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Leviticus 11:7 · World English Bible

Leviticus 11:7 Meaning The Pig

The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you.

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What does Leviticus 11:7 mean?

The swine feeds on the lowest carnal thoughts, the coarse pull of the flesh that religion learned to fear on the plate while missing the mind it stands for. What makes it unclean is not the animal but the appetite it carries: thoughts swallowed from the lowest pits of the physical nature, taken in whole and never worked over.

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The swine feeds on the lowest carnal thoughts, the coarse pull of the flesh that religion learned to fear on the plate while missing the mind it stands for. What makes it unclean is not the animal but the appetite it carries: thoughts swallowed from the lowest pits of the physical nature, taken in whole and never worked over. To chew the cud is to bring what you take in back up and think it through, to weigh a thing before it becomes part of you. The carnal mind gulps and does not weigh. That is the uncleanness, and it lives inside a person as the habit of feeding on the low without ever pausing to understand what is being fed.

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Live Leviticus 11:7 today

  1. After something gets you worked up online, sit with it for sixty seconds before you repost, reply, or let it become your opinion. Bring it back up and chew it.
  2. When a friend tells you a story that makes someone the obvious villain, ask one gentle question instead of swallowing the version you were handed.
  3. In a fast meeting where a claim slides by that nobody checks, say the quiet thing: where did that number come from? Speed is how unchewed ideas get in.

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