Healing Oils of the Bible
Until I learned about essential oils I never really thought about
the healing oils of the Bible. But they are in there, plain as day.
And now it seems like it should have been obvious.
My favorites among the healing oils of the Bible are: Cedarwood,
Cinnamon, Fir, Frankincense, Myrrh, and Spikenard.
The Bible, both the New and Old Testaments, contain tons of references
(over 200) to essential oils, incense, ointments, and other aromatics.
They were used in religious rituals, for anointing, and for the
healing of their sick.
In the Old Testament Moses was given a recipe for a holy anointing
oil. It included the essential oils of myrrh, cinnamon, calamus,
and cassia as well as pure olive oil.
They actually knew how to use all the oils mentioned in the Bible
better than we do today.
It is well known that the wise men of the New Testament, upon visiting
the Christ child, gave him frankincense and myrrh.
Another well known incident is when Mary anointed the feet of Jesus
with a large amount of the expensive essential oil of spikenard
and then wiped his feet with her hair.
I think it's pretty cool that they used essential oils in Biblical
times.
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oil of your choice.
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Healing
Oils of the Bible: CALAMUS
- Exodus 30: 23
Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five
hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two
hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and
fifty shekels,
- The Song of Solomon 4: 14
Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of
frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
- Ezekial 27: 19
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright
iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
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Healing Oils of the Bible: CASSIA
- Exodus 30: 24
And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary,
and of oil olive an hin:
- Psalm 45: 8
All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of
the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
- Ezekial 27: 19
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright
iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
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Healing Oils of the Bible: CEDARWOOD
- Leviticus 14: 4
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed
two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
- Leviticus 14: 6
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood,
and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living
bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running
water:
- Leviticus 14: 49
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood,
and scarlet, and hyssop:
- Leviticus 14: 51
And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet,
and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird,
and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
- Leviticus 14: 52
And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and
with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the
cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
- Numbers 19: 6
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet,
and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
- Numbers 24: 6
As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s
side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted,
and as cedar trees beside the waters.
- Judges 9: 15
And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me
king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and
if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars
of Lebanon.
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- 2 Samuel 5: 11
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,
and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.
- 2 Samuel 7: 2
That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in
an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within acurtains.
- 2 Samuel 7: 7
In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children
of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom
I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not
me an house of cedar?
- 1 Kings 4: 33
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon
even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake
also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
- 1 Kings 5: 6
Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of
Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto
thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou
shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any
that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
- 1 Kings 5: 8
And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things
which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning
timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
- 1 Kings 5: 10
So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all
his desire.
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- 1 Kings 6: 9-10
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house
with beams and boards of cedar.
And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits
high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6: 15-16
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar,
both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and
he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor
of the house with planks of fir.
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the
floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for
it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
- 1 Kings 6: 18
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open
flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
- 1 Kings 6: 20
And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and
twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof:
and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which
was of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6: 36
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and
a row of cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 7: 2-3
He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof
was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and
the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars,
with cedar beams upon the pillars.
And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on
forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
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- 1 Kings 7: 7
Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even
the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one
side of the floor to the other.
- 1 Kings 7: 11-12
And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones,
and cedars.
And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones,
and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house
of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.
- 1 Kings 9: 11
(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees
and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that
then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
- 1 Kings 10: 27
And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars
made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for
abundance.
- 2 Kings 14: 9
And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,
saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that
was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and
there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down
the thistle.
- 2 Kings 19: 23
By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said,
With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of
the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the
tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and
I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest
of his Carmel.
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- 1 Chronicles 14: 1
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of
cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
- 1 Chronicles 17: 1
Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said
to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but
the ark of the covenant of the Lord remaineth under curtains.
- 1 Chronicles 17: 6
Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any
of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying,
Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
- 1 Chronicles 22: 4
Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre
brought much cedar wood to David.
- 2 Chronicles 1: 15
And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as
stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are
in the vale for abundance.
- 2 Chronicles 2: 3
And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst
deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build
him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.
- 2 Chronicles 2: 8
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon:
for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon;
and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
- 2 Chronicles 9: 27
And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees
made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
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- 2 Chronicles 25: 18
And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying,
The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in
Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there
passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the
thistle.
- Ezra 3: 7
They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and
meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre,
to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according
to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
- Job 40: 17
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are
wrapped together.
- Psalm 29: 5
The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh
the cedars of Lebanon.
- Psalm 80: 10
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof
were like the goodly cedars.
- Psalm 92: 12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow
like a cedar in Lebanon.
- Psalm 104: 16
The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon,
which he hath planted;
- Psalm 148: 9
Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
- The Song of Solomon 1: 17
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
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- The Song of Solomon 5: 15
His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold:
his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
- The Song of Solomon 8: 9
If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and
if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
- Isaiah 2: 13
And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
- Isaiah 9: 10
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones:
the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
- Isaiah 14: 8
8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon,
saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against
us.
