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12 Later that day, Joshua spoke to the Lord while the Lord was delivering the Amorites to the Israelis. This is what he said in the presence of Israel:

“Sun, be still over Gibeon!
    Moon, stand in place[a] in the Aijalon Valley!”

13 So the sun remained still
    and the moon stood in place
        until the nation settled their score with their enemies.

This is recorded, is it not, in the book of Jashar?[b]

The sun stood in place
    in the middle of the sky
and seemed not to be in a hurry
    to set for nearly an entire day.

14 There has never been a day like it before or since, when the Lord listened to the voice of a man, because the Lord was fighting on behalf of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 10:12 The Heb. lacks stand in place
  2. Joshua 10:13 Lit. the Book of the Upright; i.e. an ancient chronicle of Israel, apparently now lost. The first half of v. 13 rather than the quatrain following may be the citation.