²⁶ Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction.^(A) Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.

¹³ Then Haggai said, “If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?”

“Yes,” the priests replied, “it becomes defiled.^(A)”

¹⁴ Then Haggai said, “‘So it is with this people^(A) and this nation in my sight,’ declares the Lord. ‘Whatever they do and whatever they offer^(B) there is defiled.