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13 Haggai then asked, “If anyone who has been defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of those, does that become unclean?” The priests replied, “It will become unclean.” 14 Then Haggai continued,

So it is with this people and this nation
    in my view, says the Lord.
So also are all the works of their hands;
    whatever they offer here is unclean.

15 But now, think back to recent times as you ponder the future. Before one stone was laid upon another in the temple of the Lord, how did you fare?

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