Mark 1:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ Now John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leather girdle around his waist, and ate locusts and wild honey.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And John wore clothing woven of camel's hair and had a leather girdle around his loins and ate locusts and wild honey.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.

Common English Bible

⁶ John wore clothes made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And John was clothed with camel's hair and with a leather belt around his waist. And he ate locusts and wild honey.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And John was clothed with camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and he ate locusts and wild honey.

Mark 1:6 Cross References

2 Kings 1:8

They answered him, “He wore a garment of haircloth, with a girdle of leather about his loins.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”

Leviticus 11:22

Of them you may eat: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.

Zechariah 13:4

On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; he will not put on a hairy mantle in order to deceive,

Matthew 3:4

Now John wore a garment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Mark 1:5

And there went out to him all the country of Judea, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Mark 1:7

And he preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.