On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, ¹  the Lord spoke again through the prophet Haggai: ² 

biblegateway Hag 2:1

On the twenty-first of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet saying,

On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet:

On the twenty–first day of the seventh month, the LORD spoke his word through the prophet Haggai. He said,

biblegateway Hag 2:1

On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:

In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet,

bibleoremus Hag 2:1

In the second year of King Darius, in the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Haggai, saying:

on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, these words came from the LORD through the prophet Haggai:

biblegateway Hag 2:1

In the seventh month , on the twenty–first of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying:

In the seventh [month], in the one and twentieth [day] of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,

biblegateway Hag 2:1

On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, ¹  the Lord spoke again through the prophet Haggai: ² 

¹ tn Heb “In the seventh [month], on the twenty-first day of the month.”

¹ sn The seventh month was the month Tishri, according to the modern (Julian) calendar October 17, 520 b.c. The twenty-first day of Tishri marked the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Num 29:32-34). It also coincided with the date 440 years earlier (960 b.c.) when Solomon finished building his temple (1 Kgs 6:38; 8:2).

² tc Heb “the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying.” The MT has בְּיַד (bÿyad, “by the hand of” = “through” [so NAB, NIV, NLT] as in 1:1, 3); the Murabba’at Dead Sea text reads אֶל (’el, “to”), perhaps because the following command is given to the prophet.