In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts start with a conversation about TV reboots and transition into a discussion of Numbers 35-36. They explore the biblical laws regarding Levitical cities, manslaughter versus murder, and the importance of sober-minded living. The episode concludes with reflections on contentment and obedience, highlighting the daughters of Zelophehad and the permanence of land allotments among the tribes of Israel.
00:00 Introduction and Exciting News
00:06 Debating Reboots and Adaptations
01:40 Monday Morning Banter
01:54 Reflecting on a Memorable Incident
02:53 Upcoming Family Events
03:32 Privacy and Social Media
04:34 Biblical Teachings on Manslaughter and Murder
07:01 Driving Safety and Responsibility
09:39 Laws of Inheritance and Obedience
12:05 Conclusion and Prayer
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Hey everybody.
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:Welcome back to another edition
of the Daily Bible podcast.
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:Happy Monday and I've got great news.
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:What's your great news?
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:Little House on the Prairie
is getting a reboot.
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:No, that's not good news.
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:That's great news.
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:Because they always no, they
always screw everything up.
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:Yeah, it's probably not gonna be great.
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:The Lord of the Rings reboot
that they did on Amazon Prime.
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:Horrible.
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:The Netflix, the Chronicle Chronicles
of Narnia that's coming out.
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:It's gonna be bad . You
haven't seen it yet, though.
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:Yeah, normally.
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:Normally that's the case.
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:And in fact, all the Disney
reboots that we've been watching,
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:the live action not good enough.
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:There's a difference between not
good enough and there's going to
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:be some transgender kid in Laura
little house in the prairie.
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:I'm looking at the photo and
it looks pretty authentic.
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:There's a cabin and there's a
husband and a wife and three kids.
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:That's pretty consistent so far.
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:For the main family, yeah, but
I'm not holding my breath, man.
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:They're calling it a fresh perspective
on the angles family journey.
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:See, Oh, it gets worse.
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:It transformed.
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:See adaptation of Laura Ingalls
Wilder's semi autographical novel.
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:Yeah, I bet it is an adaptation
a Transformed adaptation.
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:Wow.
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:She's a she'd not even asked if they could
use our transform conference titling.
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:They didn't that's unacceptable
I'm going to go to chat GPT and
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:ask it to draft up an email.
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:So your good news is really bad news.
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:I wanted to believe it wasn't until
I brought it up to you that now I
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:don't think it's good news anymore.
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:My cynicism is here to crush your dreams.
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:Thank you.
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:Yes.
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:Keeping us all grounded,
this is not you and Gillian.
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:This is the opposite.
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:Yeah, you're right.
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:It does say a transform
adaptation, fresh perspective.
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:All of those are signals.
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:Oh, that's not good, man.
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:Yeah.
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:Now I don't want to do this podcast.
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:Okay.
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:Then let's quit.
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:No, it is Monday.
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:Did you get more sleep?
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:It's your day off.
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:Did you?
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:Since it's a spring
forward type situation.
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:I hope I did.
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:Yeah.
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:Hope too.
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:That is my hope.
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:That is my desire.
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:I got, we went to bed at the right time.
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:You looked really ragged yesterday.
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:I'm not gonna lie, man.
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:I sure did, man.
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:I just felt it.
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:Yeah.
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:My heart was not in it.
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:And when you snapped and just broke
the guitar on stage, I thought, man,
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:how are we gonna recover from this?
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:That was an expensive snap too.
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:It was, yeah.
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:It's an expensive guitar.
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:And it was David's guitar.
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:I know it was unexpected
because he's not even playing.
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:He's not.
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:It was just like, I left the stage.
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:He went to his car, got his guitar
out to the stage and said, and
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:you just smashed it to bits.
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:And you all waited for me.
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:That was the best part.
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:We were all waiting on pins and needles.
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:We didn't know what was happening.
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:Yeah.
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:This is great.
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:People wanted to know that they were
like, is this, are we charismatic now?
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:Is this tongues that he's speaking?
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:And I understand the confusion.
