1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: When she was brought forth, she sent to her father 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: in law, saying, by the man whose these are am 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: I with child? And he said, discern, I pray thee 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: whose these are the signet and bracelets and staff Genesis 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 1: thirty eight twenty five. Heavenly Father, as I move closer 6 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: and closer to my destiny, I will not sign away 7 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: my integrity for moments of pleasure. I will stand strong 8 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 1: even when the temptations of monetary pleasure try to lure 9 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,959 Speaker 1: me off my God given assignment. I will not make 10 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: the mistake, judimate, and give away the gifts in my 11 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: life that validate my identity. For I know that I 12 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: can only walk in my power when I am unapologetically me. 13 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: So God, to day, I choose to tap into your 14 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: unlimited power that gives me the ability to conquer the 15 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: mistakes of my past and step into the glorious future 16 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: you have for me. Thank you, Lord for redeeming my 17 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: life and giving me hope for brighter days in Jesus name, Amen. 18 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: Listening to these daily prayers strengthens your relationship with God. 19 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: Continue hearing from the Lord by listening to Today's Bible 20 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: in a year brought to you by Bible in a 21 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: Year dot com Tamar and Judah. Before this story, we 22 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: learned how Joseph was Israel's favorite son and was given 23 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: a coat of many colors by his father. While Joseph 24 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: was clothed with his father's favor, the other brothers were 25 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: clothed with jealousy and hatred towards Joseph. Contemptibly, they sold 26 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: Joseph into slavery and lied to their father about his death. 27 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: Now we will learn about the fourth brother, Judah, and 28 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:16,839 Speaker 1: his father's descend into dysfunction and God's faithfulness in it. 29 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: Inspired by the Book of Genesis. Hello, I'm pastor Jack 30 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 1: Graham with today's episode of the Bible of the Year podcast. 31 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: In our previous reading, we saw how Joseph was the 32 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 1: favorite son of Israel, his father, and how this favoritism 33 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: and Joseph's own ego and arrogance had caused hatred to 34 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: grow in the hearts of his brothers. The brothers conspired 35 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: against him, first intending to kill him, but then selling 36 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: him into slavery to a traveling band that carried Joseph 37 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 1: off to Egypt. But as to the brothers, any thought 38 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: of their troubles going away with Joseph was naive, and 39 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: in today's reading we'll hear the story of one of 40 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: those brothers, Judah. He was the ringleader in the evil plan, 41 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: and now he'll set off to make a life for 42 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: himself away from his family. What will unfold is the 43 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: story of impatience, deception, and impulsive, indulgent actions that will 44 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: leave a trail of hurt and death. But through it 45 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: all God will continue to work. Despite the sins of 46 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: those involved, God will enact his beautiful plan of redemption. 47 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: In today's story, you will see God's justice and judgment 48 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: come upon those who displease him and disobey him. It 49 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: is a powerful reminder that while God is slow to anger, 50 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: there are times when he responds swiftly to those who 51 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: sin against him. We'll also see God extending grace and 52 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: mercy to Judah, so that through him God can bring 53 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: into the world the one who will absorb God's righteous 54 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: wrath and judgment once and for all. So now let's 55 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: listen to this reading from the Book of Genesis. Judah, 56 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: the brother who had devised the plan to sell Joseph 57 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: into slavery, was determined to make a name for himself. 58 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: He turned from his brothers and looked towards the Canaanites. 59 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: There he had an a Dolomite friend whose name was Hira. 60 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 1: While he dwelled there, he met a daughter of Shua, 61 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 1: a beautiful Canaanite woman. Judah took her for himself, and 62 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: the two bore three sons, er Onan and Shellah. When 63 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: Er was of age, Judah found a wife for him Tamar. However, 64 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: he was not a man worthy of a wife or 65 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: any sort of blessing. Almost like a disease, Er grew 66 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 1: up with a wickedness in his heart. It plagued him, 67 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 1: and an evil shadow was cast wherever he went. The 68 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: Lord had allowed Er to experience. In early death, leaving 69 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: Tamar a widow, Judah looked to his second born son Onan, 70 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: Go into your brother's wife, make love and have many offspring, 71 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: for such as your duty as a brother in law. However, 72 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: Onan knew in his heart that he would be having 73 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: children for his dead brother ern. Yet the pleasure of 74 