Category: Ezekiel

1 In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, while I was among the exiles by the Chebar Canal,the heavens openedand I saw visions of God.

2 On the fifth day of the month — it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile—

3 the word of theLordcamedirectly to Ezekielthe priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeansby the Chebar Canal. And theLord’s hand was on him there.

Vision of the Lord’s Glory

4 I looked and there was a whirlwindcoming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing back and forth and brilliant light all around it. In the center of the fire, there was a gleam like amber.

5 The form of four living creatures came from it.And this was their appearance: They had human form,

6 but each of them had four faces and four wings.

7 Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the hooves of a calf, sparkling like the gleam of polished bronze.

8 They had human hands under their wings on their four sides.All four of them had faces and wings.

9 Their wings were touching. The creatures did not turn as they moved; each one went straight ahead.

10 The form of each of their faces was that of a man,and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right, the face of an ox on the left, and the face of an eagle.

11 That is what their faces were like. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching that of another and two wings covering its body.

12 Each creature went straight ahead.Wherever the Spiritwanted to go, they went without turning as they moved.

13 The form of the living creatures was like the appearance of burning coals of fire and torches.Fire was moving back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, with lightning coming out of it.

14 The creatures were darting back and forthlike flashes of lightning.

15 When I looked at the living creatures, there was one wheel on the ground beside each creature that had four faces.

16 The appearance of the wheelsand their craftsmanship was like the gleam of beryl,and all four had the same form. Their appearance and craftsmanship was like a wheel within a wheel.

17 When they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.

18 Their rims were large and frightening. Each of their four rims were full of eyesall around.

19 So when the living creatures moved,the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the earth, the wheels also rose.

20 Wherever the Spiritwanted to go, the creatures went in the direction the Spirit was moving. The wheels rose alongside them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

21 When the creatures moved, the wheels moved; when the creatures stood still, the wheels stood still; and when the creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose alongside them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

22 The shape of an expanse,with a gleam like awe-inspiring crystal,was spread out over the heads of the living creatures.

23 And under the expanse their wings extended one toward another. Each of them also had two wings covering their bodies.

24 When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings like the roar of mighty waters,like the voice of the Almighty,and a sound of commotion like the noise of an army.When they stood still, they lowered their wings.

25 A voice came from above the expanse over their heads; when they stood still, they lowered their wings.

26 The shape of a throne with the appearance of sapphirestone was above the expanse.There was a form with the appearance of a human on the throne high above.

27 From what seemed to be His waist up, I saw a gleam like amber, with what looked like fire enclosing it all around.From what seemed to be His waist down, I also saw what looked like fire. There was a brilliant light all around Him.

28 The appearance of the brilliant light all around was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day.This was the appearance of the form of theLord’s glory.When I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking.

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Mission to Rebellious Israel

1 He said to me, “Son of man, stand up on your feetand I will speak with you.”

2 As He spoke to me, the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet,and I listened to the One who was speaking to me.

3 He said to me: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, tothe rebellious paganswho have rebelled against Me. The Israelites and their ancestors have transgressed against Me to this day.

4 The children are obstinateand hardhearted.I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, ‘This is what the LordGodsays.’

5 Whether they listen or refuse to listen— for they are a rebellious house — they will know that a prophet has been among them.

6 “But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words,though briers and thorns are beside you and you live among scorpions.Don’t be afraid of their words or be discouraged by the look on their faces, for they are a rebellious house.

7 But speak My words to them whether they listen or refuse to listen,for they are rebellious.

8 “And you, son of man, listen to what I tell you: Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”

9 So I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me,and there was a written scroll in it.

10 When He unrolled it before me, it was written on the front and back; words of lamentation, mourning, and woe were written on it.

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1 He said to me: “Son of man, eat what you find here. Eat this scroll,then go and speak to the house of Israel.”

2 So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.

3 “Son of man,” He said to me, “eatand fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate it,and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

4 Then He said to me: “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak My words to them.

5 For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language but to the house of Israel.

6 You are not being sent to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. No doubt, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

7 But the house of Israel will not want to listen to you because they do not want to listen to Me.For the whole house of Israel is hardheaded and hardhearted.

8 Look, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

9 I have made your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them or discouraged by the look on their faces, even though they are a rebellious house.”

10 Next He said to me: “Son of man, listen carefully to all My words that I speak to you and take them to heart.

11 Go to your people, the exiles, and speak to them. Tell them, ‘This is what the LordGodsays,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.”

12 The Spirit then lifted me up,and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me — praise the glory of theLordin His place! —

13 with thesound of the living creatures’ wings brushing against each otherand the sound of the wheels beside them,a great rumbling sound.

