Bereshit,
Bereishit,
Bereishis,
B'reshith,
Beresheet, or
Bereishees ( —
Hebrew for "in beginning," the
first word in the parashah) is the first
weekly Torah portion (,
parashah) in the annual
Jewish cycle of
Torah reading. The parashah consists of The parashah is made up of 7,235 Hebrew letters, 1,931 Hebrew words, and 146
verses, and can occupy about 241 lines in a Torah Scroll (,
Sefer Torah).