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Today is MONDAY, the day we read from the Law. We’ll read Deuteronomy 4-6  I’m calling today’s episode “The Unified One.“

Comments on Deuteronomy 6

In chapter 6, verses 4 and 5, Moses is telling the children of Israel the great commandment, the one that encompasses all the others. It’s the commandment that Jesus quoted when the Pharisees asked Him which was the greatest of all the commandments. 

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 

Since Jesus said that this is the greatest commandment, we should understand it as clearly as possible, don’t you think?

We haven’t talked much about the concept of the Trinity on the show. But this verse seems like a good place to spend a few minutes on the subject. Many of you probably have a pretty good grasp on the idea of a triune God, but I know that there are some ls fam members who are fairly new to Christianity, and this is such an important topic that I do want to at least touch on it. This won’t be an in depth word study, but more like a 30,000 foot flyover view.

So you might ask, “What about Jesus and the Holy Spirit? They’re Gods, aren’t they?” No. No they are not. And what I mean by that is that they are not *separate* Gods. 

And this is where the idea of the Trinity comes in. Orthodox Christianity, or traditional Christianity if you prefer, believes that God is a Trinity, that there are three distinct persons who are together, one God. Not three Gods. One God. 

It can be difficult to get your head around, so let’s look at the word that was used in the original language, Hebrew, for the English word “one”. Here in Deuteronomy 6:4, the Hebrew word echad is used. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is echad!” Echad refers to a single item made up of multiple parts, also called a “unified one.” 

Are there other places in the Bible that the word echad is used? Yep. Let’s look at a few.

The first time we see echad is Genesis 1:5: The Young’s Literal translation says: “…and there is an evening, and there is a morning — day one.” It was one day, with two parts: evening and morning. Echad day.

Genesis 2:24: Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Echad flesh

In Exodus 26:6 “6 And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains together with the clasps, so that it may be one tabernacle.” Obviously, the Tabernacle was made up of many parts, but here it is called one tabernacle. Echad tabernacle.

Listen to Ezekiel 37:15-17: “15Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 16“As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.’ 17Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.” Two sticks become echad.

So the idea of three persons in echad God is not foreign to Scripture. 

There is a Hebrew word for a single item made up of one alone: yachid. This word is used in connection to one God exactly zero times in the Old Testament. Nowhere does the Bible say that the one God is a single entity. He is always referred to as echad God.

Here are some examples of yachid from the Bible:

* “He said, “Take now your son, your only [yachid] son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” ” Genesis 22:2

* “Now she was Jephthah’s one and only [yachid] child; besides her he had no son or daughter.” Judges 11:34

* “they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son [yachid]” Zechariah 12:10

So again, verse 4 says, “The Lord our God, the Lord is one!”  In the phrase, “The LORD our God”, the Hebrew word for God here is Elohim. Elohim is a plural word. El is singular, Elohim is plural.  

In Genesis 1:26 we read, “Then God (Elohim) said, “Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…” Let Us. Our image. Our likeness. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit were all present at the creation, as One God. 

At Jesus’ baptism, the Holy Spirit descended from Heaven like a dove, and the Father spoke, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” All three persons of the triune God were present at the baptism: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We have so many verses that teach us that God is One, and in Him are three distinct persons.

There are those who misunderstand or who do not want to understand this concept, but it is important for believers to at least trust that this is true, by faith. 

I hope you have found this to be interesting, if not enlightening. 

Today’s Bible Translation

Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 4 CEB; Ch. 5 NIRV; Ch. 6 NKJV

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The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

INTRO S12E299 – 0:10
Coming to you from Riverside, California, this is the Lifespring Family Audio Bible, Podcasting since 2004, I’m your OG Godcaster, Steve Webb. This is the daily show where we’re reading through the entire Bible in a year. Today’s Monday, the day we read from the Law. We’ll read Deuteronomy 4 through 6. I’ll have some comments after we read. We’ll have an On This Date in Church History, and we’ll have a time of prayer. I’m calling today’s episode, “The Unified One”. The show notes page for today’s episode is at lifespringmedia.com/s12e299. I welcome your comments. And my email address is st***@*************ia.com. Let’s begin.