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 1: Tamar's bedroom was too enticing for him to pass up. 75 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: He had sex with her, but pulled out so they 76 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: would not have children. He used her, and it was 77 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,799 Speaker 1: wicked in the sight of the Lord Onan too fell 78 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: to an early death allowed by the hand of God. 79 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 1: Tamar was now twice widowed and without children. She was 80 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: forced to remain in her father's house until Judah's third son, Shellah, 81 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 1: was old enough to marry her. However, Shellah was fearful 82 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: to marry Tamar, for he had seen what happened to 83 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: his older brothers. Time had passed and Judah's family was 84 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:56,239 Speaker 1: plagued with yet another death. As the Tower of Babel 85 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: in ancient times, the hope he had to build his 86 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:04,359 Speaker 1: own king ingdom was slowly crumbling. Judah's wife had passed 87 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 1: away and he was left alone with his son Sella. 88 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: Judah went to Timnah with his friend Hira to shear 89 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: his sheep. Taking a trip with his friend would comfort 90 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 1: him in his grief. Tamar, still childless, brooded and schemed alone. 91 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 1: Sellah was grown up, yet would not marry her. Bitterness 92 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:30,160 Speaker 1: and loneliness overcame her a dangerous pairing. She had heard 93 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: Judah was traveling to Timnah to shear his sheep, so 94 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: she took her widow's garments off and covered herself with 95 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: a veil and wrapped herself up to look like a prostitute. 96 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,359 Speaker 1: She sat at the entrance of a naem attempting to 97 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: cross paths with Judah. He saw her from a distance, 98 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: having no idea who she really was. At the roadside, 99 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: Judah gestured towards her and said, come now, let me 100 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: come in to you. What will you give me if 101 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: I say yes? Tamar said, and her most seductive and 102 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: mysterious voice, I can send you a young goat from 103 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: my flock. Judah replied anxiously, I see no goats with you. 104 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: What will you give me as a deposit until it arrives. 105 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: Tamar negotiated, for she knew exactly what she wanted from him. 106 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: Give me your signatory, your chord, and your staff, things 107 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: that can only be identified as yours. So the two agreed, 108 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: and Judah unknowingly laid with his daughter in law for 109 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: momentary pleasure. Judah signed away his integrity. Tamar conceived that 110 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: day and left with Judah's possessions. Later that night, she 111 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: put her widow's clothes back on and awaited Judah's return. 112 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: Judah sent the young goat to where he had met Tamar. 113 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: Confused when he didn't find her, he asked the men 114 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: of the city where he could find her. Where can 115 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: I find the cult prostitute who stood at the gate Venaum? 116 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: He asked the men, There is no cult prostitute at 117 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: the gate of a Naum, they said with a slight grin, 118 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: Knowing he had probably been tricked. Judah returned empty handed, 119 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 1: irked and embarrassed. Three months had passed and Tamar began 120 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: to show she was pregnant. Words spread to Judah. People 121 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: of the town had assumed she had been unfaithful and 122 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: became pregnant apart from his sons. Judah's blood boiled at 123 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: the news. Fuming, he sent men to retrieve her. Let 124 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: her be burned, he shouted. Judah had lost nearly everything 125 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 1: and he would not allow his name to be tarnished 126 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: even more. As she was being brought back out, she 127 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: sent word back to Judah, along with his signet, ring, chord, 128 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 1: and staff. She said, I am pregnant by whoever these 129 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: belonged to. Do you know who owns these? Judah saw 130 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: that they were his and conceded that he had been tricked. Truly, 131 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: she is more righteous than I, Judah said, with a sigh. 132 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: I did not give Sella to be her husband, and 133 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: now I am paying for it. Judah left Tamara alone 134 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:19,559 Speaker 1: after that and allowed her to live her life in peace. 135 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: When the time had come, Tamar had twins, Perez and Zarah. 136 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: Perez had a scarlet cord in his hand. Little did 137 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 1: Tamar or Judah know that God would be active in 138 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: redeeming their family's wickedness, trickery, and dysfunction. From Perez. The 139 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: promise of Abraham would continue, for he would be an 140 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: ancestor of Christ himself. It was Judah who devised the 141 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,839 Speaker 1: plan to sell Joseph into slavery, and as we begin 142 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 1: to Day's story, we see he has moved on, seemingly 143 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: unaffected and unrepentant of his treachery and crualty towards his 144 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: own brother, but also towards his father, Jacob. Judah decides 145 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: to leave his family and go find a wife among 146 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:12,319 Speaker 1: the Canaanites, and he is successful in doing so. He 147 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: finds a wife who gives him three sons. But just 148 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: as Abraham and Sarah's struggle to conceive to not indicate 149 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: an absence of God's favor towards them, the arrival of 150 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 1: these three sons does not signal God's acceptance of Judah's 151 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: choice to leave his community and marry a foreign woman. 