13Then Haggai said, |If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?| The priests answered, |It will be unclean.|


In Context

10 In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

11 |Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

12 '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.|

13 Then Haggai said, |If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?| The priests answered, |It will be unclean.|

14 Then Haggai answered, |'So is this people, and so is this nation before me,' says Yahweh; 'and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.

15 Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.

Haggai 2:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Then said Haggai, If [one that is] unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Then 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."

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:13And Aggeus said: If one that is unclean by occasion of a soul touch any of all these things, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered, and said: It shall be defiled.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13And Haggai said, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, is it become unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body shall touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13And Haggai saith, 'If the unclean of body doth come against any of these, is it unclean?' And the priests answer and say, 'It is unclean.'