DEUTERONOMY 4 (CEB) – 0:52
Deuteronomy, chapter 4. (1) Now, Israel, in light of all that, listen to the regulations and the case laws that I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live, enter, and possess the land that the LORD, your ancestors’ God, is giving you. (2) Don’t add anything to the word that I am commanding you, and don’t take anything away from it. Instead, keep the commands of the LORD your God that I am commanding all of you.

(3) You saw with your own eyes what the LORD did concerning the Baal of Peor. The LORD your God destroyed everyone who followed the Baal of Peor, (4) but all of you who stayed true to the LORD your God are alive today. (5) So pay attention! I am teaching all of you the regulations and the case laws exactly as the LORD my God commanded me. You must do these in the land you are entering to possess. (6) Keep them faithfully because that will show your wisdom and insight to the nations who will hear about all these regulations. They will say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and insightful people!” (7) After all, is there any great nation that has gods as close to it as the LORD our God is close to us whenever we call to him? (8) Or does any great nation have regulations and case laws as righteous as all this Instruction that I am setting before you today?

(9) But be on guard and watch yourselves closely so that you don’t forget the things your eyes saw and so they never leave your mind as long as you live. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren. (10) Remember that day when you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when the LORD said to me: “Gather the people to me. I will declare my words to them so that they will learn to fear me every day of their lives on the fertile land, and teach their children to do the same.” (11) Then you all came close and stood at the foot of the mountain. The mountain was blazing with fire up to the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick smoke! (12) The LORD spoke to you out of the very fire itself. You heard the sound of words, but you didn’t see any form. There was only a voice. (13) The LORD declared his covenant to you, which he commanded you to do—the Ten Commandments—and wrote them on two stone tablets. (14) At that time, the LORD commanded me to teach you all the regulations and the case laws that you must keep in the land that you are entering to possess.

(15) So watch your conduct closely, because you didn’t see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the very fire itself. (16) Don’t ruin everything and make an idol for yourself: a form of any image, any likeness—male or female— (17) or any likeness whatsoever, whether of a land animal, a bird that flies in the sky, (18) an insect that crawls on the earth, or a fish that lives in the sea. (19) Don’t look to the skies, to the sun or the moon or the stars, all the heavenly bodies, and be led astray, worshipping and serving them. The LORD your God has granted these things to all the nations who live under heaven. (20) But the LORD took you and brought you out of that iron furnace, out of Egypt, so that you might be his own treasured people, which is what you are right now.

(21) The LORD was angry with me because of your deeds and swore that I couldn’t cross the Jordan River or enter the wonderful land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. (22) I will die here in this land. I won’t cross the Jordan River. But you will, and you will take possession of that wonderful land. (23) So all of you, watch yourselves! Don’t forget the covenant that the LORD your God made with you by making an idol or an image of any kind or anything the LORD your God forbids, (24) because the LORD your God is an all-consuming fire. He is a passionate God.

(25) Once you have had children and grandchildren and have grown old on the land, if you ruin things by making an idol, in any form whatsoever, and do what is evil in the eyes of the LORD your God and anger him, (26) I call heaven and earth as my witnesses against you today: You will definitely disappear—and quickly—from the land that you are crossing over the Jordan River to possess. You won’t extend your time there but will instead be totally destroyed. (27) The LORD will scatter you among the nations. Only a very few of you will survive in the countries where the LORD will drag you. (28) There you will worship other gods, made of wood and stone by human hands—gods that cannot see, listen, eat, or smell. (29) You will seek the LORD your God from there, and you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your being. (30) In your distress, when all these things happen to you in the future, you will return to the LORD your God and you will obey his voice, (31) because the LORD your God is a compassionate God. He won’t let you go, he won’t destroy you, and he won’t forget the covenant that he swore to your ancestors.

