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    "technical_name": "Ox, bull, calf, herd-strength, sacrifice, and labor-beast imagery",
    "alternate_names": "ox imagery; bull imagery; calf imagery; strong-beast imagery; herd-strength imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Strength, labor, sacrifice, and accountable provision / Ox and bull imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Ox, bull, and strong-beast imagery uses working cattle, bulls, calves, horns, and herd animals to describe strength, labor, sacrifice, pride, support for workers, and ordered service under God.",
    "technical_definition": "A strength-and-service motif in which cattle imagery may signify productive labor, sacrificial offering, stubborn or hostile power, temple support, covenant instruction about justice toward laborers, or creaturely dependence before the LORD.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 31 draft-normalized creature imagery review; distinguish this from general sacrificial imagery by focusing on oxen, bulls, calves, working strength, and herd-beast imagery.",
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      "reference": "Exod. 20:17",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "his ox, nor his ass",
      "explanation": "The ox represents valuable household strength and property that must not be coveted.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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      "reference": "Deut. 25:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox",
      "explanation": "Working-ox imagery becomes a principle of just support for labor.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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      "reference": "1 Kings 7:25",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "it stood upon twelve oxen",
      "explanation": "The bronze sea resting on oxen images ordered strength serving temple cleansing.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0371",
      "figure_name": "Ox, Bull, and Strong-Beast Imagery",
      "page_slug": "ox-bull-and-strong-beast-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 22:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round",
      "explanation": "Bulls picture fierce, powerful opposition surrounding the sufferer.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
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      "representative": "no",
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      "reference": "Ps. 50:13",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Will I eat the flesh of bulls",
      "explanation": "Bull-sacrifice language exposes the folly of thinking God depends on offerings.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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      "reference": "Prov. 14:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "much increase is by the strength of the ox",
      "explanation": "The ox images productive power that brings increase where labor is embraced.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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      "reference": "Isa. 1:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "The ox knoweth his owner",
      "explanation": "The ox becomes a rebuke: even beasts recognize their master while Israel does not.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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      "reference": "Ezek. 1:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the face of an ox",
      "explanation": "The ox-face contributes an image of creaturely strength among the living creatures.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "1 Cor. 9:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Doth God take care for oxen?",
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      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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      "reference": "Rev. 4:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the second beast like a calf",
      "explanation": "The calf-like living creature contributes sacrificial and creaturely imagery around the throne.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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