Psalm 106:40-43 Part 1 of 2

That is why the LORD's anger burned against his people,

    and he abhorred his own special possession.

He handed them over to pagan nations,

    and they were ruled by those who hated them.

Their enemies crushed them

    and brought them under their cruel power.

Again and again he rescued them,

    but they chose to rebel against him,

    and they were finally destroyed by their sin.

 

That is why the LORD's anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his own special possession. He handed them over to pagan nations, and they were ruled by those who hated them.

Leviticus 26:27-28  "If in spite of all this you still refuse to listen and still remain hostile toward me, then I will give full vent to my hostility. I myself will punish you seven times over for your sins."  [see verses 14-45]

Judges 2:11-12  The Israelites did evil in the LORD's sight and served the images of Baal. They abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They went after other gods, worshiping the gods of the people around them. And they angered the LORD.  

[see verses 10-15]

 

Their enemies crushed them and brought them under their cruel power. 

Judges 4:2-3  So the LORD turned them over to King Jabin of Hazor, a Canaanite king. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-haggoyim. Sisera, who had 900 iron chariots, ruthlessly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years. Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help.  [see all chapters 4-5]

Judges 6:1-2  The Israelites did evil in the LORD"s sight. so the LORD handed them over to the Midianites for seven years. The Midianites were so cruel that the Israelites made hiding places in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.  [see verses 1-6]

Judges 8:33-35  As soon as Gideon died, the Israelites prostituted themselves by worshiping the images of Baal, making Baal-berith their god. They forgot the LORD their God, who had rescued them from all their enemies surrounding them. Nor did they show any loyalty to the family of Jerub-baal (that is, Gideon) despite all the good he had done for Israel. 

[see all chapter 9]

 

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Psalm 106:37-39

They even sacrificed their sons

    and their daughters to the demons.

They shed innocent blood,

    the blood of their sons and daughters.

By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan,

    they polluted the land with murder.

They defiled themselves by their evil deeds,

    and their love of idols was adultery in the LORD's sight.

 

They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder.

Leviticus 18:21  "Do not permit any of your children to be offered as a sacrifice to Molech, for you must not bring shame on the name of your God. I am the LORD."

Deuteronomy 18:10a  "For example, never sacrifice your son or daughter as a burnt offering."  (see verses 9-14)

Deuteronomy 32:17  

"They offered sacrifices to demons, which are not god,

    to gods they had not known before,

to new gods only recently arrived,

    to gods their ancestors had never feared."  (see verses 1-47)

2 Kings 17:17a  They even sacrificed their own sons and daughters in the fire.  (see verses 5-23)

Ezekiel 16:20-21  "Then you took your sons and daughters--the children you had born to me--and sacrificed them to your gods. Was your prostitution not enough? Must you also slaughter my children by sacrificing them to idols?"  (see all chapter 16)

1 Corinthians 10:20-21  No, not at all. I am saying that these sacrifices are offered to demons, not to God. And I don't want you to participate with demons. You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord's Table and at the table of demons, too.  (see all chapter 10)

 

They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the LORD's sight. 

Leviticus 18:24  "Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for the people I am driving out before you have defiled themselves in all these ways."  (see all chapter 18)

Ezekiel 20:18  "Then I warned their children not to follow in their parents' footsteps, defiling themselves with their idols."  (see all chapter 20)

Hosea 4:12  

"They ask a piece of wood for advice!

    They think a stick can tell them the future!

Longing after idols

    has made them foolish.

They have played the prostitutes,

    serving other gods and deserting their God."  (see all chapter 4)

 

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Psalm 106:34-36 Part 2 of 2

Israel failed to destroy the nations in the land,

    as the LORD had commanded them.

Instead, they mingled among the pagans

    and adopted their evil customs.

They worshiped their idols,

    which led to their downfall.

 

They worshiped their idols, which led to their downfall.