(32) Now look into it: into days long past, before your time—all the way back to the day God first created human beings on earth, from one end of heaven to the other. Has anything this amazing ever happened? Has anything like it ever been heard of before? (33) Has any people ever listened to a god’s voice speaking out of fire, as each of you have, and survived? (34) Or has any god ever tried to take one nation out of another nation using tests, miracles, wonders, war, a strong hand and outstretched arm, or awesome power like all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt while you watched? (35) You were shown these things so that you would know this: The LORD is the only God. There’s no other god except him. (36) From heaven he made you hear his voice in order to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire. You heard his words from that very fire. (37) And because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, God brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his own great power, (38) in order to remove larger and stronger nations from before you and bring you into their land, giving it to you as an inheritance. That’s where things stand right now. (39) Know then today and keep in mind that the LORD is the only God in heaven above or on earth below. There is no other. (40) Keep the Lord’s regulations and his commandments. I’m commanding them to you today for your well-being and for the well-being of your children after you, so that you may extend your time on the fertile land that the LORD your God is giving you forever.

(41) Then Moses set aside three cities on the eastern side of the Jordan River (42) so that anyone who killed someone accidentally and without prior hatred could flee to one of these cities and be safe: (43) Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

(44) Now this is the Instruction that Moses set before the Israelites. (45) These are the laws and the regulations and the case laws that Moses made to the Israelites when they came out of Egypt. (46) This took place across the Jordan River, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, whom Moses and the Israelites defeated when they came out of Egypt. (47) They took possession of his land and the land of Og, Bashan’s king—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan River to the east— (48) from Aroer, which is on the banks of the Arnon River, all the way to Mount Sion, also known as Hermon, (49) and all the desert regions across the Jordan River, on the east, down to the Dead Sea, beneath the slopes of Mount Pisgah.

DEUTERONOMY (NIRV) – 8:27
Deuteronomy, chapter 5. (1) I sent for all the people of Israel. Here’s what I said to them,

Israel, listen to me. Here are the rules and laws I’m announcing to you today. Learn them well. Be sure to follow them. (2) The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Mount Horeb. (3) He didn’t make it only with our parents. He also made it with us. In fact, he made it with all of us who are alive here today. (4) The Lord spoke to you face to face. His voice came out of the fire on the mountain. (5) At that time I stood between the Lord and you. I announced to you the Lord’s message. I did it because you were afraid of the fire. You didn’t go up the mountain.

The Lord said,

(6) “I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of Egypt. This is the land where you were slaves.

(7) “Do not put any other gods in place of me.
(8) “Do not make statues of gods that look like anything in the sky or on the earth or in the waters. (9) Do not bow down to them or worship them. I am the Lord your God. I am a jealous God. I punish the children for the sin of their parents. I judge the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those who hate me. (10) But for all time I come to show love to all those who love me and keep my commandments.
(11) “Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God. The Lord will find guilty anyone who misuses his name.
(12) “Observe the Sabbath day. Keep it holy just as the Lord your God commanded you. (13) Do all of your work in six days. (14) But the seventh day is a sabbath in honor of the Lord your God. Do not do any work on that day. The same command applies to your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, your oxen, your donkeys and your other animals. It also applies to any outsiders who live in your cities. I want your male and female servants to rest, just as you do. (15) Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. The Lord your God reached out his mighty hand and powerful arm and brought you out of there. So he has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
(16) “Honor your father and mother, just as the Lord your God has commanded you. Then you will live a long time in the land he is giving you. And things will go well with you there.
(17) “Do not commit murder.
(18) “Do not commit adultery.
(19) “Do not steal.
(20) “Do not give false witness against your neighbor.
(21) “Do not long for your neighbor’s wife. Do not long to have anything that belongs to your neighbor. Do not long to have your neighbor’s house or land, male or female servant, ox or donkey.”

(22) Those are the commandments the Lord announced in a loud voice to your whole community. He gave them to you there on the mountain. He spoke out of the fire, cloud and deep darkness. He didn’t add anything else. Then he wrote the commandments on two stone tablets. And he gave them to me.

(23) The mountain was blazing with fire. You heard the voice coming out of the darkness. So your elders and all the leaders of your tribes came to me. (24) You said, “The Lord our God has shown us his glory and majesty. We have heard his voice coming out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can still stay alive even if God speaks with them. (25) But why should we die? This great fire will burn us up. We’ll die if we hear the voice of the Lord our God again. (26) We have heard the voice of the living God. We’ve heard him speaking out of the fire. Has any other human being ever heard him speak like that and stayed alive? (27) Go near and listen to everything the Lord our God says. Then tell us what he tells you. We will listen and obey.”

