NSB(i)
8 »The silver and gold of the world is mine,« said Jehovah of Hosts.
9 »The glory of this house will be greater than it was before. I will give my people peace.« Jehovah of Hosts has spoken.
10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month of the second year that Darius was king, Jehovah spoke again to the prophet Haggai.
11 He said: »Ask the priests for a ruling on this question of law.
12 »A man takes a piece of consecrated meat from a sacrifice and carries it in a fold of his robe. He then lets his robe touch any bread, cooked food, wine, olive oil, or any kind of food at all. Will it make that food consecrated also?« When the question was asked, the priests answered, »No.«
13 Then Haggai asked: »This person is defiled because he has touched a dead body. If he then touches any of these foods, will that make them defiled too?« The priests answered, »Yes.«
14 Then Haggai said: »Jehovah declared that the same thing applies to the people of this nation and to everything they produce; and so everything they offer on the altar is defiled.«
15 »Can you see what has happened to you,« Jehovah asked, »before you started to rebuild the Temple?