"Wirt Atmar" <[log in to unmask]> implies:

> It's more or less implied in the accounts of Joshua. In Joshua 10:12-13,
the
> text reads:
>
> "12": Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up
the
> Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of
Israel,
> Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of
Ajalon.
>
> "13": And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had
> avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of
> Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to
go
> down about a whole day.

Hmmmmm.  What's implied is that God stopped the rotation of the earth.  This
description of the event (in a narrative section of the Bible) is what the
Israelites experienced.

In fact, I think this section of the Bible is probably the inspiration for
the movie, "The Day The Earth Stood Still".

:-)

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