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Divined on Jiazi, testing: Si,482 Zhong Zhou’s consort, is not going to die.483 12 480 ZSKY 2003 reads ; Sun Yabing (2011a: 193, note 1) emends 481 取functions as a noun here. This word occurs eight times in the HYZ OBI, and its objects are living people, land and materials. Examples are: 取 (39.17) “procure Hu (name),” 取田 (80.1) “procure fields”, 取紤 (286.6) “procure tapestries”, and 取有車 (416.10) “procure the chariot(s)”. Compare Bingbian 557.3: 以有取, which Kenichi-Takashima (2010: 1.749) trans- lates “Hua will bring what (he) took”. 482 This name is also seen on royal inscriptions; see HJ 6197, 2866 and HJ 2869r. 483 A comparison between the syntax of this divination with divination (3) above suggests that si 死after the negative fu 弗is to be read transitively, and that its object was the preposi- tioned verb phrase “having a pick up”. 302 | HYZ 324