31 Bible Verses about Disease

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Deuteronomy 7:15

The Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you.

Exodus 15:26

And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.”

2 Chronicles 16:12

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.

Exodus 23:25

But you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Psalm 91:10

No evil will befall you,
Nor will any plague come near your tent.

Deuteronomy 28:60

He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.

Psalm 38:7

For my loins are filled with burning,
And there is no soundness in my flesh.

2 Chronicles 21:18

So after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable sickness.

Deuteronomy 28:27

“The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.

John 5:4

for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.]

Job 2:7

Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

Matthew 4:23

Jesus was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people.

Isaiah 53:4

Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.

Deuteronomy 28:59

then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.

2 Kings 5:27

Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

Leviticus 14:7

He shall then sprinkle seven times the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the live bird go free over the open field.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’”

Psalm 91:3

For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper
And from the deadly pestilence.

2 Chronicles 21:15

and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.’”

Psalm 106:15

So He gave them their request,
But sent a wasting disease among them.

Numbers 12:10

But when the cloud had withdrawn from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. As Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was leprous.

Jeremiah 30:17

‘For I will restore you to health
And I will heal you of your wounds,’ declares the Lord,
‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying:
“It is Zion; no one cares for her.”’

Zechariah 14:12

Now this will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.

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Disease » Sent as a judgment » Disease sent

2 Kings 5:27

Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

2 Chronicles 26:19

But Uzziah, with a censer in his hand for burning incense, was enraged; and while he was enraged with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, beside the altar of incense.

1 Samuel 5:6

Now the hand of the Lord was heavy on the Ashdodites, and He ravaged them and smote them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territories.

Numbers 16:47

Then Aaron took it as Moses had spoken, and ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people. So he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.

Disease » Sent as a judgment » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Throughout his life he also eats in darkness with great vexation, sickness and anger.

Leviticus 26:15-16

if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

Deuteronomy 28:61

Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the Lord will bring on you until you are destroyed.

2 Chronicles 21:15

and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.’”

Disease » Remedies » Quarantine

Leviticus 13:46

He shall remain unclean all the days during which he has the infection; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

Leviticus 14:8

The one to be cleansed shall then wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe in water and be clean. Now afterward, he may enter the camp, but he shall stay outside his tent for seven days.

Numbers 5:2

“Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a discharge and everyone who is unclean because of a dead person.

2 Kings 15:5

The Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death. And he lived in a separate house, while Jotham the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

Disease » Prevention and cure of » Physicians

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?

Genesis 50:2

Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

Colossians 4:14

Luke, the beloved physician, sends you his greetings, and also Demas.

2 Chronicles 16:12

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.

Matthew 9:12

But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.

More verses: Luke 4:23 Luke 5:31

Disease » Healed » Physicians employed in

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?

Genesis 50:2

Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

Colossians 4:14

Luke, the beloved physician, sends you his greetings, and also Demas.

2 Chronicles 16:12

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.

Matthew 9:12

But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.

More verses: Luke 4:23 Luke 5:31

Disease » Good men afflicted with » The righteous suffer from

Acts 9:37

And it happened at that time that she fell sick and died; and when they had washed her body, they laid it in an upper room.

Job 2:7

Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

2 Kings 20:1

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’”

2 Timothy 4:20

Erastus remained at Corinth, but Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.

Daniel 8:27

Then I, Daniel, was exhausted and sick for days. Then I got up again and carried on the king’s business; but I was astounded at the vision, and there was none to explain it.

Disease » Healed » Examples of apostolic

Acts 3:7

And seizing him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened.

Acts 5:16

Also the people from the cities in the vicinity of Jerusalem were coming together, bringing people who were sick or afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all being healed.

Acts 9:34

Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; get up and make your bed.” Immediately he got up.

Acts 14:10

said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And he leaped up and began to walk.

Acts 16:18

She continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out at that very moment.

More verses: Acts 19:12 Acts 28:8

Disease » Prevention and cure of » Medicine

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?

Jeremiah 46:11

Go up to Gilead and obtain balm,
O virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain have you multiplied remedies;
There is no healing for you.

Jeremiah 30:13

‘There is no one to plead your cause;
No healing for your sore,
No recovery for you.

Ezekiel 47:12

By the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”

Disease » Remedies » General references

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.

Luke 10:34

and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

2 Kings 20:7

Then Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

Disease » Healed » The gift of

Mark 16:18

they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Disease » Instances of » Healing of, from God

Exodus 15:26

And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.”

2 Chronicles 16:12

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.

Exodus 23:25

But you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Deuteronomy 7:15

The Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you.

More verses: Psalm 107:20

Disease » Healed » The dumb healed

Isaiah 35:6

Then the lame will leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy.
For waters will break forth in the wilderness
And streams in the Arabah.

Mark 9:25

When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again.”

Disease » Instances of » Physicians employed for

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?

2 Chronicles 16:12

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.

Matthew 9:12

But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.

Luke 4:23

And He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’”

Mark 5:26

and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse—

Disease » Instances of » Remedies used

Jeremiah 46:11

Go up to Gilead and obtain balm,
O virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain have you multiplied remedies;
There is no healing for you.

Proverbs 20:30

Stripes that wound scour away evil,
And strokes reach the innermost parts.

Isaiah 38:21

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.”

Jeremiah 30:13

‘There is no one to plead your cause;
No healing for your sore,
No recovery for you.

Disease » Instances of » Threatened as judgments

Leviticus 26:16

I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:35

The Lord will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

Deuteronomy 7:15

The Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you.

