The Scoffer And The King
1/18/2026
Turn with me to Proverbs 20:20-21. These are our verses to study and memorize this week.
Proverbs 20:20-21 He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of darkness. 21 An inheritance gained hurriedly at the beginning Will not be blessed in the end.
Introduction
Proverbs 20:2-21:1 focuses broadly on the mocking scoffer and the king (or nation). For a nation to thrive it must not allow the behaviors of the scoffing mocker to run unchecked. The first section, in verses 2-8, emphasized the king dealing justice on the foolishness of the scoffing mocker. Verses 9-11 dealt with man’s depravity and God’s hatred of the behaviors of those who cheat one another in society. Verses 12-19, which we just finished, dealt somewhat generally in society with the scoffing mocker’s interactions with people.
As we now begin the next sub-section, verses 20-28 will continue to deal with the unjust words and interactions of the scoffing mocker. However, it zeroes in more specifically on his relationship to his family, to the Lord, and then finally back to the king. The first two verses introduce this section with the scoffing mocker’s harsh way of treating his parents. The middle four verses deal with his wrong behavior towards God. Then the last three verses give us another mini-chiasm with the way that the king should decisively deal with the scoffing mocker and his behavior. The center of the chiasm adds a final reminder of everyone’s accountability to God by the moral conscience that He made within their spirits.
Coming back to the beginning of our new sub-section in Proverbs 20:20-21 we are looking at the scoffing mockers relationship to his parents. The family is the main building block of all of society. When scoffing mockers stop honoring their parents and begin abusing them it has far reaching implications both for them and for a nation. Our first verse (Proverbs 20:20) deals with their wicked words and attitudes towards their parents and gives us a warning of what results from that behavior. When those words and attitudes turn to manipulation, mistreatment, or abuse the initial benefit gained might seem worthwhile to some people. Our second verse (Proverbs 20:21) warns that the final result of such actions will not be good. God will not bless them in such behaviors.
With that introduction, let’s take a look more closely now at Proverbs 20:20-21.
20 He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of darkness.
Disgracefully dishonoring one’s parents removes wisdom and snuffs out one’s life.
The first commandment with a promise in it from the Ten Commandments was to honor one’s parents. Deuteronomy 5:16 records this. God told Israel:
Deuteronomy 5:16 ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Ephesians 6:1-3 reiterates and quotes this to also apply it to us as Christians in our lives here on earth. Our proverb shows us the opposite of that honoring one’s parents and of having a long life. This cursing them dishonors them and results in having an aimless, shortened life. Scoffing mockers who curse their father and mother are in actuality cursing themselves by that behavior.
Exodus 21:17 and Leviticus 20:9 both declare that within Israel God instituted the death penalty upon anyone who cursed their father or their mother. Both of those passages use that exact same word for cursing from our proverb. Deuteronomy 27:16 additionally emphasizes the seriousness of this. God had Israel publicly pronounce that such a one was specifically cursed by God. They did this during the blessing/cursing ceremony that Israel held on Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Ebal when they entered the land. They literally shouted the blessings and cursings of the law back and forth to each other from those mountains.
When we realize that the penalty for such behavior was stoning, it becomes apparent that this lamp going out was not just hypothetical. It was the legal standard under the law of Israel given by God. All of this underscores how serious a matter cursing one’s parents is in the eyes of God, and of how dangerous it is to one’s life.
Given this, it would be very helpful to understand what is meant by “cursing” here. In biblical days, much like today, cursing is a way of treating something or someone with strong contempt, anger, or hatred. We see this in its use in Jeremiah 15:10. Here Jeremiah laments the way he is treated because of God’s message of judgment on sin that he has proclaimed to the people.
Jeremiah 15:10 Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land! I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me, Yet everyone curses me.
