“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.”
Then Haggai said, 'If one who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?' The priests answered, 'It becomes unclean'—the contrast is striking: whereas holiness does not transmit through contact, uncleanness (defilement) does. This asymmetry becomes the hinge of the prophecy's moral: uncleanness spreads readily while holiness must be actively established.
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