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  • Jesus primarily spoke Aramaic, with some Hebrew and Greek. ... speaking audiences, albeit he also knew some Hebrew and Greek. ...
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  • The word Amen (Hebrew: אמן, meaning "Firm" or "Verily ... quot; (or, more correctly, Āmīn) as the standard ending to the Dua (Supplication ...
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  • Geonim (plural of גאון Gaon) (Hebrew: גאונים meaning "Excellency ... The authority of the Geonim began in 589 C.E. (Hebrew date: 4349) ...
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  • say the editors of The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, who ... about thirty-five references to the Hebrew Bible, all of which, however ...
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  • Old Testament but are not present in the Hebrew Bible. The word deuterocanonical ... appear to have been written originally in Hebrew, but the original text has ...
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  • gifted linguist (fluent in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, ... *Jehovah (from a transliterated Hebrew construction in the Old Testament; ...
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  • The word derives from the Hebrew: גי(א)-הינום Gêhinnôm ... According to the Hebrew Bible, pagans once sacrificed their children ...
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  • translation), written in three languages (Hebrew, Latin, and Greek), was affixed ... nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin" ...
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  • four gospels. The Diatesseron became the standard text of the gospels in the ... an independent translation from the Hebrew Bible. Resolution of these ...
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  • Shema Yisrael (or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema) (Hebrew: שמע ... :Echad--the Hebrew word for "1" (the number) Like many other ...
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  • Habakkuk or Havakuk (Hebrew: חֲבַקּוּק, Standard Ḥavaqquq Tiberian Ḥăḇaqqûq ) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth ...
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  • works of Greek and Arabic scholarship into Hebrew, making them accessible to ... to translate Aristotle and Averroes into Hebrew. He also produced the first ...
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  • well-defined form of English (such as standard English for a region). The ... either in an absolute sense or about a standard variety. ...
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  • short prophetic texts included within the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) as well as ... on a single scroll in the classical Hebrew (and only separated when ...
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  • by the sole reliance on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) as scripture, and ... ," and is derived from the old Hebrew word for the Hebrew Bible ...
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  • to the ancient, Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (often called the ... Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls attest to Hebrew texts other than those on ...
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  • The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... translation (around 300 B.C.E.) of the Hebrew Scriptures that was in popular ...
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  • [[Image:Standard of Ur - War.jpg|left|350px|thumb|The "War" ... Another important find was the Standard of Ur (also known as the ...
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  • The Hebrew of “nephilim” is נפלים, which may mean “those ... have been fathered by members of a proto-Hebrew pantheon (which causes much ...
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  • Matthew the Evangelist (Standard Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew: Mattay or Mattithyahu; "Gift of Yahweh"—first century C.E.), usually ...
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  • the Book of Enoch and Book of Jubilees. In Hebrew, they are known as the Irin ... Earlier mystical Hebrew sects organized the Watchers into an Archangel ...
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  • The Torah (from Hebrew תּוֹרָה: meaning "teaching," ... quot; (אֲרוֹן הקֹדשׁ aron hakodesh in Hebrew.) ...
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  • and 0.2 inches (5.0 mm) vertically. A standard braille page is 11 inches ... used by those who have difficulty feeling standard Braille. The dot combinations ...
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  • law). They form the core of the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. In Christianity, the ... quot; or "Discourses") (The Hebrew names are taken from initial ...
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  • with Palestine and familiar with the Hebrew canon excluded from the canon ... as the canonical scriptures of the Hebrew collection, but were of value ...
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  • Hugo Odeberg,Hugo Odeberg, 3 Enoch Or The Hebrew Book Of Enoch (Ktav Pub. ... not being used in place of the Hebrew word for throne. The two words ...
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  • Balaam (Hebrew: בִּלְעָם, Bilʻam ) was a non-Israelite prophet in the Hebrew Bible, his story occurring ...
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  • Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, (Hebrew: רבי שלמה יצחקי), better ... Rashi also wrote an extensive commentary on the Hebrew Bible, completed ...
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  • The Cave of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, Me'arat ... in finding a proper spouse. There are Hebrew prayers of supplication for ...
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  • The historic Philistines (Hebrew: פלשתים, plishtim) were a people ... "Pelishtim" (פלשתים; Standard Hebrew: Pəlištim; Tiberian ...
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  • The Samaritans speak either Modern Hebrew (in Holon) or Palestinian ... what is commanded, demonstrating a higher standard of love. ...
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  • , son of Matthias, an ethnic Hebrew, a priest from Jerusalem ... This was standard for new citizens. Josephus' first wife perished ...
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  • Rehoboam (Hebrew: רחבעם, Rehav'am) was a king in ancient ... Meanwhile, Rehoboam himself was not living up to the biblical standard ...
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  • A Nazirite (also spelled Nazarite) (from Hebrew: נזיר, nazir meaning ... The term "Nazirite" comes from the Hebrew nazir meaning ...
