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Articles of Faith

ARTICLES OF FAITH, among the Jews. There are generally reckoned thirteen; they are set down by us under the title Faith.

These thirteen Articles were prepared by Maimonides, in the close of the eleventh Century of the Christian Æra. They were generally received, and all the Jews are obliged to live and die in this belief1.

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Footnotes

  1. Leo of Modena’s Ceremonies of the Jews, Part V. c. 13. Basnage Hist. des Juifs, t. 4. l. 6. c. 1. ↩

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