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Line 40: − and [[Sirach]] 17:31:<ref>https://bible.usccb.org/bible/sirach/17</ref>+
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{{cquote|It was now about noon and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon because of an eclipse of the sun.}}
{{cquote|It was now about noon and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon because of an eclipse of the sun.}}
The [[ESV]] translates this half-verse as "while the sun's light failed."
The [[ESV]] translates this half-verse as "while the sun's light failed."
The [[Book of Sirach]] 17:31 expressly references the phenomenon of the eclipse:<ref>https://bible.usccb.org/bible/sirach/17</ref>
{{cquote|Is anything brighter than the sun? Yet it can be eclipsed.
{{cquote|Is anything brighter than the sun? Yet it can be eclipsed.
How worthless* then the thoughts of flesh and blood!}}
How worthless* then the thoughts of flesh and blood!}}