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      "label": "Two wave loaves as Feast-of-Weeks firstfruits offering",
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      "definition": "Leviticus 23 institutes two leavened loaves as a wave offering of firstfruits at the Feast of Weeks.",
      "not_always": "The cultic designation is explicit; it does not itself identify the two loaves with Jews and Gentiles.",
      "scope_note": "The cultic designation is explicit; it does not itself identify the two loaves with Jews and Gentiles.",
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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000240",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical/verse reference",
              "title": "Leviticus 23:17 two wave loaves",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000769",
      "label": "Two loaves as Jews-and-Gentiles symbol lacks inspired identification",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The traditional proposal that the two Feast-of-Weeks loaves symbolize Jews and Gentiles united/accepted in Christ is not explicitly interpreted that way by Scripture.",
      "not_always": "The interpretation may be proposed as later typological tradition, but it cannot be stated as an inspired identification.",
      "scope_note": "The interpretation may be proposed as later typological tradition, but it cannot be stated as an inspired identification.",
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          "statement": "Scripture never identifies the two Leviticus 23 loaves as Jews and Gentiles accepted in Christ; Acts 2 and Ephesians 2 establish Pentecost and Jew-Gentile unity respectively, but neither inspired text interprets the two loaves by that equation.",
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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000188",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "לֶחֶם",
      "transliteration": "lechem",
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}