152 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 1: This is a very important lesson, not only in the 153 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: danger of straying from the place where God wants you 154 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,319 Speaker 1: to be. It is also a reminder that temporary success 155 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: or achievements are not necessarily a sign that we are 156 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: in the will of God. Judah is intent on growing 157 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: his family and indeed his own kingdom, So when his 158 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: eldest son, Er is of age, he finds a wife 159 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: for her, a woman named Tamar. How we are told 160 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: that Er is evil in God's eyes, and for this 161 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: reason God takes his life. God's patience of our sins, 162 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: God's forbearance of our sins is not always guaranteed, and 163 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 1: as a holy and perfect God who created us, our 164 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 1: life can be taken by Him in his judgment at 165 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: any time. This is what happened to Err, if we 166 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: could think honestly about it. It is a fate we 167 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: all deserve. We all deserve judgment because of our sin. 168 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: How blessed and thankful we are for the grace and 169 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: mercy of God that he is slow to anger and 170 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: to punish. Judah is still intent on growing his family 171 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 1: and making a name for himself, and he tells his 172 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: second son, onan to take Tamar and make babies with her. 173 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: But Odah and is not interested in starting a family 174 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 1: with this woman. He is interested only in the physical 175 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 1: gratification of sexual pleasure. Uses Tamar and deceives her so 176 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: that they cannot bear children from his seat, and for 177 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: this deception, God once again enacts swift and ultimate judgment, 178 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: sending on end to an early grad Now, this passage 179 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 1: is a sordid passage in many ways, but it is 180 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: not a condemnation of sex for pleasure. This is one 181 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: of the beautiful purposes for which God created and gave 182 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 1: the gift of sex between a husband and a wife 183 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: within the covenant of marriage. Now Judah is left with 184 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: only one son, his youngest Sheila. Afraid that his son 185 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 1: too will die, he sends Tamar to her father's home. 186 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: He promises to let his son Sheila, marry her when 187 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,439 Speaker 1: he grows older, but he never does. He simply abandons 188 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: this widow in her sad state. When Judah's own wife dies, 189 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:49,199 Speaker 1: Tamar sees an opportunity to secure a future for herself. 190 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: Showing poor judgment and even weaker character, Judah sleeps with Tamar, 191 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 1: who was deceptively posing as a prostitute. She goes away 192 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: with a baby, can see even in her womb, but 193 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: more importantly, with exactly what she needs to trap Judah 194 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: his symbols of authority. When her pregnancy is discovered, Judah, 195 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: who does not know it was her he slept with, 196 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 1: wants to have her burned for her transgression. But when 197 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: Tamar produces his personal items, he knows he's caught and 198 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:26,319 Speaker 1: he confesses. Judah recognizes that he did not act as 199 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: a man of his word, for he should have had 200 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: his son Sheila married Tamar as he had promised. Tamar's 201 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: life is spared and she gives birth to twin boys. 202 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: And out of this terrible situation, this sordid situation, God 203 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: would bring good that nobody could imagine. For one of 204 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: these sons, Peasm, will be one of our Lord's ancestors. 205 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 1: Once again we see how God is working always for 206 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: his good and for his purposes. That he is faithful 207 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: even when we are unfaithful to him, His problems cannot 208 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: and will not be broken, and Judah's life is a 209 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: powerful reminder of this unchanging eternal truth. Dear God, thank 210 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 1: you for showing us the danger of strength from the 211 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 1: path of your will. Thank you God that when we sin, 212 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: when we do not obey, when we do not act 213 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: with integrity and sincerity, you can even bring good out 214 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: of our situation because you can redeem and restore what 215 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: is broken and lost. Thank you for always being a 216 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: good God, a faithful God, a holy God. In Christ's name. Amen, 217 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to today's Bible in a Year podcast. 218 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: I'm pastor Jack Graham from Dallas, Texas. 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