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:Yeah.
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:Which tongue should not.
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:Steve was clutch in the back of playing
the jeopardy theme in the background
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:while we were all waiting for you to
get back, but yeah, if you weren't
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:there yesterday, none of that happened.
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:Yeah, you missed it, but
none of that happened.
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:We're just out of the live stream.
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:We're just joshing.
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:Yeah, anyways, yeah that's it's I
don't know that there's anything much
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:more of note about today, Monday.
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:Monday the 11th of March.
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:Oh, wait.
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:No 10th of March Cause tomorrow is notable
because it's my son's 16th birthday.
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:Oh wow.
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:So today's the 10th.
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:What are you guys going to do about that?
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:We're going to he's got
a baseball game actually.
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:You're going to go to his baseball game.
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:If I know, cause we've
got community group now.
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:Yeah.
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:So that's one way to do it.
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:Or you'll celebrate it after the fact.
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:Of course.
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:Of course I'll do something cool.
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:What's the agenda?
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:My in laws are coming to town.
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:So we're gonna celebrate with family.
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:Cool.
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:He's wanting to get out to Topgolf and
do that at some point to celebrate.
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:So yeah, Topgolf I think we'll go do that.
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:And he's got his driver's test later this
month to get his official license and Yep.
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:And then it's game changed
once he gets his license, but
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:we're not gonna do the thing.
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:And if you've done it great.
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:Good on you.
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:I'm glad you did, but I'm not gonna
take the picture and post it on.
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:Social media and be like, look out
world, because we got a new driver.
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:Like I feel like it's like taking the
Instagram photo of your quiet time and
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:posting it and being like, look at us.
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:We have coffee in our Bibles together.
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:We're so spiritual.
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:Like it is.
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:I'm going to go delete that post.
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:I just put out good.
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:You should, because yeah, I,
again, that's my, I don't know.
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:I'm not even ornery today.
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:I don't know why all the
cynicism is coming out.
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:I just like we get it, your
kids driving and it's bad news
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:for everybody else on the road.
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:We don't like Facebook.
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:Cool.
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:We'll like it.
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:I'll like it for you if you want to do
that, but don't look for Josh on the
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:picture because it's not going to happen.
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:All right.
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:But what's funny is some of the
parents will go in and cause
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:they're holding up their license.
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:And so they'll the ones with attention
to detail will redact their, like
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:the license, block it out and stuff.
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:You ought to man.
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:That's this dude.
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:If you Google yourself right now.
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:If you're a good Googler, sometimes
you can't be too generic about
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:it, but if you Google yourself,
there's a lot of information out
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:there of you, all of us on the web.
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:So I get that.
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:I don't want my stuff out there either.
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:Yeah.
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:That's fair.
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:That's fair.
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:Let's jump into our DBR and
let's finish the book of numbers.
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:Finish it.
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:We'll finish counting.
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:All done.
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:All done.
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:Numbers 35.
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:These are the laws regarding the Levitical
cities and the six cities of refuge.
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:So 48 of them, I believe all together
cause the six cities of refuge are
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:a subset of the Levitical cities.
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:And so there's 42 that are not
cities of refuge and then six of
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:them, which are cities of refuge.
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:Main part of this chapter
though, deals just with that.
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:What to do with a man guilty
of manslaughter as compared
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:to a man who commits.
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:Premeditated murder.
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:And so that's what the cities
of refuge were all about.
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:If somebody committed manslaughter
took somebody's life on accident or
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:something happened to cause that,
then there were these cities of
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:refuge to which the guilty party
could flee and he was protected there
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:until everything could be sorted out.
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:And if it was found that this was
unintentional, that this was not an
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:act of premeditated murder, then he was
instructed to stay in the Levitical city,
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:the city of refuge there until the high
priest, the current high priest died.
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:When the current high priest
died, then he was free to return
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:to his home without any concern.
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:But until that happened, if he left
the city of refuge, then the person
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:who was the next of kin to the
person that he killed accidentally
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:could take his life in vengeance.