(28) The Lord heard you when you spoke to me. He said to me, “I have heard what these people said to you. Everything they said was good. (29) But I wish they would always have respect for me in their hearts. I wish they would always obey all my commands. Then things would go well with them and their children forever.

(30) “Go and tell them to return to their tents. (31) But you stay here with me. Then I will give you all of my commands, rules and laws. You must teach the people to follow them in the land I am giving them as their very own.”

(32) So be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you. Don’t turn away from his commands to the right or the left. (33) Live exactly as the Lord your God has commanded you to live. Then you will enjoy life in the land you will soon own. Things will go well with you there. You will live there for a long time.

DEUTERONOMY 6 (NKJV) – 13:03
Deuteronomy, chapter 6. (1) “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, (2) that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. (3) Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the Lord God of your fathers has promised you—‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’

(4) “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! (5) You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

(6) “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. (7) You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. (8) You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. (9) You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

(10) “So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build, (11) houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—when you have eaten and are full— (12) then beware, lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. (13) You shall fear the Lord your God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name. (14) You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you (15) (for the Lord your God is a jealous God among you), lest the anger of the Lord your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.

(16) “You shall not tempt the Lord your God as you tempted Him in Massah. (17) You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you. (18) And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land of which the Lord swore to your fathers, (19) to cast out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken.

(20) “When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which the Lord our God has commanded you?’ (21) then you shall say to your son: ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; (22) and the Lord showed signs and wonders before our eyes, great and severe, against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household. (23) Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers. (24) And the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day. (25) Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the Lord our God, as He has commanded us.’

COMMENTS – 16:17
In chapter 6, verses 4 and 5, Moses is telling the children of Israel, the Great Commandment, the one that encompassed all the others. It’s the commandment that Jesus quoted when the Pharisees asked him, which was the greatest of all the commandments, those verses are:

(4) “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! (5) You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.”

Well, since Jesus said that this is the greatest commandment, we should understand it as clearly as possible, don’t you think?

Well, we haven’t talked about the concept of the Trinity much on the show. But this verse seems like a good place to spend a few minutes on the subject. Now many of you probably have a pretty good grasp on the idea of a Triune God, but I know there are some in the Lifespring family who are fairly new to Christianity. And this is such an important topic that I do want to at least touch on it. This won’t be an in depth word study, but more like a 30,000 foot flyover view.

Okay, so you might say, “’The Lord our God is one.’ What about Jesus and the Holy Spirit? They’re Gods, aren’t they?” No, they’re not. And what I mean by that is, they’re not separate Gods.

And this is where the idea of the Trinity comes in. Orthodox Christianity, or traditional Christianity, if you prefer, believes that God is a Trinity, that there are three distinct persons who are together, one God. Not three gods, one God.

It can be difficult to sort of get your head around this. So let’s look at the word that was used in the original language, Hebrew, for the word that we translated into English as “one”. Here in Deuteronomy 6 for the Hebrew word “echad” is used. “Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God. The Lord is ‘echad’!” “Echad” refers to a single item made up of multiple parts, it’s called, “a unified one”.

Well, are there other places in the Bible that the word “echad” is used? Yes, there is. Let’s look at a few.

The first time we see this word, “echad,” is in Genesis 1:5, the Young’s Literal Translation renders it this way, “…and there is an evening, and there is a morning–day one.” It was one day with two parts, evening and morning. “Echad” day, day one, one day.

In Genesis 2:24, we read, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh”, or “echad” flesh.

In Exodus 26:6, “And you shall make 50 clasps of gold, and couple the curtains together with the clasps, so that it may be one tabernacle.” Well, obviously, the tabernacle was made up of many parts. And here it is called, one tabernacle, “echad” tabernacle.

Listen to Ezekiel 37:15-17, “(15) Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, (16) ‘As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Judah [Joseph], the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.’ (17) Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.” Two sticks become “echad”.

So the idea of three persons in “echad” God is not foreign to Scripture.

