Exodus 6
Va'eira, Va'era, or Vaera ( — Hebrew language, Hebrew for "and I appeared," the incipit, first word that God in Judaism, God speaks in the ''parashah'', in ) is the fourteenth weekly Torah portion (, ''parashah'') in the annual Judaism, Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes . The ''parashah'' tells of the first seven Plagues of Egypt. Jews read it the fourteenth Sabbath (''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 considered part of the Hebrew Bible. Readings In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the "portion" (''parashah'') is divided into seven readings, or , ''Aliyah (Torah), aliyot''. In the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), Parashat Va'eira has nine "open portion" (, ''petuchah'') divisions (roughly equivalent to paragraphs, often abbreviated with the Hebrew letter ...
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