OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 16:33

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33

So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

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Verse 33. Hell. Hebrew adds, “they, and whatsoever belonged to them, descended into hell, or the pit.” Sale.—The souls of the impenitent into the former, the bodies of the cattle, and so forth into the bowels of the earth. Bible.

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Sheol is the place of the dead.

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