Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.
Parallel translations
- KJV And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
- BSB In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.
- NKJV Now a good way off from them there was a herd of many swine feeding.
- NASB Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding at a distance from them.
- NLT There happened to be a large herd of pigs feeding in the distance.
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- Lev 11:7The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, he is unclean to you.
- Deut 14:8The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat, and you shall not touch their carcasses.
- Mark 5:11Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.
- Isa 65:3–4a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
- Luke 8:32Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. He allowed them.
- Isa 66:3He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
- Luke 15:15–16He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
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