Haggai 2:12
If someone carries holy meat in a fold of his garment and that fold touches bread, a boiled dish, wine, olive oil, or any other food, will that item become holy?’” The priests answered,“It will not.”
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- Matt 23:19 : 19 You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
- Lev 6:27 : 27 Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.
- Lev 6:29 : 29 Any male among the priests may eat it. It is most holy.
- Lev 7:6 : 6 Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
- Ezek 44:19 : 19 When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.
- Exod 29:37 : 37 For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.
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- Hag 2:13-142 verses85%
13 Then Haggai asked,“If a person who is ritually unclean because of touching a dead body comes in contact with one of these items, will it become unclean?” The priests answered,“It will be unclean.”
14 Then Haggai responded,“‘The people of this nation are unclean in my sight,’ decrees the LORD.‘And so is all their effort; everything they offer is also unclean.
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11 “This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said,‘Ask the priests about the law.
- Lev 6:26-294 verses75%
26 The priest who offers it for sin is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Meeting Tent.
27 Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.
28 Any clay vessel it is boiled in must be broken, and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then that vessel must be rubbed out and rinsed in water.
29 Any male among the priests may eat it. It is most holy.
- Lev 22:4-74 verses73%
4 No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,
5 or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity–
6 the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.
7 When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food.
- Lev 22:14-152 verses71%
14 “‘If a man eats a holy offering by mistake, he must add one fifth to it and give the holy offering to the priest.
15 They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the LORD,
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14 When the priests enter, then they will not go out from the sanctuary to the outer court without taking off their garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they will put on other garments, then they will go near the places where the people are.”
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22 He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,
- Lev 7:19-213 verses70%
19 The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.
20 The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people.
21 When a person touches anything unclean(whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.’”
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6 Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
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18 Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion throughout your generations from the gifts of the LORD. Anyone who touches these gifts must be holy.’”
- 1 Sam 2:14-152 verses69%
14 He would jab it into the basin, kettle, cauldron, or pot. Everything that the fork would bring up the priest would take for himself. This is how they used to treat all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.
15 Also, before they burned the fat the priest’s attendant would come and say to the person who was making the sacrifice,“Give some meat for the priest to roast! He won’t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
- Lev 11:34-352 verses69%
34 Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.
35 Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean to you.
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40 One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
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34 If any of the meat from the consecration offerings or any of the bread is left over until morning, then you are to burn up what is left over. It must not be eaten, because it is holy.
- Lev 22:10-123 verses68%
10 “‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,
11 but if a priest buys a person with his own money, that person may eat the holy offerings, and those born in the priest’s own house may eat his food.
12 If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,
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19 When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.
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31 The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.
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12 “But you are profaning it by saying that the table of the Lord is common and its offerings despicable.
- Lev 17:15-162 verses68%
15 Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.
16 But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.’”
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2 Or when there is a person who touches anything ceremonially unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has become unclean and is guilty;
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25 and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.
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9 Every grain offering which is baked in the oven or made in the pan or on the griddle belongs to the priest who presented it.
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20 He said to me,“This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.”
- Lev 11:37-382 verses67%
37 Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean,
38 but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
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10 You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.
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4 He must put on a holy linen tunic, linen leggings are to cover his body, and he is to wrap himself with a linen sash and wrap his head with a linen turban. They are holy garments, so he must bathe his body in water and put them on.
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32 Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean– any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.
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5 David said to the priest,“Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”
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16 And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.
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7 You are offering improper sacrifices on my altar, yet you ask,‘How have we offended you?’ By treating the table of the LORD as if it is of no importance!
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8 and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person will be cut off from his people.
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53 But if the priest examines it and the infection has not spread in the garment or in the warp or in the woof or in any article of leather,
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8 “‘You must bring the grain offering that must be made from these to the LORD. Present it to the priest, and he will bring it to the altar.
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7 The one who touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.