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13 Then Haggai said, (A)“If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body (B)touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.” 14 Then Haggai answered and said, (C)“So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the Lord, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean. 15 Now then, (D)consider from this day onward.[a] Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord,

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  1. Haggai 2:15 Or backward; also verse 18

13 Then Haggai said, “If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?”

“Yes,” the priests replied, “it becomes defiled.(A)

14 Then Haggai said, “‘So it is with this people(B) and this nation in my sight,’ declares the Lord. ‘Whatever they do and whatever they offer(C) there is defiled.

15 “‘Now give careful thought(D) to this from this day on[a]—consider how things were before one stone was laid(E) on another in the Lord’s temple.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Haggai 2:15 Or to the days past