Haggai 2:13 meaning and explanation

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.

Haggai 2:13, Berean Standard Bible

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Haggai is speaking to Zerubbabel, Joshua and the returned exiles in Jerusalem, who had let the temple lie unfinished. He asks the priests a question of ritual law, and they answer from the Torah: a person made unclean by touching a corpse defiles whatever he touches.

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