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# Nehemiah 9 (New King James Version)
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The People Confess Their Sins
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##### Chapter 9
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###### 1 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, in sackcloth, and with dust on their heads.
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###### 2 Then those of Israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreigners; and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
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###### 3 And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God _for one_-fourth of the day; and _for another_ fourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God.
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###### 4 Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, _and_ Chenani stood on the stairs of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to the Lord their God.
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###### 5 And the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, _and_ Pethahiah, said:
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"Stand up _and_ bless the Lord your God
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Forever and ever!
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"Blessed be Your glorious name,
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Which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
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###### 6 You alone _are_ the Lord;
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You have made heaven,
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The heaven of heavens, with all their host,
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The earth and everything on it,
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The seas and all that is in them,
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And You preserve them all.
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The host of heaven worships You.
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###### 7 "You _are_ the Lord God,
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Who chose Abram,
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And brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans,
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And gave him the name Abraham;
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###### 8 You found his heart faithful before You,
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And made a covenant with him
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To give the land of the Canaanites,
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The Hittites, the Amorites,
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The Perizzites, the Jebusites,
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And the Girgashites--
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To give _it_ to his descendants.
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You have performed Your words,
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For You _are_ righteous.
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###### 9 "You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,
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And heard their cry by the Red Sea.
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###### 10 You showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh,
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Against all his servants,
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And against all the people of his land.
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For You knew that they acted proudly against them.
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So You made a name for Yourself, as _it is_ this day.
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###### 11 And You divided the sea before them,
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So that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land;
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And their persecutors You threw into the deep,
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As a stone into the mighty waters.
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###### 12 Moreover You led them by day with a cloudy pillar,
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And by night with a pillar of fire,
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To give them light on the road
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Which they should travel.
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###### 13 "You came down also on Mount Sinai,
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And spoke with them from heaven,
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And gave them just ordinances and true laws,
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Good statutes and commandments.
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###### 14 You made known to them Your holy Sabbath,
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And commanded them precepts, statutes and laws,
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By the hand of Moses Your servant.
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###### 15 You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger,
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And brought them water out of the rock for their thirst,
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And told them to go in to possess the land
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Which You had sworn to give them.
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###### 16 "But they and our fathers acted proudly,
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Hardened their necks,
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And did not heed Your commandments.
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###### 17 They refused to obey,
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And they were not mindful of Your wonders
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That You did among them.
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But they hardened their necks,
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And in their rebellion
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They appointed a leader
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To return to their bondage.
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But You _are_ God,
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Ready to pardon,
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Gracious and merciful,
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Slow to anger,
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Abundant in kindness,
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And did not forsake them.
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###### 18 "Even when they made a molded calf for themselves,
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And said, 'This _is_ your god
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That brought you up out of Egypt,'
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And worked great provocations,
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###### 19 Yet in Your manifold mercies
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You did not forsake them in the wilderness.
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The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day,
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To lead them on the road;
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Nor the pillar of fire by night,
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To show them light,
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And the way they should go.
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###### 20 You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,
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And did not withhold Your manna from their mouth,
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And gave them water for their thirst.
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###### 21 Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness;
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They lacked nothing;
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Their clothes did not wear out
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And their feet did not swell.
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###### 22 "Moreover You gave them kingdoms and nations,
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And divided them into districts.
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So they took possession of the land of Sihon,
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The land of the king of Heshbon,
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And the land of Og king of Bashan.
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###### 23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven,
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And brought them into the land
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Which You had told their fathers
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To go in and possess.
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###### 24 So the people went in
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And possessed the land;
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You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land,
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The Canaanites,
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And gave them into their hands,
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With their kings
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And the people of the land,
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That they might do with them as they wished.
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###### 25 And they took strong cities and a rich land,
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And possessed houses full of all goods,
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Cisterns _already_ dug, vineyards, olive groves,
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And fruit trees in abundance.
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So they ate and were filled and grew fat,
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And delighted themselves in Your great goodness.
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###### 26 "Nevertheless they were disobedient
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And rebelled against You,
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Cast Your law behind their backs
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And killed Your prophets, who testified against them
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To turn them to Yourself;
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And they worked great provocations.
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###### 27 Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies,
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Who oppressed them;
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And in the time of their trouble,
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When they cried to You,
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You heard from heaven;
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And according to Your abundant mercies
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You gave them deliverers who saved them
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From the hand of their enemies.
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###### 28 "But after they had rest,
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They again did evil before You.
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Therefore You left them in the hand of their enemies,
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So that they had dominion over them;
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Yet when they returned and cried out to You,
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You heard from heaven;
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And many times You delivered them according to Your mercies,
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###### 29 And testified against them,
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That You might bring them back to Your law.
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Yet they acted proudly,
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And did not heed Your commandments,
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But sinned against Your judgments,
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'Which if a man does, he shall live by them.'
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And they shrugged their shoulders,
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Stiffened their necks,
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And would not hear.
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###### 30 Yet for many years You had patience with them,
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And testified against them by Your Spirit in Your prophets.
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Yet they would not listen;
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Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
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###### 31 Nevertheless in Your great mercy
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You did not utterly consume them nor forsake them;
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For You _are_ God, gracious and merciful.
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###### 32 "Now therefore, our God,
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The great, the mighty, and awesome God,
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Who keeps covenant and mercy:
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Do not let all the trouble seem small before You
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That has come upon us,
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Our kings and our princes,
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Our priests and our prophets,
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Our fathers and on all Your people,
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From the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
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###### 33 However You _are_ just in all that has befallen us;
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For You have dealt faithfully,
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But we have done wickedly.
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###### 34 Neither our kings nor our princes,
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Our priests nor our fathers,
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Have kept Your law,
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Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies,
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With which You testified against them.
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###### 35 For they have not served You in their kingdom,
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Or in the many good _things_ that You gave them,
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Or in the large and rich land which You set before them;
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Nor did they turn from their wicked works.
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###### 36 "Here we _are,_ servants today!
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And the land that You gave to our fathers,
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To eat its fruit and its bounty,
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Here we _are,_ servants in it!
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###### 37 And it yields much increase to the kings
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You have set over us,
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Because of our sins;
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Also they have dominion over our bodies and our cattle
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At their pleasure;
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And we _are_ in great distress.
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###### 38 "And because of all this,
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We make a sure _covenant_ and write _it;_
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Our leaders, our Levites, _and_ our priests seal _it._"
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