The New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition Bible in One
Year - Day 56
Leviticus 6:1 [a] The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 When any of
you sin and commit a trespass against the Lord by deceiving a neighbor in a
matter of a deposit or a pledge, or by robbery, or if you have defrauded a
neighbor, 3 or have found something lost and lied about it—if you swear falsely
regarding any of the various things that one may do and sin thereby— 4 when you
have sinned and realize your guilt, and would restore what you took by robbery
or by fraud or the deposit that was committed to you, or the lost thing that
you found, 5 or anything else about which you have sworn falsely, you shall
repay the principal amount and shall add one-fifth to it. You shall pay it to
its owner when you realize your guilt. 6 And you shall bring to the priest, as
your guilt offering to the Lord, a ram without blemish from the flock, or its
equivalent, for a guilt offering. 7 The priest shall make atonement on your
behalf before the Lord, and you shall be forgiven for any of the things that
one may do and incur guilt thereby.
Instructions concerning Sacrifices
8 [b] The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 9 Command Aaron and his
sons, saying: This is the ritual of the burnt offering. The burnt offering
itself shall remain on the hearth upon the altar all night until the morning,
while the fire on the altar shall be kept burning. 10 The priest shall put on
his linen vestments after putting on his linen undergarments next to his body;
and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering
on the altar, and place them beside the altar. 11 Then he shall take off his
vestments and put on other garments, and carry the ashes out to a clean place
outside the camp. 12 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning; it shall not
go out. Every morning the priest shall add wood to it, lay out the burnt offering
on it, and turn into smoke the fat pieces of the offerings of well-being. 13 A
perpetual fire shall be kept burning on the altar; it shall not go out.
14 This is the ritual of the grain offering: The sons of Aaron
shall offer it before the Lord, in front of the altar. 15 They shall take from
it a handful of the choice flour and oil of the grain offering, with all the
frankincense that is on the offering, and they shall turn its memorial portion
into smoke on the altar as a pleasing odor to the Lord. 16 Aaron and his sons
shall eat what is left of it; it shall be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy
place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it. 17 It shall not
be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings by fire;
it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. 18 Every male
among the descendants of Aaron shall eat of it, as their perpetual due
throughout your generations, from the Lord’s offerings by fire; anything that
touches them shall become holy.
19 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 20 This is the offering that
Aaron and his sons shall offer to the Lord on the day when he is anointed:
one-tenth of an ephah of choice flour as a regular offering, half of it in the
morning and half in the evening. 21 It shall be made with oil on a griddle; you
shall bring it well soaked, as a grain offering of baked[c] pieces, and you
shall present it as a pleasing odor to the Lord. 22 And so the priest, anointed
from among Aaron’s descendants as a successor, shall prepare it; it is the
Lord’s—a perpetual due—to be turned entirely into smoke. 23 Every grain
offering of a priest shall be wholly burned; it shall not be eaten.
24 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 25 Speak to Aaron and his
sons, saying: This is the ritual of the sin offering. The sin offering shall be
slaughtered before the Lord at the spot where the burnt offering is
slaughtered; it is most holy. 26 The priest who offers it as a sin offering
shall eat of it; it shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of
meeting. 27 Whatever touches its flesh shall become holy; and when any of its
blood is spattered on a garment, you shall wash the bespattered part in a holy
place. 28 An earthen vessel in which it was boiled shall be broken; but if it
is boiled in a bronze vessel, that shall be scoured and rinsed in water. 29
Every male among the priests shall eat of it; it is most holy. 30 But no sin
offering shall be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of
meeting for atonement in the holy place; it shall be burned with fire.
7: This is the ritual of the guilt offering. It is most holy; 2
at the spot where the burnt offering is slaughtered, they shall slaughter the
guilt offering, and its blood shall be dashed against all sides of the altar. 3
All its fat shall be offered: the broad tail, the fat that covers the entrails,
4 the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage
of the liver, which shall be removed with the kidneys. 5 The priest shall turn
them into smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to the Lord; it is a guilt
offering. 6 Every male among the priests shall eat of it; it shall be eaten in
a holy place; it is most holy.
