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Confidence: False Deuteronomy 29:18, 19

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit, / because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

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Confidence: False 1 Kings 20:11

And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”

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Confidence: False 2 Kings 18:21

Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

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Confidence: False Isaiah 36:6

Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

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Confidence: False Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”

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Confidence: False Job 15:31

Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

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Confidence: False Job 29:18

So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

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Confidence: False Psalm 10:6

He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”

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Confidence: False Psalm 20:7, 8

Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. / They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.

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Confidence: False Psalm 30:6

In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”

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Confidence: False Psalm 33:16, 17

No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength. / A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.

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Confidence: False Psalm 36:2

For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.

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Confidence: False Psalm 44:6

For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.

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Confidence: False Psalm 49:6, 7

They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches. / No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.

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Confidence: False Psalm 52:7

“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”

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Confidence: False Psalm 60:11

Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

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Confidence: False Psalm 108:12

Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

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Confidence: False Proverbs 14:16

A wise man fears and turns from evil, but a fool is careless and reckless.

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Confidence: False Proverbs 16:25

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

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Confidence: False Proverbs 18:11

A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.

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Confidence: False Proverbs 23:4

Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.

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Confidence: False Proverbs 26:12

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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Confidence: False Proverbs 28:26

He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.

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Confidence: False Proverbs 29:26

Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.

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Confidence: False Isaiah 2:22

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

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Confidence: False Isaiah 5:21

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

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Confidence: False Isaiah 8:12

“Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.

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Confidence: False Isaiah 9:9, 10

All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say: / “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

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Confidence: False Isaiah 20:5

Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

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Confidence: False Isaiah 22:11

You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.

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Confidence: False Isaiah 28:15, 18

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.” / Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

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Confidence: False Isaiah 30:1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 15, 16

“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin. / They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade. / everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They cannot be of help; they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.”

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Confidence: False Isaiah 31:1, 3

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD. / But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.

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Confidence: False Isaiah 47:7, 8, 10

You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome. / So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’ / You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’

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Confidence: False Isaiah 56:12

“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

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Confidence: False Isaiah 57:13

When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”

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Confidence: False Jeremiah 2:13, 18, 22, 23, 37

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. / Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates? / Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.

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Confidence: False Jeremiah 3:23

Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.

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Confidence: False Jeremiah 5:17

They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”

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Confidence: False Jeremiah 6:14

They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.

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Confidence: False Jeremiah 7:8

But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

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Confidence: False Jeremiah 8:11

They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.

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Confidence: False Jeremiah 12:5

“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

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Confidence: False Jeremiah 14:13

“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”

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Confidence: False Jeremiah 17:5

This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

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Confidence: False Jeremiah 21:13

Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”

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Confidence: False Jeremiah 23:17

They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’

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Confidence: False Jeremiah 48:7, 11

Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials. / Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.

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Confidence: False Jeremiah 49:4, 5

Why do you boast of your valleys—your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ‘Who can come against me?’ / Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.

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Confidence: False Lamentations 4:17

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

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Confidence: False Ezekiel 8:12

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”

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Confidence: False Ezekiel 13:10, 11

Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built, / tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth.

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Confidence: False Ezekiel 29:6, 7

Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel. / When Israel took hold of you with their hands, you splintered, tearing all their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke, and their backs were wrenched.

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Confidence: False Ezekiel 30:8

Then they will know that I am the LORD when I set fire to Egypt and all her helpers are shattered.

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Confidence: False Hosea 5:13

When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

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Confidence: False Hosea 7:9–16

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know. / Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him. / So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

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Confidence: False Hosea 10:13

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

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Confidence: False Hosea 12:1

Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.

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Confidence: False Hosea 14:3

Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

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Confidence: False Amos 6:1–7, 13

Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes. / Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours? / You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

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Confidence: False Amos 9:10

All the sinners among My people will die by the sword—all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”

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Confidence: False Obadiah 1:3

The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

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Confidence: False Micah 3:11

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

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Confidence: False Zephaniah 1:12

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’

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Confidence: False Zephaniah 2:15

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

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Confidence: False Zechariah 4:6

So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.

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Confidence: False Matthew 25:5

When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

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Confidence: False Matthew 26:33–35

Peter said to Him, “Even if all fall away on account of You, I never will.” / “Truly I tell you,” Jesus declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” / Peter replied, “Even if I have to die with You, I will never deny You.” And all the other disciples said the same thing.

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Confidence: False Mark 10:24

And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

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Confidence: False Mark 14:29–31

Peter declared, “Even if all fall away, I never will.” / “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” / But Peter kept insisting, “Even if I have to die with You, I will never deny You.” And all the others said the same thing.

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Confidence: False Luke 11:35

Be careful, then, that the light within you is not darkness.

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Confidence: False Luke 12:19, 20

Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’ / But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

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Confidence: False Luke 17:26–30

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man: / People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. / It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

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Confidence: False Luke 18:9–14

To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable: / “Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. / The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

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Confidence: False Luke 22:33, 34

“Lord,” said Peter, “I am ready to go with You even to prison and to death.” / But Jesus replied, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know Me.”

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Confidence: False John 5:45

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

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Confidence: False John 13:37, 38

“Lord,” said Peter, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You.” / “Will you lay down your life for Me?” Jesus replied. “Truly, truly, I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.

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Confidence: False Romans 2:3

So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?

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Confidence: False Romans 12:16

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but enjoy the company of the lowly. Do not be conceited.

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Confidence: False 1 Corinthians 3:21

Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,

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Confidence: False 2 Corinthians 1:9

Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

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Confidence: False Galatians 6:7, 8

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. / The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

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Confidence: False 1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

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Confidence: False 1 Timothy 6:17

Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.

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Confidence: False James 4:13–15

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” / You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. / Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”

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Confidence: False Revelation 18:7, 8

As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’ / Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

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