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:So I think the most applicable thing
for us today, because we don't have
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:cities of refuge is just the note of
the fact that murder premeditated murder
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:meant the forfeiture of one's own life.
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:That was something that
is a biblical precept.
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:And I think that's why as Christians, we
need to be okay with capital punishment.
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:We need to be okay with
the death penalty today.
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:There are grounds for it to take
place and there are times when it
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:is appropriate for the death penalty
to be enacted against someone.
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:Yeah, that begins in Genesis chapter nine.
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:And God tells that to Noah, right?
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:If someone sheds man's blood by
man shall his own blood be shed.
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:But on top of that, I think what's
interesting is that you see here a
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:definition between what we even identified
a day as manslaughter versus murder.
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:And it really does hinge upon the
heart of the one who commits the act,
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:whether there was intent behind the
act or whether there's any reasonable.
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:Understanding of the scenario that
says, Oh, it was a truly an accident.
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:So I think that's a helpful distinction.
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:Not all killing is murder.
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:And therefore we need to weigh that with
an even hand justice as God defines.
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:It means making some really careful
slices in the way that we adjudicate
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:someone's guilt or innocence when
it comes to taking someone's life.
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:I think about this all
the time when I'm driving.
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:And I'm tempted to or either in
some way, I'm fiddling with my phone
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:and I think, Oh no, I got to be
careful because it's easy to not pay
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:attention for just a brief moment.
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:And suddenly something can happen.
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:And man, I would feel awful.
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:If anything happened because of my
brief lapse of attention to what
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:I'm doing, I think that's a good
example, a good case study where if
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:someone were to run somebody over
or commit some kind of accidental
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:murder, that would be a manslaughter.
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:And to what degree it is, of course,
it's dependent upon the course.
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:But my point is God makes
these distinctions for us
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:and we ought to do the same.
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:Being a good Bible
thinker is making careful.
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:Clear minded distinctions
that are based on the word.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:I think that's a helpful
clarification on that.
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:I think about that all the time
driving through my neighborhood
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:because so many people park the
cars on the side of the street.
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:Oh yeah.
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:Someone could just run out.
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:Yeah.
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:It drives me nuts when
people speed down my road.
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:I'm the old guy that stands outside
on my, my, and I stare people down
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:or I'll walk out into the street.
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:If somebody's driving too fast, I'll
walk out into the street while my kids
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:are out there and force them to stop.
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:Yeah.
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:Because they're just driving
like lunatics and they don't
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:realize I care about my kids.
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:But also if they hit somebody and
kill them, their life is done.
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:Their life is over.
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:Oh yeah.
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:And yeah, I just living with that
guilt to gain what to gain three
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:seconds on your commute home.
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:Come on, people.
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:Let's think about it.
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:I find a lot of young people do
that, at least on my block, both
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:here and back in California.
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:There's always a young person
who would speed down the block.
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:I'm like, my kids are out there.
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:And granted, they know better not to
run in the street, a kid is a kid.
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:They're going to, the
ball falls on the street.
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:They run out.
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:There's always those things.
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:So just be careful with that.
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:As a Christian, we ought to be the kind
of people that are sober minded enough to.
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:To consider what possibilities might Yeah.
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:Show up in front of us.
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:That's wise and that's prudent living.
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:And man, that ought to
be characteristic of us.
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:Yeah.
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:In fact, I knew somebody back in
California who had that very scenario
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:happen to her, and she wasn't speeding.
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:She was going the speed limit
down the road, but there were, the
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:cars were parked and this little
boy ran out in front of her.
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:Was she able to stop in time?
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:Oh.
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:Why you tell this story?
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:Because it's indicative, it's it
because it takes it out of the
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:ethereal and makes it something that
actually sad podcast actually happened.
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:I don't want to listen to this one.
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:If, yeah, anyways and she wasn't
charged with a crime cause they
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:investigated and found she was driving
the speed limit and everything else.
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:So even then, it's just,
yeah, it's terrifying.