7 The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is the same
ritual for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. 8 So,
too, the priest who offers anyone’s burnt offering shall keep the skin of the
burnt offering that he has offered. 9 And every grain offering baked in the
oven, and all that is prepared in a pan or on a griddle, shall belong to the priest
who offers it. 10 But every other grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall
belong to all the sons of Aaron equally.
Further Instructions
11 This is the ritual of the sacrifice of the offering of
well-being that one may offer to the Lord. 12 If you offer it for thanksgiving,
you shall offer with the thank offering unleavened cakes mixed with oil,
unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes of choice flour well soaked in
oil. 13 With your thanksgiving sacrifice of well-being you shall bring your offering
with cakes of leavened bread. 14 From this you shall offer one cake from each
offering, as a gift to the Lord; it shall belong to the priest who dashes the
blood of the offering of well-being. 15 And the flesh of your thanksgiving
sacrifice of well-being shall be eaten on the day it is offered; you shall not
leave any of it until morning. 16 But if the sacrifice you offer is a votive
offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that you offer
your sacrifice, and what is left of it shall be eaten the next day; 17 but what
is left of the flesh of the sacrifice shall be burned up on the third day. 18
If any of the flesh of your sacrifice of well-being is eaten on the third day,
it shall not be acceptable, nor shall it be credited to the one who offers it;
it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall incur guilt.
19 Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it
shall be burned up. As for other flesh, all who are clean may eat such flesh.
20 But those who eat flesh from the Lord’s sacrifice of well-being while in a
state of uncleanness shall be cut off from their kin. 21 When any one of you
touches any unclean thing—human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean
creature—and then eats flesh from the Lord’s sacrifice of well-being, you shall
be cut off from your kin.
22 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 23 Speak to the people of
Israel, saying: You shall eat no fat of ox or sheep or goat. 24 The fat of an
animal that died or was torn by wild animals may be put to any other use, but
you must not eat it. 25 If any one of you eats the fat from an animal of which
an offering by fire may be made to the Lord, you who eat it shall be cut off
from your kin. 26 You must not eat any blood whatever, either of bird or of
animal, in any of your settlements. 27 Any one of you who eats any blood shall
be cut off from your kin.
28 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 29 Speak to the people of
Israel, saying: Any one of you who would offer to the Lord your sacrifice of
well-being must yourself bring to the Lord your offering from your sacrifice of
well-being. 30 Your own hands shall bring the Lord’s offering by fire; you
shall bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be raised as an
elevation offering before the Lord. 31 The priest shall turn the fat into smoke
on the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons. 32 And the
right thigh from your sacrifices of well-being you shall give to the priest as
an offering; 33 the one among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood and fat of
the offering of well-being shall have the right thigh for a portion. 34 For I
have taken the breast of the elevation offering, and the thigh that is offered,
from the people of Israel, from their sacrifices of well-being, and have given
them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of
Israel. 35 This is the portion allotted to Aaron and to his sons from the
offerings made by fire to the Lord, once they have been brought forward to
serve the Lord as priests; 36 these the Lord commanded to be given them, when
he anointed them, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel throughout their
generations.
37 This is the ritual of the burnt offering, the grain offering,
the sin offering, the guilt offering, the offering of ordination, and the
sacrifice of well-being, 38 which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, when
he commanded the people of Israel to bring their offerings to the Lord, in the
wilderness of Sinai.
Footnotes:
a. Leviticus 6:1 Ch 5.20 in Heb
b. Leviticus 6:8 Ch 6.1 in Heb
c. Leviticus 6:21 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 58: Prayer for Vengeance
To the leader: Do Not Destroy. Of David. A Miktam.
1 Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?[a]
Do you judge people
fairly?
2 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
your hands deal out
violence on earth.
