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  "canonical_name": "Almond",
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    "DREAMS_VISIONS",
    "OFFICES",
    "PLANTS_AGRICULTURE"
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          "scope_limitation": "This explicit interpretation concerns Jeremiah's commissioning vision; it does not make every almond occurrence a resurrection symbol.",
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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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      "label": "Aaron's almond-bearing staff functions as the divinely appointed sign of God's chosen priestly house.",
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      "definition": "Numbers 17 interprets the sprouting staff as the sign identifying the man/house God chooses; the ripe almonds belong to that sign of Aaronic priestly election.",
      "not_always": "The sign authenticates Aaronic priestly election; Scripture does not identify the almonds themselves as Christ's resurrection.",
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          "scope_limitation": "The sign authenticates Aaronic priestly election; Scripture does not identify the almonds themselves as Christ's resurrection.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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      "label": "The almond is a symbol/type of Christ in resurrection.",
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      "not_always": "Early blossoming and the dead-staff-to-life imagery can support devotional analogy, but no inspired text identifies the almond as a resurrection type of Christ.",
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