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    "figure_id": "FOS_0173",
    "figure_name": "Yoke and Burden Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Yoke/burden/load imagery",
    "alternate_names": "Yoke motif; burden imagery; bondage yoke; discipleship yoke",
    "page_slug": "yoke-and-burden-imagery",
    "reader_category": "Discipleship and bondage / Submission imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Yoke and burden imagery uses farm-yoke and load-bearing language to describe submission, oppression, discipleship, covenant obligation, slavery, or rest under Christ.",
    "technical_definition": "A submission-and-load imagery pattern in which a yoke or burden represents imposed service, covenant obligation, oppressive bondage, moral weight, or the gracious discipline of learning from Christ.",
    "source_hint": "Draft-normalized discipleship/bondage imagery; verify whether each passage speaks of oppression, lawful service, legalism, or Christ’s gracious yoke.",
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      "page_slug": "yoke-and-burden-imagery",
      "reference": "Lev. 26:13",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "broken the bars of your yoke",
      "explanation": "Yoke imagery presents Egypt’s bondage as oppressive servitude from which the LORD delivered Israel.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX21_0022",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0173",
      "figure_name": "Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "page_slug": "yoke-and-burden-imagery",
      "reference": "Deut. 28:48",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "iron yoke upon your neck",
      "explanation": "Yoke imagery warns of severe covenant judgment through foreign oppression.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX21_0023",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0173",
      "figure_name": "Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "page_slug": "yoke-and-burden-imagery",
      "reference": "1 Kgs. 12:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "your father made our yoke grievous",
      "explanation": "Yoke language represents heavy political and economic burden under Solomon’s rule.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX21_0024",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0173",
      "figure_name": "Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "page_slug": "yoke-and-burden-imagery",
      "reference": "Jer. 27:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "make bonds and yokes",
      "explanation": "Prophetic sign-act yoke imagery dramatizes submission to Babylon under God’s judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX21_0025",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0173",
      "figure_name": "Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "page_slug": "yoke-and-burden-imagery",
      "reference": "Lam. 3:27",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "bear the yoke in his youth",
      "explanation": "Yoke imagery portrays humbling discipline and endurance under affliction.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX21_0026",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0173",
      "figure_name": "Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "page_slug": "yoke-and-burden-imagery",
      "reference": "Matt. 11:28-30",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "my yoke is easy",
      "explanation": "Jesus reorients yoke imagery around discipleship, rest, and His gentle lordship.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX21_0027",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0173",
      "figure_name": "Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "page_slug": "yoke-and-burden-imagery",
      "reference": "Acts 15:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a yoke upon the neck",
      "explanation": "Yoke imagery describes imposing unbearable covenantal/legal burdens on Gentile believers.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX21_0028",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0173",
      "figure_name": "Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "page_slug": "yoke-and-burden-imagery",
      "reference": "2 Cor. 6:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "unequally yoked",
      "explanation": "Yoke imagery warns against binding partnership with unbelief.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX21_0029",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0173",
      "figure_name": "Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "page_slug": "yoke-and-burden-imagery",
      "reference": "Gal. 5:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "yoke of bondage",
      "explanation": "Yoke imagery warns against returning to enslaving legal obligation after freedom in Christ.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX21_0030",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0173",
      "figure_name": "Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "page_slug": "yoke-and-burden-imagery",
      "reference": "1 Tim. 6:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "servants under the yoke",
      "explanation": "Yoke language describes the social condition of bondservants and frames faithful conduct.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Yoke and Burden Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    }
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