The TanakhTorah
Numbersבמדבר
Numbers, Bamidbar, follows the people from Sinai to the plains of Moab across forty years, and it is named in English for the two censuses that frame it. Chapter 7 repeats one offering twelve times, once for each tribal leader, in the same words, and it is the longest chapter in the Torah.
- Chapters
- 36
- Verses
- 1,289
- Words
- 16,413
- Letters
- 63,545
Numbers 1:1, the first of 1,289 verses
וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר יְקוָ֧ק אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֛ה בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר סִינַ֖י בְּאֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֑ד בְּאֶחָד֩ לַחֹ֨דֶשׁ הַשֵּׁנִ֜י בַּשָּׁנָ֣ה הַשֵּׁנִ֗ית לְצֵאתָ֛ם מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם לֵאמֹֽר׃
AND THE LORD spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying: