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Speaker 1: Hi Fai for listeners, and welcome to the Bible Explain podcasts.

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Speaker 1: On this lovely Monday morning, we're gonna be talking about

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Speaker 1: the building of the Temple today. Last week we discussed

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Speaker 1: the inside of the temple. Now we're going to discuss

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Speaker 1: the outside of the temple and also talk about copyist

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Speaker 1: errors and if there is a copyist error, does that

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Speaker 1: mean that the Bible is no longer the truth or

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Speaker 1: in errant? We'll talk about it. So let's go ahead

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Speaker 1: and read this chapter and talk about it. This is

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Speaker 1: Second Chronicles, chapter four, and I'll be reading the entire

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Speaker 1: thing today from the web. But of course, feel free

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Speaker 1: to pause the podcast to grab your cup of coffee

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Speaker 1: and also your Bible out of the version that you

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Speaker 1: prefer this morning, and once you're done with that, let's

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Speaker 1: go ahead and read Second Chronicles chapter four together. Then

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Speaker 1: he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty

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Speaker 1: cubits wide, and ten cubits high. Also he made the

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Speaker 1: molten sea of ten QB from brim to brim. It

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Speaker 1: was round five cubits high and thirty cubits in circumference

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Speaker 1: under It was the likeness of Oxen which encircled it

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Speaker 1: for ten cubits encircling the sea. The oxen were in

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Speaker 1: two rows cast. When it was cast, it stood on

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Speaker 1: twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, three looking toward

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Speaker 1: the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking

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Speaker 1: toward the east. And the sea was set on them above,

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Speaker 1: and all their hind quarters were inward. It was a

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Speaker 1: handbreadth thick. Its brim was made like the brim of

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Speaker 1: and held three thousand baths. He also made ten basins

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Speaker 1: and put five on the right hand and five on

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Speaker 1: the left to wash in them. The things that belonged

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Speaker 1: to the burnt offerings were washed in them, but the

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Speaker 1: sea was for the priests to wash in. He made

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Speaker 1: the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance

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Speaker 1: concerning them, and he set them in the temple, five

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Speaker 1: on the right hand and five on the left. He

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Speaker 1: also made ten tables and placed them in the temple,

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Speaker 1: five on the right side and five on the left.

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Speaker 1: He made one hundred basins of gold. Furthermore, he made

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Speaker 1: the court of the priests the Great Court, and the

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Speaker 1: doors for the court, and overlay their doors with bronze.

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Speaker 1: He set the sea on the right side of the

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Speaker 1: house eastward towards the south. Hiro made the pots, the shovels,

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Speaker 1: and the basins. So Harim finished doing the work that

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Speaker 1: he did for King Solomon in God's House, the two

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Speaker 1: capitals which were on the top of the pillars, the

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Speaker 1: two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals

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Speaker 1: that were on the top of the pillars, and the

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Speaker 1: four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of

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Speaker 1: pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of

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Speaker 1: the capitals that were on the pillars. He also made

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Speaker 1: the bases, and he made the basins on the bases,

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Speaker 1: one sea and the twelve oxen under it. Hiram Abi

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Speaker 1: also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all

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Speaker 1: its vessels for King Solomon for Yahwey's house of bright bronze.

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Speaker 1: The king cast them in the plain of Jordan, in

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Speaker 1: the clay ground between Saccoth, and thus Solomon made all

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Speaker 1: the vessels in great abundance, so that the weight of

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Speaker 1: the bronze could not be determined. Solomon made all the

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Speaker 1: vessels that were in God's House the golden altar, the

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Speaker 1: stands with their lamps to burn according to the ordinance

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Speaker 1: before the inner sanctuary of pure gold, and the flowers,

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Speaker 1: the lamps and the tongs of gold that were the

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Speaker 1: purest gold, and the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and

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Speaker 1: the fire pans of pure gold. As for the entry

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Speaker 1: of the house, its inner doors for the most holy place,

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Speaker 1: were of gold. So in the last chapter we talked

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Speaker 1: about Solomon building the temple, the structure of the temple,

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Speaker 1: and also the inside of the temple, and just how

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Speaker 1: beautiful everything on the inside of the temple was supposed

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Speaker 1: to be. But the inside of the temple was not

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Speaker 1: for the average person. Only the priest was allowed on

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Speaker 1: So it says right here that Solomon made an altar

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Speaker 1: of had to be. If you think about how used

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Speaker 1: So this means that the altar had to be big.

