Deuteronomy 14:8

Easy To Read Version

And you must not eat pigs. Their hooves are divided, but they don’t chew the cud. So pigs are not a clean food for you. Don’t eat any meat from pigs. Don’t even touch a pig’s dead body.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:4

Those people sit among the graves. They wait to get messages from dead people. They even live among dead bodies. They eat pig meat. Their forks and knives are dirty with rotten meat.

Isaiah 66:17

Those people wash themselves to make themselves pure for worshiping in their special gardens. {\cf2\super [479]} These people follow each other into their special gardens. Then they worship their idols. But, the Lord will destroy all those people.

Isaiah 66:3

Some people kill bulls \{as a sacrifice\},\par but they also beat people.\par Those people kill sheep as a sacrifice,\par but they also break the necks of dogs!\par Those people offer up grain offerings,\par but they also offer the blood of pigs! {\cf2\super [475]} \par Those people burn incense, {\cf2\super [476]} \par but they also love their worthless idols. {\cf2\super [477]} \par Those people choose their own ways.\par And they also love their terrible idols.\par

Leviticus 11:3

If an animal has hooves [125] that are split into two parts, and if that animal also chews the cud, [126] then you can eat the meat from that animal.

Leviticus 5:2

Or a person might touch something unclean. [41] It might be the dead body of a tame animal, or it might be the dead body of an unclean animal. That person might not know that he touched those things, but he will still be guilty of doing wrong.

Deuteronomy 14:7

But don’t eat camels, rabbits or rock badgers. These animals chew the cud, but they don’t have split hooves. So those animals are not a clean [88] food for you.

Deuteronomy 14:9

“You may eat any kind of fish that has fins and scales.

2 Peter 2:22

What those people did is like this true saying: “When a dog vomits (throws up), he comes back to his vomit.” {\cf2\super [10]} And, “After a pig is washed, the pig goes back and rolls in the mud again.”