ka.rat H3772

כָּרַת (ka.rat) means “to cut: cut” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

כָּרַת Hebrew · H3772 288 tagged occurrences in 280 verses

Pronunciation guide: kaw-rath' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H3772G

כָּרַת · ka.rat · to cut: cut

: cut/fell 1) to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut off 1a1a) to cut off a body part, behead 1a2) to cut down 1a3) to hew 1a4) to cut or make a covenant 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cut off 1b2) to be cut down 1b3) to be chewed 1b4) to be cut off, fail 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be cut off 1c2) to be cut down 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to cut off 1d2) to cut off, destroy 1d3) to cut down, destroy 1d4) to take away 1d5) to permit to perish 1e) (Hophal) cut off

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TBESH · H3772H

כָּרַת · ka.rat · to cut: make(covenant)

: make(covenant) 1) to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut off 1a1a) to cut off a body part, behead 1a2) to cut down 1a3) to hew 1a4) to cut or make a covenant 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cut off 1b2) to be cut down 1b3) to be chewed 1b4) to be cut off, fail 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be cut off 1c2) to be cut down 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to cut off 1d2) to cut off, destroy 1d3) to cut down, destroy 1d4) to take away 1d5) to permit to perish 1e) (Hophal) cut off

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TBESH · H3772I

כָּרַת · ka.rat · to cut: eliminate

: eliminate/destroy 1) to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut off 1a1a) to cut off a body part, behead 1a2) to cut down 1a3) to hew 1a4) to cut or make a covenant 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cut off 1b2) to be cut down 1b3) to be chewed 1b4) to be cut off, fail 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be cut off 1c2) to be cut down 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to cut off 1d2) to cut off, destroy 1d3) to cut down, destroy 1d4) to take away 1d5) to permit to perish 1e) (Hophal) cut off

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TBESH · H3772J

כָּרַת · ka.rat · to cut: lack

: lack 1) to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut off 1a1a) to cut off a body part, behead 1a2) to cut down 1a3) to hew 1a4) to cut or make a covenant 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cut off 1b2) to be cut down 1b3) to be chewed 1b4) to be cut off, fail 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be cut off 1c2) to be cut down 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to cut off 1d2) to cut off, destroy 1d3) to cut down, destroy 1d4) to take away 1d5) to permit to perish 1e) (Hophal) cut off

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

a primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)

KJV glosses: be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), [idiom] lose, perish, [idiom] utterly, [idiom] want.

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How translators render H3772

