72 (number) - in Religion

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  • The number of languages spoken at the Tower of Babylon.
  • The conventional number of scholars translating the Septuagint, according to the legendary account in the "Letter of Aristeas".
  • The conventional number of disciples sent forth by Jesus in Luke 10 in some manuscripts (seventy in others).
  • The number of names of God, according to Kabbalah (see names of God in Judaism).
  • The Shemhamphorasch related to the number of the names of God.
  • The total number of books in the Holy Bible in the Catholic version if the Book of Lamentations is considered part of the Book of Jeremiah.
  • The current distribution of the Book of Revelation is 22 chapters, adopted since the 13th century, but the oldest known division of the text is that the Greek commentator Andrew of Cesary (6th century) in 72 chapters.
  • The number of warriors on the Muslim side at the Battle of Badr.
  • The number of people martyred along with Imam Hussain at the Battle of Karbala.
  • The number of soldiers who will fight alongside Imam Mahdi against the Dajjal, according to Islamic ahadith are 313 not 72.
  • The 72 old men of the synagogue, according to the Zohar.
  • The number of houri each Muslim martyr (or every Muslim male, according to some ahadith) shall receive as companions in Paradise.
  • The degrees of the Jacob's ladder were to the number of 72, according to the Zohar.
  • The 72 disciples of Confucius.
  • Thoth, in an Egyptian creation myth, wins a 72nd of each day of the year from the Moon in a game of draughts, as a favour to Nut, the Sky Goddess. He uses these portions to make the five intercalary days on which the remaining Gods and Goddesses are born.
  • The good god Osiris was enclosed in a coffin by 72 evil disciples and accomplices of Set.
  • It is the number of the Immortals of Taoism.
  • At the age of the puberty, the young Parsee received the investiture of the sacred cord Kucti made of 72 linens in symbol of the community.
  • In Cao Dai, the number of planets between hell and heaven.

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