [Holiness is not transferrable.] Christian Standard Bible If a man is carrying consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does it become holy? ” The priests answered, “No.” Holman Christian Standard Bible If a man is carrying consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does it become holy?” The priests answered, “No.” American Standard Version 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. Contemporary English Version Suppose meat ready to be sacrificed to God is being carried in the folds of someone's clothing, and the clothing rubs against some bread or stew or wine or olive oil or any other food. Would those foods that were touched then become acceptable for sacrifice? "Of course not," the priests answered. English Revised Version 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 become holy? And the priests answered and said, No. GOD'S WORD® Translation Suppose a person carries meat set aside for a holy purpose and he folds it up in his clothes. If his clothes touch bread, boiled food, wine, oil, or any kind of food, does that make the food holy?" The priests answered, "No." Good News Translation Suppose someone takes a piece of consecrated meat from a sacrifice and carries it in a fold of his robe. If he then lets his robe touch any bread, cooked food, wine, olive oil, or any kind of food at all, will it make that food consecrated also?" When the question was asked, the priests answered, "No." International Standard Version "If a man carries consecrated meat in the folds of his garment, and if his garment touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other edible thing, will these things become consecrated?"'" The priests answered, "No." Majority Standard Bible If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?’” “No,” replied the priests. NET Bible If someone carries holy meat in a fold of his garment and that fold touches bread, a boiled dish, wine, olive oil, or any other food, will that item become holy?'" The priests answered, "It will not." New Heart English Bible '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 priests answered, "No." Webster's Bible Translation If one shall bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt shall touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. World English Bible ‘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 priests answered, “No.” Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionBehold, [when] one carries holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and he has come with his skirt against the bread, or against the stew, or against the wine, or against the oil, or against any food—is it holy?” And the priests answer and say, “No.” Young's Literal Translation Lo, one doth carry holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and he hath come with his skirt against the bread, or against the pottage, or against the wine, or against the oil, or against any food -- is it holy?' And the priests answer and say, 'No.' Smith's Literal Translation If a man shall lift up holy flesh in the wing of his garment and touch with the wing of his garment upon the bread and upon pottage, and upon wine and upon oil, and upon any food, shall it be made holy? And the priests shall answer and say, No. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleIf 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. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible If someone carries sanctified meat in the fold of a garment and the fold touches bread, soup, wine, oil, or any other food, do they become sanctified? “No,” the priests answered. New Revised Standard Version 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.” Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleIf a man carries holy meat in the skirt of his cloak, and touches with his skirt bread or pottage or wine or oil or any kind of food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated If a man carries meat of holiness in the skirt of his cloak and it touches in his skirt bread or stew or wine or drink or any food, is it able to be made holy? The Priests answered and they were saying ”No.” OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917If one bear hallowed 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 be holy?' And the priests answered and said: 'No.' Brenton Septuagint Translation If a man should take holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and the skirt of his garment should touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Blessings for a Defiled People…11“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Ask the priests for a ruling. 12If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?’” “No,” replied the priests. 13So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.… Cross References Leviticus 6:27 Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in a holy place. Leviticus 7:19-21 Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it. / But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people. / If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.” Numbers 19:11-13 Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days. / He must purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean. / Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him. Leviticus 22:4-7 If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen, / or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be— / the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water. ... Leviticus 10:10 You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean, Numbers 19:22 Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.” Isaiah 52:11 Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD. Ezekiel 44:23 They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean. Leviticus 15:31 You must keep the children of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them. Leviticus 11:24-28 These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening, / and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. / Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean. ... Matthew 23:19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred? Matthew 23:26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well. Mark 7:18-23 “Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him, / because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.) / He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him. ... Luke 11:39-41 Then the Lord said, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. / You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well? / But give as alms the things that are within you, and behold, everything will be clean for you. 1 Corinthians 6:13-20 “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. / By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also. / Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! ... Treasury of Scripture 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. Exodus 29:37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy. Leviticus 6:27,29 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place… Leviticus 7:6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy. Jump to Previous Bear Bread Carries Cooked Flesh Fold Folded Food Garment Hallowed Holy Kind Meat Oil Pottage Priests Skirt Someone Stew Touch Touches WineJump to Next Bear Bread Carries Cooked Flesh Fold Folded Food Garment Hallowed Holy Kind Meat Oil Pottage Priests Skirt Someone Stew Touch Touches WineHaggai 2 1. He encourages the people to the work, 4. by promise of greater glory to the second temple than was in the first. 10. In the type of holy things and unclean he shows their sins hindered the work. 20. God's promise to Zerubbabel. If a man carries The phrase "If a man carries" introduces a hypothetical scenario, a common teaching method in ancient Jewish tradition. The Hebrew root for "carries" is "נָשָׂא" (nasa), which means to lift, bear, or carry. This action implies responsibility and intentionality, suggesting that the man is purposefully handling something of significance. In the context of Haggai, this sets the stage for a discussion on the transmission of holiness, a key theme in the post-exilic period when the Israelites were rebuilding the temple and re-establishing their covenant relationship with God. consecrated meat in the fold of his garment and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food does it become holy? The priests answered, ‘No.’ Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Ifהֵ֣ן ׀ (hên) Interjection Strong's 2005: Lo! behold! a man אִ֨ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person carries יִשָּׂא־ (yiś·śā-) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take consecrated קֹ֜דֶשׁ (qō·ḏeš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity meat בְּשַׂר־ (bə·śar-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man in the fold בִּכְנַ֣ף (biḵ·nap̄) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 3671: An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle of his garment, בִּגְד֗וֹ (biḡ·ḏōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 899: A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage and it בִּ֠כְנָפוֹ (biḵ·nā·p̄ōw) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 3671: An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle touches וְנָגַ֣ע (wə·nā·ḡa‘) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5060: To touch, lay the hand upon, to reach, violently, to strike bread, הַלֶּ֨חֶם (hal·le·ḥem) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain stew, הַנָּזִ֜יד (han·nā·zîḏ) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5138: Something sodden or boiled, pottage wine, הַיַּ֧יִן (hay·ya·yin) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3196: Wine, intoxication oil, שֶׁ֛מֶן (še·men) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 8081: Grease, liquid, richness or any כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every other food, מַאֲכָ֖ל (ma·’ă·ḵāl) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3978: An eatable does [that item] become holy?’” הֲיִקְדָּ֑שׁ (hă·yiq·dāš) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6942: To be set apart or consecrated “No,” לֹֽא׃ (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no replied וַיַּעֲנ֧וּ (way·ya·‘ă·nū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 6030: To answer, respond the priests. הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים (hak·kō·hă·nîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 3548: Priest Links Haggai 2:12 NIVHaggai 2:12 NLT Haggai 2:12 ESV Haggai 2:12 NASB Haggai 2:12 KJV Haggai 2:12 BibleApps.com Haggai 2:12 Biblia Paralela Haggai 2:12 Chinese Bible Haggai 2:12 French Bible Haggai 2:12 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Haggai 2:12 If someone carries holy meat (Hagg. 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