October 14, 2025 • 16 mins
This week we're profiling the surrogate pregnancy of Hagar, found in Genesis 16, using the reflections from former PPL Executive Director Marie Bowen's book, Pregnant with Promise. As her months of pregnancy move along, Hagar learns that God is a God who sees both her and her unborn child; that God will be her provision; and God who is her promised future.
Resources in this Episode include:
Pregnant with Promise by Marie Bowen
Khan Academy, Meet the Placenta! (12 min. video)
Animation Reel on Instagram of Heart bypass surgery
NASA umbilical technology for astronauts and deep sea divers
Scripture references used in this Episode include:
Genesis 12-15; 13:14-18; 16:1-16 Jeremiah 29:11 Acts 17:28
Romans 8:34 I Timothy 2:5 2 Peter 1:3
John 14:16; 15:10; 16:13 Acts 10:38 2 Corinthians 3:18
John 15:4-9
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Host (00:15):
Welcome back to Presbyterians Protecting Lives
Pro Life Kitchen Table.
I'm still Deborah Hollifield,and I'm still your host! Last
week we began our 13-week seriesof profiles of pregnant women
in the Bible, using thereflections of former PPL
Executive Director Marie Bowenfrom her book Pregnant with
(00:36):
Promise.
Our first profile was, ofcourse, Eve, the mother of all
living, who was the first womanto learn that God was merciful
and that every mother has a rolein the shaping of the future
and every child has a destinysourced in God.
This week's profile is Hagar, aslave woman who is a surrogate,
(00:58):
who is bearing a child thatwill be raised by her mistress
Sarai and her husband Abram.
She is in a powerless situationand she is kicking against the
goads, rebelling to her owndetriment.
As her months of pregnancy movealong, she learns that God is a
God who sees her pregnant, whosees her unborn child, the God
(01:19):
who is her provision and who isher promised future.
Hagar's story is contained inGenesis chapters twelve through
fifteen.
There is a lot that happens toAbram and his family when God
calls him to leave his father'shome with his wife and family
and travel to an unloan land ofpromised blessing.
As they travel, they areovertaken by famine and they
(01:42):
turn south to Egypt.
Abram's wife, Sarai, isextraordinarily beautiful, and
he is afraid that he will bekilled by the Egyptians so that
they can take her, and so hepretends she is his sister.
As Abram expected, Sarai istaken into Pharaoh's house until
God sends a plague on Pharaoh,and he releases her and sends
(02:03):
her back to Abram to leaveEgypt.
Abram's nephew Lot had traveledwith them to Canaan, and God
had prospered Abram, Sarai, andLot so much that their numbers
and livestock were overwhelmingthe lands.
Abram and Lot separated fromone another to get more room for
their herds.
Now so far God has beenfaithful in keeping his promises
(02:26):
to Abram and blessed him withriches.
But there is one of God'spromises to Abram that is yet to
be realized.
God had promised Abram that hisoffspring would be as numerous
as the dust of the earth if thatcould be counted.
Abram and Sarai eagerly awaitedthe children that were
promised.
God has promised them, but yearafter year goes by, and Sarai
(02:50):
has not become pregnant.
In chapter fifteen, God comesto Abram in a dream.
Abram expresses hisdisappointment that he still has
no son.
God renews his promise andscripture tells us that Abram
believed God and God counted itas righteousness.
But Abram does not act like abeliever toward Hagar.
Genesis sixteen verses onethrough four read Now Sarai,
(03:15):
Abram's wife, had borne him nochildren.
She had a female Egyptianservant whose name was Hagar.
And Sarai said to Abram, Beholdnow the Lord has prevented me
from bearing children.
Go into my servant, it may bethat I shall obtain children by
her.
And Abram listened to the voiceof Sarai.
So after Abram had lived tenyears in the land of Canaan,
(03:38):
Sarai, his wife, took Hagar, theEgyptian servant, and gave her
to Abram, her husband as a wife.
And he went into Hagar and sheconceived, and when she saw that
she had conceived, she lookedwith contempt on her mistress.
While this may seem shocking tous, it was not uncommon among
(03:59):
the Near Eastern people in thattime.
Both the code of Hammurabi andthe tables from Ur and Nuzi
revealed that the custom ofsubstituting a bondswoman for a
wife in order to obtain a legalheir was common.
