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    "simple_definition": "Eating-the-word imagery uses food, scrolls, milk, meat, and eating language to picture taking Gods word inward, receiving revelation, growing in maturity, and bearing the burden of prophetic testimony.",
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      "reference": "Ezek. 3:1",
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