Biblical Vulgarities & Obscenities - Compiled by
Donald Morgan (Note: What is and what is not vulgar or obscene is, of course, an
individual matter. By current Christian standards, however, the verses that follow would
likely be considered inappropriate, if not vulgar or obscene, were they in any setting
other than the Bible.)
GE 4:17 Cain's wife could
only have been his sister.
(KJV) GE 17:10-14, 23-27, 21:4, 34:15, 17, 22, 24, EX 4:26, 12:44, 48, LE 12:3, DT 10:16, 30:6, JS 5:2-5, 7-8, JE 4:4, 9:25, LK 1:59, LK 2:21, JN 7:22-23, AC 7:8, 10:45, 11:2, 15:1, 5, 24, 16:3, RO 2:25-29, 3:1, 30, 4:9-12, 15:8, CO 7:18-19, GA 2:3, 7-9, 12, 5:2-3, 6, 11, 6:12-13, 15, EP 2:11, PH 2:3, 3:5, CN 2:11, 3:11, 4:11, TS 1:10 Various references to
circumcision, some quite vulgar.
(KJV)GE 17:11, 14, 23-25,
EX 4:25, LE 12:3, DE 10:16, JS 5:3, SA 18:25, 27, SA 3:14, JE 4:4, HA 2:16 Various references to
foreskins, some rather vulgar.
GE 9:22 Ham, the father of
Canaan, saw his father's nakedness.
GE 19:4-8 A group of
sexually depraved men demands that Lot turn over to them his two male visitors. Lot offers
his two virgin daughters instead.
GE 19:30-38 Lot's
daughters have sexual intercourse with him while he is drunk and both become pregnant by
their father.
GE 24:2-9, 47:29 "... put your hand
under my thigh, and I will make you swear by the Lord ...." (Note: This means
"put your hand under my testicles," which is the manner in which oaths were
taken at the time; "testament," "testify," and "testicle"
have the same root.)
GE 29:16-30 Jacob marries
both Leah and her sister Rachel. He has children by both Leah and Rachel's maid Bilhah,
but Rachel remains barren. Due apparently to Rachel's generosity to her husband, the Lord
eventually allows Rachel to conceive.
GE 34:1-2 Shechem defiles
Dinah.
GE 34:13-29 Hamor, his
son, and the men of their village agree to be circumcised so as to be allowed to marry the
daughters of the Israelites. On the third day, "when they were sore," the
Israelites kill Hamor, his son, and all the men of the village, and plunder their wealth,
taking their wives and children, thus getting revenge for the defiling of Dinah.
GE 35:22 (KJV) "Reuben
went and lay with Bilhah, his fathers concubine."
GE 38:9 Onan "spills his
seed" on the ground rather than fulfill his obligation to his widowed sister-in-law
to father a child by her.
GE 38:13-19 Tamar plays
the role of a harlot in order to have sexual intercourse with her father-in-law. She
conceives and twins are born.
GE 39:7-23 The wife of
Joseph's master tries to get Joseph to go to bed with her. He refuses, and flees leaving
his "garment in her hand." She claims that Joseph tried to rape her, and Joseph
ends up imprisoned.
EX 20:26 "Neither shalt
thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon."
LE 15:16-19 (KJV)
"And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his
flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. And every garment, and every skin, whereon
is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even. The
woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe
themselves in water, and be unclean until the even. And if a woman have an issue, and her
issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her
shall be unclean ...."
LE 21:20, 22:24 (References to testicles,
or "stones" in the KJV.)
NU 31:17-18 "... all
the young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."
(Note: How did they determine which girls were virgins, and what did they do with them
after they kept them alive for themselves? This is not a pretty picture.)
NU 31:31-40 32,000
virgins are taken by the Israelites as booty of which thirty-two are set aside as a
tribute for the Lord.
DT 21:10-14 With the
Lord's approval, the Israelites are allowed to kidnap "beautiful women" from the
enemy camp to be their trial wives. If, after having sexual relations, a man has "no
delight" in his wife, he can simply let her go.
DT 23:1 (KJV) "He
that is wounded in the stones [testicles], or hath his privy member [penis] cut off, shall
not enter into the congregation of the Lord."
DT 28:15, 30 If you do not obey the
voice of the Lord, the Lord will cause another man to "lie with" your
wife-to-be.
JS 5:3 "... the Hill of
Foreskins."
JG 8:30-31 Gideon had many
wives as well as a concubine.
JG 19:22-29 A group of
sexual depraved men beat on the door of an old man's house demanding that he turn over to
them a male house guest. Instead, the old man offers his virgin daughter and his guest's
concubine (or wife): "Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine; let me
bring them out now. Ravish them and do with them what seems good to you; but against this
man do not do so vile a thing." The man's concubine is ravished and dies. The man
then cuts her body into twelve pieces and sends one piece to each of the twelve tribes of
Israel.
JG 21:11-12 "This is
what you shall do; every male and every woman that has lain with man you shall utterly
destroy. And they found ... four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with
him; and they brought them to the camp ...." (Again, how did they determine which
girls were virgins? This is not a pretty picture.)
JG 21:14-23 The 400
virgins captured above prove to be insufficient, so the Benjaminites hide in the vineyards
and kidnap "the daughters of Shiloh" as they come out to dance and celebrate.
SA 5:6-9 The Lord afflicts
Philistines with tumors in their "secret parts."
SA 18:27 So that David
might be allowed to marry the king's daughter, the king asks David to bring him 100
Philistine foreskins. David does the job right and brings the king not 100, but 200,
foreskins of murdered Philistines.
SA 25:22, 25:34, 1KI 14:10, 16:10-11, 21:21, 2KI 9:8 (KJV) "... him that
pisseth ...."
