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Old 07-06-2009, 07:58 PM
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KJV-ers: Unicorns? Please explain!

I just got an email from an atheist friend who recently read about Job 39:9-12 where it mentions unicorns. I have read Job before and never met a unicorn, so I assumed that he was listening to ignorant atheists, but I found that the KJV does say unicorn. Does anyone have an explanation as to why? My two guesses are either it was a bad translation or the word unicorn used to mean something else, like wild ox (which is the ESV, etc. translation). What does the Hebrew say?

Also, does anyone know what the Geneva says? Mine is at home and I am on vacation.

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