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:The crushing weight that you would
have to bear for the rest of your life.
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:I don't know if I could do that, man.
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:I agree.
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:So chapter 34 of numbers,
the point is drive slowly and
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:chapter 35 and 35 chapter 35.
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:Is drive slowly.
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:That's an application point
that I'm sure Moses had.
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:He's listen, when you're in
your chariot just be careful.
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:Be careful, drive the speed limit.
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:Anyhow yeah, numbers 36, we come back
to the daughters of Z Zalophahad.
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:And they're back and there's
a concern being raised by some
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:of the members of their tribe.
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:And now that they're about to take
the land and their tribe is going to
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:get a portion of the land, the concern
is that if these daughters marry
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:somebody from another tribe, that the
other tribe is going to gain the land
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:that belongs to the, their tribe.
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:And so it raises up the, Chain of command
there and has decided that if there are
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:any women who have a, an allotment in the
land, that they were only to marry within
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:their tribes so that the land would not
be changed from one tribe to another.
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:And that's a general principle that
comes out of this chapter is there's
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:a law that's put in place that.
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:That tribes cannot exchange
land with one another.
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:So that goes back to what you were
saying, I think, in yesterday's episode
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:about where their land, the tribes
that were unhappy with what they had.
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:Not that probably all of three people
listening to this might care, but
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:the NHL trade deadline just happened.
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:Oh, and yeah, I know you're fast.
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:Yeah.
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:And the stars actually got one
of the best guys out there that
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:now starts to no Mika ran then.
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:But anyways, second guess.
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:There was no trading of land that
it's not like you could say, Hey,
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:we want to give up this portion of
land in order to gain this from you.
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:That was the law that got, God had said,
this is, she'll be your boundaries and
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:these are, this is what belongs to you.
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:And Moses said, this is
what it's going to be.
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:Period.
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:End of story.
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:There's not going to be land that
transfers from one tribe to another tribe.
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:And this was just a case study
with the daughters of Zalophas.
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:Man, I love the fact that.
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:Moses takes, I don't
know, several lines here.
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:He spills ink on these gals.
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:Again, in verse 10, it says here,
The daughters of Zelophehad did
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:I love it.
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:And then he names them.
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:He honors them so deeply by saying,
Look, here's what the result was.
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:And these girls did exactly
what they were supposed to do.
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:And they were told, Hey, you
got to marry in your tribe now.
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:And I could imagine them saying,
but I was looking at this dude
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:from Levi and he was really cute.
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:And this other guy from the other
tribe of, Ephraim and they're
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:like, all right we'll do it.
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:If that's what's necessary
for the good of the community.
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:Yeah.
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:For the propagation of our
father's name and so be it, man.
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:I love this because
they show contentedness.
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:They show obedience.
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:These girls are rock stars.
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:Yeah, no, for sure.
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:I agree, man.
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:Yeah, that's great.
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:That's great.
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:We see this so often in scripture.
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:We're going to see what David's mighty
men to, where scripture recognizes
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:people that are bit players by and
large, but list them in God's word
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:and their names are recorded there.
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:And that's super cool to think about.
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:So, yeah.
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:God keeps our names.
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:He does keep our names
written in his book of life.
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:That's right.
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:Let me pray.
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:And then we'll be done with this episode.
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:God, thanks for these realities
and reminders, even as we read
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:numbers 35 and think about driving.
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:It's crazy how your word is useful
and profitable for us today.
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:It's sufficient for all things.
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:And if we are paying attention to
your word, we can draw principles
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:out of it that do apply to our lives
and in different ways and capacities.
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:So we're grateful for those things.
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:And certainly we want to pray that
you'd keep us from any foolishness,
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:anything, any split second decision
that could cost us our lives, that
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:could cause us to carry a weight around
for the rest of our lives that no one
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:should have to carry or desire to carry.
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:That's for sure.
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:God help us to be wise as we conduct
ourselves in this world and careful
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:about how we conduct ourselves.
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:And so we ask this in Christ's name.
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:Amen.
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:Amen.
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