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Do Jews believe in hell? Where is it in the Bible? - D., Palm Beach, Fla
A: Judaism teaches about hell but has different notions about it from Christianity. There is a valley just south of Jerusalem called Gei Hinnom ("the valley of Hinom") in the Hebrew Bible. This was a place where the Canaanite religion required that children be sacrificed to the god Moloch (Joshua 15:8, II Kings 23:10). For this reason, the valley was cursed and became, over time, the accepted name for hell.See the full content of this document
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For Jews, Hell Does Exist in Hebrew Bible
Hell, like paradise, was created by God. In the Apocryphal Book of Enoch and in the postbiblical work ca...
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