Hey I'm Matt, this is the 10-minute Bible hour podcast. You remember in Back to Future when Biff is chasing

Marty for the first time through Hill City, I think it was Hill City, right? And they're

driving along Main Street and Biff isn't paying attention and Marty's real good on his skateboard and Biff

Pow fall down go boom right into a big pile of manure.

He's got manure all over him because it's the grossest thing that anybody can think of and I

remember as a kid being like yeah that biff is the worst and now he has poop all

over him you deserve it biff because it's just the epitome of grossness of

uncleanness and of awfulness and the fact that he ran

into a big pile of poop instead of maybe like a big pile of squids which also would

have been funny in its own way but the poop made it more effective because that's the

grossest, whereas squids are weird or other things might have been hilarious, but you

need the poop to hit the unclean theme and make the kids giggle and have

everybody get that that's just as bad as it could be.

That's kind of what the pigs were like in the Bible.

The pigs were just the worst.

In fact, if you go to the Middle East today, Pigs are still kind of the worst.

It's a big time no-go zone.

There's a bunch of stuff about pigs

and why they're gross and bad in the Old Testament,

but here's one smoking gun passage

that comes to mind from Leviticus 11.

It just says, and the pigs, this is something that is unclean that you don't eat,

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