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    "technical_name": "Donkey, ass, colt, beast-of-burden, humble-transport, and burden-bearing imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Humility, burden-bearing, providence, and messianic lowliness / Donkey imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Donkey, colt, and burden-bearer imagery uses asses, foals, colts, and working pack animals to describe humble service, burden-bearing, providential rebuke, daily mercy, and the lowly arrival of the king.",
    "technical_definition": "A humble-service motif in which the donkey functions as domestic transport, a bearer of burdens, a sign of settled life, an unexpected voice of rebuke, or the chosen emblem of messianic lowliness rather than worldly display.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 49:11",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Binding his foal unto the vine",
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      "reference": "Exod. 23:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "his ass lying under his burden",
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      "reference": "Num. 22:28",
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      "reference": "Judg. 5:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "ye that ride on white asses",
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      "reference": "Isa. 1:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the ass his master’s crib",
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      "reference": "Zech. 9:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "lowly, and riding upon an ass",
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      "reference": "Matt. 21:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "sitting upon an ass, and a colt",
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      "reference": "Luke 13:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "loose his ox or his ass from the stall",
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      "reference": "2 Pet. 2:16",
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      "reference": "Luke 10:34",
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