page_title: Va'eira
hierarchical_section_title: Va'eira
caption_attribution_description: Old testament bible story, "plague of hail and fire", Exodus 9:13-35.
context_page_description: Va'eira, Va'era, or Vaera is the fourteenth weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 6:2–9:35. The parashah tells of the first seven Plagues of Egypt.
  It is made up of 6,701 Hebrew letters, 1,748 Hebrew words, 121 verses, and 222 lines in a Torah Scroll. Jews read it the fourteenth Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in January, or rarely, in late December.
context_section_description: Va'eira, Va'era, or Vaera (וָאֵרָא — Hebrew for "and I appeared," the first word that God speaks in the parashah, in Exodus 6:3) is the fourteenth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 6:2–9:35. The parashah tells of the first seven Plagues of Egypt.
  It is made up of 6,701 Hebrew letters, 1,748 Hebrew words, 121 verses, and 222 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah). Jews read it the fourteenth Sabbath (שַׁבָּת, Shabbat) after Simchat Torah, generally in January, or rarely, in late December.
caption: The Seventh Plague (1823 painting by John Martin)
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