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    "figure_name": "Day, Night, Morning, Evening, and Watch Imagery",
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    "alternate_names": "day-night imagery; morning imagery; evening imagery; night-watch imagery; watchfulness imagery; dawn imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Watchfulness, deliverance, sorrow and joy, moral wakefulness, judgment timing, and hope / Day-night imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Supplemental biblical imagery form",
    "simple_definition": "Day, night, and watch imagery uses darkness, dawn, morning, evening, or night watches to picture sorrow and hope, vigilance, deliverance, judgment, or readiness for the Lord.",
    "technical_definition": "A daily-cycle motif in which day, night, evening, morning, dawn, or watches of the night signify created order, temporary sorrow, expectant hope, moral vigilance, deliverance at God’s time, or eschatological readiness.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 39 draft-normalized watches/time imagery review; distinguish literal time markers from night-watch and dawn imagery used for hope, readiness, or judgment.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 1:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the evening and the morning were the first day",
      "explanation": "The first day establishes created time as ordered by God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "source_section": "Wave 39 number/counting/order/time/seasons/generations/watches/first-last imagery expansion",
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      "reference": "Exod. 14:24",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host",
      "explanation": "The morning watch becomes the moment of divine intervention against Egypt.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0454",
      "figure_name": "Day, Night, Morning, Evening, and Watch Imagery",
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      "reference": "Ps. 30:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ps. 63:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "meditate on thee in the night watches",
      "explanation": "Night watches become a setting for prayerful remembrance.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
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      "figure_name": "Day, Night, Morning, Evening, and Watch Imagery",
      "page_slug": "day-night-morning-evening-and-watch-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 90:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "as a watch in the night",
      "explanation": "A night watch pictures the brevity of human time before God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "example_id": "EX39_0036",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0454",
      "figure_name": "Day, Night, Morning, Evening, and Watch Imagery",
      "page_slug": "day-night-morning-evening-and-watch-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 130:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "more than they that watch for the morning",
      "explanation": "Waiting for the LORD is compared to watchmen longing for dawn.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "page_slug": "day-night-morning-evening-and-watch-imagery",
      "reference": "Matt. 14:25",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them",
      "explanation": "The late-night watch heightens the disciples’ distress and Christ’s coming.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "reference": "Mark 13:35",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning",
      "explanation": "The divisions of the night urge continual readiness.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Luke 12:38",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "in the second watch, or come in the third watch",
      "explanation": "Watch language pictures servants ready for their master’s return.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Rom. 13:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "The night is far spent, the day is at hand",
      "explanation": "Night and day imagery calls believers to moral wakefulness.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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