Jeremiah became a despised man of strife and contention in the eyes of all the people. He had not done anything wrong to them. He had not defrauded them of money. Yet they cursed him. They did not like his message. He and his message were despised and rejected. They did not want him around. They did not want to hear or see him. Essentially they wanted him dead and gone—which is why they beat him, put him in the stocks, imprisoned him, burned his written prophecies, threw him in a pit, and gave him a death sentence.
This same word for “cursing” is also what was used in Job 3:1 when it says that Job cursed the day that he was born. He was saying that it was a worthless, rotten day that should never have happened. In Genesis 8:21 this word is used in reference to the way that God had treated the world with the flood. In that verse He says that He will not curse the ground again on man’s account and destroy all living things like He had done with the flood. In Genesis 12:3 this is the same word describing the cursing of Abraham that people would do. There God famously proclaimed that He would bless those who bless Abraham and curse those who cursed him. From all these examples we can see that cursing is declaring someone worthless, insignificant, contemptible, and basically unworthy of life.
Much of people’s cursing today essentially does the same thing. Whether it is a person or a situation people are expressing their hatred and frustration in such a way that someone or something is despised, demeaned, and considered worthless. Thus they graphically say that people are deserving of being inhumanely abused, or eternally consigned to torment. What is so wrong about this, is that it is saying someone who was made by God in His own image for His purposes is worthless, despised, and ought to be brutalized and destroyed. Thus not only is it an attack against a particular person, but it also is an attack against the God who made them. When we take time to consider what cursing actually is, we see the true nature of what it is attempting to do. It is defying God’s purpose in His creation of people and His giving them value and life. It is an attempt to redefine reality to take God’s authority over circumstances, over life and death, or over worth and worthlessness into our own hands and proclaim what ought to be as if we were God ourselves. This is no light, insignificant thing. These are not just empty, careless, “mostly harmless” words. They have a meaning which is directed against people and God when they are used.
We can see the seriousness of this when it was blatantly used against God in Leviticus 24:10-16 with a situation that occurred during the wilderness wanderings under Moses. The text tells us that a half-Israelite, half-Egyptian man fought with another Israelite. Then he slandered or blasphemed against God’s name and “cursed.” That is the same word from our proverb. At God’s direction to Moses, all those who heard him speak that way were to lay their hands on him (probably to publicly witness and transfer back onto him the guilt of his actions which they had heard). Then he was stoned outside the camp. At the end of this passage, in Leviticus 24:16, God reinforced this punishment. He said that if anyone else used God’s name like this he would bear his own sin. The one abusing/slandering/cursing God’s name needed to be put to death regardless of whether he was a native Israelite or a resident foreigner.
God did not tolerate this kind of behavior against Himself, and He did not tolerate it against parents who are His appointed authority within the family. Our proverb highlights this a bit euphemistically when it talks about one’s lamp going out. Given the clear commands of the law, though, this would have been immediately obvious to Israelites that speaking this way to one’s parents could lead to one’s life being snuffed out.
Even if one’s death does not occur, as in modern times, the picture this proverb gives us is of someone whose lamp was blown out while they were in pitch blackness. In our day and age of flashlights, cell-phones and lights everywhere, we might miss the dangers that this would bring. Going without light in pitch blackness means that one would have no way of seeing which way one was supposed to go, what the obstacles were in one’s way, or where dangers existed. Moving beyond the literal to the metaphorical, there would be nothing to guide one’s life. There would be no wisdom to guide one’s decisions.
This exact same “lamp” terminology is used again near the end of this sub-section in Proverbs 20:27. There our God-given spirit (or conscience) shines a light of discernment on our lives and guides us. When we ignore and despise God’s guidance through His means we snuff that out. We lose both the conscience that God has given, as well as the external inputs God designed to come from our parents. Those helps should have been a light to our pathway of life. With them gone it is just a matter of time before our destruction comes as we stumble around in the pitch black darkness.
Thus, whether it was in the more immediate consequence of death through the just judgment of the law upon those who cursed their parents, or whether it is through removing ourselves from being teachable by God’s sources of wisdom in our lives, destruction comes upon these scoffing mockers.
