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    "technical_definition": "A mortality-and-humbling motif in which dust and ashes represent creaturely origin, deathward condition, contrition, shame, mourning, or low estate, often set against divine mercy, reversal, and resurrection hope.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 3:19",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Job 2:8",
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      "reference": "Job 42:6",
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      "reference": "Ps. 103:14",
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      "reference": "Isa. 61:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "to give unto them beauty for ashes",
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      "reference": "Lam. 3:29",
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      "reference": "1 Cor. 15:47",
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