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    "reader_category": "Covenant accountability, public attestation, legal evidence, truth, judgment, and faithful testimony / Witness imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Witness and testimony imagery uses records, witnesses, evidence, and attested words to picture truth established, covenant accountability, faithful testimony, or final judgment.",
    "technical_definition": "A legal-attestation motif in which witnesses, testimony, evidence, records, or established words signify public truth, covenant accountability, reliable proclamation, judicial confirmation, or the evidence by which judgment is rendered.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 38 draft-normalized written-record/name/seal/remembrance imagery review; distinguish this from general speech/testimony by focusing on evidentiary and covenant-record function.",
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      "reference": "Deut. 31:19",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "this song may be a witness for me",
      "explanation": "The written song becomes covenant evidence against future rebellion.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Josh. 24:27",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "this stone shall be a witness unto us",
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      "reference": "Ruth 4:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Ye are witnesses this day",
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      "reference": "Isa. 8:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I took unto me faithful witnesses to record",
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      "reference": "Jer. 32:10-12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the evidence of the purchase... sealed",
      "explanation": "Recorded and sealed documents attest Jeremiah’s land purchase.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Matt. 18:16",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established",
      "explanation": "Witnesses establish words in church discipline and judgment.",
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      "reference": "John 5:39",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they are they which testify of me",
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      "reference": "John 19:35",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he that saw it bare record",
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      "reference": "1 John 5:7-8",
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      "reference": "Rev. 20:13",
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