Haggai 2:12 {13}
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If a man carry sanctified flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touch with his skirt, bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat: shall it be sanctified? And the priests answered, and said: No.

Exodus 29:37 Seven days shalt thou expiate the altar and sanctify it, and it shall be most holy. Every one, that shall touch it, shall be holy.

Leviticus 6:27,29 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof, shall be sanctified. If a garment be sprinkled with the blood thereof, it shall be washed in a holy place. . . .

Leviticus 7:6 Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.

Ezekiel 44:19 And when they shall go forth to the outward court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them up in the store chamber of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe themselves with other garments: and they shall not sanctify the people with their vestments.

Matthew 23:19 Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

Context
Blessings for a Defiled People
11Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests the law, saying: 12If a man carry sanctified flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touch with his skirt, bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat: shall it be sanctified? And the priests answered, and said: No.13And Haggai 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.…
Cross References
Matthew 23:19
Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

Exodus 29:37
Seven days shalt thou expiate the altar and sanctify it, and it shall be most holy. Every one, that shall touch it, shall be holy.

Leviticus 6:27
Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof, shall be sanctified. If a garment be sprinkled with the blood thereof, it shall be washed in a holy place.

Leviticus 6:29
Every male of the priestly race shall eat of the flesh thereof, because it is holy of holies.

Leviticus 7:6
Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.

Ezekiel 44:19
And when they shall go forth to the outward court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them up in the store chamber of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe themselves with other garments: and they shall not sanctify the people with their vestments.

Lexicon
If
הֵ֣ן ׀ (hên)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 2005: Lo! behold!

a man
אִ֨ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

carries
יִשָּׂא־ (yiś·śā-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

consecrated
קֹ֜דֶשׁ (qō·ḏeš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

meat
בְּשַׂר־ (bə·śar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

in the fold
בִּכְנַ֣ף (biḵ·nap̄)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3671: An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle

of his garment,
בִּגְד֗וֹ (biḡ·ḏōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 899: A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage

and it
בִּ֠כְנָפוֹ (biḵ·nā·p̄ōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3671: An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle

touches
וְנָגַ֣ע (wə·nā·ḡa‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5060: To touch, lay the hand upon, to reach, violently, to strike

bread,
הַלֶּ֨חֶם (hal·le·ḥem)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3899: Food, bread, grain

stew,
הַנָּזִ֜יד (han·nā·zîḏ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5138: Something sodden or boiled, pottage

wine,
הַיַּ֧יִן (hay·ya·yin)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3196: Wine, intoxication

oil,
שֶׁ֛מֶן (še·men)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8081: Grease, liquid, richness

or any
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

other food,
מַאֲכָ֖ל (ma·’ă·ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3978: An eatable

does [that item] become holy?’”
הֲיִקְדָּ֑שׁ (hă·yiq·dāš)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6942: To be set apart or consecrated

“No,”
לֹֽא׃ (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

replied
וַיַּעֲנ֧וּ (way·ya·‘ă·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6030: To answer, respond

the priests.
הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים (hak·kō·hă·nîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3548: Priest


Additional Translations
If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?’” “No,” replied the priests.If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

And Aggaeus said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled.

If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food -- shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

If one shall bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt shall touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

'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."

Lo, one doth carry holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and he hath come with his skirt against the bread, or against the pottage, or against the wine, or against the oil, or against any food -- is it holy?' And the priests answer and say, 'No.'
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