Deuteronomy 12:29-31  "When the LORD your God goes ahead of you and destroys the nations and you drive them out and live in their land, do not fall into the trap of following their customs and worshiping their gods. Do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How do these nations worship their gods? I want to follow their example.' You must not worship the LORD your God the way other nations worship their gods, for they perform for their gods every detestable act that the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters as sacrifices to their gods."  (see all chapter 12)

Joshua 23:12-13  "But if you turn away from him and cling to the customs of the survivors of these nations remaining among you, and if you intermarry with them, then know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive them out of your land. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap to you, a whip for your backs and thorny brambles in your eyes, and you will vanish from this good land the LORD your God has given you."  (see all chapter 23)

Judges 2:1-3  The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said to the Israelites, "I brought you out of Egypt into this land that I swore to give your ancestors, and I said I would never break my covenant with you. For your part, you were not to make any covenants with the people living in this land; instead, you were to destroy their altars. But you disobeyed my command. Why did you do this? So now I declare that I will no longer drive out the people living in your land. They will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a constant temptation to you."  (see all chapter 2)

 

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Psalm 106:34-36 Part 1 of 2

Israel failed to destroy the nations in the land,

    as the LORD had commanded them.

Instead, they mingled among the pagans

    and adopted their evil customs.

They worshiped their idols,

    which led to their downfall.

 

Israel failed to destroy the nations in the land, as the LORD had commanded them. 

Exodus 23:32-33  "Make no treaties with them or their gods. They must not live in your land, or they will cause you to sin against me. If you serve their gods, you will be caught in the trap of idolatry."  (see verses 20-33)

Deuteronomy 7:16  "You must destroy all the nations the LORD your God hands over to you. Show them no mercy, and do not worship their gods, or they will trap you."  (see verses 16-26)

Deuteronomy 20:17-18  "You must completely destroy the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, just as the LORD your God has commanded you. This will prevent the people of the land from teaching you to imitate their detestable customs in the worship of their gods, which would cause you to sin deeply against the LORD your God.  

(see verses 10-18)

Joshua 9:15  Then Joshua made a peace treaty with them and guaranteed their safety, and the leaders of the community ratified their agreement with a binding oath.  (see all chapter 9)

Judges 1:19  The LORD was with the people of Judah, and they took possession of the hill country. But they failed to drive out the people living in the plains, who had iron chariots.  (see verses 19-36)

 

Instead, they mingled among the pagans and adopted their evil customs. 

Judges 3:5-6  So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and they intermarried with them. Israelite sons married their daughters and Israelite daughters were given in marriage to their sons. And the Israelites served their gods.  

(see all chapter 3)

Ezra 9:1-2  When these things had been done (see chapter 8), the Jewish leaders came to me and said, "Many of the people of Israel, and even some of the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the other peoples living in the land. They have taken up the detestable practices of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites. For the men of Israel have married women from these people and have taken them as wives for their sons. So the holy race has become polluted by these mixed marriages. Worse yet, the leaders and officials have led the way in this outrage."  (see all chapter 9)

 

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Psalm 106:32-33

At Meribah, too, they angered the LORD,

    causing Moses serious troubles.

They made Moses angry, 

    and he spoke foolishly.

 

Exodus 17:5-7  The LORD said to Moses, "Walk out in front of the people. Take your staff, the one you used when you struck the water of the Nile, and call some of the elders of Israel to join you. I will stand before you on the rock at Mount Sinai. Strike the rock, and water will come gushing out. Then the people will be able to drink." So Moses struck the rock as he was told, and water gushed out as the elders looked on. Moses named the place Massah (which means "test") and Meribah (which means "arguing") because the people of Israel argued with Moses and tested the LORD by saying, "Is the LORD here with us or not?" [see verses 1-7]

Numbers 20:3  There was no water for the people to drink at that place, so they rebelled against Moses and Aaron.  [see verses 1-5]

Numbers 20:8  "You and Aaron must take the staff and assemble the entire community. As the people watch, speak to the rock over there, and it will pour out its water. You will provide enough water from the rock to satisfy the whole community and their livestock."

Numbers 20:10-12  Then he and Aaron summoned the people to come and gather at the rock. "Listen, you rebels!" he shouted. "Must we bring you water from this rock?" Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with the staff, and water gushed out. So the entire community and their livestock drank their fill.

