14 Bible Verses about Pigs

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Leviticus 11:7

the pig, though it has divided hooves,
does not chew the cud—it is unclean for you.

Deuteronomy 14:8

and the pig, though it has hooves, it does not chew the cud—
it is unclean for you.

You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

Psalm 80:13

The boar from the forest tears it
and creatures of the field feed on it.

Isaiah 66:3

One slaughters an ox, one kills a man;
one sacrifices a lamb, one breaks a dog’s neck;
one offers a grain offering, one offers pig’s blood;
one offers incense, one praises an idol—
all these have chosen their ways
and delight in their detestable practices.

Matthew 7:6

Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them with their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.

2 Peter 2:22

It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, “a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud.”

Mark 5:11

Now a large herd of pigs was there, feeding on the hillside.

Matthew 8:31

“If You drive us out,” the demons begged Him, “send us into the herd of pigs.”

Mark 5:12

The demons begged Him, “Send us to the pigs, so we may enter them.”

Matthew 8:32

“Go!” He told them. So when they had come out, they entered the pigs. And suddenly the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and perished in the water.

Mark 5:16

The eyewitnesses described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and told about the pigs.

Luke 15:15

Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

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