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פָּרָשַׁת שְׁמוֹת Shemot ch 1–6

Parshat Shemot tells how the children of Yisrael became slaves in Mitzrayim (Egypt) and how Hashem chose Moshe to bring them out. Read the summary →

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פָּרָשַׁת וָאֵרָא Vaeira ch 6–9 from 6:2

Parshat Vaeira tells of the first seven plagues, by which Hashem begins to break Mitzrayim and make His name known. Read the summary →

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פָּרָשַׁת בֹּא Bo ch 10–13

Parshat Bo tells of the last three plagues, (hint, the gematriya of Bo in Hebrew letters equals 3), the first mitzvot given to the nation, and the night the children of Yisrael left Mitzrayim. Read the summary →

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פָּרָשַׁת בְּשַׁלַּח Beshalach ch 13–17 from 13:17

Parshat Beshalach tells of the splitting of the sea and the first weeks in the wilderness. Read the summary →

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פָּרָשַׁת יִתְרוֹ Yitro ch 18–20

Parshat Yitro tells of the giving of the Torah at Har Sinai. Read the summary →

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פָּרָשַׁת מִשְׁפָּטִים Mishpatim ch 21–24

Parshat Mishpatim tells how the Torah given at Sinai reaches into daily life: the civil and moral laws that follow the Ten Commandments, and the sealing of the covenant. Read the summary →

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פָּרָשַׁת תְּרוּמָה Terumah ch 25–27

Parshat Terumah tells of the command to build the Mishkan (the Tabernacle), the dwelling place for Hashem's presence among the people: "They shall make Me a sanctuary, and I will dwell among them." Every man whose heart moves him brings the materials — gold, silver and copper, blue, purple and scarlet wool, linen, goat hair, skins, acacia wood, oil, spices and precious stones — and everything is made according to the pattern Hashem shows Moshe on the mountain. Read the summary →

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פָּרָשַׁת תְּצַוֶּה Tetzaveh ch 27–30 from 27:20

Parshat Tetzaveh tells of the kohanim (the priests) who will serve in the Mishkan: their garments, their consecration, and the daily service. Read the summary →

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פָּרָשַׁת כִּי תִשָּׂא Ki Tisa ch 30–34 from 30:11

Parshat Ki Tisa tells of the half-shekel, the golden calf, and the forgiveness that gave Yisrael the second luchot. Read the summary →

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פָּרָשַׁת וַיַּקְהֵל Vayakhel ch 35–38

Parshat Vayakhel tells how the Mishkan was actually built, by the whole people, after the golden calf and the forgiveness. Read the summary →

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פָּרָשַׁת פְקוּדֵי Pekudei ch 38–40 from 38:21

Parshat Pekudei closes Sefer Shemot with the accounting of the Mishkan, the bigdey kehuna (priestly garments), and the day the Mishkan was raised. Read the summary →

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Sefer Shemot Summary

Sefer Shemot, the second book of the Torah (Chumash), tells how the family of Yaakov became the nation of Yisrael. Seventy souls came down to Mitzrayim (Egypt); their descendants multiply until a new Pharaoh enslaves them and orders the newborn boys drowned. Moshe (Moses) is saved from the Nile, raised in Pharaoh's palace, flees to Midyan, and at the burning bush is sent by Hashem to bring His people out. Ten plagues break Mitzrayim; on the night of the fifteenth of Nisan the people leave, and at the Yam Suf (the Sea of Reeds) the water splits for them and closes over Pharaoh's army.

At Har Sinai (Mount Sinai) Hashem speaks the Aseret HaDibrot (the Ten Commandments) to the whole nation, and gives Moshe the civil laws of Mishpatim. Then comes the command to build the Mishkan (the Tabernacle): its vessels, its curtains, the garments of the kohanim, and the service that will make Hashem's presence dwell among the people. While Moshe is on the mountain the people make the golden calf; Moshe breaks the luchot (the tablets), pleads for the nation, and receives the second luchot and the Thirteen Attributes of mercy (13 middot). The sefer closes with the Mishkan built exactly as commanded, and the cloud of Hashem's Shechinah (presence) filling it.

Shemot has forty perakim and eleven parshiyot, from Shemot to Pekudei, read from the middle of Tevet through Adar. The first half is the story of the Exodus; the second half is the law and the Mishkan. Each perek on TorahSages carries the Hebrew text with the mefarshim of the Mikraot Gedolot, and each parsha has its own summary page and its leining.