Mark 1:6
Good News Translation
John wore clothes made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

New Revised Standard Version
Now John was clothed with camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

Contemporary English Version
John wore clothes made of camel's hair. He had a leather strap around his waist and ate grasshoppers and wild honey.

New American Bible
John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He fed on locusts and wild honey.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And John was clothed camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and he ate locusts and wild honey.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

clothed.

2 Kings 1:8 But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said: It is Elias, the Thesbite.

Zechariah 13:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be confounded, every one by his own vision, when he shall prophesy, neither shall they be clad with a garment of sackcloth, to deceive:

Matthew 3:4 And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

eat.

Leviticus 11:22 That you shall eat: as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and ophimachus, and the locust, every, one according to their kind.

Context
The Mission of John the Baptist
5And there went out to him all the country of Judea and all they of Jerusalem and were baptized by him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins. 6And John was clothed camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and he ate locusts and wild honey. 7And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.…
Cross References
2 Kings 1:8
But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said: It is Elias, the Thesbite.

Matthew 3:4
And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

Mark 1:5
And there went out to him all the country of Judea and all they of Jerusalem and were baptized by him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

Mark 1:7
And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.

Mark 1:5
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