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The Sun Stood Still: Joshua's Long Day

Joshua 10 says the sun "stood still" for about a day — does this require the earth's rotation to have stopped, and does the passage's poetic source (the Book of Jashar) change how we should read it?

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The Sun Stood Still: Joshua's Long Day

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