Exodus:21-24
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Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them :
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If you buy a Hebrew servant ,
he shall serve six years ;
and in the seventh he shall go out free and pay nothing .
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If he comes in by himself ,
he shall go out by himself ;
if he comes in married ,
then his wife shall go out with him .
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If his master has given him a wife ,
and she has borne him sons or daughters ,
the wife and her children shall be her master '
s ,
and he shall go out by himself .
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But if the servant plainly says , "
I love my master ,
my wife ,
and my children ;
I will not go out free ,'
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then his master shall bring him to the judges .
He shall also bring him to the door ,
or to the doorpost ,
and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl ;
and he shall serve him forever .
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And if a man sells his daughter to be a female slave ,
she shall not go out as the male slaves do .
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If she does not please her master ,
who has betrothed her to himself ,
then he shall let her be redeemed .
He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people ,
since he has dealt deceitfully with her .
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And if he has betrothed her to his son ,
he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters .
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If he takes another wife ,
he shall not diminish her food ,
her clothing ,
and her marriage rights .
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And if he does not do these three for her ,
then she shall go out free ,
without paying money .
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He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death .
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However ,
if he did not lie in wait ,
but God delivered him into his hand ,
then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee .
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But if a man acts with premeditation against his neighbor ,
to kill him by treachery ,
you shall take him from My altar ,
that he may die .
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And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death .
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He who kidnaps a man and sells him ,
or if he is found in his hand ,
shall surely be put to death .
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And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death .
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If men contend with each other ,
and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist ,
and he does not die but is confined to his bed ,
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if he rises again and walks about outside with his staff ,
then he who struck him shall be acquitted .
He shall only pay for the loss of his time ,
and shall provide for him to be thoroughly healed .
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And if a man beats his male or female servant with a rod ,
so that he dies under his hand ,
he shall surely be punished .
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Notwithstanding ,
if he remains alive a day or two ,
he shall not be punished ;
for he is his property .
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If men fight ,
and hurt a woman with child ,
so that she gives birth prematurely ,
yet no harm follows ,
he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman '
s husband imposes on him ;
and he shall pay as the judges determine .
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But if any harm follows ,
then you shall give life for life ,
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eye for eye ,
tooth for tooth ,
hand for hand ,
foot for foot ,
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burn for burn ,
wound for wound ,
stripe for stripe .
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If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant ,
and destroys it ,
he shall let him go free for the sake of his eye .
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And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant ,
he shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth .
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If an ox gores a man or a woman to death ,
then the ox shall surely be stoned ,
and its flesh shall not be eaten ;
but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted .
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But if the ox tended to thrust with its horn in times past ,
and it has been made known to his owner ,
and he has not kept it confined ,
so that it has killed a man or a woman ,
the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death .
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If there is imposed on him a sum of money ,
then he shall pay to redeem his life ,
whatever is imposed on him .
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Whether it has gored a son or gored a daughter ,
according to this judgment it shall be done to him .
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If the ox gores a male or female servant ,
he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver ,
and the ox shall be stoned .
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And if a man opens a pit ,
or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it ,
and an ox or a donkey falls in it ,
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the owner of the pit shall make it good ;
he shall give money to their owner ,
but the dead animal shall be his .
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If one man '
s ox hurts another '
s ,
so that it dies ,
then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money from it ;
and the dead ox they shall also divide .
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Or if it was known that the ox tended to thrust in time past ,
and its owner has not kept it confined ,
he shall surely pay ox for ox ,
and the dead animal shall be his own .
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If a man steals an ox or a sheep ,
and slaughters it or sells it ,
he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep .
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If the thief is found breaking in ,
and he is struck so that he dies ,
there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed .
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If the sun has risen on him ,
there shall be guilt for his bloodshed .
He should make full restitution ;
if he has nothing ,
then he shall be sold for his theft .
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If the theft is certainly found alive in his hand ,
whether it is an ox or donkey or sheep ,
he shall restore double .
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If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed ,
and lets loose his animal ,
and it feeds in another man '
s field ,
he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard .
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If fire breaks out and catches in thorns ,
so that stacked grain ,
standing grain ,
or the field is consumed ,
he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution .
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If a man delivers to his neighbor money or articles to keep ,
and it is stolen out of the man '
s house ,
if the thief is found ,
he shall pay double .
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If the thief is not found ,
then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbor '
s goods .
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For any kind of trespass ,
whether it concerns an ox ,
a donkey ,
a sheep ,
or clothing ,
or for any kind of lost thing which another claims to be his ,
the cause of both parties shall come before the judges ;
and whomever the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor .
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If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey ,
an ox ,
a sheep ,
or any animal to keep ,
and it dies ,
is hurt ,
or driven away ,
no one seeing it ,
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then an oath of the LORD shall be between them both ,
that he has not put his hand into his neighbor '
s goods ;
and the owner of it shall accept that ,
and he shall not make it good .
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But if ,
in fact ,
it is stolen from him ,
he shall make restitution to the owner of it .
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If it is torn to pieces by a beast ,
then he shall bring it as evidence ,
and he shall not make good what was torn .
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And if a man borrows anything from his neighbor ,
and it becomes injured or dies ,
the owner of it not being with it ,
he shall surely make it good .
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If its owner was with it ,
he shall not make it good ;
if it was hired ,
it came for its hire .
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If a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed ,
and lies with her ,
he shall surely pay the bride-price for her to be his wife .
