I read through the Bible every year, and I believe I’ve done the following about three times out of the ten or twelve at this point. In the middle of Leviticus, when most people are completely checked out, there’s this gem:
“Now if a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald; he is clean.”
Leviticus 13:40
Coming across this verse, I would send a text to a friend, who happened to be bald. Something like, “Read Lev. 13:40 and thought of you.” This would force them to look it up, since no one knows this verse in the least bit.
The first bald man I sent that to had a good laugh, and responded with something like: “Grass doesn’t grow on a busy street.” A nice comeback, but not the best one I’ve received.
I sent it to a different buddy a few years ago, same shenanigans as above. The response: “2 Kings 2:23-25.” Nothing else was said.
When I looked up the verse, I could help but smile:
“Then [Elisha] went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” Then he looked behind him and saw them. And he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number. And he went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.”
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