abstract:Bemidbar, BeMidbar, or B'midbar (also often incorrectly called Bamidbar) ( — Hebrew for "in the desert," the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 34th weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the book of Numbers. It constitutes 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 (, Sefer Torah).