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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to him and said, &#8220;I am God Almighty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">El-Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content">; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">No longer will you be called Abram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:5 </span><span class="fq">Abram </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">exalted father.</span></span></span><span class="content">; your name will be Abraham,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:5 </span><span class="fq">Abraham </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fq">father of many</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> for I have made you a father of many nations. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then God said to Abraham, &#8220;As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner&#8212;those who are not your offspring. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="JOS.18.11+JOS.18.12+JOS.18.13+JOS.18.14+JOS.18.15+JOS.18.16+JOS.18.17+JOS.18.18+JOS.18.19+JOS.18.20+JOS.18.21+JOS.18.22+JOS.18.23+JOS.18.24+JOS.18.25+JOS.18.26+JOS.18.27+JOS.18.28">
         <div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The first lot came up for the tribe of Benjamin according to its clans. Their allotted territory lay between the tribes of Judah and Joseph:</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan, passed the northern slope of Jericho and headed west into the hill country, coming out at the wilderness of Beth Aven. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">From there it crossed to the south slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth Addar on the hill south of Lower Beth Horon.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">From the hill facing Beth Horon on the south the boundary turned south along the western side and came out at Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a town of the people of Judah. This was the western side.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The southern side began at the outskirts of Kiriath Jearim on the west, and the boundary came out at the spring of the waters of Nephtoah. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The boundary went down to the foot of the hill facing the Valley of Ben Hinnom, north of the Valley of Rephaim. It continued down the Hinnom Valley along the southern slope of the Jebusite city and so to En Rogel. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">It then curved north, went to En Shemesh, continued to Geliloth, which faces the Pass of Adummim, and ran down to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">It continued to the northern slope of Beth Arabah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:18 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">slope facing the Arabah</span></span></span><span class="content"> and on down into the Arabah. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">It then went to the northern slope of Beth Hoglah and came out at the northern bay of the Dead Sea, at the mouth of the Jordan in the south. This was the southern boundary.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The Jordan formed the boundary on the eastern side.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.18.20"><span class="content">These were the boundaries that marked out the inheritance of the clans of Benjamin on all sides.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The tribe of Benjamin, according to its clans, had the following towns:</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.18.21"><span class="content">Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Kephar Ammoni, Ophni and Geba&#8212;twelve towns and their villages.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.18.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.18.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.18.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.18.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.18.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah and Kiriath&#8212;fourteen towns and their villages.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.18.28"><span class="content">This was the inheritance of Benjamin for its clans.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 23</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my shepherd, I lack nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He makes me lie down in green pastures,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="content">he leads me beside quiet waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">he refreshes my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">He guides me along the right paths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">for his name&#8217;s sake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Even though I walk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">through the darkest valley,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the valley of the shadow of death</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">I will fear no evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">for you are with me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">your rod and your staff,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">they comfort me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You prepare a table before me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">in the presence of my enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">You anoint my head with oil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">my cup overflows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Surely your goodness and love will follow me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">all the days of my life,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">and I will dwell in the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">forever.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Cush</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to the land of whirring wings</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of locusts</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="content">along the rivers of Cush,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:1 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">which sends envoys by sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">in papyrus boats over the water.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">Go, swift messengers,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">to a people tall and smooth-skinned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">to a people feared far and wide,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">an aggressive nation of strange speech,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">whose land is divided by rivers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All you people of the world,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you who live on the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">when a banner is raised on the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you will see it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">and when a trumpet sounds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you will hear it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">like shimmering heat in the sunshine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">and the flower becomes a ripening grape,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">and cut down and take away the spreading branches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">and to the wild animals;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">the birds will feed on them all summer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">the wild animals all winter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">At that time gifts will be brought to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">from a people tall and smooth-skinned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">from a people feared far and wide,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">an aggressive nation of strange speech,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">whose land is divided by rivers&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="MAT.9.9+MAT.9.10+MAT.9.11+MAT.9.12+MAT.9.13+MAT.9.14+MAT.9.15+MAT.9.16+MAT.9.17">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector&#8217;s booth. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Follow me,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew&#8217;s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, &#8220;Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On hearing this, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But go and learn what this means: &#8216;I desire mercy, not sacrifice.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:13 </span><span class="ft">Hosea 6:6</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Questioned About Fasting</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then John&#8217;s disciples came and asked him, &#8220;How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:2 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is singular; some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">me</span></span></span><span class="content"> free from the law of sin and death. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:3 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13.</span></span></span><span class="content"> God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">flesh, for sin</span></span></span><span class="content"> And so he condemned sin in the flesh, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God&#8217;s law, nor can it do so. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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