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Bible Verses About Swine

This noindex topical Bible draft for Swine was seeded from the public-domain reference inventory in Torrey's New Topical Textbook. It stores Scripture references and source provenance only, not copied competitor commentary or modern editorial text.

Before publishing, an editor should verify the passage set against THF Bible tools, choose the clearest anchor passages, remove weak or duplicate references, add early Christian evidence where available, and connect the page to relevant lessons, courses, videos, Strong's data, interlinear study, and cross-reference tools. The source inventory included 13 topic entries and produced 13 parsed verse references for review.

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14 references

Supporting Passages

The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

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And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

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Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

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But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

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And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

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He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

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And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.

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And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

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So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.

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And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.

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Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.

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And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.

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Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

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They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.

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