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  • * The Jewish holiday of Shavuot starts on the sixth day of the Hebrew ... * There are six strings on a standard guitar * There are six basic ...
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  • based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection ... Old Testament but that are not part of the Hebrew canon are sometimes described ...
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  • the author of the ninth text in the Hebrew Bible's minor prophetic ... The book of Zephaniah consists of three chapters in the Hebrew Masoretic ...
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  • quot;my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally believed ... various themes found in other books of the Hebrew Bible. ...
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  • From 1648, he was also Regius Professor of Hebrew. 1648 to 1650 and again from ... Pasor, a refugee from Germany who taught Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic ...
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  • An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or ... Alphabets are usually associated with a standard ordering of their ...
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  • CAN/MARC). MARC21 is based on the ANSI standard Z39.2, which allows users ... as UTF-8. MARC-8 is based on ISO 2022 and allows the use of Hebrew ...
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  • Rabbi Judah haNasi, (Hebrew: יהודה הנשיא—"Judah the ... the Jews of Palestine who did not speak Hebrew should consider Greek as ...
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  • Jericho (Arabic أريحا, ʼArīḥā; Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ, Standard Yəriḥo Tiberian Yərîḫô / Yərîḥô; meaning "fragrant," ...
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  • Elijah (Standard Hebrew: אֱלִיָּהוּ Eliyyáhu'), also known as Elias (New Testament Greek: Hλίας), was a ninth-century B.C ...
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  • of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament ... His name appears to be derived from the Hebrew stem (hgg), which "means ...
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  • Hebrew י (Yod) Khmer ១០ Korean 십 Thai ๑๐ }} 10 (ten) is ... Study Bible: The Holy Bible Revised Standard Version (Grand Rapids, MI: ...
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  • They were convicted of hooliganism, a standard charge against those who ... Sharansky emigrated to Israel, adopting a Hebrew given name, Natan. ...
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  • originally been written in Aramaic, or the Hebrew, or that it was translated ... from that which has now become the standard text. Marcion's version ...
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  • | Hebrew || א (Alef) |- | Khmer || ១ |- | Thai || ๑ ... Study Bible: The Holy Bible Revised Standard Version. Grand Rapids, MI: ...
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  • the Exilic and early post-Exilic period of Hebrew history, and that the second ... ve'et ha'arets" in Hebrew). Most biblical scholars ...
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  • the Shulchan Aruch, which became the standard compendium of Jewish law ... the city as such plays no role in the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament ...
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  • The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew מגילת איכה) is a book of ... "Lamentations" (Greek threnoi / Hebrew qinoth, "dirges" ...
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  • spoke Yiddish and German; he soon learned Hebrew and French; and he acquired ... Buber began a German translation of the Hebrew Bible. Buber referred to ...
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  • The name Lazarus (Hebrew: "God helped") refers to two separate ... Others say that the name is given in this case because of the Hebrew ...
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  • and in maintaining its consistently high standard, detailed and broad coverage ... Judaism in America and the founder of Hebrew Union College. Their only ...
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  • *In the Hebrew alphabet, ה (heh) has numerical value of 5. ... the books were kept), or Humash (חומש, Hebrew for "fifth"). ...
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  • Saccas. He delved into learning the Hebrew language, and although he ... commentaries on various books of the Hebrew Bible and what would become ...
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  • Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew Avraham ben David ha-Levi; Arabic Ibrahim ... from Moses until his own time. Now a Hebrew classic, it is replete with ...
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  • The Ebionites (from Hebrew; אביונים, Ebyonim, "the poor ... emphasized the humanity of Yeshua (the Hebrew name for Jesus) as the biological ...
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  • David (דָּוִד "Beloved," Standard Hebrew Davíd, Tiberian Hebrew Dāwiḏ; Arabic داود Dāʾūd "Beloved"), also ...
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  • * ISO 9 is the standard of the International Organization for Standardization ... * The first nine days of the Hebrew month of Av are collectively known ...
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  • has produced 94 books: the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible and 70 secret works ... most scholars agree was translated from a Hebrew original. ...
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  • The Talmud (Hebrew: תלמוד) is a record of rabbinical discussions ... other subjects and expounds broadly on the Hebrew Bible. Printed editions of ...
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  • The Noahide Laws (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח, Sheva mitzvot ... the land of Uz who had a whole book of the Hebrew Bible devoted to him as a ...
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  • The Book of Joel is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... As with many of the Hebrew prophets, virtually nothing is known of ...
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  • certainly was meant as a invocation to the Hebrew God, and not to a plurality ... of the Greek Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible (2d recension), his ...
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  • Irenaeus, that Matthew originally wrote in Hebrew letters, which is thought ... in Greek and is not a translation from Hebrew or Aramaic (Greek primacy ...
