“And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.”
The pig is also unclean; although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses — the pig's partial compliance (split hoof but no cud-chewing) makes it paradigmatically unclean. The prohibition extends beyond eating to touching carcasses.
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