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    "alternate_names": "highway imagery; causeway imagery; return-road imagery; way of holiness imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Return, preparation, holiness, and public access / Highway imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Highway, causeway, and return-road imagery uses prepared roads, raised highways, and royal routes to describe deliverance, return from exile, cleared access, holiness, and public readiness for the LORD’s coming.",
    "technical_definition": "A prepared-access motif in which highways and causeways signify the removal of obstacles, ordered return, holy pilgrimage, royal arrival, and the public making-ready of a people for divine visitation.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 30 draft-normalized road imagery review; distinguish this from the broader Way and Path Motif by focusing on prepared highways, raised routes, return from exile, and royal access.",
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      "reference": "Num. 20:17",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "we will go by the king’s high way",
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      "reference": "Isa. 11:16",
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      "reference": "Isa. 40:3",
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      "reference": "Isa. 49:11",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted",
      "explanation": "Raised highways picture God’s provision for gathered return.",
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      "reference": "Isa. 57:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way",
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      "reference": "Isa. 62:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "prepare ye the way of the people; cast up... the highway",
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      "reference": "Jer. 31:21",
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