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    "figure_name": "Memorial Stone, Witness-Stone, and Inscribed-Stone Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Memorial stone, witness stone, pillar stone, inscribed stone, and covenant-token imagery",
    "alternate_names": "memorial stone imagery; witness stone imagery; pillar stone imagery; Ebenezer imagery; inscribed stone imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Memory, covenant witness, testimony, and named identity / Memorial-stone imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Memorial-stone and witness-stone imagery uses stones, pillars, heaps, or written stones to preserve memory, bear witness, mark covenant events, and testify to God’s acts.",
    "technical_definition": "A covenant-memory motif in which durable stones function as public witnesses, boundary markers, memorial signs, or inscribed tokens of divine action and human accountability.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 33 draft-normalized stones/metals/clay/jewels imagery review; focus on stones that remember, witness, name, or testify rather than on stones as strength or offence.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 28:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "set it up for a pillar",
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      "reference": "Gen. 31:45",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Gen. 31:48",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "this heap is a witness",
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      "reference": "Exod. 24:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes",
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      "reference": "Exod. 28:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "stones for a memorial unto the children of Israel",
      "explanation": "Gem-stones on priestly garments bear Israel before the LORD.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Josh. 4:6",
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      "reference": "Josh. 4:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "these stones shall be for a memorial",
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      "reference": "Josh. 24:27",
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      "reference": "1 Sam. 7:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "called the name of it Ebenezer",
      "explanation": "The stone names and memorializes the LORD’s help.",
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      "reference": "Rev. 2:17",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a white stone, and in the stone a new name",
      "explanation": "The white stone symbolizes received identity and victorious acceptance.",
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