14 So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I left in bitterness and in an angry spirit, and theLord’s hand was on me powerfully.

15 I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were living by the Chebar Canal, and I sat there among them stunned for seven days.

Ezekiel as a Watchman

16 Now at the end of seven days the word of theLordcame to me:

17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman over the house of Israel.When you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.

18 If I say to the wicked person,‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him — you don’t speak out to warn him about his wicked way in order to save his life — that wicked person will die for his iniquity. Yet I will hold you responsible for his blood.

19 But if you warn a wicked person and he does not turn from his wickedness or his wicked way, he will die for his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

20 Now if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity,and I put a stumbling block in front of him, he will die.If you did not warn him, he will die because of his sin and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. Yet I will hold you responsible for his blood.

21 But if you warn the righteous person that he should not sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he listened to your warning, and you will have saved your life.”

22 Then the hand of theLordwas on me there, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain,and I will speak with you there.”

23 So I got up and went out to the plain. TheLord’s glory was present there,like the glory I had seen by the Chebar Canal,and I fell facedown.

24 The Spirit entered me and set me on my feet.He spoke with me and said: “Go, shut yourself inside your house.

25 And you, son of man, they will put ropes on youand bind you with them so you cannot go out among them.

26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth,and you will be muteand unable to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious house.

27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth,and you will say to them, ‘This is what the LordGodsays.’ Let the one who listens, listen, and let the one who refuses, refuse — for they are a rebellious house.

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Jerusalem’s Siege Dramatized

1 “Now you, son of man, take a brick, set it in front of you, and draw the city of Jerusalem on it.

2 Then lay siege against it:construct a siege wall, build a ramp, pitch military camps, and place battering rams against it on all sides.

3 Take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign for the house of Israel.

4 “Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquityof the house of Israel on it. You will bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.

5 For I have assigned you the years of their iniquity according to the number of days you lie down, 390 days; so you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

6 When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.

7 You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

8 Be aware that I will put cords on you so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

9 “Also take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. Put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the number of days you lie on your side, 390 days.

10 The food you eat each day will be eight ouncesby weight; you will eat it from time to time.

11 You are also to drink water by measure, a sixth of a gallon,which you will drink from time to time.

12 You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight.”

13 TheLordsaid, “This is how the Israelites will eat their bread — ceremonially unclean — among the nations where I will banish them.”

14 But I said, “Oh, LordGod, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts.And impure meat has never entered my mouth.”

15 He replied to me, “Look, I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that.”

16 Then He said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem.They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight and in dread drink water by measure.

17 So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.

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Ezekiel Dramatizes Jerusalem’s Fall

1 “Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword,use it as you would a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.

2 You are to burn up a third of it in the city when the days of the siege have ended;you are to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind, for I will draw a sword to chase after them.

3 But you are to take a few strands from the hair and secure them in the folds of your robe.

4 Take some more of them, throw them into the fire, and burn them in it.A fire will spread from it to the whole house of Israel.

5 “This is what the LordGodsays: I have set this Jerusalem in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

6 But she has rebelled against My ordinances with more wickedness than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that surround her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.

7 “Therefore, this is what the LordGodsays: Because you have been more insubordinate than the nations around you— you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances; you have not even kept the ordinances of the nations around you —

8 therefore, this is what the LordGodsays: See, I am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments within you in the sight of the nations.

9 Because of all your detestable practices, I will do to you what I have never done before and what I will never do again.

10 As a result, fathers will eat their sonswithin Jerusalem,and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your survivors to every direction of the wind.

11 “Therefore, as I live” — this is the declaration of the LordGod— “I am going to cut you off and show you no pity, because you have defiled My sanctuarywith all your detestable practices and abominations.Yes, I will not spare you.

12 A third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you;a third will fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

13 When My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath on them, I will be appeased.Then after I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in My jealousy.

14 “I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

15 So youwill be a disgrace and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger,wrath, and furious rebukes. I, Yahweh, have spoken.

16 When I shoot deadly arrows of famine at them, arrows for destruction that I will send to destroy you, inhabitants of Jerusalem, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of bread.

17 I will send famine and dangerous animals against you. They will leave you childless, Jerusalem. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, Yahweh, have spoken.”

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Prophecy against Israel’s Idolatry

1 The word of theLordcame to me:

2 “Son of man, turn your face toward the mountains of Israeland prophesy against them.

3 You are to say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LordGod! This is what the LordGodsays to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

4 Your altars will be desolated and your incense altars smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.

5 I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

6 Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated,your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.

7 The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.

8 “Yet I will leave a remnant when you are scattered among the nations, for throughout the countries there will be some of you who will escape the sword.

