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==Topheth (Latin)==
==Topheth (Latin)==


"In the Hebrew Bible Tophet or Topheth (Hebrew: תופת ha-tōpheth‎; Greek: Ταφεθ; Latin: Topheth) was a location in Jerusalem, in the Valley of Hinnom, where worshipers influenced by the Canaanite Pantheon sacrificed children to the gods [[Moloch]] and Baal by burning them alive. Tophet became a theological or poetic synonym for hell within Christendom."
"In the Hebrew Bible Tophet or Topheth (Hebrew: תופת ha-tōpheth‎; Greek: Ταφεθ; Latin: Topheth) was a location in Jerusalem, in the Valley of Hinnom, where worshipers influenced by the Canaanite Pantheon sacrificed children to the gods [[Moloch]] and Baal by burning them alive. Tophet became a theological or poetic synonym for hell within Christendom."<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tophet Tophet]</ref>


==References==
==References==