7 Why does one day excel another, when all the light of every day in the year is from the sun? (WEB)
Sirach 33:7
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2 Esdras 7:38–40
38 Look on this side and on that. Here is delight and rest, and there fire and torments.’ Thus he will speak to them in the day of judgment. (WEB) 39 This is a day that has neither sun, nor moon, nor stars, (WEB) 40 neither cloud, nor thunder, nor lightning, neither wind, nor water… (WEB)
1 Clement 49:2–4
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19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake. 20 Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it? 21 “I hat…
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3 Who before him stood so firm? For the Lord himself brought his enemies to him. (WEB) 4 Didn’t the sun go back by his hand? Didn’t one day become as two? (WEB) 5 He called upon the Most High, the Mighty One, when his foes pressed in all around him, and the great Lord heard him. (WEB)
Job 38:11–13
11 and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’? 12 In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place, 13 that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
Book of Enoch 72:33–35
33 And the length of the day and of the night, and the shortness of the day and of the night arise—through the course of the sun these distinctions are made (lit. ‘they are separated’). (ENO) 34 So it comes that its course becomes daily longer, and its course nightly shor… (ENO)
Psalms 74:15–17
15 You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers. 16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun. 17 You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
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