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Ketef Hinnom

Ketef Hinnom is a very old place in Israel where some very special things were found. Thousands of years ago, people would bury other people's bodies in really special places called tombs. These tombs were like big rooms made of stone, where people would put the bodies of their loved ones. In Ketef Hinnom, there were many tombs like this.

One day, some people found a special tomb in Ketef Hinnom. They went inside and found some really old things called scrolls. Scrolls are like long papers that people wrote on a long time ago. These scrolls had some special words on them that were from an old book called the Bible.

The words on the scrolls were really important because they were about the Jewish religion that was practiced a long time ago in Israel. The people who found the scrolls were very happy because they had never seen words like these before. They thought it was amazing that people from so many years ago had written them.

Even though the scrolls were very old and fragile, the people who found them took very good care of them. They knew they had found something very special and wanted to keep them safe so that everyone could see them.

Today, the scrolls from Ketef Hinnom are still around and people can see them in museums. They are a really important part of history and remind us of how people used to live a long time ago.