Scriptural Example: When we look to Scripture for an example of this proverb Absalom is probably the clearest example (2 Samuel 15-18). When he carried out his coup against his father he did not just verbally curse his father. He literally attempted to kill him. Absalom made his decisive stance against David visible to all Israel by publicly abusing the 10 concubines of David who had been left behind in Jerusalem when he fled. He left no doubt that he despised his father. He left no room for reconciliation. He wanted him dead and out of the way. Then he raised an army to try to bring that about. He wanted the whole nation of Israel for himself and he wanted it now. But by doing all this, he snuffed out his own lamp. He left himself without wisdom. He left himself without godly guidance. He stumbled in the dark and was killed in the ensuing battle.
Eli’s sons are another close example (1 Samuel 2:12-36; 4:1-17). As priests during the time of the judges, they lived immorally and defied God’s laws about the sacrifices. Eli rebuked them to some extent, but they ignored it. They may not have verbally cursed him, but they certainly did not honor him or God by their actions. God judged them and brought their lives to an end in a battle against the Philistines.
If we broaden the picture out to people who cursed God’s ordained authority beyond the family a couple other examples are notable.
In 1 Samuel 17:43 the giant Goliath’s words against David are summarized as he “cursed David by his gods.” That is the same word for curse that is used in our proverb. We all know what then happened to Goliath. David’s stone felled him in the battle, and David finished him off with his own sword. His lamp was extinguished. It does not pay to curse God-ordained authorities and defiantly oppose Him—whether those authorities are our parents, or our national leaders.
In 2 Samuel 16:5-13 and 19:21 we see a man named Shimei cursing David when he fled Jerusalem during Absalom’s coup. David was God’s anointed king over all Israel. By cursing him, Shimei was also defying God. Despite that, David twice kept his men from putting him to death. Upon David’s return to Jerusalem Shimei seemed repentant. Yet, he was still guilty. Thus, David on his death bed charged Solomon with finding justice in this case. Solomon set conditions on him, and when he violated them Shimei received the full consequences for his earlier actions. His heart of disobedience and defiance to authority had not truly changed, and his lamp was snuffed out. Whether immediately or in time, cursing God ordained authorities over us—whether in the family, church, or government—brings consequences.
Proverb in Comparison: When we compare this proverb with the rest of Scripture, we see Jesus foretelling that His disciples would be mistreated by their own children like this because of following Him. Matthew records it in the context of when Jesus sent his disciples throughout Israel proclaiming that the kingdom was at hand. However, within his instruction Jesus broadened the time-frame of His comments to include all the way until His return. This is what He said in Matthew 10:17-25.
Matthew 10:17-25 “But beware of men, for they will hand you over to the courts and scourge you in their synagogues; 18 and you will even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. 19 “But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say. 20 “For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. 21 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. 22 “You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved. 23 “But whenever they persecute you in one city, flee to the next; for truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes. 24 “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his master. 25 “It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign the members of his household!
Luke 12:49-53 emphasized this same future reality when Jesus said that He did not come “to grant peace on earth….but rather division.” In that passage He also talks about fathers being divided against sons, sons against fathers, mothers against daughters, etc.
Paul also talks about the attitude behind this behavior in 2 Timothy 3:1-5 when he warns of the difficult times that would come in the last days. As part of that he emphasized that “men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,” etc.
Thus Jesus warned His disciples that scoffing mockers would persecute their own parents, curse them, disobey them, value them as worthless, and even betray them to death. This is the very essence of cursing one’s parents carried out to the fullest extent. Nonetheless, our proverb still stands. Their lamp is the one that will go out in time of darkness. By living this way they remove God’s wisdom and true guidance from their lives. They end up cursing themselves. When God’s justice comes there will be no escape. No matter how hard they try to remove themselves from God’s ordained authority it will not and cannot ultimately work. God is sovereign. They will not be able to escape the consequences of their defiance of Him even if they are able to successfully curse, defy, or kill their parents.
