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Gehenna

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

The valley of Hinnom near Jerusalem where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch which on this account was afterward regarded as a place of abomination and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia In the New Testament the name is transferred by an easy metaphor to Hell

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