Jeremiah 8

Jeremiah 8:17

"For, behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which can’t be charmed, and they shall bite you"
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Did God send mythological cockatrices?

Skeptics sometimes point to the word "cockatrice" as a scientific error or evidence of belief in a mythological creature:
> I will send serpents, and cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they will bite you saith the Lord. (Jeremiah 8:17)

However, this is simply a relic of older translations like the King James Version. Modern translations rightly and accurately translate the underlying Hebrew word as "viper."

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