Sharks must've been on quite a literal diet.
The Bible also makes literally "clear" that men were literally expelled from Eden - The Garden of God...
Gen 3:24
24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
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...which is literally a contradiction in the context of:
Ezek 28:11-13
11 The word of the Lord came to me: 12 "Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
"'You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;
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