3. Jonah swallowed by a whale
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This is one of the more controversial interpretations of the Bible, since the Old Testament book of Jonah states that a “great fish†swallowed Jonah. Yet in the New Testament book of Matthew it says he was “three days and three nights in the whale’s belly.†Neither the Hebrew language (Old Testament) nor the Green language (New Testament) had a word specific enough to clearly identify the sea creature that swallowed Jonah. It may have been a creature that has since been extinct.