THIS MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
The answer
Isaiah 11:6 reads "the wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid." The lion appears in the next breath — with the calf — but "the lion and the lamb" is a blend the verse never quite makes.
Why it’s interesting
The popular version smooths four animal pairs down to one memorable couplet. It's a case of the paraphrase becoming more famous than the text it came from.
Scholarly consensus
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