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The TanakhTorah

Leviticusויקרא

Leviticus, Vayikra, is the shortest of the Five Books and the one with the least narrative: offerings, priestly service, purity, the holiness laws and the calendar of festivals. Its letter statistics differ from the narrative books beside it, which is one reason a scope is always named and chance is always worked out for the scope you chose.

Chapters
27
Verses
859
Words
11,950
Letters
44,795

Leviticus 1:1, the first of 859 verses

וַיִּקְרָ֖א אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר יְקוָק֙ אֵלָ֔יו מֵאֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵ֖ד לֵאמֹֽר׃

And the LORD called unto Moses, and spoke unto him out of the tent of meeting, saying:

Classic sequences that start here