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Isaiah 55:3–4

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Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
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From verse 3

  1. Jeremiah 32:40Rank 1 from verse 3
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    40And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

  2. Matthew 11:28Rank 2 from verse 3
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    28¶ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

  3. Proverbs 4:20Rank 3 from verse 3
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    20¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

  4. John 10:27Rank 4 from verse 3
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    27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

  5. Acts 13:34Rank 5 from verse 3
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    34And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

  6. Genesis 17:7Rank 6 from verse 3
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    7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

  7. Isaiah 61:8Rank 7 from verse 3
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    8For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

  8. John 6:37Rank 8 from verse 3
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    37All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

  9. John 5:24–25Rank 9 from verse 3
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    24Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

    25Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

  10. Psalms 78:1Rank 10 from verse 3
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    1GIVE ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

  11. Isaiah 54:8Rank 11 from verse 3
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    8In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.

  12. Leviticus 18:5Rank 12 from verse 3
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    5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.

  13. Psalms 89:28Rank 13 from verse 3
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    28My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

  14. Psalms 89:35–37Rank 14 from verse 3
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    35Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

    36His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

    37It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

  15. 2 Samuel 23:5Rank 15 from verse 3
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    5Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.

  16. 2 Samuel 7:8–17Rank 16 from verse 3
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    8Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:

    9And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.

    10Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,

    11And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house.

    12¶ And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

    13He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

    14I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

    15But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

    16And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

    17According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

  17. Ezekiel 37:24–25Rank 17 from verse 3
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    24And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.

    25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.

  18. Hebrews 13:20Rank 18 from verse 3
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    20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

  19. Jeremiah 30:9Rank 19 from verse 3
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    9But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

  20. Jeremiah 33:20–21Rank 20 from verse 3
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    20Thus saith the Lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

    21Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

  21. Jeremiah 33:26Rank 21 from verse 3
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    26Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

  22. Jeremiah 50:5Rank 22 from verse 3
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    5They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

  23. John 8:47Rank 23 from verse 3
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    47He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

  24. Matthew 17:5Rank 24 from verse 3
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    5While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

  25. Psalms 119:112Rank 25 from verse 3
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    112I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

  26. John 6:44–45Rank 26 from verse 3
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    44No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

    45It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

  27. Matthew 13:16Rank 27 from verse 3
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    16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

  28. John 7:37Rank 28 from verse 3
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    37In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

  29. Romans 10:5Rank 29 from verse 3
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    5For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

From verse 4

  1. Revelation 1:5Rank 1 from verse 4
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    5And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

  2. Isaiah 9:6–7Rank 2 from verse 4
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    6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

    7Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

  3. Psalms 18:43Rank 3 from verse 4
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    43Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

  4. Hebrews 2:10Rank 4 from verse 4
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    10For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

  5. Revelation 3:14Rank 5 from verse 4
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    14And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

  6. 1 Timothy 6:13Rank 6 from verse 4
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    13I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;

  7. Daniel 9:25Rank 7 from verse 4
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    25Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

  8. Ezekiel 34:23–24Rank 8 from verse 4
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    23And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

    24And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the Lord have spoken it.

  9. Jeremiah 30:9Rank 9 from verse 4
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    9But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

  10. John 12:26Rank 10 from verse 4
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    26If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

  11. Matthew 28:18–20Rank 11 from verse 4
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    18And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

    19¶ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

    20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

  12. 2 Thessalonians 1:8Rank 12 from verse 4
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    8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

  13. Ephesians 5:24Rank 13 from verse 4
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    24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

  14. Hebrews 5:9Rank 14 from verse 4
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    9And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

  15. Hosea 3:5Rank 15 from verse 4
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    5Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.

  16. John 10:27Rank 16 from verse 4
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    27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

  17. John 18:37Rank 17 from verse 4
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    37Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

  18. John 3:16Rank 18 from verse 4
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    16¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

  19. Matthew 2:6Rank 19 from verse 4
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    6And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.

  20. Micah 5:2–4Rank 20 from verse 4
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    2But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

    3Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

    4¶ And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

  21. Psalms 2:6Rank 21 from verse 4
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    6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

  22. John 10:3Rank 22 from verse 4
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    3To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.

  23. John 13:13Rank 23 from verse 4
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    13Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.

  24. Isaiah 49:8–10Rank 24 from verse 4
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    8Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

    9That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

    10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

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Isaiah 55:3

COMBINED MEANING

incline

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To bend, bow, turn, tend, or direct toward; to direct one's attention or desire.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604

COMBINED MEANING

your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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ear

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Sense 1: The organ of hearing. Sense 2: The seed-bearing head of grain.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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hear

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Sense 1: To perceive sound or spoken words. Sense 2: To receive or learn by report. Sense 3: To listen to, regard, or heed. Sense 4: To attend favourably to a request.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

soul

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Sense 1: A living person or creature; a life or self. Sense 2: The inward self distinguished from the body. Sense 3: The seat of desire or appetite.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

live

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Sense 1: As a verb, to have or continue in life; to remain alive, be restored to life, or not die. Sense 2: To dwell, abide, or continue in a place, state, relation, or manner of life. Sense 3: To subsist or be sustained by or upon what is named. Sense 4: As an adjective, alive rather than dead; or containing fire and not extinguished.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

make

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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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everlasting

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1. Continuing without end. 2. Extending backward without beginning. 3. Enduring or permanent throughout the duration in view.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

covenant

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Sense 1: A binding agreement, promise, pledge, or appointed order. Sense 2: The stated words, terms, testimony, or written record of such an agreement or promise.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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even

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1. Used to emphasize, include, or precisely identify what is meant: indeed, precisely, or namely. 2. Used to mark a boundary, endpoint, or full reach in place, time, or degree: up to, as far as, or through. 3. In ‘even as,’ ‘even so,’ and like constructions, just as, exactly so, or in the same manner. 4. The evening, or close of day. 5. Equal, level, identical, balanced, or uniform.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

mercies

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Plural form of mercy (compassion or pity shown to the distressed or guilty; kindness that withholds deserved harm).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Isaiah 55:4

COMBINED MEANING

behold

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1. Used as an attention word or command directing someone to look at or take notice of the person, thing, statement, or event presented: look; see; take notice. 2. As a verb, to look upon, see, observe, or witness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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witness

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Sense 1: A person or thing that attests, testifies, records, or supplies evidence; also testimony, record, or the act of bearing testimony. Sense 2: To see in person, testify, attest, or give evidence.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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55:2Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

55:3Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

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55:4Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

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55:5Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

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