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Animals of
the Bible
 You're here » Kids Index - Animals of the Bible - The Whale Print Version

THE WHALE

The Whale - It is often found seventy feet long; and it is said that they have been found of the length of a hundred feet.

The whale is mentioned in the first chapter of the Bible, 21st verse. "And God created great whales." Some suppose that large fish of every kind are here meant.

       An animal called the leviathan is described in one of the last chapters of Job, which some suppose to be the whale. It certainly means a large and strong animal, as you will see by the questions asked about him: "Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook ? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

       Canst thou put a hook in his nose ? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid.

       The arrow cannot make him flee; he laugheth at the shaking of a spear; he maketh the deep to boil like a pot; one would think the deep to be hoary." This is like the whale in some things; but you will remember that it is not certain that he is meant.

       The common whale for which so many sailors are always seeking on the great ocean, is an enormous animal. It is often found seventy feet long; and it is said that they have been found of the length of a hundred feet.

       If you do not know how long this would be, you will do well to ask some friend to tell you of a building or something else with which you can compare it; for it is not very likely that you will ever see the whale itself, and its size is very wonderful.

       It is covered with a coat of fat, sometimes more than a yard thick; and when this is cut up and put over fires in great kettles, a hundred barrels of oil are sometimes obtained from a single whale.

       Perhaps you already know how they take the whale. As soon as the sailors see one, they go towards him in a boat until they get as near to him as they dare. Then they throw their harpoons at him; these are sharp-pointed irons, fastened to a very long rope, one end of which they keep in the boat.

       As soon as the whale is wounded, he dives down into the water, and swims away to some distance. He is usually obliged to come up again in about half an hour to breathe, for he cannot live all the while under water; and then the men throw other harpoons at him. Sometimes he comes so near as to upset the boat with a blow of his strong tail.

More Animals of the Bible: The Ant - The Ass, or Donkey - The Bear - The Bee - The Camel - The Dog - The Eagle - The Fox, or Jackal - The Goat - The Hart, and Hind - The Horse - The Ibex, or Wild Goat - The Jerboa, or Mouse - The Kite - The Leopard - The Lion - The Locust - The Mole - The NightHawk - The Ostrich - The Peacock - The Pelican - The Quail - The Raven - The Roe, or Gazelle - The Scorpion - The Sheep - The Stork - The Turtledove - The Unicorn - The Vulture - The Whale - The Wolf
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