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    "figure_name": "Raven, Vulture, and Carrion-Bird Imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Providence, uncleanness, desolation, and judgment feast / Raven imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Raven, vulture, and carrion-bird imagery uses ravens, unclean birds, and carrion-eating birds to describe God’s providence, wilderness desolation, uncleanness, disgrace, and judgment upon the proud.",
    "technical_definition": "A providence-and-desolation motif in which dark or carrion-associated birds may signify unclean classification, wilderness habitation, divine feeding, shameful exposure after judgment, or God’s care for creatures outside human provision.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 31 draft-normalized creature imagery review; distinguish this from eagle imagery by focusing on ravens, unclean birds, carrion birds, desolation, and providential feeding.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 8:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he sent forth a raven",
      "explanation": "The raven’s movement after the flood contrasts with the dove’s later return-sign.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX31_0042",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0375",
      "figure_name": "Raven, Vulture, and Carrion-Bird Imagery",
      "page_slug": "raven-vulture-and-carrion-bird-imagery",
      "reference": "Lev. 11:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Every raven after his kind",
      "explanation": "The raven appears within the unclean-bird classification.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
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      "example_id": "EX31_0043",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0375",
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      "reference": "1 Kings 17:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I have commanded the ravens to feed thee",
      "explanation": "Ravens become unlikely servants of God’s providential care.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
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    },
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0375",
      "figure_name": "Raven, Vulture, and Carrion-Bird Imagery",
      "page_slug": "raven-vulture-and-carrion-bird-imagery",
      "reference": "Job 38:41",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Who provideth for the raven his food?",
      "explanation": "The raven’s cry displays God’s care beyond human management.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX31_0045",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0375",
      "figure_name": "Raven, Vulture, and Carrion-Bird Imagery",
      "page_slug": "raven-vulture-and-carrion-bird-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 147:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "to the young ravens which cry",
      "explanation": "Ravens image dependent creatures receiving provision from God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
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    {
      "example_id": "EX31_0046",
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      "figure_name": "Raven, Vulture, and Carrion-Bird Imagery",
      "page_slug": "raven-vulture-and-carrion-bird-imagery",
      "reference": "Prov. 30:17",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the ravens of the valley shall pick it out",
      "explanation": "Carrion-bird imagery depicts disgraceful judgment for contempt of parents.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
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      "example_id": "EX31_0047",
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      "figure_name": "Raven, Vulture, and Carrion-Bird Imagery",
      "page_slug": "raven-vulture-and-carrion-bird-imagery",
      "reference": "Song 5:11",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "his locks are... black as a raven",
      "explanation": "Raven-blackness becomes an image of striking beauty.",
      "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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      "page_slug": "raven-vulture-and-carrion-bird-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 34:11",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it",
      "explanation": "Ravens among desolation-birds picture ruined Edom.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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      "reference": "Ezek. 39:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "ravenous birds of every sort",
      "explanation": "Carrion birds image public judgment upon Gog’s forces.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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      "figure_name": "Raven, Vulture, and Carrion-Bird Imagery",
      "page_slug": "raven-vulture-and-carrion-bird-imagery",
      "reference": "Luke 12:24",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Consider the ravens",
      "explanation": "Jesus uses ravens to teach trust in the Father’s provision.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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