Is this chain of eventssounding familiar to you?
It reminds me of the pattern weheard about last week when we
(04:21):
read about Adam and Eve.
Eve was convinced by theserpent to take and taste the
fruit she desired in spite ofGod's prohibition, and here
Sarai fails to believe that Godwill fulfill his promise to give
offspring to Abram through her.
When her own age and barrennessmake pregnancy seem impossible,
(04:42):
she relies on her own reasonfor a plan to provide an heir to
Abram through human means.
Hagar is essentially powerlessin this event, and she allows
events to change herrelationship with her mistress
and looks on her with contempt.
This rocky relationship gets toSarai, and she blames Abram for
(05:03):
Hagar's hard haughtiness towardher and calls on God to judge
between her husband and herself.
Abram fires back ather, "Behold, your servant is in
your power, do to her as youplease." The text tells us that
Sarai did just that.
We aren't told what Sarai didto Hagar, she could have been
(05:26):
beaten or was verbally abused,but she dealt harshly enough
that Hagar ran away.
In Hebrew the name Hagar means"one who fled," or to "flee."
The story goes on to tell thatHagar fled into the wilderness
and came to rest beside astream, where the angel of the
Lord found her and speaks toher, saying, Hagar, servant of
(05:50):
Sarai, where have you come from?
And where are you going?
When Hagar answers that she isfleeing from her mistress, the
angel of the Lord instructs herto return to your mistress and
submit to her.
Well this is unexpected.
When we look for God to rescueus from abuse, it feels shocking
to be told to return to hermistress.
(06:12):
I do want to pause here andpoint out that some women have
been subjected to pastoral abusewhen they have turned to their
church for protection from anabusive husband.
And this text about Hagar andother scriptures were twisted
and misused to tell them thatthey should return to their
abusive spouses.
(06:33):
This is a dangerous and a crueltwisting of this scripture by
ignorant church leaders.
And if you are in an abusiverelationship yourself, please do
not let yourself be shamed intoreturning to a dangerous
situation.
I would urge you to seek helpfrom another source, like a
professional Christian counseloror even family and friends.
(06:54):
And if anyone listening isguilty of this sort of
scriptural abuse, I urge you torepent and remove yourself from
counseling situations and seekthe education that you need
before you do any more harm.
Now back to Hagar.
The angel of the Lordprophesies over her and says, I
(07:16):
will surely multiply youroffspring so they cannot be
numbered for the multitude.
And then goes on to predict thename and destiny of the child
that she's carrying now, bysaying, "Behold, you are
pregnant and shall bear a son,you shall call his name Ishmael,
because the Lord has listenedto your affliction.
He shall be a wild donkey of aman, his hand against everyone,
(07:40):
and everyone's hand against him,and he shall dwell over against
all his kinsmen."We can learn several things from
the angel's message.
First, Hagar is made aware thatGod knows her condition and
that this child will be born.
It means that Hagar willsurvive her desert experience.
(08:01):
God gives her son a name thathas personal significance for
Hagar because Ishmael means Godhears.
Ishmael's name is God'stestimony of his presence with
Hagar in this pregnancy and hispromise for the future that she
cannot yet understand.
Secondly, Hagar is giveninformation by God about the
(08:23):
nature of her son in a propheticword that tells her not only
about his personality, butforeshadows the centuries of
conflict between Jews and Arabsthat is to come.
Before leaving, Hagar names theplace where the angel appeared
to her Beer-la-hai-roi , whichmeans "the well of the living
(08:44):
one who sees me."Hagar then returns and submits
to Sarai.
God provided for her andIshmael was born.
Abraham called his son by thename God had given to Hagar
through the angel's visit to herin the desert.
We may not be able to identifywith being a bondservant like
(09:06):
Hagar, and while surrogacy is amodern problem, few women are
forced involuntarily intobearing someone else's child.
But maybe you have experiencedthe bitterness of soul like
Sarai over what seemed like apromise of God that has gone
unfulfilled.
Or maybe you felt powerless ina relationship abused and
(09:27):
mistreated like Hagar.
Or maybe, like Abram, you haveallowed someone else to talk you
into taking an action that youknew was wrong.
Take comfort in knowing thatwherever you are, whatever your
circumstances, God sees you.
He knows your name, he knowsyour character.
