The Sun Rose in the West During the Flood Week

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 56:2

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Another interpretation of "And it came to pass after the seven days" (Genesis 7:10): that during those seven days the Holy One, blessed be He, altered for them the orders of Creation, so that the sun would rise in the west and set in the east.

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