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13 So Haggai responded, “If someone who is unclean[a] because of contact with a dead body were to touch any of these things, would they become unclean?”[b]

The priests responded, “They would be unclean.”[c]

14 Then Haggai answered, “‘That’s how I look at this people and this nation,’ declares the Lord. ‘And that’s how it is with everything they undertake[d] and with what they offer there—it is unclean.[e] 15 Pay attention[f] from now on to how things used to be before one stone had been laid upon another in the Temple of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Haggai 2:13 I.e. ritually defiled
  2. Haggai 2:13 I.e. ritually defiled
  3. Haggai 2:13 I.e. ritually defiled
  4. Haggai 2:14 Lit. with every work of their hands
  5. Haggai 2:14 I.e. ritually defiled
  6. Haggai 2:15 The Heb. lacks Pay attention