Bible verses about "pigs" | MLV

³ Every moving thing that lives will be food for you*. As the green herb, I have given you* all.

¹ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
² Hear, O heavens and listen, O earth, for Jehovah has spoken. I have nourished and brought up sons and they have rebelled against me.
³ The ox knows his owner and the donkey his master's crib, but Israel does not know; my people does not consider.
⁴ Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Jehovah. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have gone away backward.
⁵ Why will you* still be stricken, that you* revolt more and more? The whole head is sick and the whole heart faint. ⁶ From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and fresh stripes. They have not been closed nor bound up nor soothed with oil.
⁷ Your* country is desolate. Your* cities are burned with fire. Your* land–strangers devour it in your* presence and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. ⁸ And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a shed in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
⁹ Unless Jehovah of hosts had left to us a seed, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like Gomorrah. ¹⁰ Hear the word of Jehovah, you* rulers of Sodom, listen to the law of our God, you* people of Gomorrah.
¹¹ What to me is the multitude of your* sacrifices? says Jehovah. I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. And I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of male-goats. ¹² When you* come to appear before me, who has required this at your* hand–to trample my courts?
¹³ Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath, the calling of assemblies–I cannot bear wickedness and the solemn assembly. ¹⁴ Your* new moons and your* appointed feasts my soul hates. They are a trouble to me. I am weary of bearing them.
¹⁵ And when you* spread forth your* hands, I will hide my eyes from you*. Yes, when you* make many prayers, I will not hear; your* hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash you*, make you* clean, put away the evil of your* practices from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. ¹⁷ Learn to do good. Seek justice, make the oppressed fortunate, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
¹⁸ Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah, though your* sins be as scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will be as wool.
¹⁹ If you* are willing and obedient, you* will eat the good of the land. ²⁰ But if you* refuse and rebel, you* will be devoured with the sword, for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken it.
²¹ How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
²² Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. ²³ Your rulers are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
²⁴ Therefore says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries and avenge me of my enemies. ²⁵ And I will turn my hand upon you and thoroughly purge away your dross and will take away all your tin. ²⁶ And I will restore your judges as at the first and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the city of righteousness, a faithful town.
²⁷ Zion will be redeemed with justice and her converts with righteousness.
²⁸ But the destruction of transgressors and sinners will be together and those who forsake Jehovah will be consumed. ²⁹ For they will be ashamed of the oaks which you* have desired and you* will be confounded for the gardens that you* have chosen. ³⁰ For you* will be as an oak whose leaf fades and as a garden that has no water. ³¹ And the strong man will be as flax and his work as a spark. And they will both burn together and none will quench them.

² And he cried in a mighty voice, saying, Babylon the great has fallen and it has become a residence of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit and a prison of every unclean and having been hated bird.

¹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, ² Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the living things which you* may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. ³ Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven footed and chews the cud, among the beasts, that may you* eat.
⁴ Nevertheless these will you* not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those that part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but does not part the hoof, he is unclean to you*. ⁵ And the coney, because he chews the cud but does not part the hoof, he is unclean to you*. ⁶ And the hare, because she chews the cud but does not part the hoof, she is unclean to you*. ⁷ And the swine, because he parts the hoof and is cloven footed, but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you*. ⁸ Of their flesh you* will not eat and their carcasses you* will not touch, they are unclean to you*.
⁹ These may you* eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas and in the rivers, that may you* eat.
¹⁰ And all that have no fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you*, ¹¹ and they will be an abomination to you*. You* will not eat of their flesh and their carcasses you* will have in abomination. ¹² Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you*.
¹³ And these you* will have in abomination among the birds, they will not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle and the vulture and the osprey, ¹⁴ and the kite and the falcon after its kind, ¹⁵ every raven after its kind, ¹⁶ and the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-gull and the hawk after its kind, ¹⁷ and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl, ¹⁸ and the horned owl and the pelican and the carrion vulture, ¹⁹ and the stork, the heron after its kind and the hoopoe and the bat. ²⁰ All winged creeping things that go upon all fours are an abomination to you*.
²¹ Yet these you* may eat of all winged creeping things that go upon all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to leap upon the earth, ²² even these of them you* may eat: the locust after its kind and the bald locust after its kind and the cricket after its kind and the grasshopper after its kind. ²³ But all winged creeping things, which have four feet, are an abomination to you*, ²⁴ and by these you* will become unclean. Whoever touches the carcass of them will be unclean until the evening. ²⁵ And whoever bears any of the carcass of them will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
²⁶ Every beast which parts the hoof and is not cloven footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you*. Everyone who touches them will be unclean. ²⁷ And whatever goes upon its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours, they are unclean to you*. Whoever touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening. ²⁸ And he who bears the carcass of them will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you*.
²⁹ And these are those which are unclean to you* among the creeping things that creep upon the earth: the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard after its kind, ³⁰ and the gecko and the land-crocodile and the lizard and the sand-lizard and the chameleon. ³¹ These are those which are unclean to you* among all that creep. Whoever touches them, when they are dead, will be unclean until the evening.
³² And upon whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it will be unclean, whether it is any vessel of wood, or garments, or skin, or sack. Whatever vessel it be, with which any work is done, it must be put into water and it will be unclean until the evening, then it will be clean. ³³ And every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, whatever is in it will be unclean and you* will break it. ³⁴ All food in it which may be eaten, that on which water comes, will be unclean and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel will be unclean. ³⁵ And everything upon which any part of their carcass falls will be unclean, whether oven, or range for pots, it will be broken in pieces; they are unclean and will be unclean to you*. ³⁶ Nevertheless a fountain or a pit in which is a gathering of water will be clean, but what touches their carcass will be unclean. ³⁷ And if any of their carcass falls upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. ³⁸ But if water is put upon the seed and any of their carcass falls in it, it is unclean to you*. ³⁹ And if any beast, of which you* may eat, dies, he who touches the carcass of it will be unclean until the evening. ⁴⁰ And he who eats of the carcass of it will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. He also who bears the carcass of it will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
⁴¹ And every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth is an abomination; it will not be eaten. ⁴² Whatever goes upon the belly and whatever goes upon all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them you* will not eat, for they are an abomination. ⁴³ You* will not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, nor will you* make yourselves unclean with them, that you* should be defiled by it.
⁴⁴ For I am Jehovah your* God. Sanctify yourselves therefore and become you* holy, since I am holy. Neither will you* defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moves upon the earth. ⁴⁵ For I am Jehovah who brought you* up out of the land of Egypt, to be your* God. You* will therefore be holy, for I am holy.
⁴⁶ This is the law of the beast and of the bird and of every living creature that moves in the waters and of every creature that creeps upon the earth, ⁴⁷ to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.

³⁰ and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps upon the earth in which there is life and to you * every green herb, for food. And it was so.

⁷ And the swine, because he parts the hoof and is cloven footed, but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you*.

²⁸ And he came to the area beyond-that into the region of the Gergesenes, two demon-possessed men met him, coming forth out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so-that not anyone was strong-enough to pass through that way. ²⁹ And behold, they cried out, saying, What is this thing with us and with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time? ³⁰ Now a herd of many swine was being fed from afar, away from them. ³¹ And the demons were pleading with him, saying, If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine.
³² And he said to them, Go away! Now they came out and went into the herd of swine and behold, all the herd of swine rushed down the cliff into the sea and died in the waters.