Deuteronomy 28:27-28

"The LORD will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. "The LORD will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart;

More verses: Deuteronomy 29:22

Disease » Remedies » Disinfection

Leviticus 14:41

He shall have the house scraped all around inside, and they shall dump the plaster that they scrape off at an unclean place outside the city.

Leviticus 15:5

Anyone, moreover, who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening;

Disease » Instances of » Of the sexual organs

Numbers 5:2

“Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a discharge and everyone who is unclean because of a dead person.

Leviticus 22:4

No man of the descendants of Aaron, who is a leper or who has a discharge, may eat of the holy gifts until he is clean. And if one touches anything made unclean by a corpse or if a man has a seminal emission,

Deuteronomy 23:10

If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not reenter the camp.

Disease » Figurative

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.

Psalm 38:7

For my loins are filled with burning,
And there is no soundness in my flesh.

Disease » Instances of » In answer to prayer » Of hezekiah

2 Kings 20:1-11

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'" Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying, "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart and have done what is good in Your sight " And Hezekiah wept bitterly. read more.
Before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "Return and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD. "I will add fifteen years to your life, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake and for My servant David's sake."'" Then Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. Now Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD the third day?" Isaiah said, "This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?" So Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow to decline ten steps; no, but let the shadow turn backward ten steps." Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD, and He brought the shadow on the stairway back ten steps by which it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.

Isaiah 38:1-8

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'" Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Your sight " And Hezekiah wept bitterly. read more.
Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, "Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. "I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city."' "This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken: "Behold, I will cause the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps " So the sun's shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down.

Disease » Remedies » Treatment of wounds

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.

Luke 10:34

and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

Disease » Remedies » Anointing with oil

Disease » As judgments

Isaiah 3:17

Therefore the Lord will afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs,
And the Lord will make their foreheads bare.”

Disease » Instances of » Ointments

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?

Disease » Instances of » In answer to prayer » Of david

Psalm 21:4

He asked life of You,
You gave it to him,
Length of days forever and ever.

Disease » Remedies » Treatment of fractures

Ezekiel 30:21

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage, that it may be strong to hold the sword.

Disease » Instances of » Jehoram

2 Chronicles 21:12-19

Then a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet saying, "Thus says the LORD God of your father David, 'Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father and the ways of Asa king of Judah, but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot as the house of Ahab played the harlot, and you have also killed your brothers, your own family, who were better than you, behold, the LORD is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives and all your possessions with a great calamity; read more.
and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.'" Then the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who bordered the Ethiopians; and they came against Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions found in the king's house together with his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons. So after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable sickness. Now it came about in the course of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels came out because of his sickness and he died in great pain. And his people made no fire for him like the fire for his fathers.

Disease » Instances of » Uzziah

2 Chronicles 26:17-20

Then Azariah the priest entered after him and with him eighty priests of the LORD, valiant men. They opposed Uzziah the king and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful and will have no honor from the LORD God." But Uzziah, with a censer in his hand for burning incense, was enraged; and while he was enraged with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, beside the altar of incense. read more.
Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous on his forehead; and they hurried him out of there, and he himself also hastened to get out because the LORD had smitten him.

Disease » Remedies » Poultices

2 Kings 20:7

Then Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

Disease » Remedies » Ointment

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.

Disease » Instances of » David's child

2 Samuel 12:15

So Nathan went to his house.Then the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s widow bore to David, so that he was very sick.

Disease » Instances of » Upon nabal

Disease » Instances of » Treatment of fractures

Ezekiel 30:21

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage, that it may be strong to hold the sword.

Disease » Instances of » Jeroboam

2 Chronicles 13:20

Jeroboam did not again recover strength in the days of Abijah; and the Lord struck him and he died.

Disease » Instances of » Gehazi

2 Kings 5:27

Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

Disease » Instances of » Miraculous healing of, a sign to accompany the preaching of the word

Mark 16:18

they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Disease » Instances of » Emulsions

Luke 10:34

and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

Disease » Instances of » Poultices

2 Kings 20:7

Then Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

Disease » Sent from God

Leviticus 14:34

When you enter the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a mark of leprosy on a house in the land of your possession,

Feet » Were liable to » Disease

1 Kings 15:23

Now the rest of all the acts of Asa and all his might and all that he did and the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

Hemorrhoids » Disease » Afflicted » Philistines

1 Samuel 5:6

Now the hand of the Lord was heavy on the Ashdodites, and He ravaged them and smote them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territories.

1 Samuel 6:4

Then they said, “What shall be the guilt offering which we shall return to Him?” And they said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for one plague was on all of you and on your lords.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.

1 Samuel 5:11

They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, so that it will not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly confusion throughout the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

1 Samuel 5:12

And the men who did not die were smitten with tumors and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

Insanity » Disease

Daniel 4:33

Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

Matthew 4:24

The news about Him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them.

Matthew 17:15

Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic and is very ill; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.

Sin » Leads to » Disease

Job 20:11

“His bones are full of his youthful vigor,
But it lies down with him in the dust.

Spermatorrhea » Disease » Genital organs

Leviticus 15:16

Now if a man has a seminal emission, he shall bathe all his body in water and be unclean until evening.

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Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?

Isaiah 1:5

Where will you be stricken again,
As you continue in your rebellion?
The whole head is sick
And the whole heart is faint.

Micah 1:9

For her wound is incurable,
For it has come to Judah;
It has reached the gate of my people,
Even to Jerusalem.

Mark 2:17

And hearing this, Jesus *said to them, It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

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Job 16:8

“You have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness;
And my leanness rises up against me,
It testifies to my face.

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