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22 [a]What is expressed in the true proverb has happened to them,(A) “The dog returns to its own vomit,” and “A bathed sow returns to wallowing in the mire.”

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  1. 2:22 The second proverb is of unknown origin, while the first appears in Prv 26:11.

22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,”[a](A) and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”

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  1. 2 Peter 2:22 Prov. 26:11