Haggai 2:11 {12}
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Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests the law, saying:

Leviticus 10:10,11 And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean: . . .

Deuteronomy 33:10 Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.

Ezekiel 44:23,24 And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean. . . .

Malachi 2:7 For the lips of the priests shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.

Titus 1:9 Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to convince the gainsayers.

Context
Blessings for a Defiled People
10In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius the king, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, saying: 11Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests the law, saying:12If a man carry sanctified flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touch with his skirt, bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat: shall it be sanctified? And the priests answered, and said: No.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:8
If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose.

Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have despised my law, and have defiled my sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and profane: nor have distinguished between the polluted and the clean: and they have turned away their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.

Ezekiel 44:23
And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean.

Malachi 2:7
For the lips of the priests shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.

Lexicon
“This is what
כֹּ֥ה (kōh)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3541: Like this, thus, here, now

the LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

of Hosts
צְבָא֑וֹת (ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ)
Noun - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6635: A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaign

says:
אָמַ֖ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

‘Ask
שְׁאַל־ (šə·’al-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7592: To inquire, to request, to demand

the priests
הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים (hak·kō·hă·nîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3548: Priest

for a ruling.
תּוֹרָ֖ה (tō·w·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8451: Direction, instruction, law


Additional Translations
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Ask the priests for a ruling.Thus said the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

If a man should take holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and the skirt of his garment should touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ask now the priests [concerning] the law, saying,

Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

"Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: 'Ask, I pray thee, the priests of the law, saying:
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