(09:49):
He understands your situationand the things that trouble you.
He has a plan to provide allyou need even before you ask,
and has provided in Christ apromise for your eternal future.
Hear the word of the Lord.
"For I know the plans I havefor you, declares the Lord,
(10:10):
plans for your welfare and notfor evil to give you a future
and a hope." Jeremiah 20:11."Thanks be to God.
And now we've come to ourstretch break, so take a minute
to do exactly that.
Stand up if you can, blink youreyes, stretch your arms, and
(10:30):
put a bookmark in Genesischapter 16 so that you can
return to it in your own timeand think about those questions
I just asked you.
And then come back and sit downfor a few more minutes to learn
about baby Chris's 29th and30th week in the womb, and
ponder with me what it means tobe dependent on God.
Announcer (10:55):
All of the materials and information presented in
this podcast are sourced fromthe four decades of information
and resources created byPresbyterians Protecting Life
and accessible to you at itswebsite.
PPL is compelled by the gospelto equip reformed Christians of
all denominations to championhuman life from fertilization to
natural death.
Train yourself and others tobecome a lifeline for women and
(11:18):
children and join us as a lifesupport prayer partner at
PPL.org.
Host (11:30):
This week, our baby Chris devotional combines weeks 29 and
30 in an episode called LifeSupport.
At 29 weeks, the umbilical cordis constantly coiling, but it
will not crimp or cut offcirculation because of Worton's
jelly, a gelatinous substance.
The bones are still soft andpliable, but are beginning to
(11:53):
harden.
The head is getting bigger toaccommodate the growing brain as
it adds billions of neurons.
At thirty weeks, the body hairthat covers the baby's body is
beginning to disappear.
The amniotic sac has stoppedgrowing and the amniotic fluid
will start to decrease as thebaby fills out the uterus.
(12:15):
Hear the word of the Lord.
"For in him we live and moveand have our being.
We are his offspring." 17:28Thanks be to G od.
During the twenty ninth andthirtieth weeks, our baby's
muscles are continuing to growand mature.
(12:36):
The umbilical cord isconstantly coiling as he
somersaults in the uterus.
It will not crimp or cut offcirculation because of a
lubricant that's known asWharton's jelly.
The baby takes up more space inthe uterus.
The amniotic sac in the uterustogether with the placenta are
(12:59):
the principal means of lifesupport in the womb.
The placenta is the linkbetween the baby and the mother,
providing nutrients, oxygen,and other substances, as well as
giving off carbon dioxide andother wastes.
The umbilical cord is arope-like structure between the
fetus and the placenta, whichcontains blood vessels that link
(13:21):
the fetus to the mother andtransfers the placental
nutrients.
The baby's blood does not mixwith the mother's blood.
The amniotic sac in thefluid-filled sac that surrounds
and cushions the developingbaby.
Technology uses the umbilicalcord model to tether astronauts
(13:43):
to the mother ship and to helpthem breathe during spacewalks.
Astronauts train underwaterusing the same umbilical
technology that transfers theright mixture of gases,
communications, and heat underpressure to commercial divers.
Patients who undergo heartbypass surgery are dependent
(14:03):
upon a heart lung machine tocirculate oxygenated blood
during the procedure.
Like the child in the womb,divers, astronauts, and heart
surgery patients are allpassively dependent upon their
umbilical cords for what theyneed to survive.
This is an important counter tothose who argue the fallacy that
(14:24):
preborn babies are part of themother's body.
They are separate in their DNA,in their blood flow, and their
nutritional supply.
When abortion advocates promotethe idea that killing the
preborn is permissible becausethe fetus cannot survive on its
own outside the womb.
The illustration of thespacewalking astronaut, the
(14:46):
commercial diver, and the heartpatient is helpful.
Developmentally, even matureadults cannot survive in hostile
environments without externallife support.
The uterine life support systemis itself a bit of a Trinitarian
metaphor.
Through Christ, our umbilicalcord, God, as our placenta,
(15:09):
gives us all that we need forlife and godliness, and we are
enveloped in the love of God bythe Holy Spirit, our protector
and comforter, the believer'samniotic sac, as we develop into
the image of the Lord.
Our providential God hasprovided for our protection and
survival from the first momentsof life.
