Haggai 2:11 → Leviticus 10:10

Haggai 2:11 directs the people to "ask the priests for a ruling" (תּוֹרָה, torah), evoking the priestly teaching mandate established in Leviticus 10:10 (a motif-level link, not a verbal one; the purity categories surface in 2:12-13) where God commands the priests to "distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean." Haggai appeals to this Levitical instruction to make a theological point: just as uncleanness is more contagious than holiness (contact with a corpse defiles whatever it touches, but consecrated meat does not sanctify what it touches), so the people's spiritual impurity contaminates their offerings despite the temple rebuilding. The allusion grounds Haggai's post-exilic message in the foundational Levitical purity categories, demonstrating that mere external rebuilding cannot substitute for internal consecration.