3 The wicked go astray from the womb;
they err from their
birth, speaking lies.
4 They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
like the deaf adder
that stops its ear,
5 so that it does not hear the voice of charmers
or of the cunning
enchanter.
6 O God, break the teeth in their mouths;
tear out the fangs of
the young lions, O Lord!
7 Let them vanish like water that runs away;
like grass let them be
trodden down[b] and wither.
8 Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime;
like the untimely
birth that never sees the sun.
9 Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns,
whether green or
ablaze, may he sweep them away!
10 The righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done;
they will bathe their
feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 People will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
surely there is a God
who judges on earth.”
Footnotes:
a. Psalm 58:1 Or mighty lords
b. Psalm 58:7 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Acts 1: The Promise of the Holy Spirit
1 In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus
did and taught from the beginning 2 until the day when he was taken up to
heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom
he had chosen. 3 After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many
convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the
kingdom of God. 4 While staying[a] with them, he ordered them not to leave
Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father. “This,” he said,
“is what you have heard from me; 5 for John baptized with water, but you will
be baptized with[b] the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
The Ascension of Jesus
6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, is this
the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He replied, “It is not
for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own
authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;
and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the
ends of the earth.” 9 When he had said this, as they were watching, he was
lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. 10 While he was going and
they were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by
them. 11 They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven?
This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same
way as you saw him go into heaven.”
Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas
12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet,
which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away. 13 When they had entered
the city, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying, Peter, and
John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James
son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of[c] James. 14 All these
were constantly devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women,
including Mary the mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers.
15 In those days Peter stood up among the believers[d] (together
the crowd numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said, 16 “Friends,[e]
the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through David foretold
concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus— 17 for he
was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry.” 18 (Now
this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness; and falling
headlong,[f] he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. 19 This
became known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in
their language Hakeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) 20 “For it is written in
the book of Psalms,
‘Let his homestead become desolate,
and let there be no
one to live in it’;
and
‘Let another take his position of overseer.’
21 So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time
that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 22 beginning from the baptism of
John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these must become a
witness with us to his resurrection.” 23 So they proposed two, Joseph called
Barsabbas, who was also known as Justus, and Matthias. 24 Then they prayed and
said, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which one of these two you have
chosen 25 to take the place[g] in this ministry and apostleship from which
Judas turned aside to go to his own place.” 26 And they cast lots for them, and
the lot fell on Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.
Footnotes:
a. Acts 1:4 Or eating
b. Acts 1:5 Or by
c. Acts 1:13 Or the brother of
d. Acts 1:15 Gk brothers
e. Acts 1:16 Gk Men, brothers
f. Acts 1:18 Or swelling up
g. Acts 1:25 Other ancient authorities read the share
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Leviticus 8: The Rites of Ordination
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Take Aaron and his sons
with him, the vestments, the anointing oil, the bull of sin offering, the two
rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; 3 and assemble the whole congregation
at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 4 And Moses did as the Lord commanded
him. When the congregation was assembled at the entrance of the tent of
meeting, 5 Moses said to the congregation, “This is what the Lord has commanded
to be done.”
6 Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward, and washed them
with water. 7 He put the tunic on him, fastened the sash around him, clothed
him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He then put the decorated band of
the ephod around him, tying the ephod to him with it. 8 He placed the
breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim. 9
And he set the turban on his head, and on the turban, in front, he set the
golden ornament, the holy crown, as the Lord commanded Moses.
10 Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle
and all that was in it, and consecrated them. 11 He sprinkled some of it on the
altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin
and its base, to consecrate them. 12 He poured some of the anointing oil on
Aaron’s head and anointed him, to consecrate him. 13 And Moses brought forward
Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and fastened sashes around them,
and tied headdresses on them, as the Lord commanded Moses.
