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Aceldama
Aceldama is the Aramaic name the Jews gave to the field purchased with the money given to Judas Iscariot by the Romans for betraying Jesus. The word means "field of blood" and was named so because Judas hung himself from a tree and his entrails spilled out onto the earth.
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