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11 So Isaiah the prophet invoked the Lord. He made the shadow go back the ten steps it had descended on the staircase to the terrace of Ahaz.

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See, I will make the shadow cast by the sun on the stairway to the terrace of Ahaz[a] go back the ten steps it has advanced. So the sun came back the ten steps it had advanced.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 38:8 Stairway to the terrace of Ahaz: this interpretation is based on a reading of the Hebrew text revised according to the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah; cf. 2 Kgs 23:12. Many translate the phrase as “steps of Ahaz” and understand this as referring to a sundial.