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Originally it was the leviathan, an imaginary, giant beast of the sea.

(Really giant, it covered the entire sea bed.) Since the story of Jonah is recorded in the scripture, the scripture has the answer for this.

17Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. A fish is not a whale, in terms of modern scientific classification, since a whale is a mammal. However it appears unclear what the actual Hebrew word used could be referring to. Some have suggested it was a large shark. The Leviathan is a different creature, with a different Hebrew word used, and so it was not a Leviathan. In any case, it was not any kind of mythological creature, but a real existent one.

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He did not obey God when God commanded him to go to Ninavah and preach to the people who lived there. Instead he went the other direction to Tarshish because the people in Ninavah were lawless and he was afraid to preach to them. Along the way God sent an awful storm and Jonah was thrown off of the ship because he confessed to having disobeyed God. After that God sent a giant fish (it was a large fish not a whale) to swallow Jonah and after three days and three nights he repented, was spit up by the fish and went to teach God's messages to the people of Ninavah.

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The description in the Book of Jonah is generic and nonspecific ... "a large fish".

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Jonah did not swallow an animal...an animal swallowed HIM, a WHALE swallowed jonah.

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Jonah was swallowed by a whale as he refused to go to the city god told him to go to . And went to another city.

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The Bible does not specify the name or species of the fish, only that it was a very large one (like a whale-sized fish).

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A whale or a 'great fish'

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A wahle swapped Jonah.

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