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Va'eira
(1823 painting by John Martin) Va'eira, Va'era, or Vaera ( —Hebrew for "and I appeared," the first word that God speaks in the , in Exodus 6:3) is the fourteenth weekly Torah portion ( ) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 6:2–9:35. The parashah tells of the first seven Plagues of Egypt. Religious Jews read it the fourteenth Shabbat after Simchat Torah—generally in January, or rarely, in late December. It is composed of 6,701 Hebrew letters, 1,748 Hebrew words, 121 verses, and 222 lines in a Torah scroll, and is part of the Hebrew Bible.
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(1823 painting by John Martin) Va'eira, Va'era, or Vaera ( —Hebrew for "and I appeared," the first word that God speaks in the , in Exodus 6:3) is the fourteenth weekly Torah portion ( ) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 6:2–9:35. The parashah tells of the first seven Plagues of Egypt. Religious Jews read it the fourteenth Shabbat after Simchat Torah—generally in January, or rarely, in late December. It is composed of 6,701 Hebrew letters, 1,748 Hebrew words, 121 verses, and 222 lines in a Torah scroll, and is part of the Hebrew Bible.
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