(15:31):
Our survival after birth is noless dependent upon Jesus, in
whom we are to abide throughoutour lives until we are united in
eternity.
Hear the word of the Lord.
"I am the vine, you are thebranches.
If you remain in me and I inyou, you will bear much fruit.
(15:52):
Apart from me, you can donothing." John chapter 15:.5
"And for in him we live and moveand have our being.
We are his offspring." Acts 17:28 Thanks be to God.
Announcer (16:15):
We hope you enjoyed this week's reflection.
We encourage you to share itand join us next time on Pro
Life Kitchen Table.
May God bless you.
Welcome back to Presbyterians Protecting Lives
Pro Life Kitchen Table.
I'm still Deborah Hollifield,and I'm still your host! Last
week we began our 13-week seriesof profiles of pregnant women
in the Bible, using thereflections of former PPL
Executive Director Marie Bowenfrom her book Pregnant with
(00:36):
Promise.
Our first profile was, ofcourse, Eve, the mother of all
living, who was the first womanto learn that God was merciful
and that every mother has a rolein the shaping of the future
and every child has a destinysourced in God.
This week's profile is Hagar, aslave woman who is a surrogate,
(00:58):
who is bearing a child thatwill be raised by her mistress
Sarai and her husband Abram.
She is in a powerless situationand she is kicking against the
goads, rebelling to her owndetriment.
As her months of pregnancy movealong, she learns that God is a
God who sees her pregnant, whosees her unborn child, the God
(01:19):
who is her provision and who isher promised future.
Hagar's story is contained inGenesis chapters twelve through
fifteen.
There is a lot that happens toAbram and his family when God
calls him to leave his father'shome with his wife and family
and travel to an unloan land ofpromised blessing.
As they travel, they areovertaken by famine and they
(01:42):
turn south to Egypt.
Abram's wife, Sarai, isextraordinarily beautiful, and
he is afraid that he will bekilled by the Egyptians so that
they can take her, and so hepretends she is his sister.
As Abram expected, Sarai istaken into Pharaoh's house until
God sends a plague on Pharaoh,and he releases her and sends
(02:03):
her back to Abram to leaveEgypt.
Abram's nephew Lot had traveledwith them to Canaan, and God
had prospered Abram, Sarai, andLot so much that their numbers
and livestock were overwhelmingthe lands.
Abram and Lot separated fromone another to get more room for
their herds.
Now so far God has beenfaithful in keeping his promises
(02:26):
to Abram and blessed him withriches.
But there is one of God'spromises to Abram that is yet to
be realized.
God had promised Abram that hisoffspring would be as numerous
as the dust of the earth if thatcould be counted.
Abram and Sarai eagerly awaitedthe children that were
promised.
God has promised them, but yearafter year goes by, and Sarai
(02:50):
has not become pregnant.
In chapter fifteen, God comesto Abram in a dream.
Abram expresses hisdisappointment that he still has
no son.
God renews his promise andscripture tells us that Abram
believed God and God counted itas righteousness.
But Abram does not act like abeliever toward Hagar.
Genesis sixteen verses onethrough four read Now Sarai,
(03:15):
Abram's wife, had borne him nochildren.
She had a female Egyptianservant whose name was Hagar.
And Sarai said to Abram, Beholdnow the Lord has prevented me
from bearing children.
Go into my servant, it may bethat I shall obtain children by
her.
And Abram listened to the voiceof Sarai.
So after Abram had lived tenyears in the land of Canaan,
(03:38):
Sarai, his wife, took Hagar, theEgyptian servant, and gave her
to Abram, her husband as a wife.
And he went into Hagar and sheconceived, and when she saw that
she had conceived, she lookedwith contempt on her mistress.
While this may seem shocking tous, it was not uncommon among
(03:59):
the Near Eastern people in thattime.
Both the code of Hammurabi andthe tables from Ur and Nuzi
revealed that the custom ofsubstituting a bondswoman for a
wife in order to obtain a legalheir was common.
Is this chain of eventssounding familiar to you?
It reminds me of the pattern weheard about last week when we
(04:21):
read about Adam and Eve.
Eve was convinced by theserpent to take and taste the
fruit she desired in spite ofGod's prohibition, and here
Sarai fails to believe that Godwill fulfill his promise to give
offspring to Abram through her.
