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

American Standard Version
Now there was afar off from them a herd of many swine feeding.

Young's Literal Translation
And there was far off from them a herd of many swine feeding,

Matthew 8:30 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

A herd of many swine - These were in all probability Jewish property, and kept and used in express violation of the law of God; and therefore their destruction, in the next verse, was no more than a proper manifestation of the justice of God.

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Leviticus 11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven footed, yet he chews not the cud; he is unclean to you.

Deuteronomy 14:8 And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, it is unclean to you: you shall not eat of their flesh...

Isaiah 65:3,4 A people that provokes me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifices in gardens, and burns incense on altars of brick...

Isaiah 66:3 He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offers an oblation...

Mark 5:11 Now there was there near to the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.

Luke 8:32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they sought him that he would suffer them to enter into them...

Luke 15:15,16 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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