3 myths
The primordial land-beast of Jewish legend, created on the sixth day and paired with Leviathan; it grazes a thousand mountains and is reserved, with Leviathan, for the feast of the righteous in the world to come.
3 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines behemoth, drawn from the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, Talmud, Kabbalah, and later Jewish literature. Each story below synthesizes primary sources into a single narrative; follow any myth to read it, and from there into the source passages behind it.
God made two monsters before time was ordered and kept them apart. At the end of days they will destroy each other, and their flesh will feed the righteous.
On the sixth day, Behemoth rose from the earth, ate a thousand hills each day, drank from the Jordan, and waited for its appointed end.
Behemoth crouched on a thousand mountains. Leviathan rose and the angels fled. What God marks for Himself does not slip, even at the last banquet.
