Haggai 2:13

Then 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.

Then said {H559} Haggai {H2292}, If one that is unclean {H2931} by a dead body {H5315} touch {H5060} any of these, shall it be unclean {H2930}? And the priests {H3548} answered {H6030} and said {H559}, It shall be unclean {H2930}.

Then Hagai asked, "If someone who is unclean from having had contact with a corpse touches any of these [food items], will they become unclean?" The cohanim answered, "They become unclean."

So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.

Then 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.

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Cross-References

  • Numbers 19:11 (2 votes)

    ¶ He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

  • Numbers 19:22 (2 votes)

    And whatsoever the unclean [person] toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth [it] shall be unclean until even.

  • Leviticus 22:4 (2 votes)

    What man soever of the seed of Aaron [is] a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing [that is] unclean [by] the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;

  • Leviticus 22:6 (2 votes)

    The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.

  • Numbers 9:6 (2 votes)

    And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

  • Numbers 9:10 (2 votes)

    Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or [be] in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.

  • Numbers 5:2 (2 votes)

    Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: