⁶ Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs,^(A) or they will trample them under their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.

³⁰ A long way off from them, a large herd of pigs was feeding. ³¹ “If you drive us out,” the demons begged him, “send us into the herd of pigs.”

³² “Go!” he told them. So when they had come out, they entered the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and perished in the water.

³² A large herd of pigs was there, feeding on the hillside. The demons begged him to permit them to enter the pigs, and he gave them permission. ³³ The demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.

¹⁵ Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.^{(A) 16} He longed to eat his fill from^[a] the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one would give him anything.