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Haggai 2:10

In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

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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.

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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.

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Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

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And now, I pray you, consider ° from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

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Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

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I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

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Consider ° now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider ° it.

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Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

Haggai 2:12

2:12 shall it be holy. The questions in Haggai 2:12-13 are dealing with the ceremonial laws of Moses (Haggai 2:11). One such group of laws stipulated that ritualistic cleanness is not transferable.

Haggai 2:13

2:13 shall it be unclean. On the other hand, ceremonial uncleanness is easily transferred (see note on Haggai 2:12). The spiritual principle, obviously, is that sin in one’s life comes easily, by nature, but holiness comes only from the Lord and His work through faith.

Haggai 2:16

2:16 pressfat. This is a vat for pressing grapes for wine.

Haggai 2:17

2:17 blasting. A “blasting” is any plant disease which attacks suddenly.

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