Truth in Connection: As we connect this to our lives and to our nation, the most immediate application is that we must not be scoffing mockers and despise our parents. We must not despise their God given authority or the godly wisdom that they share. If we do we will reap ruinous consequences.
On a national level, the more this dishonoring and contemptuous behavior towards parents occurs and is allowed, the more it undermines and destroys that nation. The more any nation cuts itself off from God’s righteous designs for life and from godly wisdom the worse the consequences will be. People will wander aimlessly in the dark into the pitfalls and dangers that exist. Just as Scripture predicts, we see this happening more and more in our country as people curse their parents and rejects godly wisdom on work, honesty, purpose, love, service, morality, cohabitation, divorce, homosexuality, transgenderism, etc. These things all have consequences when we carry them out. They blind us and lead us further into confusion, sin, and destruction. We reap what we sow.
Beyond those straight-forward connections, the application of this proverb also really extends to any aspects of God’s design, authority, and truth that we curse. When we despise, reject, abuse, condemn, speak wickedly of, and count as worthless garbage anything that God has declared to be of worth to Him, or to be in authority over us we are actually defying Him. He is the One who made those things, who gave them value, and who put them in authority over us. Nothing good will come out of that. When we curse, despise, and count as worthless God’s wisdom, when we curse, despise, and count as worthless people God has made in His image, when we curse, despise, and count as worthless the authority God has put in place over us we also curse, despise, and count Him as worthless. That is serious, and so will the consequences be. Our lamp will indeed go out in time of darkness. We destroy ourselves, and we invite God’s judgment. May we not live as scoffing mockers, but humbly trust God’s design, purpose, and wisdom for all areas of life.
Our next proverb adds to this picture of scoffing mockers who mistreat their parents.
21 An inheritance gained hurriedly at the beginning Will not be blessed in the end.
Despite initial appearances and enjoyment, a wrongly gotten inheritance results in a bad finish.
Gaining an inheritance hurriedly would be getting it before the right time. The wrong time would be before a person was ready for it, or in a wrong way. Either way, if someone was not ready for their inheritance, or if they got it by the abuse of their parents then it is not going to be blessed.
If they were not ready for it, then they will just squander it and make foolish choices with it. It will not reach its full potential or benefit for them. They will not have learned by hard work the value of their inheritance. It will be used up without careful planning, consideration, and discernment. Or, even worse, it will be wasted on evil pursuits.
If someone got it by evil ways, then it likewise is not going to result in true good for them either. That person’s bad character will cause them to misuse it. Their actions with it will get them into trouble. It will not prove the good to themselves that they hoped it to be. Proverbs 19:26 gave us one such scenario.
Proverbs 19:26 He who assaults his father and drives his mother away Is a shameful and disgraceful son.
The scoffing mocker does not want to delay his gratification. In his greed and impatience he wants whatever he can get or will get right now. That can drive him to manipulation or outright violence to take from his parents what is not yet rightfully his. That is not honoring one’s parents or respectfully treating them. It is extremely dishonorable and utterly disgraceful.
Our proverb concludes by saying that this behavior “will not be blessed in the end.” In the beginning it may indeed look like scoffing mockers profit by their wicked actions. They bully and take what they want from their parents and then they get to enjoy it. Or, in the case of one who is not quite so nefarious but gets the windfall of their inheritance before they are ready for it, they all of the sudden have what seems to be the fulfillment of their dreams. They have won the lottery. They have the money to do whatever they want. They can fulfill their every whim and desire. At first that might sound great. But the consequences will prove otherwise as they use it on foolish pursuits.
Whether they get it by wicked means, or not, God is not going to bless and show His favor to those who use what they have for selfish or wicked purposes. God is not going to bless those who use what they have for foolish pursuits. So while it may initially look like they have the good life as they do whatever they want, the reality is that the conclusion is not going to be so pretty.
