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Bible Verses About Swine

23 verses · 22 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. And the swine, because he parteth ye hoofe and is clouen footed, but cheweth not the cud, he shalbe vncleane to you.

  2. Of their flesh shall yee not eate, and their carkeise shall yee not touch: for they shall bee vncleane to you.

  3. Also the swine, because he deuideth the hoofe, and cheweth not the cud, shalbe vncleane vnto you: ye shall not eate of their flesh, nor touch their dead carkeises.

  4. The wilde bore out of the wood hath destroyed it, and the wilde beastes of the fielde haue eaten it vp.

  5. As a iewell of golde in a swines snoute: so is a faire woman, which lacketh discretion.

  6. Which remaine among the graues, and lodge in the desarts, which eate swines flesh, and the broth of things polluted are in their vessels.

  7. He that killeth a bullocke, is as if he slewe a man: he that sacrificeth a sheepe, as if he cut off a dogges necke: he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swines blood: he that remembreth incense, as if he blessed an idole: yea, they haue chosen their owne wayes, and their soule deliteth in their abominations.

  8. They that sanctifie themselues, and purifie themselues in the gardens behinde one tree in the middes eating swines flesh, and such abomination, euen the mouse, shall be consumed together, sayeth the Lord.

  9. Giue ye not that which is holy, to dogges, neither cast ye your pearles before swine, lest they treade them vnder their feete, and turning againe, all to rent you.

  10. And when he was come to the other side into ye countrey of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with deuils, which came out of the graues very fierce, so that no man might goe by that way.

  11. And beholde, they cryed out, saying, Iesus the sonne of God, what haue we to do with thee? Art thou come hither to tormet vs before ye time?

  12. Nowe there was, afarre off from them, a great heard of swine feeding.

  13. And the deuils besought him, saying, If thou cast vs out, suffer vs to goe into the heard of swine.

  14. And he said vnto them, Go. So they went out and departed into the heard of swine: and beholde, the whole heard of swine ranne headlong into the sea, and died in the water.

  15. Now there was there in the mountaines a great heard of swine, feeding.

  16. And all ye deuils besought him, saying, Send vs into the swine, that we may enter into them.

  17. And incontinently Iesus gaue them leaue. Then the vncleane spirites went out, and entred into the swine, and the heard ranne headlong from the high banke into the sea, (and there were about two thousand swine) and they were choked vp in the sea.

  18. And the swineheards fled, and told it in the citie, and in the countrey, and they came out to see what it was that was done.

  19. And there was there by, an hearde of many swine, feeding on an hill: and the deuils besought him, that he would suffer them to enter into them. So he suffered them.

  20. Then went the deuils out of the man, and entred into the swine: and the hearde was caried with violence from a steepe downe place into the lake, and was choked.

  21. Then hee went and claue to a citizen of that conntrey, and hee sent him to his farme, to feede swine.

  22. And hee would faine haue filled his bellie with the huskes, that the swine ate: but no man gaue them him.

  23. But it is come vnto them, according to the true Prouerbe, The dogge is returned to his owne vomit: and, The sowe that was washed, to the wallowing in the myre.