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.