Bamidbar (parsha)

Bemidbar, BeMidbar, or B'midbar (בְּמִדְבַּר‎ — Hebrew for "in the desert of" [Sinai], the fifth overall and first distinctive word in the parashah), often called Bamidbar or Bamidbor (בַּמִדְבָּר‎ — Hebrew for "in the desert"), is the 34th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה‎, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the Book of Numbers. The parashah tells of the census and the priests' duties. It constitutes Numbers 1:1–4:20. The parashah is made up of 7,393 Hebrew letters, 1,823 Hebrew words, and 159 verses, and can occupy about 263 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה‎, Sefer Torah).Jews generally read it in May or early June.

In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or עליות‎, aliyot.

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