When her own age and barrennessmake pregnancy seem impossible,
(04:42):
she relies on her own reasonfor a plan to provide an heir to
Abram through human means.
Hagar is essentially powerlessin this event, and she allows
events to change herrelationship with her mistress
and looks on her with contempt.
This rocky relationship gets toSarai, and she blames Abram for
(05:03):
Hagar's hard haughtiness towardher and calls on God to judge
between her husband and herself.
Abram fires back ather, "Behold, your servant is in
your power, do to her as youplease." The text tells us that
Sarai did just that.
We aren't told what Sarai didto Hagar, she could have been
(05:26):
beaten or was verbally abused,but she dealt harshly enough
that Hagar ran away.
In Hebrew the name Hagar means"one who fled," or to "flee."
The story goes on to tell thatHagar fled into the wilderness
and came to rest beside astream, where the angel of the
Lord found her and speaks toher, saying, Hagar, servant of
(05:50):
Sarai, where have you come from?
And where are you going?
When Hagar answers that she isfleeing from her mistress, the
angel of the Lord instructs herto return to your mistress and
submit to her.
Well this is unexpected.
When we look for God to rescueus from abuse, it feels shocking
to be told to return to hermistress.
(06:12):
I do want to pause here andpoint out that some women have
been subjected to pastoral abusewhen they have turned to their
church for protection from anabusive husband.
And this text about Hagar andother scriptures were twisted
and misused to tell them thatthey should return to their
abusive spouses.
(06:33):
This is a dangerous and a crueltwisting of this scripture by
ignorant church leaders.
And if you are in an abusiverelationship yourself, please do
not let yourself be shamed intoreturning to a dangerous
situation.
I would urge you to seek helpfrom another source, like a
professional Christian counseloror even family and friends.
(06:54):
And if anyone listening isguilty of this sort of
scriptural abuse, I urge you torepent and remove yourself from
counseling situations and seekthe education that you need
before you do any more harm.
Now back to Hagar.
The angel of the Lordprophesies over her and says, I
(07:16):
will surely multiply youroffspring so they cannot be
numbered for the multitude.
And then goes on to predict thename and destiny of the child
that she's carrying now, bysaying, "Behold, you are
pregnant and shall bear a son,you shall call his name Ishmael,
because the Lord has listenedto your affliction.
He shall be a wild donkey of aman, his hand against everyone,
(07:40):
and everyone's hand against him,and he shall dwell over against
all his kinsmen."We can learn several things from
the angel's message.
First, Hagar is made aware thatGod knows her condition and
that this child will be born.
It means that Hagar willsurvive her desert experience.
(08:01):
God gives her son a name thathas personal significance for
Hagar because Ishmael means Godhears.
Ishmael's name is God'stestimony of his presence with
Hagar in this pregnancy and hispromise for the future that she
cannot yet understand.
Secondly, Hagar is giveninformation by God about the
(08:23):
nature of her son in a propheticword that tells her not only
about his personality, butforeshadows the centuries of
conflict between Jews and Arabsthat is to come.
Before leaving, Hagar names theplace where the angel appeared
to her Beer-la-hai-roi , whichmeans "the well of the living
(08:44):
one who sees me."Hagar then returns and submits
to Sarai.
God provided for her andIshmael was born.
Abraham called his son by thename God had given to Hagar
through the angel's visit to herin the desert.
We may not be able to identifywith being a bondservant like
(09:06):
Hagar, and while surrogacy is amodern problem, few women are
forced involuntarily intobearing someone else's child.
But maybe you have experiencedthe bitterness of soul like
Sarai over what seemed like apromise of God that has gone
unfulfilled.
Or maybe you felt powerless ina relationship abused and
(09:27):
mistreated like Hagar.
Or maybe, like Abram, you haveallowed someone else to talk you
into taking an action that youknew was wrong.
Take comfort in knowing thatwherever you are, whatever your
circumstances, God sees you.
He knows your name, he knowsyour character.
(09:49):
He understands your situationand the things that trouble you.
He has a plan to provide allyou need even before you ask,
and has provided in Christ apromise for your eternal future.
Hear the word of the Lord.
"For I know the plans I havefor you, declares the Lord,
(10:10):
plans for your welfare and notfor evil to give you a future
and a hope." Jeremiah 20:11."Thanks be to God.