14 He led forward the bull of sin offering; and Aaron and his
sons laid their hands upon the head of the bull of sin offering, 15 and it was
slaughtered. Moses took the blood and with his finger put some on each of the
horns of the altar, purifying the altar; then he poured out the blood at the
base of the altar. Thus he consecrated it, to make atonement for it. 16 Moses
took all the fat that was around the entrails, and the appendage of the liver,
and the two kidneys with their fat, and turned them into smoke on the altar. 17
But the bull itself, its skin and flesh and its dung, he burned with fire
outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.
18 Then he brought forward the ram of burnt offering. Aaron and
his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, 19 and it was slaughtered.
Moses dashed the blood against all sides of the altar. 20 The ram was cut into
its parts, and Moses turned into smoke the head and the parts and the suet. 21
And after the entrails and the legs were washed with water, Moses turned into
smoke the whole ram on the altar; it was a burnt offering for a pleasing odor,
an offering by fire to the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
22 Then he brought forward the second ram, the ram of
ordination. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, 23 and
it was slaughtered. Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of
Aaron’s right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his
right foot. 24 After Aaron’s sons were brought forward, Moses put some of the
blood on the lobes of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands
and on the big toes of their right feet; and Moses dashed the rest of the blood
against all sides of the altar. 25 He took the fat—the broad tail, all the fat
that was around the entrails, the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys
with their fat—and the right thigh. 26 From the basket of unleavened bread that
was before the Lord, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread
with oil, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh. 27
He placed all these on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and
raised them as an elevation offering before the Lord. 28 Then Moses took them
from their hands and turned them into smoke on the altar with the burnt
offering. This was an ordination offering for a pleasing odor, an offering by
fire to the Lord. 29 Moses took the breast and raised it as an elevation
offering before the Lord; it was Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination, as
the Lord commanded Moses.
30 Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the
blood that was on the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his vestments, and
also on his sons and their vestments. Thus he consecrated Aaron and his
vestments, and also his sons and their vestments.
31 And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the flesh at the
entrance of the tent of meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is in the
basket of ordination offerings, as I was commanded, ‘Aaron and his sons shall
eat it’; 32 and what remains of the flesh and the bread you shall burn with
fire. 33 You shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven
days, until the day when your period of ordination is completed. For it will
take seven days to ordain you; 34 as has been done today, the Lord has
commanded to be done to make atonement for you. 35 You shall remain at the
entrance of the tent of meeting day and night for seven days, keeping the
Lord’s charge so that you do not die; for so I am commanded.” 36 Aaron and his
sons did all the things that the Lord commanded through Moses.
Aaron’s Priesthood Inaugurated
9: On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the
elders of Israel. 2 He said to Aaron, “Take a bull calf for a sin offering and
a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the Lord. 3
And say to the people of Israel, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; a calf
and a lamb, yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering; 4 and an ox and a
ram for an offering of well-being to sacrifice before the Lord; and a grain
offering mixed with oil. For today the Lord will appear to you.’” 5 They
brought what Moses commanded to the front of the tent of meeting; and the whole
congregation drew near and stood before the Lord. 6 And Moses said, “This is
the thing that the Lord commanded you to do, so that the glory of the Lord may
appear to you.” 7 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar and
sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for
yourself and for the people; and sacrifice the offering of the people, and make
atonement for them; as the Lord has commanded.”
8 Aaron drew near to the altar, and slaughtered the calf of the
sin offering, which was for himself. 9 The sons of Aaron presented the blood to
him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the
altar; and the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar. 10 But
the fat, the kidneys, and the appendage of the liver from the sin offering he
turned into smoke on the altar, as the Lord commanded Moses; 11 and the flesh
and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.
12 Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. Aaron’s sons brought
him the blood, and he dashed it against all sides of the altar. 13 And they
brought him the burnt offering piece by piece, and the head, which he turned
into smoke on the altar. 14 He washed the entrails and the legs and, with the
burnt offering, turned them into smoke on the altar.