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If her father utterly refuses to give her to him ,
he shall pay money according to the bride-price of virgins .
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You shall not permit a sorceress to live .
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Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death .
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He who sacrifices to any god ,
except to the LORD only ,
he shall be utterly destroyed .
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You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him ,
for you were strangers in the land of Egypt .
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You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child .
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If you afflict them in any way ,
and they cry at all to Me ,
I will surely hear their cry ;
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and My wrath will become hot ,
and I will kill you with the sword ;
your wives shall be widows ,
and your children fatherless .
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If you lend money to any of My people who are poor among you ,
you shall not be like a moneylender to him ;
you shall not charge him interest .
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If you ever take your neighbor '
s garment as a pledge ,
you shall return it to him before the sun goes down .
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For that is his only covering ,
it is his garment for his skin .
What will he sleep in ?
And it will be that when he cries to Me ,
I will hear ,
for I am gracious .
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You shall not revile God ,
nor curse a ruler of your people .
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You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe produce and your juices .
The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me .
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Likewise you shall do with your oxen and your sheep .
It shall be with its mother seven days ;
on the eighth day you shall give it to Me .
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And you shall be holy men to Me :
you shall not eat meat torn by beasts in the field ;
you shall throw it to the dogs .
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You shall not circulate a false report .
Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness .
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You shall not follow a crowd to do evil ;
nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice .
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You shall not show partiality to a poor man in his dispute .
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If you meet your enemy '
s ox or his donkey going astray ,
you shall surely bring it back to him again .
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If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden ,
and you would refrain from helping it ,
you shall surely help him with it .
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You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute .
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Keep yourself far from a false matter ;
do not kill the innocent and righteous .
For I will not justify the wicked .
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And you shall take no bribe ,
for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous .
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Also you shall not oppress a stranger ,
for you know the heart of a stranger ,
because you were strangers in the land of Egypt .
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Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce ,
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but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow ,
that the poor of your people may eat ;
and what they leave ,
the beasts of the field may eat .
In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove .
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Six days you shall do your work ,
and on the seventh day you shall rest ,
that your ox and your donkey may rest ,
and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed .
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And in all that I have said to you ,
be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods ,
nor let it be heard from your mouth .
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Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year :
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You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (
you shall eat unleavened bread seven days ,
as I commanded you ,
at the time appointed in the month of Abib ,
for in it you came out of Egypt ;
none shall appear before Me empty );
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and the Feast of Harvest ,
the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field ;
and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year ,
when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field .
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Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD .
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You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread ;
nor shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until morning .
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The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God .
You shall not boil a young goat in its mother '
s milk .
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Behold ,
I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared .
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Beware of Him and obey His voice ;
do not provoke Him ,
for He will not pardon your transgressions ;
for My name is in Him .
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But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak ,
then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries .
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For My Angel will go before you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites ;
and I will cut them off .
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You shall not bow down to their gods ,
nor serve them ,
nor do according to their works ;
but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars .
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So you shall serve the LORD your God ,
and He will bless your bread and your water .
And I will take sickness away from the midst of you .
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No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land ;
I will fulfill the number of your days .
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I will send My fear before you ,
I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come ,
and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you .
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And I will send hornets before you ,
which shall drive out the Hivite ,
the Canaanite ,
and the Hittite from before you .
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I will not drive them out from before you in one year ,
lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you .
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Little by little I will drive them out from before you ,
until you have increased ,
and you inherit the land .
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And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea ,
Philistia ,
and from the desert to the River .
For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand ,
and you shall drive them out before you .
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You shall make no covenant with them ,
nor with their gods .
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They shall not dwell in your land ,
lest they make you sin against Me .
For if you serve their gods ,
it will surely be a snare to you ."
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Now He said to Moses , "
Come up to the LORD ,
you and Aaron ,
Nadab and Abihu ,
and seventy of the elders of Israel ,
and worship from afar .
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And Moses alone shall come near the LORD ,
but they shall not come near ;
nor shall the people go up with him ."
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So Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the judgments .
And all the people answered with one voice and said , "
All the words which the LORD has said we will do ."
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And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD .
And he rose early in the morning ,
and built an altar at the foot of the mountain ,
and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel .
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Then he sent young men of the children of Israel ,
who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD .
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And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins ,
and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar .
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Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people .
And they said , "
All that the LORD has said we will do ,
and be obedient ."
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And Moses took the blood ,
sprinkled it on the people ,
and said , "
This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you according to all these words ."
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Then Moses went up ,
also Aaron ,
Nadab ,
and Abihu ,
and seventy of the elders of Israel ,
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and they saw the God of Israel .
And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone ,
and it was like the very heavens in its clarity .
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But on the nobles of the children of Israel He did not lay His hand .
So they saw God ,
and they ate and drank .
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Then the LORD said to Moses , "
Come up to Me on the mountain and be there ;
and I will give you tablets of stone ,
and the law and commandments which I have written ,
that you may teach them ."
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So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua ,
and Moses went up to the mountain of God .
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And he said to the elders , "
Wait here for us until we come back to you .
Indeed ,
Aaron and Hur are with you .
If any man has a difficulty ,
let him go to them ."
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Then Moses went up into the mountain ,
and a cloud covered the mountain .
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Now the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai ,
and the cloud covered it six days .
And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud .
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The sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel .
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So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain .
And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights .
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses ,
saying :
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