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    "figure_name": "Harvest Seasons, Feasts, and Agricultural Calendar Imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Provision, judgment, mission, patience, firstfruits, ingathering, and covenant calendar / Harvest-season imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Supplemental biblical imagery form",
    "simple_definition": "Harvest-season imagery uses seedtime, harvest, firstfruits, feasts, ingathering, or seasonal rains to picture provision, mission, judgment, patience, firstfruits, or covenant joy.",
    "technical_definition": "An agricultural-calendar motif in which seedtime, harvest, feast seasons, firstfruits, ingathering, ripened fields, or early and latter rains signify God’s provision, covenant rhythm, spiritual mission, eschatological judgment, patient waiting, or joyful gathering.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 8:22",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "seedtime and harvest... shall not cease",
      "explanation": "Seasonal harvest language establishes continuing created order after the flood.",
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      "reference": "Exod. 23:16",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the feast of harvest... and the feast of ingathering",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Lev. 23:10",
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      "reference": "Deut. 16:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "begin to number the seven weeks... from the sickle",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ruth 1:22",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ruth 2:23",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ps. 126:5-6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they that sow in tears shall reap in joy",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Matt. 9:37",
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      "reference": "John 4:35",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the fields... are white already to harvest",
      "explanation": "Harvest readiness pictures the ripeness of mission among Samaritans.",
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      "reference": "James 5:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the husbandman waiteth... until he receive the early and latter rain",
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