Bible verses about "pigs" | BBE

³ Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

¹ The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw about Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. ² Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me. ³ Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me. ⁴ O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him. ⁵ Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble. ⁶ The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds. ⁷ Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands. ⁸ And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies. ⁹ If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours. ¹⁰ Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats. ¹² At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet? ¹³ Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them. ¹⁵ And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning; ¹⁷ Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow. ¹⁸ Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool? ¹⁹ If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours; ²⁰ But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said. ²¹ The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives. ²² Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water. ²³ Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them. ²⁴ For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me; ²⁵ And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal; ²⁶ And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town. ²⁷ Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there. ²⁸ But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off. ²⁹ For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure. ³⁰ For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water. ³¹ And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.

² And he gave a loud cry, saying, Babylon the great has come down from her high place, she has come to destruction and has become a place of evil spirits, and of every unclean spirit, and a hole for every unclean and hated bird.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ² Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth. ³ You may have as food any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot, and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again. ⁴ But, at the same time, of those beasts, you may not take for food the camel, because its food comes back but the horn of its foot is not parted in two; it is unclean to you. ⁵ And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you. ⁶ And the hare, because the horn of its foot is not parted in two, is unclean to you. ⁷ And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back. ⁸ Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you. ⁹ These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food. ¹⁰ All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you; ¹¹ They may not be used for food, and their dead bodies are disgusting to you. ¹² Anything in the water which has no special parts for swimming and no thin plates on its skin is disgusting to you. ¹³ And among birds these are to be disgusting to you, and not to be used for food: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray; ¹⁴ And the kite and the falcon, and birds of that sort; ¹⁵ Every raven, and birds of that sort; ¹⁶ And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort; ¹⁷ And the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl; ¹⁸ And the water-hen and the pelican and the vulture; ¹⁹ The stork and the heron, and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat. ²⁰ Every winged four-footed thing which goes on the earth is disgusting to you; ²¹ But of the winged four-footed things, those which have long legs for jumping on the earth you may have for food; ²² Such as all the different sorts of locust. ²³ But all other winged four-footed things which go on the earth are disgusting to you. ²⁴ By these you will be made unclean; anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean till evening: ²⁵ Whoever takes away the dead body of one of them is to have his clothing washed, and will be unclean till evening. ²⁶ Every beast, in the horn of whose foot there is not a complete division, and whose food does not come back, is unclean to you: anyone touching one of these will be unclean. ²⁷ Any four-footed beast which goes on the ball of its foot, is unclean to you: anyone touching the dead body of one of these will be unclean till evening. ²⁸ Anyone who takes away the dead body of one of these is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening. ²⁹ And these are unclean to you among things which go low down on the earth; the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard, and animals of that sort; ³⁰ And the ferret and the land crocodile and the lizard and the sand-lizard and the chameleon. ³¹ All these are unclean to you: anyone touching them when they are dead will be unclean till evening. ³² The dead body of any of these, falling on anything, will make that thing unclean; if it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or bag, whatever it is, if it is used for any purpose, it will have to be put into water, and will be unclean till evening; after that it will be clean. ³³ And if one of them gets into any vessel of earth, whatever is in the vessel will be unclean and the vessel will have to be broken. ³⁴ Any food in it, and anything on which water from it comes, will be unclean: any drink taken from such a vessel will be unclean. ³⁵ Any part of the dead body of one of these, falling on anything, will make it unclean; if it is an oven or a cooking-pot it will have to be broken: they are unclean and will be unclean to you. ³⁶ But at the same time a fountain or a place where water is stored for use will be clean; but anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean. ³⁷ If any part of the dead body of one of these gets on to any seed for planting, it is clean; ³⁸ But if water is put on the seed, and any part of the dead body gets on to it, it will be unclean to you. ³⁹ And if any beast which may be used for food comes to a natural death, anyone touching its dead body will be unclean till evening. ⁴⁰ And he who makes use of any part of its body for food is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening; and anyone taking away its body is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening. ⁴¹ Everything which goes flat on its body on the earth is disgusting, and is not to be used for food. ⁴² Whatever goes on its stomach or on four feet or has a great number of feet, even all those going flat on the earth, may not be used for food, for they are disgusting. ⁴³ You are not to make yourselves disgusting with anything which goes about flat on the earth; you may not make yourselves unclean with them, in such a way that you are not holy to me. ⁴⁴ For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth. ⁴⁵ For I am the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; so be you holy, for I am holy. ⁴⁶ This is the law about beasts and birds and every living thing moving in the waters, and every living thing which goes flat on the earth: ⁴⁷ Marking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.

³⁰ And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

⁷ And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back.

²⁸ And when he had come to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, there came out to him from the place of the dead, two who had evil spirits, so violent that no man was able to go that way. ²⁹ And they gave a loud cry, saying, What have we to do with you, you Son of God? Have you come here to give us punishment before the time? ³⁰ Now there was, some distance away, a great herd of pigs taking their food. ³¹ And the evil spirits made strong prayers to him, saying, If you send us out, let us go into the herd of pigs. ³² And he said to them, Go. And they came out, and went into the pigs; and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the sea and came to their end in the water.