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The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, said the LORD of the hosts, and in this place I will give peace, said the LORD of the hosts.
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In the twenty-fourth
day of the ninth
month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,
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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Ask now the priests
concerning the law, saying,
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If one bears holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt touches bread or pottage or wine, or oil or any food, shall it be
made holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
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Then Haggai said, If
one that is unclean by a dead body touches any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
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Then Haggai answered, and said, So
is this people, and so
is this nation before me, said the LORD; and so
is every work of their hands, and all that they offer here
is unclean.
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And now, I pray you, consider in your heart from this day forth, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
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since these
things were: when
one came to a heap of twenty
measures, there were
but ten; when
one came to the pressfat to draw out fifty
vessels out of the press, there were
but twenty.
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I smote you with
the east wind and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands, yet ye did not
turn to me, said the LORD.
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Consider now in your heart from this day forth, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth
month,
even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, put your heart into
it.
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Is not the seed yet in the barn? Not even the vine, nor the fig tree, nor the pomegranate, nor the olive tree, has blossomed yet, but from this day will I bless
you.