The ability to do whatever they want with their hurriedly gained inheritance will just reinforce and amplify any sinful, self-focused, or foolish perspective which they already have. They will be able to fulfill those desires but it will put them into a downward, self-destructive spiral until they hit rock bottom. They will either destroy themselves, or run out of the ability to keep pursuing their way of life as they run out of money. Then they will be destitute. Indeed, they will not be blessed in the end. Even if they do somehow manage to keep up their lifestyle all their life, they will alienate their parents, their family, and all those who live righteously. Ultimately they will come under God’s judgment for their wicked actions when they die and stand before Him in judgment.
Scriptural Example: When we look to Scripture for examples of this proverb we can vividly see it in the life of Absalom which we looked at in our previous proverb. However, we can also see it in his brother Adonijah later on. Adonijah was Solomon’s older brother. When David was getting to the end of his life Adonijah wanted to make sure that he became king. Years before David had promised that Solomon would become king after him, but he made no concrete plans to ensure it happened. Adonijah did not want that to come to pass. He wanted the inheritance. He wanted the kingdom. So he made plans, and gained some influential allies. Then he invited all his brothers (except Solomon) and all the men of Judah and proclaimed himself king. After all, he was the older brother! Through all this he attempted to gain his inheritance hurriedly—before David died. He wanted to take what was not rightly his. Thus he was anointed by the priest, had the nation’s premier general at his side, and was proclaimed king. Then he sat down to feast with his supporters outside Jerusalem across the Kidron valley at the En-Rogel spring. Everything seemed to be going great.
But that was not how it ended. Adonijah did not have the blessing, favor, and approval of God. In the end, the blessing of God is what makes any pursuit and plan truly a success. Without that it will be empty. Ultimately it will not produce the good that was hoped. Nathan the prophet heard what happened, rallied Solomon’s mother, and together they roused feeble king David to see if they could head off this usurpation of the kingdom. At David’s direction Solomon was immediately anointed king right outside of the city at the Gihon spring. Then, before all Jerusalem, he rode on David’s donkey, and was escorted by his mighty men to sit on David’s throne as the new king. The shouts of “long live the king” with the rest of the noise of the joyous celebration coming down the valley upended Adonijah’s banquet. Thus Adonijah was seen to be a usurper who acted without authority and right. His supporters deserted him, and he was left at the mercy of the new and true king—Solomon. Adonijah was not blessed in the end for his attempts to gain his inheritance as a usurper. He was mercifully put on probation, but when his deceitful heart made another attempt at the throne he was put to death. He received the full consequences of his wickedness in the end.
Proverb in Comparison: When we compare this proverb with the rest of Scripture, the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32 quickly comes to mind. It starts off with the younger son wanting his inheritance from his father before his father had died. That is when it naturally would have been passed along to him. But he wanted it immediately—and not just the cows, sheep, and land. He wanted it liquidated into money that he could take, have, and spend. Then he took it and left to live out his life his own way. He squandered it all on riotous living. His foolish mindset that caused him to get it hurriedly like this also caused him to selfishly, sinfully, and foolishly use it up on wicked pursuits. What happened to him in the end? He squandered it all, was left friendless, and ended up destitute wanting to eat the food of the pigs he was tending. His behavior was not blessed in the end. However, the good news from the end of this parable is that even in that condition it is not too late to repent and turn to God for mercy, grace, and forgiveness while we still have life within us. If we do, God’s love is there waiting for us. Jesus poured it out on the cross, and is ready to save all those who come to Him in true, repentant faith.
Truth in Connection: As we connect this to our lives, the reality is that this all boils down to the age-old question of whether we will trust God for His perfect, good inheritance in His time and way, or whether we will try to take an inheritance for ourselves regardless of what is right or wrong.
