And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
 

1:3 dragons of the wilderness. These “dragons” (Hebrew tannin) are mentioned fairly frequently in Scripture—first in Genesis 1:21, where the word is translated “whales.” It is best understood as a generic term for what we now call “dinosaurs,” either great marine reptiles or land dinosaurs, depending on context.


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