    But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust me enough to demonstrate my holiness to the people of Israel, you will not lead them into the land I am giving them!"  [see verses 1-13]

Numbers 20:23-24  There on the border of the land of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "The time has come for Aaron to join his ancestors in death. He will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel, because the two of you rebelled against my instructions concerning the water at Meribah."  [see verses 22-29]

Numbers 27:12-14  One day the LORD said to Moses, "Climb one of the mountains east of the river, and look out over the land I have given the people of Israel. After you have seen it, you will die like your brother Aaron, for you both rebelled against my instructions in the wilderness of Zin. When the people of Israel rebelled, you failed to demonstrate my holiness to them at the waters." (These are the waters of Meribah at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)  [see verses 12-28, also Deuteronomy 34]

 

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Psalm 106:28-31 Part 2 of 2

Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peor;

    they even ate sacrifices offered to the dead!

They angered the LORD with all these things,

    so a plague broke out among them.

But Phinehas had the courage to intervene,

    and the plague was stopped.

So he has been regarded as a righteous man

    ever since that time.

 

But Phinehas had the courage to intervene, and the plague was stopped. So he has been regarded as a righteous man ever since that time.

Numbers 25:10-13  Then the LORD said to Moses, "Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest has turned my anger away from the Israelites by being as zealous among them as I was. So I stopped destroying all Israel as I had intended to do in my zealous anger. Now tell him that I am making my special covenant of peace with him. In this covenant, I give him and his descendants a permanent right to the priesthood, for in his zeal for me, his God, he purified the people of Israel, making them right with me."  (see all chapter 25) 

Numbers 31:6  Then Moses sent them out, 1,000 men from each tribe, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest led them into battle. They carried along the holy objects of the sanctuary and the trumpets for sounding the charge.  

(see all chapter 31)

Joshua 22:12-13  So the whole community of Israel gathered at Shiloh and prepared to go to war with them. First, however, they sent a delegation led by Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to talk with the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Joshua 22:17  "Was our sin at Peor not enough? To this day we are not fully cleansed of it, even after the plague that struck the entire community of the LORD."

Joshua 22:32-34  Then Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, and the other leaders left the tribes of Reuben and Gad in Gilead and returned to the land of Canaan to tell the Israelites what had happened. And all the Israelites were satisfied and praised God and spoke no more of war against Reuben and Gad.

    The people of Reuben and Gad named the altar "Witness," for they said, "It is a witness between us and them that the LORD is our God, too."  

(see all chapter 22) 

 

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Psalm 106:28-31 Part 1 of 2

Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peor;

    they even ate sacrifices offered to the dead!

They angered the LORD with all these things,

    so a plague broke out among them.

But Phinehas had the courage to intervene,

    and the plague was stopped.

So he has been regarded as a righteous man

    ever since that time.

 

Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peor; they even ate sacrifices offered to the dead! They angered the LORD with all these things, so a plague broke out among them.

Numbers 23:28  So Balak took Balaam to the top of Mount Peor, overlooking the wasteland.  (see chapters 22-24)

Numbers 25:3  In this way, Israel joined in the worship of Baal of Peor, causing the LORD's anger to blaze against his people.  (see verses 1-5)

Numbers 25:6-9  Just then one of the Israelite men brought a Midianite woman into his tent, right before the eyes of Moses and all the people, as everyone was weeping at the entrance of the Tabernacle. When Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up and left the assembly. He took a spear and rushed after the man into his tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the way through the man's body and into the woman's stomach. So the plague against the Israelites was stopped, but not before 24,000 people had died. 

Numbers 25:17-18  "Attack the Midianites and destroy them, because they assaulted you with deceit and tricked you into worshiping Baal of Peor, and because of Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, who was killed at the time of the plague because of what happened at Peor."  (see verses 6-18)

Deuteronomy 4:3  "You saw for yourself what the LORD did to you at Baal-peor. There the LORD your God destroyed everyone who had worshiped Baal, the god of Peor.  (see verses 1-14)

Hosea 9:10  

The LORD says, "O Israel, when I first found you,

    it was like finding fresh grapes in the desert.

When I saw your ancestors,

    it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season.

But then they deserted me for Baal-peor,

    giving themselves to that shameful idol.

Soon they became vile,

    as vile as the god they worshiped.  (see all chapter 9)

 

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Psalm 106:24-27 Part 3 of 3

The people refused to enter the pleasant land,

    for they wouldn't believe his promise to care for them.

Instead, they grumbled in their tents

    and refused to obey the LORD.

Therefore, he solemnly swore

    that he would kill them in the wilderness,

that he would scatter their descendants among the nations,

    exiling them to distant lands.

 

that he would scatter their descendants among the nations, exiling them to distant lands.