And there is a Hebrew word, by the way, for a single item made up of one alone, that word is “yachid”. And this word is used in connection to one God exactly zero times in the Old Testament. Nowhere does the Bible say that the one God is a single entity. He is always referred to as “echad” God.

Here’s some examples of “yachid” from the Bible just so you see how it’s used.

In Genesis 2:22, we read, “He said, ‘Now take your son, your only son,’” or your “yachid” son, “’whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there is a burnt offering on one of the mountains in which I will tell you.’”

In Judges 11:34. ”Now she was Jephthah’s one and only, “yachid”, child; besides her, he had no son or daughter.”

And one more time, Zechariah 12:10, “They will look on Me whom they have pierced. And they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only, “yachid”, son.

So I think you’re beginning to see the difference between “yachid” as one and only and “echad,” a unified one. So let’s move on.

Again, in verse 4, we read, “The Lord our God, the Lord is one!” So in the phrase, “The Lord our God”, the Hebrew word for “God”, here, is “Elohim”. Well, “Elohim” is a plural word. “El” is singular. “Elohim” is plural.

And in Genesis 1:26, we read, “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image.’” The word for God there is “Elohim”. “Then (Elohim) said, ‘Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.’” Let us. Our image. Our likeness. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit were all present at the creation as one God.

And at Jesus baptism, we had Jesus there being baptized. The Holy Spirit descended from heaven like a dove. And the Father spoke, saying, “This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” All three persons of the Triune God were present at the baptism of Jesus: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We have many, many verses that teach us that God is One. And in him, there are three distinct persons.

And there are many who misunderstand or who don’t want to understand this concept, but it’s important for believers to at least trust that this is true by faith.

So what do you think? Did you find this interesting, enlightening. You have more questions about it? Let me know on the show notes page at lifespringmedia.com/s12e299. Tomorrow is History Tuesday, and we’ll read 2 Chronicles 25 through 28.

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300TH EPISODE MILESTONE PROMOTION – 22:44
And just a reminder, tomorrow, June 28, 2022, will mark show number 300 of this the twelfth season of the Lifespring Family Audio Bible. Now you know, I’m a big fan of the Indy 500 race. I’ve told you that. They call it the greatest spectacle in racing. Well, they call it the 500, of course, because the race is 500 miles long. The track is two and a half miles around, so they do 200 laps. This year, the average speed was 234 miles per hour, and at that speed, it took just 39 seconds to drive one lap, two and a half miles. Why am I talking about laps at the Indy 500? Well, given the fact that tomorrow will be number 300 out of 364. That’s the equivalent to having raced 165 out of 200 laps of the Indy 500. Well, given the lap times of about 39 seconds at the Indy, that means that if we were at the Indy 500, this show would only have about 23 minutes left in the race.

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ON THIS DATE IN CHURCH HISTORY – 25:39
On this date in church history, June 27, 1736, as a member of the Holy Club, to which John and Charles Wesley also belonged, future English revivalist George Whitefield preached his first sermon at the age of 21. Whitefield went on to preach thousands more sermons and became a force in colonial America’s Great Awakening.

CLOSING PRAYER – 26:09
Let’s pray. Our heavenly Father when the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, he taught us to address the father when we pray, but we understand that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And when we pray, we pray in Jesus name. And the Holy Spirit helps us as we pray. Lord, even in prayer, you’re so lavishly giving and gracious far beyond what we deserve. I’ve prayed many, many times that you would give us a thirst for your word and a desire to know you better.

And now I ask that you would help us to be better and more committed people of prayer. Because in prayer, we do learn more about you and we become more aligned with your will. Since Jesus spent so much time in prayer, how much more time should we spend? I know, Lord, that I don’t spend as much time as I should in prayer. And I ask you now to forgive me in Jesus name. I will try to do better Lord, and I ask that you help me. I thank you for the Lifespring family, Lord. Please use this humble podcast to bring each one closer to you. I pray that the time they spend listening here would be given back to them multiplied many times over. Be with each of us today I pray in Jesus name. Amen.

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OUTRO S12E299 – 27:30
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Until tomorrow, may God bless you richly. My name is Steve Webb.

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Corrected by Denise