2:13 Then Haggai asked, “If a person who is ritually unclean because of touching a dead body 1 comes in contact with one of these items, will it become unclean?” The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”
1 tnHeb “unclean of a person,” a euphemism for “unclean because of a dead person”; see Lev 21:11; Num 6:6. Cf. NAB “unclean from contact with a corpse.”