Leviticus 26:33  "I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will be in ruins."  (see all chapter 26)

Deuteronomy 28:64  "For the LORD will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods made of wood and stone!"  (see verses 49-68)

Nehemiah 1:8-9  "Please remember what you told your servant Moses: 'If you are unfaithful to me, I will scatter you among the nations. But if you return to me and obey my commands and live by them, then even if you are exiled to the ends of the earth, I will bring you back to the place I have chosen for my name to be honored.' "  (see all chapter 1)

Jeremiah 9:16  "I will scatter them around the world, in places they and their ancestors never heard of, and even there I will chase them with the sword until I have destroyed them completely."  (see all chapter 9)

Ezekiel 12:15  "And when I scatter them among the nations, they will know that I am the LORD."  (see all chapter 12)

Ezekiel 20:23-25  "But I took a solemn oath against them in the wilderness. I swore I would scatter them among all the nations because they did not obey my regulations. They scorned my decrees by violating my Sabbath days and longing for the idols of their ancestors. I gave them over to worthless decrees and regulations that would not lead to life."  (see all chapter 20)

Zechariah 7:13-14  "Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the LORD of Heaven's Armies. As with a whirlwind, I scattered them among distant nations, where they lived as strangers. Their land became so desolate that no one even traveled through it. They turned their pleasant land into a desert."  (see all chapter 7)

 

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Psalm 106:24-27 Part 2 of 3

The people refused to enter the pleasant land,

    for they wouldn't believe his promise to care for them.

Instead, they grumbled in their tents

    and refused to obey the LORD.

Therefore, he solemnly swore

    that he would kill them in the wilderness,

that he would scatter their descendants among the nations,

    exiling them to distant lands.

 

Therefore, he solemnly swore that he would kill them in the wilderness,

Numbers 14:23  "They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have treated me with contempt will ever see it."  (see verses 20-37)

Numbers 32:11  "Of all those I rescued from Egypt, no one who is twenty years old or older will ever see the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, for they have not obeyed me wholeheartedly."  (see verses 1-12)

Deuteronomy 2:14-15  "Thirty-eight years passed from the time we first left Kadesh-barnea until we finally crossed the Zered Brook! By then, all the men old enough to to fight in battle had died in the wilderness, as the LORD had vowed would happen. The LORD struck them down until they had all been eliminated from the community."  (see verses 13-25)

Psalm 95:10-11  

"For forty years I was angry with them, and I said,

    'They are a people whose hearts turn away from me.

    They refuse to do what I tell them.'

So in my anger I took an oath:

    'They will never enter my place of rest.' "  (see all Psalm 95)

Hebrews 3:7-11  That is why the Holy Spirit says,

    "Today when you hear his voice,

        don't harden your hearts

    as Israel did when they rebelled,

        when they tested me in the wilderness.

    There your ancestors tested and tried my patience,

        even though they saw my miracles for forty years.

    So I was angry with them, and I said,

    'Their hearts always turn away from me.

        They refuse to do what I tell them.'

     So in my anger I took an oath:

        'They will never enter my place of rest.' "  (see all chapter 3) 

 

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Psalm 106:24-27 Part 1 of 3

The people refused to enter the pleasant land,

    for they wouldn't believe his promise to care for them.

Instead, they grumbled in their tents

    and refused to obey the LORD.

Therefore, he solemnly swore

    that he would kill them in the wilderness,

that he would scatter their descendants among the nations,

    exiling them to distant lands.

 

The people refused to enter the pleasant land,

Numbers 13:32  So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: "The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge."  (see verses 25-33)

Ezekiel 20:5-6  "Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: When I chose Israel--when I revealed myself to the descendants of Jacob in Egypt--I took a solemn oath that I, the LORD, would be their God. I took a solemn oath that day that I would bring them out of Egypt to a land I had discovered and explored for them--a good land, a land flowing in milk and honey, the best of all lands anywhere."  (see verses 1-20)

 

for they wouldn't believe his promise to care for them. 

Numbers 14:11  And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me with contempt? Will they never believe me, even after all the miraculous signs I have done among them?"  (see verses 1-12)

Hebrews 3:16  And who was it who rebelled against God, even though they heard his voice? Wasn't it the people Moses led out of Egypt?