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
cut off	13
must be cut off	13
made	12
will be cut off	12
i will cut off	11
and cut off	7
be cut off	7
he made	7
fail	6
make	6
i will make	5
and i will cut off	4
and made	4
cut down	4
i have made	4
to cut off	4
to make	4
and cut down	3
and cut him off	3
cut	3
had made a covenant	3
he had made	3
i made	3
let us make	3
shall be cut off	3
will be cut down	3
am making	2
and i have cut off	2
and to cut off	2
chopped down	2
cuts off	2
had made	2
he must be cut off	2
i have cut down	2
i will remove	2
of them made	2
please make	2
they cut down	2
to destroy	2
were cut off	2
will cut off	2
after they had made	1
and chop down	1
and cut	1
and he cut off	1
and i will make	1
and make	1
and must be cut off	1
and they cut off	1
and they will cut down	1
and will cut off	1
and wipe out	1
and you have made a pact	1
are cut off	1
be cut down	1
be removed	1
be without	1
been cut off	1
broken off	1
by cutting off	1
can we make	1
cut it down	1
cut them down	1
cutting off	1
destroy	1
disappear	1
fail to have	1
had slaughtered	1
has cut off	1
has made	1
have been cut off	1
have to destroy	1
he cuts down	1
he had cut off	1
he had killed	1
he has killed	1
he makes	1
he will cut off	1
i covenanted	1
i had made	1
i have already cut off	1
i have cut off	1
i will also cut off	1
i will cut	1
i will cut him off	1
i will cut you off	1
i will erase	1
i will make a treaty	1
in logging	1
in order to cut off	1
is making	1
it has been cut off	1
it has disappeared	1
it is cut down	1
it was chewed	1
lack	1
let us cut her off	1
let us cut him off	1
made a covenant	1
may be taken away	1
of them must be cut off	1
off	1
or cut	1
or severed	1
perish	1
shall certainly be cut off	1
so he made	1
so that i cut off	1
that he may cut off	1
that i may cut off	1
that they may make	1
their own destruction	1
then i will cut off	1
they cut	1
they cut off	1
they destroyed	1
they form	1
they had made	1
they made	1
they make	1
they must be cut off	1
they will chop down	1
to be cut off	1
to be destroyed	1
to chop down	1
to cut	1
to eliminate	1
to wipe out	1
use them	1
we have made	1
when i will make	1
who made	1
will be broken	1
will be cut out	1
will be destroyed	1
will cut	1
will cut you down	1
will he make	1
will make	1
woodcutter	1
you cut down	1
you made	1
you said i have made	1
you shall make	1
you will be cut off	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
shall be cut off	24
made	17
and i will cut off	12
and cut off	9
to cut off	9
and cut down	6
cut off	6
and made	5
there shall not fail	5
which he made	5
and i will make	4
and will cut him off	4
and will cut off	4
be cut off	4
shall not be cut off	4
are cut off	3
were cut off	3
and have cut off	2
and they cut off	2
cut down	2
had made	2
hath cut off	2
i have made	2
i made	2
make	2
shall cut off	2
that he made	2
that i will make	2
to make	2
want	2
will cut off	2
will i make	2
according as i have covenanted	1
also will i cut off	1
and because he hath cut down	1
and because of all this we make	1
and cut them down	1
and destroy	1
and i will cut down	1
and i will cut him off	1
and i will cut thee off	1
and is cut off	1
and let there not fail	1
and let us cut it off	1
and there shall none of you be freed	1
and they do make	1
and they shall be cut off	1
and they shall cut down	1
and to cut off	1
and we will cut	1
and will cut down	1
and ye had made	1
and ye shall make	1
be not cut off	1
behold i make	1
cut ye not off	1
cutteth	1
destroyed	1
ere it was chewed	1
for in that i cut off	1
for it is cut off	1
for thee that i cut thee not off	1
hath and cut down	1
hath made	1
hath made a league	1
have cut him off	1
he heweth him down	1
he made	1
he shall be cut off	1
he shall both cut off	1
hew ye down	1
him and cut off	1
him because he had cut off	1
how he hath cut off	1
i have cut off	1
i shall not cut off	1
i will cut off	1
i will make	1
if it be cut down	1
in making	1
is cut off	1
it shall be cut off	1
lest thou make	1
let us make	1
likewise cut down	1
maketh	1
may be cut off	1
me when they cut	1
moreover i will make	1
neither with you only do i make	1
no feller	1
now therefore let us make	1
now therefore make	1
of him shall be cut off	1
of them and thou shalt not cut them down	1
of them shall be cut off	1
or cut	1
perish	1
shall be cut	1
shall be cut out	1
shall cut thee off	1
shall even be cut	1
shall not want	1
shall utterly	1
should not be cut off	1
should not have been cut off	1
so he made	1
so that i cut off	1
that cut	1
that he had made	1
that he may cut off	1
that i covenanted	1
that i have cut off	1
that i have made	1
that i made	1
that i may cut off	1
that i will cut off	1
that shall not be cut off	1
that they may be cut off	1
that they may make	1
that we lose	1
that ye might cut yourselves off	1
thee and madest	1
thee and thou shalt be cut off	1
thee he is utterly cut off	1
them and cut off	1
them thou shalt make	1
then that i will cut off	1
then will i cut off	1
therefore now make	1
therein shall be cut off	1
thereof and let us cut him off	1
thereto shall even be cut off	1
they are	1
they had made	1
they shall cut down	1
thou shalt make	1
thou shalt not cut off	1
thou that they hew	1
thus they made	1
to cut	1
to cut down	1
to cut it off	1
to destroy	1
to hew	1
to thyself lest thou make	1
together unto me those that have made	1
until he had cut off	1
until they had destroyed	1
upon it and will cut off	1
upon it shall be cut off	1
upon thee and cut off	1
us and how shall we make	1
us and thee and let us make	1
was cut down	1
was not cut	1
we have made	1
which i had made	1
which i have made	1
which i made	1
which they had made	1
which thou shalt cut down	1
who shall cut off	1
will he make	1
will i cut off	1
with them and made	1

Verses containing H3772

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Numbers 19:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
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Deuteronomy 4:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.
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Deuteronomy 5:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
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Deuteronomy 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
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Deuteronomy 7:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
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Deuteronomy 9:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
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Deuteronomy 12:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
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Deuteronomy 19:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
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Deuteronomy 19:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
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Deuteronomy 20:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
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Deuteronomy 20:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
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Deuteronomy 23:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
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Source alternate reference: 23.2
Deuteronomy 29:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences
These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.
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Source alternate reference: 28.69
Deuteronomy 29:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
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Source alternate reference: 29.11
Deuteronomy 29:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
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Source alternate reference: 29.13
Deuteronomy 29:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
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Source alternate reference: 29.24
Deuteronomy 31:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
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Joshua 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”
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Joshua 3:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
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Joshua 4:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”
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Joshua 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”
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Joshua 9:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”
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Joshua 9:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”
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Joshua 9:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the elders and inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions for your journey; go to meet them and say to them: We are your servants. Please make a treaty with us.’
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Joshua 9:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
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Joshua 9:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Three days after they had made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites learned that they were neighbors, living among them.
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Joshua 9:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
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Joshua 11:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At that time Joshua proceeded to eliminate the Anakim from the hill country of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction, along with their cities.
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Joshua 23:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.
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Joshua 24:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.
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Judges 2:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
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Judges 4:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.
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Judges 6:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
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Judges 6:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.”
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Judges 6:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baal’s altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar.
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Judges 6:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”
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Judges 9:48 · BSB · 1 occurrence
he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
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Judges 9:49 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
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Ruth 4:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”
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1 Samuel 2:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and your heart to grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.
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1 Samuel 5:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.
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1 Samuel 11:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”
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1 Samuel 11:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right eye and bring reproach upon all Israel.”
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1 Samuel 17:51 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him, and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.
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1 Samuel 18:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
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1 Samuel 20:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”
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1 Samuel 20:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD hold David’s enemies accountable.”
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1 Samuel 22:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Is that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the son of Jesse. Not one of you has shown concern for me or revealed to me that my son has stirred up my own servant to lie in wait against me, as is the case today.”
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1 Samuel 23:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. And David remained in Horesh, while Jonathan went home.
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1 Samuel 24:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
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Source alternate reference: 24.5

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