Haggai 2:13-15

EasyEnglish Bible

¹³ Haggai asked the priests another question: ‘If anyone touches a dead body, you know that you become unclean. If an unclean person touches any of these foods, would they also become unclean?’ The priests replied, ‘Yes, those things would be unclean.’

¹⁴ So Haggai told them, ‘This is what the Lord says: This nation and its people are just like that. They are unclean. So everything that they do is also unclean. All the gifts that they offer to me are unclean. I could not accept them. ¹⁵ Think carefully what life was like before you started again to build the Lord's temple. Do not forget that.