9 Then your survivors will remember Me among the nations where they are taken captive,how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from Me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols.They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did,their detestable practices of every kind.

10 And they will know that I am theLord; I did not threaten to bring this disaster on them without a reason.

Lament over the Fall of Jerusalem

11 “This is what the LordGodsays: Clap your hands, stamp your feet,and cry out over all the evil and detestable practices of the house of Israel, who will fall by the sword, famine, and plague.

12 The one who is far off will die by plague; the one who is near will fall by the sword; and the one who remains and is sparedwill die of famine. In this way I will exhaust My wrath on them.

13 You will all know that I am Yahweh when their slain lie among their idols around their altars,on every high hill,on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and every leafy oak — the places where they offered pleasing aromas to all their idols.

14 I will stretch out My hand against them,and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah.Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

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Announcement of the End

1 And the word of theLordcame to me:

2 “Son of man, this is what the LordGodsays to the land of Israel:

An end! The end has come

on the four corners of the land.

3 The end is now upon you;

I will send My anger against you

and judge you according to your ways.

I will punish you for all your detestable practices.

4 I will not look on you with pity or spare you,

but I will punish you for your ways

and for your detestable practices within you.

Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

5 This is what the LordGodsays:

Look, one disaster after another is coming!

6 An end has come; the end has come!

It has awakened against you.

Look, it is coming!

7 Doomhas come on you,

inhabitants of the land.

The time has come; the day is near.

There will be panic on the mountains

and not celebration.

8 I will pour out My wrath on you very soon;

I will exhaust My anger against you

and judge you according to your ways.

I will punish you for all your detestable practices.

9 I will not look on you with pity or spare you.

I will punish you for your ways

and for your detestable practices within you.

Then you will know

that it is I, Yahweh, who strikes.

10 Look, the day is coming!

Doom has gone out.

The rod has blossomed;

arrogance has bloomed.

11 Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness.

None of them will remain:

none of their multitude,

none of their wealth,

and none of the eminentamong them.

12 The time has come; the day has arrived.

Let the buyer not rejoice

and the seller not mourn,

for wrath is on all her masses.

13 The seller will certainly not return

to what was sold

as long as he and the buyer remain alive.

For the vision concerning all its people

will not be revoked,

and none of them will preserve

his life because of his iniquity.

14 They have blown the trumpet

and prepared everything,

but no one goes to war,

for My wrath is on all her masses.

15 The sword is on the outside;

plague and famine are on the inside.

Whoever is in the field will die by the sword,

and famine and plague will devour

whoever is in the city.

16 The survivors among them will escape

and live on the mountains

like doves of the valley,

all of them moaning,

each over his own iniquity.

17 All their hands will become weak,

and all their knees will turn to water.

18 They will put on sackcloth,

and horror will overwhelm them.

Shame will cover all their faces,

and all their heads will be bald.

19 They will throw their silver into the streets,

and their gold will seem like something filthy.

Their silver and gold will be unable to save them

in the day of theLord’s wrath.

They will not satisfy their appetites

or fill their stomachs,

for these were the stumbling blocks

that brought about their iniquity.

20 He appointed His beautiful ornaments for majesty,

butthey made their abhorrent images from them,

their detestable things.

Therefore, I have made these

into something filthy for them.

21 I will hand these things over

to foreigners as plunder

and to the wicked of the earth as spoil,

and they will profane them.

22 I will turn My face from the wicked

as they profane My treasured place.

Violent men will enter it and profane it.

23 Forge the chain,

for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed,

and the city is filled with violence.

24 So I will bring the most evil of nations

to take possession of their houses.

I will put an end to the pride of the strong,

and their sacred places will be profaned.

25 Anguish is coming!

They will seek peace, but there will be none.

26 Disaster after disaster will come,

and there will be rumor after rumor.

Then they will seek a vision from a prophet,

but instruction will perish from the priests

and counsel from the elders.

27 The king will mourn;

the prince will be clothed in grief;

and the hands of the people of the land will tremble.

I will deal with them according to their own conduct,

and I will judge them by their own standards.

Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

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Visionary Journey to Jerusalem

1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting in front of me,and there the hand of the LordGodcame down on me.

2 I looked, and there was a form that had the appearance of a man.From what seemed to be His waist down was fire, and from His waist up was something that looked bright,like the gleam of amber.

3 He stretched out what appeared to be a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of Godto Jerusalem, to the entrance of the inner gate that faces north, where the offensive statue that provokes jealousywas located.

4 I saw the glory of the God of Israelthere, like the vision I had seen in the plain.

Pagan Practices in the Temple

5 TheLordsaid to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” I looked to the north, and there was this offensive statue north of the altar gate, at the entrance.

