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Yitro
Yitro, Yithro, Yisroi, Yithre, Yisrau, or Yisro ( , Hebrew for the name "Jethro," the second word and first distinctive word in the ) is the seventeenth weekly Torah portion ( ; ) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fifth in the Book of Exodus. The parashah tells of Jethro's organizational counsel to Moses and God's revelation of the Ten Commandments to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. The constitutes Exodus 18:1–20:23. The is the shortest of the weekly Torah portions in the Book of Exodus and is also one of the shortest in the Torah. It is made up of 4,022 Hebrew letters, 1,105 Hebrew words, and 75 verses. Jews read it the seventeenth Shabbat after Simchat Torah, generally in January or February. Jews also read part of the , Exodus 19:1–20:23, as a Torah reading on the first day of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which commemorates the giving of the Ten Commandments.
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Yitro, Yithro, Yisroi, Yithre, Yisrau, or Yisro ( , Hebrew for the name "Jethro," the second word and first distinctive word in the ) is the seventeenth weekly Torah portion ( ; ) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fifth in the Book of Exodus. The parashah tells of Jethro's organizational counsel to Moses and God's revelation of the Ten Commandments to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. The constitutes Exodus 18:1–20:23. The is the shortest of the weekly Torah portions in the Book of Exodus and is also one of the shortest in the Torah. It is made up of 4,022 Hebrew letters, 1,105 Hebrew words, and 75 verses. Jews read it the seventeenth Shabbat after Simchat Torah, generally in January or February. Jews also read part of the , Exodus 19:1–20:23, as a Torah reading on the first day of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which commemorates the giving of the Ten Commandments.
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