6 (number) - in Religion

In Religion

  • There are 6:
    • Points on a Star of David
    • Orders of the Mishnah
    • Symbolic foods placed on the Passover Seder Plate
  • Yahweh took 6 days to create the world in the Old Testament Book of Genesis; humankind was created on day 6. In the City of God, Augustine of Hippo suggested (book 11, chapter 30) that God's creation of the world took six days because 6 is a perfect number.
  • The Jewish holiday of Shavuot starts on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan
  • In Islam:
    • There are Six articles of belief
    • Fasting six days of Shawwal, together with the month of Ramadan, is equivalent to fasting the whole year
  • In Hindu theology, a trasarenu is the combination of 6 celestial paramānus (atoms)

See also 666.

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