Where are the unicorns?
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In the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible we read of God questioning Job (Chapter 39:9,10):
| Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? |
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The unicorn is also mentioned in Deuteronomy 33:17, Numbers 23:22 and 24:8; Psalm 22:21, 29:6 and 92:10; and Isaiah 34:7. Nowhere in these passages is there any suggestion that anything other than a real animal is being described.
But the unicorn is well known to be a product of legend, a creature whose remains have never been found and about whom fabulous tales have been told. Some have used this to attack the Bible—this proves that the writers were simply retelling widely believed myths, they say. See also: Pagan monsters in the Bible
In other, modern translations of the Bible, unicorn is translated as "wild oxen".
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