Hebrews 3:7  That is why the Holy Spirit says,

    "Today when you hear his voice,

        don't harden your hearts

    as Israel did when they rebelled,

        when they tested me in the wilderness."  (see verses 7-19)

 

Instead, they grumbled in their tents and refused to obey the LORD. 

Numbers 14:2  Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. "If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!" they complained.

Numbers 14:22  "... not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice."  (see all chapter 14)

Deuteronomy 1:26-27  "But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God and refused to go in. You complained in your tents and said, 'The LORD must hate us. That's why he has brought us here from Egypt--to hand us over to the Amorites to be slaughtered.' "  (see verses 19-33)

1 Corinthians 10:10  And don't grumble as some of them did, and then were destroyed by the angel of death.  (see verses 1-13)

 

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Psalm 106:19-23 Part 2 of 2

The people made a calf at Mount Sinai;

    they bowed down before an image made of gold.

They traded their glorious God

    for a statue of a grass-eating bull.

They forgot God, their savior,

    who had done such great things in Egypt--

such wonderful things in the land of Ham,

    such awesome deeds at the Red Sea.

So he declared he would destroy them.

    But Moses, his chosen one, stepped between the LORD and the people.

    He begged him to turn from his anger and not destroy them.

 

So he declared he would destroy them.

Deuteronomy 9:13-14  "The LORD said to me, 'I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these people are. Leave me alone so I may destroy them and erase their name from under heaven. Then I will make a mighty nation of your descendants, a nation larger and more powerful than they are.' "  

(see also Exodus 32:9-10, Numbers 14:11-12)

 

But Moses, his chosen one, stepped between the LORD and the people. 

Exodus 32:11  But Moses tried to pacify the LORD his God. "O LORD!" he said. "Why are you so angry with your own people whom you brought from the land of Egypt with such great power and such a strong hand?"  

(see verses 7-13, also Numbers 14:13-16, Deuteronomy 9:25-28)

 

He begged him to turn from his anger and not destroy them. 

Numbers 14:17-19  "Please, Lord, prove that your power is as great as you have claimed. For you said, 'The LORD is slow to anger and filled with unfailing love, forgiving every kind of sin and rebellion. But he does not excuse the guilty. He lays the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected--even children in the third and fourth generations.' In keeping with your magnificent, unfailing love, please pardon the sins of this people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt."

(see all chapter 14, also all Exodus 32, Deuteronomy 9)

 

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Psalm 106:19-23 Part 1 of 2

The people made a calf at Mount Sinai;

    they bowed down before an image made of gold.

They traded their glorious God

    for a statue of a grass-eating bull.

They forgot God, their savior,

    who had done such great things in Egypt--

such wonderful things in the land of Ham,

    such awesome deeds at the Red Sea.

So he declared he would destroy them.

    But Moses, his chosen one, stepped between the LORD and the people.

    He begged him to turn from his anger and not destroy them.

 

The people made a calf at Mount Sinai; they bowed down before an image made of gold.

Exodus 20:22-23  And the LORD said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel: You saw for yourselves that I spoke to you from heaven. Remember, you must not make any idols of silver or gold to rival me."  (see all chapter 20)

Exodus 32:4  Then Aaron took the gold, melted it down, and molded it into the shape of a calf. When the people saw it, they exclaimed, "O Israel, these are the gods who brought you out of the land of Egypt!"  

(see verses 1-6, also Deuteronomy 9:7-21)

Acts 7:41  "So they made an idol shaped like a calf, and they sacrificed to it and celebrated over this thing they had made."  (see verses 30-43)

 

They traded their glorious God for a statue of a grass-eating bull. 

Jeremiah 2:11  

"Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones,

    even though they are not gods at all?

Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God

    for worthless idols!"  (see verses 1-13)

Romans 1:23  And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.  (see verses 18-32)

 

They forgot God, their savior, who had done such great things in Egypt--such wonderful things in the land of Ham, such awesome deeds at the Red Sea. 

Deuteronomy 4:34-35  "Has any other god dared to take a nation for himself out of another nation by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, a strong hand, a powerful arm, and terrifying acts? Yet that is what the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, right before your eyes.

    He showed you these things so you would know that the LORD is God and there is no other."  (see verses 32-40)

Deuteronomy 6:12  "... be careful not to forget the LORD who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt."  (see all chapter 6)

 

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