Many Christians are familiar with the wide selection of Bible verses highlighted during their Sunday Mass. However, there is some less than known scripture that can be found between the pages of the Bible. Below, you will find some of the weirdest Bible verses ever translated.
“A young man was following Him, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body; and they seized him. But he pulled free of the linen sheet and escaped naked.” – Mark 14:51-52
“A quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping on a rainy day. Stopping her complaints is like trying to stop the wind or trying to hold something with greased hands.” – Proverbs 27:15-16
“As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.” – Proverbs 31:6
“But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?” – Isaiah 36:12
“Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish.” – Proverbs 31:6
“Gray is a crown of splendor: it is attained by a righteous life.” – Proverbs 26:11
“He said to Jacob, Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I’m exhausted.” – Genesis 25:30
“I wish those who unsettle you would castrate themselves!” – Galatians 5:12
“If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death, and the animal must be killed.” – Leviticus 20:15
“If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.” – Proverbs 27:14
“If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.” – Job 13:5
“It is better to live alone in the desert than with a crabby, complaining wife.” – Proverbs 21:19
“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.” – Deuteronomy 23:1
“There is more hope for a fool than for someone who speaks without thinking.” – Proverbs 29:20
“Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.” – Exodus 23:19
“When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.” – Revelations 8:1
“Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.” – Ezekiel 23:19-20
“You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.” – Leviticus 26:29
“You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.” – Deuteronomy 14:21
Natalie Regoli is a child of God, devoted wife, and mother of two boys. She has a Master's Degree in Law from The University of Texas. Natalie has been published in several national journals and has been practicing law for 18 years.