COMMENT: The notion that the swine is unclean to the people addressed as "you" referring only to the Levites according to Leviticus Leviticus 11:4-8, reveals the misconception that God has arbitrarily placed an "unclean" tag reference to the swine.

Many Christians believe the same thing when they believe that Jesus now permits eating unclean foods, misquoting and misapplying Mark 7:15-23 and ignoring the meaning of Jesus' words in the same account according to Matthew 15:16-20, which is about "unwashen hands" and not the meat being eaten. Even Peter's vision (Acts 10:11-16) is defined not as a permission to eat the unclean animals but that any person "should not call any man common or unclean" (Acts 10:28).

The status of clean and unclean is traced beyond Leviticus to the time of Noah (Genesis 7:2). Seeing we are all descendants of Noah, we are all to continue to make a distinction between the anatomy of clean animals that pass out foul content and the unclean which retains the foul content. This is how a goat can eat a tin can and be considered a clean animal while a pig eats the same thing and is unclean. That is because the pig retains the contents in the body creating a poison within the meat of the animal. Even cows will poop out whole candy bar wrappers still readable while there is no trace of such with a pig.

So if everyone would stop looking at the title of "clean" and "unclean" as mere titles and realize it is a labeling of creatures that are eatable and not eatable for health reasons, the debate would be over.