Parshat Vayikra

Sedra-Stats

24th of 54 sedras; 1st of 10 in Vayikra 

Written on 215 lines in a Sefer Torah, rank: 19th 

21 Parshiot; 13 open, 8 closed (12.5 is avg.) 

111 p'sukim - ranks 26th (2nd in Vayikra) Same number of p'sukim as Eikev 

1673 words - ranks 20th (1st) 

6222 letters - ranks 20th (1st) 

The sedra is of average length, but its p'sukim are longer than average for the Torah. 

Of the Five Books, Vayikra has the fewest sedras, p'sukim, words, letters. Its sedras are the shortest in the Torah (on average) in p'sukim, words, and letters per sedra. 

But the Book of Vayikra has 247 of the 613 mitzvot - that's more than 40% of the mitzvot in fewer than 15% of the p'sukim, words, letters of the Torah. Vayikra averages one mitzva every 3.5 p'sukim. 

By comparison, the other books have one mitzva in 511 (B'reishit), 11 (Sh'mot), 25 (Bamidbar), and 5 (D'varim) p'sukim. 

MITZVOT 

16 mitzvot; 11 positive and 5 prohibitions