SA 19:24 "And he
stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down
naked all that day and all that night."
SA 3:7 (KJV) "Wherefore
hast thou gone in unto [a euphemism for sexual intercourse] my fathers concubine?"
SA 5:13, 20:3 David had many concubines.
SA 6:14, 16, 20-23 David dances and
exposes himself to his maids. (His wife, Michal rebukes him for having done so, and as a
consequence she is made barren.)
SA 12:11-12 The Lord is
going to punish David for his sin by taking his wives and causing his neighbor to have
sexual relations with them in public.
SA 13:1-14 King David's
son, Amnon, rapes his half-sister, Tamar.
SA 16:22 Absalom "went
into his father's concubines" in the sight of all Israel.
KI 1:1-4 David was old, and
although covered with clothes, could not get warm. A beautiful, young virgin is brought in
to be his concubine and nurse. But alas, he was so old and infirmed that he "knew her
not."
KI 11:3 Solomon (the wisest
man ever) had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
KI 6:29 "So we cooked my
son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Give up your son so we may eat him,' but she
had hidden him."
KI 18:27, IS 36:12 (KJV) "... eat their
own dung and drink their own piss." (Note: Although correctly translated according to
the oldest Hebrew manuscripts, piss and pisseth have been re-translated to something more
"godly" in all versions since the KJV.)
CH 11:21 Rehoboam had
eighteen wives and sixty concubines.
ES 2:2-17 King Ahasuerus
holds a sexual contest with "fair young virgins" to pick a new Queen (after
having been spurned by Queen Vashti).
PR 5:19 (KJV) "... Let
her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love."
SO 1:13 "My
beloved is to me a bag of myrrh, that lies between my breasts."
SO 2:3 "I sat
down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste."
SO 2:6, 8:3 "His left hand is
under my head, and his right hand embraces me."
SO 2:16, 6:3 "My lover is mine
and I am his. He browses among the lilies."
SO 4:5, 7:3 "Your two breasts
are like two fawns ...."
SO 5:4 (KJV) "My
beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him."
SO 7:1-2 "...
the joints of your thighs are like jewels ...."
SO 7:7-9 "You
are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I say I will climb the
palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine
...."
SO 8:10 "... and
my breasts were like towers."
IS 3:17 "The Lord will
smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will
uncover their secret parts."
IS 13:15 "Their infants
will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their ... wives will be ravished."
IS 20:2-4 The Lord himself
apparently commands his servant to go naked for three years.
IS 57:8 "Behind your
doors and doorpost ... you uncovered your bed, you climbed into it and opened it wide; you
made a pact with those whose beds you love, and you looked on their nakedness."
LA 4:21 "... thou
shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked."
EZ 4:12 (KJV) "And thou
shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in
their sight. And the Lord said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled
bread ...."
EZ 4:15 (KJV) "... I
have given thee cows dung for mans dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith."
EZ 16:7 "... You grew up
and ... arrived at full maidenhood; your breasts were formed ... yet you were naked and
bare."
EZ 16:8 "Later I passed
by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the
corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I gave you my solemn oath and
entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine."
EZ 16:22 "... you were
naked and bare, kicking about in your blood."
EZ 16:36 "... your
shame was laid bare and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotries with your lovers
...."
EZ 16:37 "Therefore I
am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you took pleasure, those you loved as well
as those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will strip you in
front of them, and they will see all your nakedness."
EZ 16:39 "... they will
strip you of your clothes, ... and leave you naked and bare."
EZ 23:3 "They played the
harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there were their breasts fondled
and their virgin bosoms handled." Or, as the KJV puts it: "they bruised the
teats of their virginity."
EZ 23:8 (KJV) "... in
her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured
their whoredom upon her."
EZ 23:10 "They stripped
her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword."
EZ 23:17 (KJV) "And the
Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom,
and she was polluted with them ...."
EZ 23:18 (KJV) "So she
discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: ...."
EZ 23:20-21 (RSV)
"Yet she increased her harlotry ... and doted on her paramours there, whose members
[i.e., sexual organs] were like those of asses and whose issue was like that of horses.
Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and
pressed your young breasts."
EZ 23:29 (KJV) "... and
shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered,
both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms."
EZ 23:34 "You shall ...
pluck out your hair, and tear your breasts."
HO 1:2 (KJV) "And the Lord
said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the
land hath committed great whoredom.'"
HO 2:2 (KJV) "... let her
... put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts
...."
HO 2:3 "Otherwise I will
strip her naked and make her as bare as the day she was born."
HO 13:16 "They shall fall
by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be
ripped up."
AM 2:16 " Even the bravest
warriors will flee naked on that day,' declares the Lord."
MI 1:8 "I will go stripped
and naked."
MI 3:2-3 "... who pluck
off their skin ..., and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my
people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in
pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron."
NA 3:5 " I am against you,'
says the Lord ... , and will lift up your skirts over your face; I will show the nations
your nakedness and kingdoms your shame.'"
HA 2:15 "Woe to him who
gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he
can gaze on their naked bodies."
MA 2:3 The Lord says that he
will spread dung upon the faces of the priests.
MK 14:51-52 A young man
discards his clothing and flees naked.
JN 21:7 (KJV) "Now when
Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fishers coat unto him, for he was
naked, and did cast himself into the sea."
AC 19:13-16 Seven Jewish
exorcists are overpowered by a man with a demon and flee naked and wounded.
RE 16:15 When Jesus comes
again, he will come like a thief in the night so that those who do not have their clothes
[on] will go naked and be shamefully exposed.
RE 17:16 "They will
bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with
fire."
|