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  • Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... that most of the non-ethical laws of the Hebrew Bible become obsolete as ...
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  • the the Septuagint Greek version of the Hebrew Bible in which it is called ... the Ark of the Covenant to serve as their standard. Without divine support ...
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  • [[Image:Peshitta464.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Peshitta is the standard ... Aramaic, or Arabic, forms of biblical, Hebrew, or Greek Christian names ...
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  • to which the Phoenician dialects, with Hebrew, Moabite, and others belong. Structural Linguistics, which became the standard textbook for more than a ...
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  • James Version is translated from the Masoretic Hebrew Text. Modern English Bibles such as the New American Standard Bible and ...
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  • is the second book of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible. The major events of ... . The Greek Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible designated this second ...
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  • In the Hebrew and Christian traditions, filial piety is asserted in ... parents upside down is certainly not standard conduct, but because it ...
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  • a brilliant scholar of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew and had a reputation for ... her women's abbey and establish a standard for all other abbeys. Abelard ...
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  • Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible completed by the Jews ... type=DIV1&byte=4451716 Bible, Revised Standard Version: 3 Maccabees] ...
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  • and Islam) that claim the prophet Abraham (Hebrew: Avraham אַבְרָהָם ... This Supreme Being is referred to in the Hebrew Bible in several ways ...
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  • Solomon or Shlomo (Hebrew: שְׁלֹמֹה; Standard Hebrew: Šəlomo; Tiberian Hebrew: Šəlōmōh; Arabic: سليمان Sulayman) was the ...
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  • In 1915, Herskovits entered the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew ... According to this, there is no absolute standard of justice—what is just ...
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  • He thus insisted that his son study modern Hebrew in addition to the Talmud ... He taught Hebrew and worked as a translator and choirmaster before ...
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  • Philo wrote commentaries portraying the Hebrew Bible as an allegory ... of the Jewish scriptures rather than Hebrew manuscripts. His Allegorical ...
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  • A Levite (from Levi, "attached") is a member of the Hebrew ... Babylonian exile, they became the basic standard of Jewish tradition. Levites ...
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  • tradition suggests that Moses recorded the Hebrew Torah, while Islamic tradition ... are collections of material, such as the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New ...
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  • jpg|thumb|right|400px|A shofar, ancient Hebrew precursor to the modern bugle]] ... Nineteenth century variants based on the standard bugle included keyed ...
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  • Hasidic Judaism (also Chasidic, among others, from the Hebrew: חסידות ... With yeshivas and and even private religious instruction in Hebrew ...
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  • having evolved into the Phoenician, Hebrew, and Greek alphabets. ... by Sir Alan Gardiner and considered a standard reference, are now available ...
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  • # Shiv`a (another pronunciation of the Hebrew word for 7—( ... *The menorah (Hebrew: מנורה), is a seven branched candelabrum ...
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  • In the Hebrew Bible, God's forgiveness of sin was a major concern ... An especially difficult issue was what the Hebrew Bible had called ...
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  • The Kingdom of Judah (Hebrew מַלְכוּת יְהוּדָה, Standard Hebrew Malkut Yəhuda) was the nation formed from the territories of ...
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  • ābāq (pronounced "a-vak"), the Hebrew word for "dust." ... has 4 plus 1 bead per decimal place, the standard suanpan has 5 plus 2 for ...
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  • beautiful"—the word is found in the Hebrew version of Book of Isaiah ... Combination.jpg|left|thumb|200px|The Standard Works of The Church of Jesus ...
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  • Eli (Hebrew: עֵלִי, "Ascent") was the high priest at ... Ark of the Covenant from Shiloh as their standard. Hophni and Phinehas carry ...
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  • Johnson's dictionary remained the English-language standard for ... of some other languages, most notable Hebrew, Sanskrit, and Arabic, words ...
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  • In addition, the prophets of the Hebrew Bible spoke of social responsibility ... is accountable for his own sin. The Hebrew Bible also supports the notion ...
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  • Lilith (Hebrew he|לילית ) is a female demon figure found in Mesopotamian ... The Hebrew Lilith and Akkadian Līlītu are female adjectives from ...
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  • British aristocracy, which set its own standard for proper spelling and ... James Version as a base, and consulted the Hebrew and Greek along with various ...
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  • The generic Hebrew word for any kind of sin is avera (literally: transgression ... Thus, the Hebrew Bible describes three levels of sin: *Pesha פשע ...
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  • fat from cows or sheep, became the standard material used in candles ... to particular specifications (a "standard candle"). The modern ...
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  • he tried to support himself by giving Hebrew lessons, but soon gave up ... asp What Yiddish Says] article from The Weekly Standard. ...
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  • Kibbutzim (קיבוצים), from the Hebrew word meaning "gathering ... Kibbutzniks enjoyed a steady and gradual improvement in their standard ...
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