Isaiah 65:4

Easy To Read Version

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.

Cross References

Exodus 23:19

“When you gather your crops at harvest time, you should bring the first of everything you harvest to the house [150] of the Lord your God.

Exodus 34:26

“Give the Lord the very first crops that you harvest. Bring those things to the house [353] of the Lord your God.

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

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I (Ezekiel) said, “Oh, but Lord my Master, I have never eaten any unclean food. I have never eaten meat from an animal that died from a disease or from an animal that was killed by a wild animal. I have never eaten unclean meat—not from the time I was a little baby until today. None of that bad meat ever entered my mouth.”

Leviticus 11:7

Other animals have hooves [130] that are split into two parts, but they don’t chew the cud. Don’t eat those animals. Pigs are like that, so they are unclean for you.

Zechariah 9:7

They will no longer eat meat with the blood still in it or any other forbidden food. Any Philistine left living will become a part of my people—they will be just one more family group in Judah. The people of Ekron will become a part of my people, just like the Jebusite people did. I will protect my country.

Numbers 19:11

If someone touches a dead person’s body, then he will be unclean [256] for seven days.

Matthew 8:28

Jesus arrived at the other side of the lake in the country of the Gadarene {\cf2\super [97]} people. There, two men came to Jesus. They had demons {\cf2\super [98]} inside them. These men lived in the burial caves. They were very dangerous. So people could not use the road by those caves.

Luke 8:27

When Jesus got out of the boat, a man from that town came to Jesus. This man had demons {\cf2\super [150]} inside him. For a long time he had worn no clothes. He lived in the caves where dead people are buried, not in a house.

Deuteronomy 14:21

“Don’t eat any animal that has died by itself. You may give the dead animal to the foreigner in your town, and he can eat it. Or you may sell the dead animal to a foreigner. But you yourselves must not eat the dead animal. Why? Because you belong to the Lord your God. You are his special people.

Deuteronomy 14:3

“Don’t eat anything that the Lord hates.

Deuteronomy 14:8

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.

Deuteronomy 18:11

Don’t let anyone try to put magic spells on other people. Don’t let any of your people become a medium [118] or a wizard. [119] And no person should try to talk with someone that has died.