- Isaiah 37: 24
By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said,
By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of
the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the
tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will
enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
- Isaiah 41: 19
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and
the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir
tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
- Isaiah 44: 14
He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak,
which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest:
he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
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- Jeremiah 22: 7
And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his
weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them
into the fire.
- Jeremiah 22: 14-15
That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and
cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted
with vermilion.
Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not
thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then
it was well with him?
- Jeremiah 22: 23
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how
gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as
of a woman in travail!
- Ezekial 17: 3, 22-23
And say, Thus saith the Lord God; A great eagle with great wings,
longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto
Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
- Ezekial 17: 22-23
Thus saith the Lord God; I will also take of the highest branch
of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top
of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high
mountain and eminent:
In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it
shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar:
and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow
of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
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- Ezekial 27: 5
They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they
have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
- Ezekial 27: 24
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes,
and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with
cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
- Ezekial 31: 3
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches,
and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top
was among the thick boughs.
- Ezekial 31: 8
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees
were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like
his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto
him in his beauty.
- Amos 2: 9
Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like
the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I
destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
- Zephaniah 2: 14
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts
of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge
in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows;
desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the
cedar work.
- Zechariah 11: 1-2
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are
spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage
is come down.
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Healing Oils of the Bible: CINNAMON
- Exodus 30: 23
Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five
hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two
hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and
fifty shekels,
- Proverbs 7: 17
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
- The Song of Solomon 4: 14
Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of
frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
- Revelations 18: 13
And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and
wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep,
and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
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Healing Oils of the Bible: CYPRESS
- Isaiah 44: 14
He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak,
which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest:
he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
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Healing Oils of the Bible: FIR
- 2 Samuel 6: 5
And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on
all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and
on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
- 1 Kings 5: 8
And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things
which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning
timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
- 1 Kings 5: 10
So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all
his desire.
- 1 Kings 6: 15
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar,
both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and
he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor
of the house with planks of fir.
- 1 Kings 6: 34
And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one
door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
- 1 Kings 9: 11
(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees
and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that
then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
- 2 Kings 19: 23
By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said,
With the amultitude of my chariots I am come up to the height
of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the
tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and
I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest
of his Carmel.
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- 2 Chronicles 2: 8
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon:
for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon;
and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
- 2 Chronicles 3: 5
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid
with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
- Psalm 104: 17
Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees
are her house.
- The Song of Solomon 1: 17
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
- Isaiah 14: 8
Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon,
saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against
us.
- Isaiah 37: 24
By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said,
By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of
the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the
tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will
enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
- Isaiah 41: 19
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and
the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir
tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
- Isaiah 55: 13
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of
the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the
Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut
off.
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- Isaiah 60: 13
The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine
tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary;
and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
- Ezekial 27: 5
They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they
have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
- Ezekial 31: 8
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees
were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like
his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto
him in his beauty.
- Hosea 14: 8
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have
heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From
me is thy fruit found.
- Nahum 2: 3
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are
in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the
day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
- Zechariah 11: 2
Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are
spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage
is come down.
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Healing Oils of the Bible: FRANKINCENSE
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Healing Oils of the Bible: GALBANUM
- Exodus 30: 34
And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte,
and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense:
of each shall there be a like weight:
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Healing Oils of the Bible: HYSSOP
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Healing Oils of the Bible: JUNIPER
- 1 Kings 19: 4-5
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness,
and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for
himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord,
take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an
angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
- Job 30: 4
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their
meat.
- Psalm 120: 4
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
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Healing Oils of the Bible: MYRRH
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Healing Oils of the Bible: MYRTLE
- Nehemiah 8: 15
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities,
and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive
branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches,
and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
- Isaiah 41: 19
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and
the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir
tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
- Isaiah 55: 13
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of
the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the
Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut
off.
- Zechariah 1: 8
I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and
he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind
him were there red horses, speckled, and white.
- Zechariah 1: 10-11
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said,
These are they whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through
the earth.
And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle
trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth,
and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
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Healing Oils of the Bible: PINE
- Nehemiah 8: 15
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities,
and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive
branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches,
and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
- Isaiah 41: 19
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and
the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir
tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
- Isaiah 60: 13
The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine
tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary;
and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
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Healing Oils of the Bible: SPIKENARD
- The Song of Solomon 1: 12
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth
the smell thereof.
- The Song of Solomon 4: 13-14
Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits;
camphire, with spikenard,
Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of
frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
- Mark 14: 3
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat
at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment
of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured
it on his head.
- John 12: 3
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly,
and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair:
and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
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