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      "reference": "Exod. 16:20",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "it bred worms, and stank",
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      "reference": "Deut. 28:39",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the worms shall eat them",
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      "reference": "Job 17:14",
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      "reference": "Job 24:20",
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      "reference": "Job 25:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "How much less man, that is a worm?",
      "explanation": "Worm imagery stresses human lowliness before God’s majesty.",
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      "reference": "Ps. 22:6",
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      "reference": "Isa. 14:11",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee",
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      "reference": "Isa. 66:24",
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      "reference": "Acts 13:36-37",
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      "reference": "1 Cor. 15:42",
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