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  "source_note": "Generated from final CSV/JSON source state for verification and future builder input. This is not verified against any pre-existing live-site sidecar schema.",
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    "figure_id": "FOS_0469",
    "figure_name": "Birth, New Birth, Travail, and Life-Coming-Forth Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Birth, travail, labor pains, new birth, begotten-again, formed-in-you, and life-coming-forth imagery",
    "alternate_names": "birth imagery; new-birth imagery; travail imagery; labor-pain imagery; begotten-again imagery",
    "page_slug": "birth-new-birth-travail-and-life-coming-forth-imagery",
    "reader_category": "Birth, regeneration, sorrow-to-joy, formation, creation groaning, and redemptive emergence / Birth and travail imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Supplemental biblical imagery form",
    "simple_definition": "Birth and travail imagery uses labor pains, children coming forth, being born again, or life produced through anguish to picture sorrow turning to joy, regeneration, formation, or redemptive emergence.",
    "technical_definition": "A birth-and-emergence motif in which conception, labor, travail, birth, new birth, begetting, or formation-in-the-womb signifies literal childbirth, covenant crisis, sorrow-to-joy reversal, regeneration, spiritual formation, or creation awaiting renewal.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 40 draft-normalized birth/death-life imagery review; this row narrows birth imagery to travail, regeneration, and life-emergence motifs.",
    "canonical_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/figures-of-speech-in-the-bible/birth-new-birth-travail-and-life-coming-forth-imagery/",
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    "publication_status": "draft_normalized",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0469",
      "figure_name": "Birth, New Birth, Travail, and Life-Coming-Forth Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birth-new-birth-travail-and-life-coming-forth-imagery",
      "reference": "Gen. 3:16",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children",
      "explanation": "Childbearing pain enters as part of the curse context.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 40 physical condition/healing/wounds/disease/weakness/strength/birth-barrenness/death-life imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX40_0082",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0469",
      "figure_name": "Birth, New Birth, Travail, and Life-Coming-Forth Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birth-new-birth-travail-and-life-coming-forth-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 26:17",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a woman with child... crieth out in her pangs",
      "explanation": "Travail pictures distress before deliverance.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 40 physical condition/healing/wounds/disease/weakness/strength/birth-barrenness/death-life imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
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    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX40_0083",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0469",
      "figure_name": "Birth, New Birth, Travail, and Life-Coming-Forth Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birth-new-birth-travail-and-life-coming-forth-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 66:7-9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "before she travailed, she brought forth",
      "explanation": "Zion's birth imagery presents sudden divine restoration.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 40 physical condition/healing/wounds/disease/weakness/strength/birth-barrenness/death-life imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
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    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX40_0084",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0469",
      "figure_name": "Birth, New Birth, Travail, and Life-Coming-Forth Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birth-new-birth-travail-and-life-coming-forth-imagery",
      "reference": "John 3:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Except a man be born again",
      "explanation": "New birth names the necessary work of God for entering the kingdom.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 40 physical condition/healing/wounds/disease/weakness/strength/birth-barrenness/death-life imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX40_0085",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0469",
      "figure_name": "Birth, New Birth, Travail, and Life-Coming-Forth Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birth-new-birth-travail-and-life-coming-forth-imagery",
      "reference": "John 16:21",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "as soon as she is delivered... joy",
      "explanation": "Birth pain becomes an image for sorrow turned to joy.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 40 physical condition/healing/wounds/disease/weakness/strength/birth-barrenness/death-life imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX40_0086",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0469",
      "figure_name": "Birth, New Birth, Travail, and Life-Coming-Forth Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birth-new-birth-travail-and-life-coming-forth-imagery",
      "reference": "Rom. 8:22",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth",
      "explanation": "Creation's present suffering is pictured as labor awaiting renewal.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 40 physical condition/healing/wounds/disease/weakness/strength/birth-barrenness/death-life imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
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    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX40_0087",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0469",
      "figure_name": "Birth, New Birth, Travail, and Life-Coming-Forth Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birth-new-birth-travail-and-life-coming-forth-imagery",
      "reference": "Gal. 4:19",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you",
      "explanation": "Paul uses birth labor for pastoral anguish and spiritual formation.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 40 physical condition/healing/wounds/disease/weakness/strength/birth-barrenness/death-life imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
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    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX40_0088",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0469",
      "figure_name": "Birth, New Birth, Travail, and Life-Coming-Forth Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birth-new-birth-travail-and-life-coming-forth-imagery",
      "reference": "James 1:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Of his own will begat he us",
      "explanation": "New life is attributed to God's will through the word of truth.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 40 physical condition/healing/wounds/disease/weakness/strength/birth-barrenness/death-life imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
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    {
      "example_id": "EX40_0089",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0469",
      "figure_name": "Birth, New Birth, Travail, and Life-Coming-Forth Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birth-new-birth-travail-and-life-coming-forth-imagery",
      "reference": "1 Pet. 1:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "begotten us again unto a lively hope",
      "explanation": "Regeneration is pictured as God begetting believers anew.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 40 physical condition/healing/wounds/disease/weakness/strength/birth-barrenness/death-life imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
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      "example_id": "EX40_0090",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0469",
      "figure_name": "Birth, New Birth, Travail, and Life-Coming-Forth Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birth-new-birth-travail-and-life-coming-forth-imagery",
      "reference": "1 Pet. 1:23",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Being born again... by the word of God",
      "explanation": "New birth is tied to incorruptible seed and the living word.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 40 physical condition/healing/wounds/disease/weakness/strength/birth-barrenness/death-life imagery expansion",
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      "representative": "no",
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