Noach,
Noiach,
Nauach,
Nauah, or
Noah (,
Hebrew for the name "
Noah", the third word, and
first distinctive word, of the parashah) is the second
weekly Torah portion (,
parashah) in the annual
Jewish cycle of
Torah reading. It constitutes The parashah has the most
verses of any weekly Torah portion in the book of Genesis (but not the most letters or words), and is made up of 6,907 Hebrew letters, 1,861 Hebrew words, and 153 verses, and can occupy about 230 lines in a
Torah Scroll (,
Sefer Torah). (In the book of Genesis, Parashah
Miketz has the most letters, Parashah
Vayeira has the most words, and Parashah
Vayishlach has an equal number of verses as Parashah Noach.)