the names bf Leviathan and Behemoth. 273 



is not rent under them." Gen. i. 9, " And God said, Let the 

 waters under heaven be gathered together into one place, and 

 let the dry land appear." Alluded to in Job xxvi. 10, " He 

 compasseth the waters with bounds ;" and in Job xxxviii. 10, 11, 

 " And brake up for it (the sea) my decreed place, and set bars 

 and doors ; and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, 

 and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." This last allusion 

 in Job to the work of the third day ? or period of creation in the 

 first chapter of Genesis, is followed, in the 12th verse, by an al- 

 lusion to the work of the fourth day, or period of creation in 

 which the sun and moon were appointed for days and for years. 

 Verse 12th, " Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days, 

 or caused the day-spring to know his place ?" Gen. hi. 8, 10, 

 " And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of 

 the Lord God." "And he (Adam) said, I heard thy voice in 

 the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked ; and I hid 

 myself." Alluded to in Job xxxi. 33, " If I covered my trans- 

 gressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom." 

 Gen. iv. 10, 11, " And he said, What hast thou done ? The 

 voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. 

 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened 

 her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand." Al- 

 luded to in Job xvi. 18, " O earth, cover not thou my blood, 

 and let my cry have no place." 



The detail of these allusions may appear tedious ; but the es- 

 tablishment of their existence and frequency in Job brings a 

 clear light upon our present inquiry. The Behemoth in Job is 

 introduced by an allusion of the same kind to the same early 

 records. Job xl. 15, " Behold now Behemoth, which I made 

 with thee." This is an obvious allusion to the work of the sixth 

 day, or period of creation, in the first chapter of Genesis, in 

 which man was created, and in which also Behemah is expressly 

 named, along with other mammalia, as being created. It is, in- 

 deed, mammalia alone that are represented in the Hebrew text y 

 as being created in the sixth period ; for although our common 

 translation, following the Greek Septuagint, has introduced in 

 that period creeping thing, yet this is by no means expressed 

 by the Hebrew term which they have so translated That term 

 is remes, a term which we find applied to the beasts of the 