6 He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing here, more detestable things that the house of Israel is committing,so that I must depart from My sanctuary? You will see even more detestable things.”

7 Then He brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked there was a hole in the wall.

8 He said to me, “Son of man, dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall, and there was a doorway.

9 He said to me, “Go in and see the terrible and detestable things they are committing here.”

10 I went in and looked, and there engraved all around the wall was every form of detestable thing, crawling creatures and beasts, as well as all the idols of the house of Israel.

11 Seventy elders from the house of Israel were standing before them, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphanstanding among them. Each had a firepan in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising up.

12 Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his idol? For they are saying, ‘TheLorddoes not see us. TheLordhas abandoned the land.’ ”

13 Again He said to me, “You will see even more detestable things, which they are committing.”

14 So He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of theLord’s house, and I saw women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

15 And He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? You will see even more detestable things than these.”

16 So He brought me to the inner court of theLord’s house, and there were about 25 men at the entrance of theLord’s temple, between the portico and the altar,with their backs to theLord’s temple and their faces turned to the east.They were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

17 And He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the detestable things they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violenceand repeatedly provoke Me to anger,even putting the branch to their nose?

18 Therefore I will respond with wrath.I will not show pity or spare them.Though they cry out in My ears with a loud voice,I will not listen to them.”

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Vision of Slaughter in Jerusalem

1 Then He called to me directly with a loud voice, “Come near, executioners of the city, each of you with a destructive weapon in his hand.”

2 And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate,which faces north, each with a war club in his hand. There was another man among them, clothed in linen,with writing equipment at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

3 Then the glory of the God of Israelrose from above the cherub where it had been, to the threshold of the temple. He called to the man clothed in linen with the writing equipment at his side.

4 “Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,” theLordsaid to him, “and put a mark on the foreheadsof the men who sigh and groanover all the detestable practices committed in it.”

5 He spoke as I listened to the others, “Pass through the city after him and start killing; do not show pity or spare them!

6 Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, as well as the older women and little children,but do not come near anyone who has the mark.Now begin at My sanctuary.”So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

7 Then He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain.Go! ” So they went out killing people in the city.

8 While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, LordGod!Are You going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem? ”

9 He answered me: “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of bloodshed,and the city full of perversity. For they say, ‘TheLordhas abandoned the land;He does not see.’

10 But as for Me, I will not show pity or spare them.I will bring their actions down on their own heads.”

11 Then the man clothed in linen with the writing equipment at his side reported back, “I have done as You commanded me.”

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God’s Glory Leaves the Temple

1 Then I looked, and there above the expanse over the headsof the cherubim was something like sapphirestone resembling the shape of a throne that appeared above them.

2 TheLordspoke to the man clothed in linen and said, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with hot coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.”So he went in as I watched.

3 Now the cherubim were standing to the south of the temple when the man went in, and the cloudfilled the inner court.

4 Then the glory of theLordrose from above the cherub to the threshold of the temple.The temple was filled with the cloud,and the court was filled with the brightness of theLord’s glory.

5 The sound of the cherubim’s wings could be heard as far as the outer court; it was like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.

6 After theLordcommanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from inside the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.

7 Then the cherub reached out his hand to the fire that was among them. He took some, and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

8 The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings.

9 I looked, and there were four wheels beside the cherubim,one wheel beside each cherub. The luster of the wheels was like the gleam of beryl.

10 In appearance, all four had the same form, like a wheel within a wheel.

11 When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions,without pivoting as they moved. But wherever the head faced, they would go in that direction,without pivoting as they went.

12 Their entire bodies,including their backs, hands, wings, and the wheels that the four of them had, were full of eyes all around.

13 As I listened the wheels were called “the wheelwork.”

14 Each one had four faces:the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.

15 The cherubim ascended; these were the living creatures I had seen by the Chebar Canal.

16 When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when they lifted their wings to rise from the earth, even then the wheels did not veer away from them.

17 When the cherubim stood still,the wheels stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.

18 Then the glory of theLordmoved away from the threshold of the templeand stood above the cherubim.

19 The cherubim lifted their wings and ascended from the earth right before my eyes;the wheels were beside them as they went. The glory of the God of Israel was above them, and it stood at the entrance to the eastern gate of theLord’s house.

20 These were the living creatures I had seenbeneath the God of Israel by the Chebar Canal,and I recognized that they were cherubim.

21 Each had four faces and each had four wings,with the form of human hands under their wings.

22 Their faces looked like the same faces I had seenby the Chebar Canal. Each creature went straight ahead.

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