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Speaker 1: different sacrifices at the same time as people were coming

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Speaker 1: and going into the temple to bring their sacrifices to God. Now,

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Speaker 1: people had easy access to it. It was kind of

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Speaker 1: like the heart of the outside of the temple. And

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Speaker 1: on the other side of the temple, it says there

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Speaker 1: was this molten sea is what it was called. It

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Speaker 1: a giant bath. It was a big bath where the

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Speaker 1: priests would go and wash themselves before they went and

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Speaker 1: did their work inside the temple. Being clean physically and

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Speaker 1: spiritually was very important for the Israelite person. If you

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Speaker 1: clear with his people that yes, they needed to have

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Speaker 1: a pure heart, but they also needed to be physically

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Speaker 1: clean as well. Now, being physically clean was an analogy

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Speaker 1: cleanliness that God put in place had like practical application

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Speaker 1: having the Israelites be very clean was going to behoove

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Speaker 1: diseases that were common due to uncleanliness in the ancient days.

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Speaker 1: So yes, there was a practical matter for it as well,

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Speaker 1: but more than anything, it was an analogy of the spiritual.

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Speaker 1: So the priests would have to wash their hands and

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Speaker 1: their feet before doing the service inside the temple. And

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Speaker 1: the sea was made of cast bronze. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: thing was probably very beautiful, and it says that oxen

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Speaker 1: were holding it up. There were twelve oxen, three facing south,

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Speaker 1: three facing to the east, and three to the west. Now,

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Speaker 1: of course, twelve is the number of the tribes of Israel. However,

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Speaker 1: as always, there is an argument that can be made

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Speaker 1: that these oxen were kind of like graven images and

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Speaker 1: idolatry in a way. A lot of times when you

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Speaker 1: see Israel falling for graven images, they're in the shape

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Speaker 1: some sort. The most famous example is, of course, the

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Speaker 1: idolatry that happened in the wilderness when Moses was up

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Speaker 1: angry at his people because he had literally just spoken

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Speaker 1: before that, and yet his people completely forgot him, Like

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Speaker 1: several weeks later they were like, oh, God doesn't exist, Moses.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna worship this golden calf. That's our God now.

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Speaker 1: And of course that made God very angry. And then

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Speaker 1: the other time that Israel fell prey with idolatry to

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Speaker 1: this guy named Jereboam really wanted the throne for himself,

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Speaker 1: and that was when Israel split off. Jeroboam became the

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Speaker 1: became the king of Judah. And when Jeroboam became the king,

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Speaker 1: the one thing he did not want his people doing

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Speaker 1: because he saw that as weakening to his position as king.

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Speaker 1: He was like, no, no, no, the Israelites cannot travel

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Speaker 1: down to Judah. That is a very bad thing. We

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Speaker 1: is down in Judah. We can't have that happen. And so,

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Speaker 1: for political and selfish reasons, Raya Boam makes these two

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Speaker 1: but he placed these two calves in locations that were

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Speaker 1: these two calves are perfect for you to worship at.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can worship Yahweh when you go to

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Speaker 1: these calves. But you know, just don't travel down to

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Speaker 1: Judah to the temple anymore because we've got these calves

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Speaker 1: and these are just as good. And then of course,

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Speaker 1: of actually worshiping God. So anytime we see Israel, you know,

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Speaker 1: case it's generally not a good thing. But I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to say that Solomon's heart was necessarily wrong when

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Speaker 1: everything that Solomon was doing was trying to beautify the temple.

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Speaker 1: people would want to go to worship Yahweh, And in

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Speaker 1: some ways that's a really good motivation. I do think

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Speaker 1: that there should be beauty when it comes to worshiping God.

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Speaker 1: problematic in churches. But overall, making something beautiful for Yahweh

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Speaker 1: is not a bad motivation. But moving forward, in verse five,

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Speaker 1: want to imagine how heavy. This thing was. Heavy and

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Speaker 1: thick and made completely of cast bronze. It was beauty.

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Speaker 1: copyist error. Okay, because if you go back and read

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Speaker 1: First Kings, chapter seven, we're also talking about Solomon building

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Speaker 1: you rectify those two things? And is this a copyist error?

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Speaker 1: mentions that David paid very little money for that area

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Speaker 1: rectified is that First Chronicles was talking about David purchasing

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Speaker 1: talking about David purchasing the one little spot, the threshing

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Speaker 1: seeing right here. With Solomon building this sea, it mentions

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Speaker 1: It could be that somebody just like inscribed it on

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Speaker 1: was probably good to have a big open space to

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Speaker 1: vessels that were in God's House, the golden altar, the

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Speaker 1: the temple were made of gold. So pretty much everything

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Speaker 1: inside the temple was made of pure gold. Everything on

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Speaker 1: check out the episode I did on Wednesday where I

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Speaker 1: talked about all of that. But anyway, faithful listeners, I

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Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed today's episode. We're going to talk more

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Speaker 1: about the dedication of the temple on Wednesdays, so I

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Speaker 1: hope you guys tune in then, but for tomorrow will

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Speaker 1: be in the New Testament in the book of Second

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Speaker 1: Thessalonians talking about Jesus' return, and we'll be finishing up

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Speaker 1: part two of Second Thessalonians one. So I hope to

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Speaker 1: see all of you guys. Then, happy listening, and God

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Speaker 1: bless