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Sedra-Stats

Sedra-Stats
4th of the 54 sedras - first of 11 in D'varim
Written on 196.5 lines in a Sefer Torah (rank: 26)
5 parshiyot; 1 open, 4 closed
105 p'sukim - ranks 32nd, 6th in D'varim(tied with Chayei Sara, but larger)
1548 words - ranks 26th, 6th in D'varim
5972 letters - ranks 24th, 5th in D'varim(tied with Vayeshev, but smaller)
Jump in rankings from p'sukim to words & letters is a result of relatively long p'sukim

The Book of D'varim is written on 1894 lines in a Sefer Torah, has 956 p'sukim (look at the other books: 1533, 1210, 859, 1288), 14,293 words, 54,892 letters; ranks 4th among the Five Books in all those categories.
It has 159 parshiyot, 35 open and 124 closed. It's tied for second with Bamidbar. Its P'tuchot are the fewest in the Torah and its S'tumot are the most. That indicates a more unified theme than the other books.
Its sedras average out a bit longer than Vayikra's, even though the four shortest sedras are in D'varim.
On average, D'varim's p'sukim are the longest of the Five Books.
D’varim contains 200 of the 613 mitzvot (32.6%), 77 of the 248 positives (31.0%), 123 of the 365 prohibitions (33.7%). Compare this with 18.4% of the lines in a Sefer Torah and 16.4% of the Torah's p'sukim.
Small book, but big on mitzvot. But Vayikra is smaller and has 247 mitzvot.

Mitzvot
2 of the 613 mitzvot in D'varim, both prohibitions


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