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Ferocious Dragons and Rogue Stars – Chaos Dragon E3
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The Chaos Dragon in the Literary Design of Genesis 1, 2, and 3
In the oldest versions of the King James, there's an ancient species of wild ox that's referred to in the Hebrew Bible called the Eim. When early English translators back in the 1500s were trying to figure out how to translate the AEM, they depended on the Greek translation. And so in the earliest English translations, you have the word unicorn in there. No, but that's different than what we're talking about. It was an error of species identification. Like in Hebrew, tannin, leviathan, like this is a common sea monster creature that's in the Bible. The sea monster became a symbol to talk about everything that's scary and terrifying and dangerous
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