Bosom of Abraham
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For the African-American spiritual, see Bosom of Abraham (song).
"Bosom of Abraham" refers to the place of comfort in the biblical Sheol (or Hades in the Greek Septuagint version of the Hebrew scriptures from around 200 BC, and therefore so described in the New Testament)[1] where the righteous dead await Judgment Day.
The phrase and concept are found in both Judaism and Christian religions and religious art.