15 Next he presented the people’s offering. He took the goat of
the sin offering that was for the people, and slaughtered it, and presented it
as a sin offering like the first one. 16 He presented the burnt offering, and
sacrificed it according to regulation. 17 He presented the grain offering, and,
taking a handful of it, he turned it into smoke on the altar, in addition to
the burnt offering of the morning.
18 He slaughtered the ox and the ram as a sacrifice of
well-being for the people. Aaron’s sons brought him the blood, which he dashed
against all sides of the altar, 19 and the fat of the ox and of the ram—the
broad tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the two kidneys and the fat on
them,[a] and the appendage of the liver. 20 They first laid the fat on the
breasts, and the fat was turned into smoke on the altar; 21 and the breasts and
the right thigh Aaron raised as an elevation offering before the Lord, as Moses
had commanded.
22 Aaron lifted his hands toward the people and blessed them;
and he came down after sacrificing the sin offering, the burnt offering, and
the offering of well-being. 23 Moses and Aaron entered the tent of meeting, and
then came out and blessed the people; and the glory of the Lord appeared to all
the people. 24 Fire came out from the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and
the fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on
their faces.
Footnotes:
a. Leviticus 9:19 Gk: Heb the broad tail, and that which covers,
and the kidneys
Psalm 59: Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies
To the leader: Do Not Destroy. Of David. A Miktam, when Saul
ordered his house to be watched in order to kill him.
1 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;
protect me from those
who rise up against me.
2 Deliver me from those who work evil;
from the bloodthirsty
save me.
3 Even now they lie in wait for my life;
the mighty stir up
strife against me.
For no transgression or sin of mine, O Lord,
4 for no fault of
mine, they run and make ready.
Rouse yourself, come to my help and see!
5 You, Lord God of
hosts, are God of Israel.
Awake to punish all the nations;
spare none of those
who treacherously plot evil.Selah
6 Each evening they come back,
howling like dogs
and prowling about the
city.
7 There they are, bellowing with their mouths,
with sharp words[a] on
their lips—
for “Who,” they
think,[b] “will hear us?”
8 But you laugh at them, O Lord;
you hold all the
nations in derision.
9 O my strength, I will watch for you;
for you, O God, are my
fortress.
10 My God in his steadfast love will meet me;
my God will let me
look in triumph on my enemies.
11 Do not kill them, or my people may forget;
make them totter by
your power, and bring them down,
O Lord, our shield.
12 For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips,
let them be trapped in
their pride.
For the cursing and lies that they utter,
13 consume them in
wrath;
consume them until
they are no more.
Then it will be known to the ends of the earth
that God rules over
Jacob.Selah
14 Each evening they come back,
howling like dogs
and prowling about the
city.
15 They roam about for food,
and growl if they do
not get their fill.
16 But I will sing of your might;
I will sing aloud of
your steadfast love in the morning.
For you have been a fortress for me
and a refuge in the
day of my distress.
17 O my strength, I will sing praises to you,
for you, O God, are my
fortress,
the God who shows me
steadfast love.
Footnotes:
a. Psalm 59:7 Heb with swords
b. Psalm 59:7 Heb lacks they think
Acts 2: The Coming of the Holy Spirit
1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in
one place. 2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a
violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 Divided
tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.
4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other
languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
5 Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven
living in Jerusalem. 6 And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered,
because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. 7 Amazed
and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8
And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? 9
Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia,
Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging
to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and
Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.”
12 All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”
13 But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.”
Peter Addresses the Crowd
14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and
addressed them, “Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known
to you, and listen to what I say. 15 Indeed, these are not drunk, as you
suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. 16 No, this is what was
spoken through the prophet Joel:
17 ‘In the last days it will be, God declares,
that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh,
and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even upon my slaves, both men and women,
in those days I will
pour out my Spirit;
and they shall
prophesy.
19 And I will show portents in the heaven above
and signs on the earth
below,
blood, and fire,
and smoky mist.
20 The sun shall be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood,
before the coming
of the Lord’s great and glorious day.
21 Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be
saved.’
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