10On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Haggai the prophet, saying:11Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Ask the priests for instruction, saying:12If a man carries holy flesh in the fold of his garment and touches with the fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any food, does it become holy? The priests answered and said, No.13Then Haggai said: If an unclean person touches any of these things, does it become unclean? The priests answered and said, It becomes unclean.14Then Haggai answered and said: So is this people and so is this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so is every work of their hands; and whatever they offer there is unclean.15Now set your heart from this day onward, before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the LORD.16When someone came to a heap of twenty measures, it became ten; when someone came to the winepress to draw fifty measures, it became twenty.17I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands, yet none of you turned to me, declares the LORD.18Set your heart from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day the temple of the LORD was founded; set your heart.19Is the seed still in the storehouse? Have the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree not yet borne fruit? From this day I will bless.