Jonah 2:1–11 presents Jonah’s prayer to YHWH from the belly of a great fish that has swallowed him. The NRSV follows the LXX and Vulgate in renumbering Jon 2:1 as Jon 1:16 and grouping it together with the narrative material in the first chapter. The reason for such a change would be that Jon 2:1 is written in a narrative form which resembles that of Jon 1:1–16 whereas Jon 2:2–11, renumbered in NRSV, LXX, and Vulgate as Jon 2:1–10, contains
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