And now we've come to ourstretch break, so take a minute
to do exactly that.
Stand up if you can, blink youreyes, stretch your arms, and
(10:30):
put a bookmark in Genesischapter 16 so that you can
return to it in your own timeand think about those questions
I just asked you.
And then come back and sit downfor a few more minutes to learn
about baby Chris's 29th and30th week in the womb, and
ponder with me what it means tobe dependent on God.
Announcer (10:55):
All of the materials and information presented in
this podcast are sourced fromthe four decades of information
and resources created byPresbyterians Protecting Life
and accessible to you at itswebsite.
PPL is compelled by the gospelto equip reformed Christians of
all denominations to championhuman life from fertilization to
natural death.
Train yourself and others tobecome a lifeline for women and
(11:18):
children and join us as a lifesupport prayer partner at
PPL.org.
Host (11:30):
This week, our baby Chris devotional combines weeks 29 and
30 in an episode called LifeSupport.
At 29 weeks, the umbilical cordis constantly coiling, but it
will not crimp or cut offcirculation because of Worton's
jelly, a gelatinous substance.
The bones are still soft andpliable, but are beginning to
(11:53):
harden.
The head is getting bigger toaccommodate the growing brain as
it adds billions of neurons.
At thirty weeks, the body hairthat covers the baby's body is
beginning to disappear.
The amniotic sac has stoppedgrowing and the amniotic fluid
will start to decrease as thebaby fills out the uterus.
(12:15):
Hear the word of the Lord.
"For in him we live and moveand have our being.
We are his offspring." 17:28Thanks be to G od.
During the twenty ninth andthirtieth weeks, our baby's
muscles are continuing to growand mature.
(12:36):
The umbilical cord isconstantly coiling as he
somersaults in the uterus.
It will not crimp or cut offcirculation because of a
lubricant that's known asWharton's jelly.
The baby takes up more space inthe uterus.
The amniotic sac in the uterustogether with the placenta are
(12:59):
the principal means of lifesupport in the womb.
The placenta is the linkbetween the baby and the mother,
providing nutrients, oxygen,and other substances, as well as
giving off carbon dioxide andother wastes.
The umbilical cord is arope-like structure between the
fetus and the placenta, whichcontains blood vessels that link
(13:21):
the fetus to the mother andtransfers the placental
nutrients.
The baby's blood does not mixwith the mother's blood.
The amniotic sac in thefluid-filled sac that surrounds
and cushions the developingbaby.
Technology uses the umbilicalcord model to tether astronauts
(13:43):
to the mother ship and to helpthem breathe during spacewalks.
Astronauts train underwaterusing the same umbilical
technology that transfers theright mixture of gases,
communications, and heat underpressure to commercial divers.
Patients who undergo heartbypass surgery are dependent
(14:03):
upon a heart lung machine tocirculate oxygenated blood
during the procedure.
Like the child in the womb,divers, astronauts, and heart
surgery patients are allpassively dependent upon their
umbilical cords for what theyneed to survive.
This is an important counter tothose who argue the fallacy that
(14:24):
preborn babies are part of themother's body.
They are separate in their DNA,in their blood flow, and their
nutritional supply.
When abortion advocates promotethe idea that killing the
preborn is permissible becausethe fetus cannot survive on its
own outside the womb.
The illustration of thespacewalking astronaut, the
(14:46):
commercial diver, and the heartpatient is helpful.
Developmentally, even matureadults cannot survive in hostile
environments without externallife support.
The uterine life support systemis itself a bit of a Trinitarian
metaphor.
Through Christ, our umbilicalcord, God, as our placenta,
(15:09):
gives us all that we need forlife and godliness, and we are
enveloped in the love of God bythe Holy Spirit, our protector
and comforter, the believer'samniotic sac, as we develop into
the image of the Lord.
Our providential God hasprovided for our protection and
survival from the first momentsof life.
(15:31):
Our survival after birth is noless dependent upon Jesus, in
whom we are to abide throughoutour lives until we are united in
eternity.
Hear the word of the Lord.
"I am the vine, you are thebranches.
If you remain in me and I inyou, you will bear much fruit.
(15:52):
Apart from me, you can donothing." John chapter 15:.5
"And for in him we live and moveand have our being.
We are his offspring." Acts 17:28 Thanks be to God.
Announcer (16:15):
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