To: LiteKeeper
"Book of Job speaks of the behemoth with a tail like a cedar. Sounds vaguely familiar."
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05/26/2007 6:46:50 PM PDT by
GovernmentIsTheProblem
(Amnesty alone didn't kill the GOP - socialism did long ago. The stench you smell now is it's corpse.)
To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
"Book of Job speaks of the behemoth with a tail like a cedar. Sounds vaguely familiar."
The word "tail" is being used as a euphemism for phallus in this passage. "Stones" is in the original Hebrew the word for testicles, which is why in the Vulgate it's translated as "testiculorem". The word that is translated as "moveth" is chaphets which is used elsewhere to mean "pleasure" or "delight".The passage is a description of the power and virility of behemoth, which from the context is pretty clearly a hippopotamus. Not to mention the fact that the presence of a navel means that the creature being described is a placental mammal and thus not a dinosaur.
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