Will we say like David in Psalm 16:5 “The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You support my lot.”? Or, will we follow Satan in trying to take from God what is not rightfully ours? Originally in the garden of Eden Satan attempted to steal from mankind their inheritance and stewardship over creation through the enticements and perversions of sin. Eve was deceived, and Adam willfully followed her. Thus indeed, it would appear that Satan has been successful. In Scripture he is called “the god of this world” in 2 Corinthians 4:4, the “prince of the power of the air” in Ephesians 2:2, and Jesus calls him “the ruler of this world” three times in the gospel of John (John 12:31, 14:30, 16:11). Yet, this state of things is only temporary. As Jesus says in John 12:30 and 16:11 Satan has been judged and will be cast out. He is like Adonijah feasting at his banquet table while his doom awaits him around the corner.
In sinfully following Satan mankind follows his example. We attempt to get, to have, and to keep an inheritance from God without God and His righteous standards. For a time we may seem to be successful at this. We live in creation as if we were the god of it and as if we were not accountable to the one true God. Our freedom, though, is but a mirage. In truth we are slaves to sin. One day the bill for our sinful defiance of God and for our theft of what is all rightfully His will come due.
As Romans 6:23 emphasizes, the wages of sin is death. According to Hebrews 9:27 after death comes judgment. Truly, an inheritance gained hurriedly, in wrong ways, will not be blessed in the end. God does not approve of what we have perverted His creation and our lives into. Our defiance of Him will only last so long. Then, as Philippians 2:10-11 says, every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Revelation 20:11-15 picture that final scene at God’s Great White Throne Judgment.
Revelation 20:13-15 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Eternity in the lake of fire: that is not a worthwhile tradeoff to try to steal an inheritance from God. Yet, the amazing thing is that while we were still enemies of God Christ died for us, in our place (Romans 5:6-11). He did this to pay the penalty for our sin in order to righteously be able to justify us before God in His court of justice. He takes our sin and the penalty it deserves. He pays it in full, and gives His righteousness as a free, undeserved gift to all those who repent and trust in Him as their Lord and Savior.
Through faith in Christ alone—apart from any works of our own— we can be thus forgiven of our sin, reconciled to God, adopted into the family of God, and have His eternal life. Amazingly, that eternal life includes the rich and full future inheritance that comes with being a child of God and “in Christ.”
What inheritance do you have? Are you living in the stolen inheritance of sin and awaiting the eternal judgment of God? Or have you recognized your own sin and turned in faith to Jesus as your Lord and Savior? Have you trusted in what Jesus did on the cross in His death, burial, and resurrection to make you righteous? No amount of attempted good works, penance, prayers or anything else that we can do can undo our sinfulness, change our sin nature, or remove the stain of our personal sins. Those are just further attempts to steal from God what is not rightfully ours. We must be born again. We must turn from trusting in our sin to trusting in Jesus. Even the faith to believe is a gift from Him. We must surrender everything to Him and cast ourselves entirely on His grace. Then the promise of John 6:37 will be true for us:
John 6:37 “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.
Matthew 11:28-30 puts it this way:
Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. 30 “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
That is God’s promise to us. He will give rest to all who come to Him. Take His yoke. Surrender to Him. Trust Him.
As you do, the truth of John 3:16 will be yours: “whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” Likewise, the promise of 1 Peter 1:4 will apply to you.
1 Peter 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. (cf. also Ephesians 1:11, 14, 18, Colossians 1:12, 3:24, Hebrews 9:15)
That is an inheritance worth waiting for. That is an inheritance worth trusting God for in His righteous way and in His perfect timing. Have you trusted in Jesus for this forgiveness, this eternal life, and this future inheritance? Are you living now in light of that blessed coming reality? Or are you distracted by the world’s way of doing things and are you still trying to scrounge around for an inheritance here on this earth? We need to live first for the kingdom of God and His righteousness. May that be our focus and purpose. May we not live as scoffing mockers who disregard God’s design for family and life and try to take what is not rightly ours. May we delight in the true riches of God’s eternal inheritance that He has for us.
Conclusion
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