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1 Maccabees 1:46-48
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 1:46-48
New Catholic Bible
46 to defile the temple and its priests, to build altars, temples, and shrines for idols, 47 to sacrifice swine[a] and other unclean beasts, 48 to leave their sons uncircumcised, and to allow themselves to be defiled with every kind of impurity and abomination,
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- 1 Maccabees 1:47 Swine: the pig was the unclean animal par excellence (see Lev 11:7; Deut 14:8).