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Coincidentally, I have been reading Psalm 120/121 a lot recently. There is a verse in it which doesn't make sense to me.

"The sun shall not burn you by day, nor the moon by night."

I just don't get it, in what world is the moon's brightness bothering anyone? So I was thinking I would look up commentaries and try to find out if the original Hebrew is different (for example sometimes they will translate a demon's name as something abstract like terror pestilence etc). And I will still do that, but your article raises the possibility that maybe the moon was brighter in the past and people are remembering this.

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