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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Haggai 2:13

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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2:13 Ceremonial uncleanness is transmitted much more easily than ceremonial purity. Anyone touching a corpse became defiled and thus unclean. Anything touched by a ceremonially unclean person was also rendered impure (see Num 19:11-13, 22). Haggai applies this in Hag 2:14.
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